The Washington times., 1920-06-25
SURE WHIST KING"
WAS WITH VISITOR
Man or Woman Called on ElwelI
During Six-Hour Mystery
Period" Say Police.
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CONTINUED from First PaSsl
in EIweirs life. III she tells all that
she knows. without holding back a
single fact We shall be close upon
the trail Of the murderer. In my opin-
ion"
Deputy Commissioner Lahey quiz
zed Mrs. Larsen for an hour In his
office. During the conference he
called In Edward Rhodes the Elweli
chauffeur. The commissioner, II was
said, drew from them every shred OF
knowledge they possess regarding Ell
wells sociation with Miss Wilson"
the mysterious young New York So
ciety girl
.MIss, WILSON IDENTIFIED.
Both Mrs. Larsen and Rhodes re-
iterated their earlier Identification 81
this woman, and the latter told how
she had supplanted another woman.
Of foreign birth. in the wandering al
fections Of Elwell.
Miss Wilson" In the opinion of the
authorities. expected to marry the
dead whist wizard soon. She had
been Intercepted for the third o,
fourth time both by the police and tSe
district attorney. and is said to have
made this admission:
cit was eur hope-Joe's aad MINE
to be married eventuallIy. Joe ssid
me a fortni8ht a2o that he would
marry me II he could Dersuade his
wife 10 divorce hin."
WIDOW TELLS OF OFFERS.
Mrs. Helen Derby Elwell, tho
widow, in this connection, told OF
three offers OF $4,000 Elwell had
made her to divorce him. The widow
characterized the sum pronered as
miserable" saying:
my husband. three weeks before
his death, wrote, asking me to cont
slider a divorce. He said nothing
about desire to remarry. He merely
repeated his first misery $1,000 offers.
or course. I did not consider this.
"Imagine 1.-THE $1,000 was to be
Elwells price OF freedom-thc sum
on which my son and myself might
start life anew"
BLONDE NOW IN CASE.
This question Of a promise by FL
we'll to marry some woman looms
subtly larger in the investigation of
the murder mystery. despite the ef-
forts OF the authorities to turn aside
references to It,.
To the Hist Of the women friends
Of the. slain man who are not Aen-
to the public as "the Girl In Black"
'the Woman In Gray" "the Lady Of
the Pink Pajamas." and the "mys-
tcri0us Miss WILSON,, Mr.. DoolinG
added another last night when he
men toned that Mrs. Larsen had re-
ferred TO one of the women who
called ut the house n a "nud gutter
blOnde.o
Questioned by Assistant District
Attorney Joyce and Dooling yesterday
afternoon, Edgar Walters, twenty
| two-year-old negro chauffeur, OF
Brooklyn Walters said he picked up
a man answering Elwelrs description
in front OF the New Amsterdam Thea
ter building. between 1:45 and 2
o'clock on the murder morning and
was instructed to drive to 204. not 244.
West Seventeen street.
LOOKED LIKE ELwELL.
When this number was reached. H.
said his fare informed him he oval
ters) had made a mistake. that he
wanted to go to No. Pa. AS the car
drew up in front OF No. 244, Walters
said, his passenger jumped from the
tonneau while the car was still in
motion, tossed him 20 cents for tn,
fare, dime for his tip and disap-
peared.
The chauffeur thought the man
wore either a tuxedo or a dark bust
ness suit. He was tall, dark and
wore a straw hat. Shown a photo
graph of Elwell he said:
THAT looks like the man."
The mistake in the number OF the
house and the apparent violation of
Elwelrs usual habits of rather ex-
cessive liberaIity threw a doubt in
the minds Of the authorities whether
the man walters drove to the
"house of mystery" was Elwell or
some one else.
Members Of the Lewisohn party.
with whom Elwell parted about 40
a. M. asserted Elwell was in full
dress attire. This led to the query in
the official mind:
"COuld this be the murderer Could
Ne have followed EIweH to the New
Amsterdam roof, lost track Of him
cmporariIy and then traiIed him to
hts home-there to await his arrival
hours Iaterf,
DROVE SAME MAN BEFORE.
Discounting this theory. the chauf-
feur told Messers. Joyce and Talley
that several nights previous he had
picked up the same man and taken
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