New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
Iaxi Chauffeur Asserts
He Took Whist King
From Amsterdam Thea.
ter to House at 2 a. m.
Turfman's List of
100 Women Found
''Woman in Black'' Says
She VIII Return Here
at the Request of Swami

If the story told by George A. Wal
ters. negro taXicab driver, of 21C
West 18th Street. is true, the authori
ties have found the man who was the
last to see Joseph Bovine Elwell alive
soon before the mysterious murder in
his home two weeks ago.
Walters owns a machine with fit
ful habit of stopping and starting
which he calls "buckng' He says he
picked up the card wizard near the
New Amsterdam Theater on the morn
ing Of the murder at about o'clock
He drove him to Sixty sixth Street and
Broadway, where, he said, he was or
dered to stop to permit his customer to
buy newspaper, and then dropped El-
well at his home, 244 West Seventieth
Street.
The taxicab driver says he was able
to identify his customer as Elwell
through pictures that have appeared in
the newspapers. He also remembered
that Elwell had given him IS cents for
his fare.
To Be Questioned To-day
Assistant District Attorney Alfred
j. Talley, in charge Of the investiga-
tion Yesterday, says it is strange that
Walters should wait fourteen days be-
fore coming forward with the informa
ton, and wanted to know why he had
not presented the facts to the District
Attorney before. The taxicab driver
will be interrogated day.
This new development, if confirmed
by the examination to-day. would seem
to indicate that Elwcll, shortly after
leaving the Lewisohn party in front of
the Amsterdam Thcater, about AS
a. m, got into Waltcrs's taxi and went
directly home. 1t is not clear, how
ever, whether he rode home accom-
panied or not. With the clearing up
of these points all of the turfman's
movements during the night preceding
the murder and up to 2:3O o'clock of
the fatal morning will have been fully
accounted for.
This, however, would point out no new
trail to the authorities whereby thew
might trace the murderer. They admit
ted yesterday they were as far away
from any clew to the criminal as they
were five minutes after the whist king
was found dying in the reception room
of his home with gunshot wound in
his forehead
District Attorney Swami saws it may
take months to unravel the mystery and
it may never be uncovered. Everybody
in and about the house at the time of
the murder. or even remotely connected
with the slain man, is being questioned
and so far not one fact has been hit
upon that would point to any particular
person as the probable criminal.
Miss Anderson to Return
Some light is expected to be shed on
the case by Miss ELY Hope Anderson,
the guest Of Victor Won Schlegell on
the Ritz Roof the night preceding the
murder. Miss Anderson has been re-
fcrred to as the girl in black" be-
cause she was attired in a black gown
on that night, when Elwel was also
on the roof with another party, in
cluding Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lewisohn
Miss Viola Kraus and Octavio
Figueroa. Miss Kraus had just di-
vorced her husband. Won Schegel, and
had received her final decree that day.
Miss Andersen had come from Mime
apolis to study music and returned to
her home on the morning of the mur-
der. In reply to a telegram from Dis
trict AttorlTy Swami requesting her
to return and answer certain questions
that might aid in solving the mystery,
she IS reported. in dispatches, to have
said that she would return at once and
tell the authorities all she knows.
Her latest statements differ some
what from the stories she told when
her identity was at first disclosed. She
had said that Won Schegell drove her
TO her apartment at At East Sixty-Grst
Street and ieft her there at about 20
o'clock that night and that she did rot
see him again before her departure Cor
the West She now admits th9t she
brcakfasted with him in his apart
as about o'clock on the morning Ct
;hc murder.
The Minnesota girls ACQUAINTANCE
with Won Schlegell began LAST Tebru-
arv, when, Miss Anderson said, she
was introduced to him at tea given
by Miss Esther Lee Sutton, 1876 Madi-
sen Avenue, declared to be q wealthy
woman interested in music. Miss An
do"son is also known in n ,,vark,
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