New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
the house, if he was not actually
admitted by Elwell himself, is still a

the house, if he was not actually
admitted by Elwell himself, is still q
a matter of conjecture.
One officials belief is that if the
murderer was not known to Elwell he
quite possibly forced his way into the
house and concealed himself until the
most opportune moment for the crime
arrived
An investigator declared that the
always debatable despite statements
by housekeepers or others. Maids,
Wallets and buffers, he pointed out, have
IN many cases insisted that they had
locked doors or that doors were locked
when they arrived, and these state
ments have been disproved by later
developments. He pointed to the Lati-
mer case, in Brooklyn, where a maid
insisted that she had locked the gate
door and that no one could have en-
tered thereby When the criminal was
caught he declared that he came in by
the gate door, which he had found
open. In like manner, he says, it is
quite possible that Mrs. Larsen may be
mistaken about the door being locked
when she arrived at the Elwell home.
IT that is So then it would have
been comparatively easy for man
determined to get into the house to
have gotten past the inner door with
false key or other method.
The butt of a cigarette found on
the floor of the reception room soon
after the murder is also proving an
important link in the chain of evil
dence which the authorities are weay-
ing about the suspect This cigarette,
it was declared, is Of cheap variety
and not the kind used by Elwell. The
fact that it was smoked half way
down would seem to indicate that the
criminal had perhaps few words with
Elwell before he killed him.
After all, declared one of the Dis
trict Attorneys staff, when the crimi-
nal is caught and the true explanation
of the murder comes out it may turn
out entirely different from the endless
complex theories that have been woven
about this most battling crime.
If the authorities continue to stick by
their latest theories, the grand galaxy
OF characters that have been brought
into the case within the last two weeks
will sink into the background. No more
will be heard of Miss Wilson," the
lovely "lady of the lingerie" whose pink
silk night robe, boudor cap and pink
silk slippers were found in the turf
mans bedroom shortly after his murder
and which Mrs. Marie Larsen, the house
keeper, attempted to conceal in a wash
tub in the cellar to "save a lady's
honor"
Mrs. Larsen herself, the butchers
wife, who knew much of Elwells
affairs and visitors, took many sittings
to tell her story with various embel-
lishments. There is the "lady in
gray" who lunched with the sports
man on the Monday before his death,
with whom he appeared to be very
happy, on the word of Mrs Larsen and
who was finally dismissed by the
housekeeper with the confounding de-
scription that she was a mud gutter
blonde" There is the "lady in black, :"
now known as Miss ELY Hope Ander-
son, the music student, who was the
companion of Victor Won Schlege,l on
the Ritz Roof on the night preceding
the murder She is expected to ar
rive shortly to tell the District At
torney all she knows of the affair.
Miss Ellis" the acquaintance who
bobbed up at his house a few hours
after his death and now known as
Florence G. Ellenson; the woman of
the Clara letter." who wrote Elwell on
the day of his death she was at the
Biltmore; the "Lexington girl" now
known as Miss Anne Russell Gritty,
who wrote Elwell a note thanking him
for flowers sent her while i'll in hos
pital; the handsome woman discarded
at Palm Beach; Mrs. Amelia Hardy.
sister Of the Countess Sonia Szan-
iawska, and the innumerable others of
every station and reputation