The Washington times., 1920-06-16
Ak|EN SOUGHT IN
E[WE[L MYSTERY
whist King" Believed Victim
of Persons He Arrested
During the War.
Continued from First Psgs)

Bile motive-revenge for the gambler 8
war activities and for the use OF his
position as an unofficial Goyernnent
operative 10 lure women.
= At the hour when Elwells friend
sought frantically TO get him on the
telephone, II was learned, the suave
man-about-town with dancing Win
a woman friend at the Montmartre,
a resort at Broadway and Fifteenth
street
-FOUR IN PARITY
with Elwell and his companion
were two men. These men did not
accompany him when he left the re-
sort. The girl, IL Is believed, was an
actress who had piqued Elwelfs fancy
when he saw her dancing in a theater
some time before.
Abruptly leaving a previous party
with whom he had spent the evening,
Elwell at 80 o'clock on the morning
OF the murder Joined this girl.
He went with her TO the Mont
martre and there was Joined, quite
by accident, by the two men friends.
One OF these men said yesterday that
Elwell left the place shortly after J
o'clock with the intention OF escort
ing his woman companion to her
home.
He evidently did this. Assistant
District Attorney John i. Joyce said
yesterday that he had been reliably
informed that Elwell arrived at his
home at 3:45 a. m.
Rudolph Hecht. who lives at the
Commodore Hotel and is well known
in "hotel" and other social circles,
will be interrogated besides the turf
man.. Hecht, head OF the bond broker
age firm OF Chandler & Co. "a Pine
street. the, Arm which fioated $2O,-
000,0 OF German loans in America,
was interned during the war.
BOTH IN SAME GOLF CLUB.
Hecht was a fellow member OF the
Elite Golf Club at Long Beach with
ElWell. Though not the slightest
suspicion attaches in any manner to
Mr.. Hecht, the authorities believe he
can throw light on the manner in
which Elwell used his social connec-
tions to further his reputation as a
Government sleuth.
L. e. Smathers, the well-known
racing man and former State Senator
William Fl. Reynolds. both of whom
knew Elwell we'll, also will be ques-
toned in an effort to learn the rea-
son why Elwell sold his Long Beach
summer place to Smathers and de-
serted the Long Island set"
The late Jack De Saulles, the in
vestigation shows, had a key to Ell
wells fashionable apartment on West
Seventy-second street, the apartment
into which Elwell moved when he
separated from his wife nine years
ago. Elwell moved from this place
TO the Seventieth street house.
Elwell. II has been learned. entered
into d sort of "ifty-fifty' arrange
ment with de Saulles and other men
about town. Elwell had a keN TO
the apartment of de Saulles and 9th ~
men to whom he accorded similar
privileges. 1t was the custom of
these men to drop into whichever
apai ,nent offered the necessary
seclusion.
The reason for this was obvious
since most of the members Of this
particular coterie were legally bound
to one woman.
Despite statements appearing in the
press that this man or that has been
definitely eliminated from the investi-
cation Of New York's most fascinat-
ing murder mystery. 1t was learned
yesterday that every figure of i'm
portance, both made and female, in
the drama is under surveillance.
The authorities are particularly
anxious to know why Bob" Elwell, a
man Of forty-five, married and with
many interests, was courted by so
many and unmarried women. Elwell
spent Thursday evening and part of