New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-08

Z. nj. the hour that the murder wan dis
covered.
Took wife Is station
Nj. Pendleton repeated his stata-
meat about taking MIRA. pendletor, To
the station In His car Il little later
IN the morning and said that he could
not NuNdNfktand how anyone could sAy
thAt she made the trip III taxicah.
His attorney pointed out that all Mr..
Pendleton's statements could be corr
rohcrated by witnessed and added that
virtually ell Of them had been.
District Attorney Swani, announced
last night that he had invited Mrs.
PendIeton, wife Of William m. Pendie-
ton; Mrs.. Oliver w. Bird, Of 81 East
Eighty sixth Street, and George b.
Post il, Of Post s Flaeg. Is come to
his Office to see If they could gite him
any information that would tend to
solve the MISERY.
MRS. Wiimerllngs the pretty Divorce
OF NarragAnsett Pier, r. T., appeared
voluntarily before District Attorney
Edward Swami and told all she knew
Of the life Of Eiwell.
The young woman's story contained
emphatic denials Of all the charges
made against her by Anna Kane, the
former h0usekeeper Of Elweu. now res
nQ1G
hdavit form, were shown to Mrs. Will
lnerding, and, with scorn flashing from
her dark brown eyes, she repudiated
them.
The arrival of Mrs. Wilmerding at
the District Attorneys office relieved
the atmosphere of gloom that nae set
tied about the investigation, which of
5cials now admit is practically dead
locked.
For, two hours she was closeted with
District Attorney Swami and his as
Dooling and John F. Joyce. At the
conclusion of her examination she said
to the newspaper men:
Il never met this woman, Anna
Kane. never wore the kimono in Mr..
Elwell's home. | never saw it and
don't know the color of it. This woman
is crazy when she makes such state
ments. Iwouldn't know her if / saw
her right now.
Such statements as hers are very
embarrassing and absolutely untrue. I
had been anything that I could have
told about Mr.. Elwell, but I only met
him in a casual way"
After she had departed Mr.. Dooling
issued the following statement regard
ing her examination:
"Mrs Josephine Wilmerding came
here to-day at the District Attorneys
invitation. She said she had known
Mr.. Elwell, having met him about Feb
ruary, 1918, at Palm Beach, where she
was then living with her uncle and
aunt on Sunset Avenue.
"She said that among his visitors
was a gentleman named William H.
Pendleton, who she understood had
been Mr.. Elwell's guest for about
month. She returned from Palm Beach
about March, 1918. She understood
that Mr. Elwell remained until June,
1918, because of some building opera
tions he was interested in, or the sale
of some real estate.
"She stated that after she came up
here in June she had seen him q few
times at hotels and at public func-
tons, and she said that she and her
sister went to Mr.. Elwell's house one
evening, where they had looked over
the furnishings and were his guests
at dinner Later in the summer, she
said, Elwell was guest at her grand
mothers home at Narragansett Pier,
r. l., for a week end.
"Mrs. Wilmerding said she was di-
vorced in 1917, before she met Elwell
or had ever heard of him. She said
that the last time she saw Elwell was
in January, 1919, when she was in a
private sanatarium convalescing from
an operation for appendicitis. He
on the eve of his departure for Palm
Beach.
'sShe denies categorically all of the
- =