New-York tribune., 1920-06-19


changed and that he went to lock-
smith on West End Avenue, who later
gave him one key. This key, he says,
he gave to Mrs. Larsen, who said:
This is not the right key"
Rhodes says, however, that he LETT
the key on the table in the presence
Of Mrs. Larsen. as
Two days later, he said, the lock-
smith, Samuel Rudomin. of 184 West
End Avenue, left two more keys under
the mat in the vestibule, because he
when lie called. This would seem to
Indicate, says Rhodes. that there wore
three keyes in existence, but Mrs. Lar
sen seeadfastly asserts there were only
,wo.
Mystery of Outer Doors
The mystery about the outer doors
remains unsolved. The authorities are
coming to believe more and more that
the murderer got out Of the house dur
ing the tve-minute interval between
$3.50 a m. when Joseph Otter, the milk
man, found the door open and placed
bottle of milk in the vestibule. and
80 a. M, when RMS. Larsen says she
arrived at the house and found he
odol of cigarette SNAKE in the ve.ti-
bulc she says, and thought at once,
Joe, the furnace man, must have been
there"
The furnace man says he swept the
pavement in front of the house at
a. m, before the arrival of Mrs. Lar
sen. There has been no explanation of
the smoke in the vestibule.
Members of the staff of the district
attorney, while they say that nobody
has been eliminated from the case" are
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OF the movements of several women
friends of Elwel.
Luncheon Guest Sought.
The story that a woman spent
Wednesday night az the Elwel home
is denied by District Attorney Swami
who says he never heard of anv such
evldence The plump young woman
"lth the gray jersey suit, with the skirt
trimmed with gray fur, who, Mrs Lar
sen says. was entertained at luncheon
by the card wizard on the Tuesday pre-
cedlng the murder, has not yet been
found oridentifed
Another mystery woman, named as
Miss Ellis. who is said to have called
Liwell on the phone shortly after
O'Clock on the morning of the murder
and is reported to have been aues-
toned by the police, has also faded
! cut of the scene.
Mr. Swami admitted that he had
heard of Miss Ellis, but that he had
not questioned her. 81 want to say
gentlemen" he added, chat we haven't
eliminated any women or anybody else
from the case. But | must say that we
are as far from conclusion as we
were last Friday"
Miss Ellis" is said to be the az
sumed name of a girl of wealthy fam
lily, with home on Lake George, who
met Elwell at Palm Beach She ar
rived at the Pennsylvania Station on
the morning Of the murder, about 9
o'clock on her way to Lake George and
called up his home to find out. ac-
cording to Mr. Joyce, when Elwcll was
going to open his cottage at Saratoga
Elwcll apparently, says MIR. Joyce
had made an appointment to meet hcu
fide that the Ellis girl is in no way
connected with the crime
In conn ction with this woman. Mr.
Swami received an anonymous letter
reading: Dear Mr.. Swamp Perhaps
it will help you to know that Mr.. FL
we'll met two parties at the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Station at Thirty hire
Street and Seventh Avenue on Friday
morning about o'clock, daylight
tering an hour earlier. This is as much
as may tell you without involving
myself"
Philip Bender still holds that he
took only three passengers in his taxi
cab from the Amsterdam Theater a
1:30 o'clock on the morning of the
murder. instead of four as is main
tanned by Octavio Figueroa and Other
members OF the Lewisohn party, who
were with Elwell on the Ziegfeld roof
Mr.. Swami said that no arrangement:
had been made to bring Bender face
to face with the Lewisohn party tc
clear up this point.
Deputy District Attorney Joyce an
nounced last night that before morn
ing the Elwell house would be closeo
up and that all inquiry into Elwell's
death, and all quizzng of his acqua'nt
ances or others, would be done else
where.
During the eight days since the
murder the authorities have sum
moncd to that house everybody who
might have any information of value
in identifying and locating the person
called repeatedly. Each day and al
day long a score of reporters have
waited outside for word of develop
ments Daily motor cars and pedes
trans have crowded the block.
New Leads Developing.
Joyce said yesterday that enough in
formation still needs checking to keeI
the inquiry going for week, and witt
new leads developing there is no tell
ing when the case will be abandoned as
mystery beyond solution, assuming
that the running down Of clews doesnt
roduce the murderer. And Joyce dc
clared that he really expects that the
person who shot F.lwell will be locatcl
and brought to justice.
"We're just plugging along, ant
that's all we can do now" he said. :"
cannot say that there is one particular
discovery that will clear the situation
and show us the person we want
Another man and woman of mystcr!
walked into the maze yesterday. Ques
toned by reporters they declared
themselves newspaper people, but the,
. were not recognized MS such, and joyce
said. after talking with them in the
Elwell house. that he did not know
who they were, except that they wanted
to give him information. Nothing o
much value resulted from the confer
encc he added.
Joyce said that from others who vol
unteercd help he had heard enough
scandal to involve many people wei
known in New York society.
A spiritualist promised to get tn