Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-18
LITTLE PROGRESS MADE IN
 ELWELL MURDER INVESTIGATION

New York, June IA a. m. visit Dy a man and woman to the home of Jo- seph B. Eiwell, wealthy sportsman and whist expert, last Friday, the morning of his death, was Under investigation by the police today, seeking to unravel the mystery which so far has baffied all in quiry.
 Police and members of the district at torney's office were unwilling to admit they attached great significance to, the report of this early morning visit be- cause of it's vague origin. The story was vouched for by Joseph Wagstaff, taxi driver who claimed it had been told him by another and unnamed chauffeur who is alleged to have said he drove the cou- pie to Elwelrs home at that hour.
 According to Wagstaff's version of the story he said was told him, the second taxicab driver waited outside the Elwel house, which, he said, the couple en' | tered until a moment later the scream of a woman inside the house frightened him. and he drove away without waiting to collect his fare.
 The police also are trying to trace { man and woman said to have been driv en by Wagstaff himself long before dawl on the morning of Monday, June :. Tn records of the taXicab company employ l ing Wagstaff showed that Mir. "Alwell ! of Joseph B. Elwelrs West roth Stree address telephoned for a cab at 2.30 O clock that morning to go to a Madison ', Avenue house. Wagstaff is said to hay responded and driven a man and womal i from there to the corner of 18th stree
 and Park avenue, where they paid him
 alighted and disappeared.
 Mrs. Marie Larsen, Elwelrs housekeep
 CT, under vigorous questioning. told As
 sistant District Attorney Dooling that young woman had gone to the Five house shortly after the whist expert Wa | discovered dying from the bullet woun in hi shead. Mrs. Larsen said this wo man had visited Elwell several times be
 fore and was the reputed owner of tn
 pink silk lingerie found in Elwelfs bed room
 Il District Attorney Swann admitted hi
 belief that the young woman was ben
 upon getting possession of the garment
 and other evidence of female occupanc
 of the sportsmen's apartments. He stat
 ed, however, that he had no reason
 believe she was more intimately connect ed with the shooting.
 Mrs Larsen also told of how sh
 ''tidies up' Elwell's bedroom after tn
 dying man had been removed to a hos pital Her silence on this subject durin
 the early days of the investigatio caused detectives to work under the bt
 lief that Elwelrs bed had not been oC cupied the night before the shooting. For seven hours today, Victor Vo
 Schlegell, divorced husband of Miss Vic , la Kraus, was questioned in the distriC attorneys office regarding his movement on the night of the murder and the day
 preceding. According to Assistant Di
 trist Attorney Dooling, Won Schlegell ac
 mitted having an army revolver in h ,, apartment, which he said he had nevt used, did not know whether it was Ioat ed and could not tell it's calibre. He ha , no license to possess the weapon, M
 Dooling said.
 MT Won Schlegell has accounted fc , practically every minute of the time fro , the Sunday before the murder, up to u ' present time" said MT. Dooling. r Von Schlegell was examined in u
 presence of Lyttleton Fox. attorney f,
 Mrs Walter Lewisohn and her siste . Mis- Kraus, who dined with Elwell at u . Ritz-Carlton Hotel several hours befo his death Von Schlegell said he all : had dined at the Ritz the same nig T with a woman companion, whose identi Y he revealed to the district attorney b y which has not been made public. 7 Won Schlegell, who is vice president f a rubber company, Oold MT. Dooling
 returned to his apartment in the knic erbocker Chambers, Sixty second stre !, near Fifth nue, ! It II o'clock Thursday night, went 70 bed and got | + at 7.30 the next morning, breakfast
 at S10 and waited for his motor car u ;, til 930 The murder was discovered Fl ;, day at S.30 a. m. by Elwelrs housekee
 er
 7, Asked whether Von Schlegell had SCI . | Elwell and Miss Kraus dancing togeth v, at the Ritz and whether Elwell had re ', ', ognized Won Schlegens greeting on | ~ ~ floor MT. Dooling replied:
 Y q don't know. We are more inte ', ested in Elwelrs murder than in sor ', a of the other things that are croppi
 1p.''
 District Attorney Swann announc
 l tonight that Miss Kraus and Mrs. La = sen, the housekeeper, would be que \, toned again tomorrow. He said the idle :, tity of the woman who owned the pi o silk negligee, boudoir cap and slippe s found in Elwell's home is still doubtf