New-York tribune., 1920-06-12
Seek w oman
In T. ! w ell
Murder Case
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world to kill himself and he would not
have used such a gum" he declared.
"Elwell would have picked a modern,
more delicate weapon than the old As
caliber revolver"
What Elwell did in the silent hours
before Miss Larson found him and
after o'clock in the morning is a
mystery separate from his death, but
probably involved in it. He had dined
at the Ritz Carlton Roof with Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Lewsohn and Miss Viola
Krauss, sister of Mrs. Lewisohn, ac-
cording to Lyttleton Fox, Of O'Brien,
Boardman and Fox, attorneys repre-
senting them. He said they attended
the midnight show or the New Amstcr-
dam Roof, then said good night to
Elwell, who walked west on Forty-sec-
ond Street, toward Eighth Avenue. The
others motored home Lewisohn is a
brother Of Oscar Lewisohn, banker.
The Viola krauss who was at the
roof party is Mrs. Viola Schlegell now.
Fo xwould not name the third man
present. but he is believed to have
been Victor Won Schlegel, who married
her five years ago. Philip Boileau.
noted illustrator, called her 'the most
beautiful girl in New York"
DCQ was CEulSturDed
Elwell may have visited club, or
restaurant. Perhaps he met some one
he invited to his home. At any rate
he didn't 60 to bed there, for 10 bed
was disturbed. But an intention to
retire, about when the mail arrived, is
evident to the police. Elwell was in
I placed on a couch his money, about
$500 a stop watch and jewelry case
His dress clothes were on chair, with
shirt and pins and cuff links, contain
| ing sapphires and diamonds, all un-
touched, proving that if Elwell was
murdered, robbery wasn't the motive
These things were in Elwell's bedroom
at the rear, two flights up, but he was
shot in drawing room. He sat fac
ing the west wall, with his back to the
only wall in which there is a door. The
couldn't have come through either of
two windows in the front, or through
a stained glass window at the rear.
Whoever shot Elwell sat opposite him
or entered by the one door and walked
around in front Sf him.
1nquiring about Elwell's finances, de-
tectives first had the idea that, If in
difficulty, the chances were that he
killed himself, but he recently made
/ money on the races somebody was after
it. M. A. Goldberg, an attorney, of 261
broadway, representing the owners of
the house, said Elwell had just mailed
Elwell the sportsman's father, said
that his son had provided him with q
handsome house at Ridgewod N. j.,
and had established trust estate with
the Columbia Trust Company.
Chauffeur Not Paid
On the other hand, a chauffeur said
Elwell hadn't paid him his last month S
wages, and there was some doubt
whether he had paid recent bills for
feed for strins Of racehorses he
owns.
William Barnes, Elwell's secretary,
Of 249 East Fifty-ffth Streea, secuted
the idea that Elwell ended his own life.
He said that in the dozen years he had
taken care of Elwell's belongings he
had never found a weapon among them.
/ Barnes is steward Of the Studio Club,
at 384 Park Avenue, to which Elwell
belonged. Limited to twenty men, this
club meets once week for meal.
One member said that Elwell was one
of the several members of the sports
man type, and was popular for his
stories and engaging personality. All
of these clubmen, some of them promi-
nent in New York society, believed that
Elwell was quite wealthy.
Relatives, friends and others sum-
| moned for information, called at the
Elwell home hour after hour. yester-
dy, while Captain Walsh, Inspector
Bureau; Captain Arthur Carey Of the
homicide squad; Detectives Donahue
Morrell, Leonard and Fitzpatrick, of
the West Sixty-eighth station, and
| Finn, of the West Tooth Street station,
considered every small detail of the
situation. Patrolman Harry Singer,
called by Miss Larson, was the first of
the force on the case.
"The case is still young, it is a
deep. deep mystery. Pm sorry. I'd
like to give you something, but Pm in
a ouandary myself" Inspector Cray
said at the days close.
Letter From Trainer
On a table beside Elwcll's body the
police found letter from Lloyd Gen
( try, of Latonia, KY, head trainer of
! Elwcll's horses. 1t reads:
Dear Mr.. Elwell: All your horses
are going good Haven't had an OPP
portunity to try them all out yet ST
Donard only went the half in 4s
L'Errant was better. He ran a fair
race, put Garner can get more out Of
( MIN tnan MILK. L ne TWO men, tne
horses, feed and drugs are showing ur
the bill and make expenses pretty high
for the month"
Elwell returned by train from Palm
Beach some weeks ago, telling Rhodes
TO drive his car back without him
Rhodes said that Elwell kept two cars
both of expensive make, in Il garage
near the house, and took one out fol
a little while on the night before his
death.
Rhodes said he had worked for Ell,
we'll three years, and that he owncc
fifteen or twenty we'll known horses
He stayed at tho Everglades Club in
Florida.
Alexander Manderof painter, OF 40s
Sixth Street, and Frank Kruse, Of East
! Twenty eighth Street, heard shot
they said, while working on the front
steps of the house adjoining Elwelps
between 7:30 and o'clock yesterday
morning. They dismissed it as a tre
| blowout.
Barnes named William 81. Pendlcton
! Of Elmhurst, l.. L., as tho closest friend
and associate Of Elwcll recently. Ho
said they have been much together