The Washington times., 1920-06-22
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Officials Believe Mystery
Woman" Knows Who Killed
Turfman.
HOLDS ANSWER TO RIDDLE
Miss Wilson's" Identity With
held to Keep Her Parents
In Ignorance.

NEW YORK, June 22.-After de-
scribinR almost a complete circle in
their investigation Of the death OF
Joseph Bovine ("Bob") Elwell, the
authorities, after eleven days, turn
ed their attention again today to the
fascinating young woman known
variously as miss Wilson," as "The
Lady Of the Lingerie" and the "Mys-
terry Girl,
With more than a dozen men and
constant surveillance. the officials
last night received information
| strength ening their belief, and that
OF independent observers. that the
| mystery girl either witnessed the
| murder OF the suave, middle aged
| turfman or knows who committed it.,
SWAMI HOLDS SILENCE.
! Nevertheless, District Attorney
Swami and the police have sought to
publicly minimize the Importance of
this end of the case. This was shown
last night, when Judge Swami was
| asked:
was 1t new revelation from
| Miss Wilson that enabled your as
! sistant. Mr.. Dooling, to state yester-
| day ~ q positive fact that Elwell was
| present tn his home at 2:30 .. m. on
the morning OF Friday, June II r.
Mr.. Swami directed his stenogra-
| pher to take down this question with
! the apparent purpose of obtaining a
definite answer from Mr.. Dooling.
, who had questioned 'Miss Wilson" at
! length. Then he halted her pencil
and told the group Of Newspaper men:
II am sorry, gentlemen, but i can
not answer that question at this
| stage of the proceedings. | can
| merely state at this time that we
know positively Elwell was in his
| home at that hour"
sIDEsTEPs QUESTIONING.
In a manner that seemed to puzzle
some OF his inauisitors. the district
attorney side-stepped further ques-
tions about the mystery girl" and
her relations with ElweN. Those ia
miliar with Judge Swann's careful,
logical assembling of "big case"
saw plainly that the district attorney
was reticent for a reason.
This reason, 1t is believed, is that
| Miss Wilson" has been amply ad-
vised Of her legal rights, and in ad-
dition has manifested a desire to
keep her family in nearby city in
| ignorance OF her relations with the
man in whose home she kept intimate
| articles OF clothing and with whom
| she had Travelled to Washington and
many other places in the last two
years.
The authorities believe that il Miss
Wilson" Is handled carefully and not
| rushed too much" las one official ex-
| pressed i'll, she will break the case
wide open" with these admissions:
ADMISSIONS EXPECTED.
That after Elwen parted from the
Amsterdan Thester Building on West
Forty second street At 30 a. m, June
II. Elwen Joined her and took her to
his home.
That she passed several hours there
with hiM and was In the house up to
q short time before the murder or ae-
tuaIIy during the murder period.
That. ~ she did nSt see the murder
committed. she knows whs nred the
death-deslirG forty-Ave ballet into El-
vvells forehead.
that he would not at this time pub
licly Identify Miss wilson," saying:
I'VE are not going to answer any
| questions about her. 1t Is against
| the public interests. We shall give
all proper Information about the
| commission of this crime. But we
shall not answer questions that are
| frivolous or against the public in
| terests."
NO ONE ELIMINATED.
| The district attorney was asked IL
| investigation had established the
alibi OF certain male suspect, and
II he had ben definitely eliminated.
He replied:
| NO. We have eliminated no one
and we make no charges against any
one. 80 far we have been unable to
obtain any evidence justifying us in
pointing to any one person. male or
| female, as the probable assassin"
Because he said certain newspapers
complained they had received con-
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