New-York tribune., 1920-06-22
Is
New Clew in
Elwell Case
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usual, and he did not see any one in
the house or in the vicinity.
Tells Of Finding Body

Tells Of Finding Body
He says he came back around $3.50
or shortly thereafter, to collect empty
bottles "At about $40 a. M, as near
as l can figure" he said, II was giving
Mr.. Fisher. the superintendent of the
apartment house at 236 West Seven
ueth Street, bottle of milk from the
wagon when Mrs Larsen rushed up
10 me and said: Get an officer quick!'
"She did not tell me what the trouble
was. jumped out of the wagon, asked
Mr. Fisher to telephone for an officer
and he said he would. Then | saw Mrs.
Larsen come running down the street
I With an officer. | saw the officer 20 in
the house and stood outside and she,
Of course, had opened the door and he
stood behind her
rushing out and said: Give me
hand with this fellow. He can't live
very long.
Il rushed in and saw the man lying
over the chair straight out, with his
head hanging over the chair close to
the wall and his feet stretched out in
front of him. I do not remember the
position of the left arm, but the right
arm was dangling down over the arm
OF the chair. | saw no letters or mail
Of any kind
The officer told me to get an auto
mobile and | went out and there was
and asked the chauffeur would he take
the fellow away, and he kind of re-
luctantly started to back up his car
and l rushed back into the house
again. The body was so close to the
wall that could not get a purchase on
it to help the officer lift it and think
! pulled the chair away from the wall
for that purpose. l was just about to
lift the body with the officer, l being
at the head and he at the feet, when
the officer said
What's that, bullet wound IN his
hcad?'
~ replied: 1T appears to be bullet
1So,.n Wound, :. and he said: we better
80 l walked on outside the house
and stood in front of the house for
a while. My wagon was still across the
street. In the mean time l saw three
other fellows coming out of the Ewell
house with an officer and a roundsman.
The three men looked like stevedorcs
or truckmen. did not see them 20
into the house and did not see them
IN the house while l was there.
Housekeeper Is Silent
after l went into the house I did
not hear the housckeeper say one word
either to myself or anybody else.
w hen these three men came out of the
house one of them said: That is a
funny thing. They can't find the gun
mat was the first time l thought about |
It being murder. Then remembered |
that had seen no gun while l was in
there. | think | would have seen the
gun if it had been there, unless it
was under the chair, which was low
one. or under the table
II stood around talking to customers
Ior a while, but none of them said any
-hlng that struck me as important, ex-
,ept Mrs. Mccarthy, of No. 243 West
SEVENTEEN Street, who said she had
'ead piece in the paper about Elwcll
coming home with a bride and that
she had not seen any bride around
anywhere. '''>'
~ 81. did not notice the cartridge shell
While was in the house. | formed
he opinion that the shooting must
lave happened within fifteen minutes
II the time got in the house, rs the
'lood was still dripping from the hair
n the back of the head.
Il am positive that after Mrs. Larsen
poke to me the first time and asked me
o get. a policeman she went back and
hut the outer door of Elwolls house
before she herself went for the police
nan. am also sure that after she
irst spoke to me nobody went in or out
If the house, as | was W. cching it.
Il noticed no cigarette smoke nor the
'mell of any in the house when I en-
eged it, nor did see any cigarette on
he mantelpiece. When Mrs. Larsen
irst spoke to me. think, was stand
ing in the wagon talking to her. don't
'cmember seeing Joe, the man VINO
cleaned the sidewalks. that morning. al
.hough | had seen him other mornings.
have spoken to him since this hap
'ened, but he has not told me anything
Important"
The revelation that Elwell was alive
his house at 2:30 a. m. and had been
in communication with. somebody at
hat time has left the way open for
great deal of speculation among those
connected with the case. When Mr..
Swami was asked who was with Elwell
Or had phoned to him at that time he
declined to say. The fact, however.
makes extremely important the decla