The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-06-23
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sew YORK, June 2S.-The strange
l6YJlpsychology Of the murdered
s..SeDh 3. Elweil, wealthy society
gambler. was disclosed today BY MS
widow, Helen D. ElYell.
What lay behind bis smiling eyes,
: the aieTt manners? What was me &c
;ctet 81 his cunning al cards, Win Tue
and with women?
Elweli was q dandy, D'ArtaSnan-
& daredevil, an exotic man, q man
Tih 4 kfeat passion 10 live and 10
love. BE had The gamblers cold fear
Of death.
ma HELM Elwell was a mere girl
when she married him years ago.
They had been separated for years
before his death. :,
yes she said, turning her head
toward the window, Il loved him, TOO,
when ! married him-it was a sWlt:
thing that marriage!
what did he love In me?" and she
answered herself:
.Inac feasibility was hard to run
down, as they say.
81 liked him, be was tall and line
me handsome then. did not know
th2t be wore q toupe-and he had
manners and a way with him-oh, my
deaf. she went on, little catch IN
her voice, Beware Of those with u
WY about them-his soul was a.
! careless thing.
/; '.of course I did not know at the
beginning what he thought Of women
I -I.did not know that II was alone
MY c0ldnesS that had attracted him.
.But later learned what he thought
81 Nomen-what he said to himself
+ 5ndsto me as he carefully dressed.
HE would stand there, by that
,tnirror-tylng one tie after another
trying many stick pins-first q little
fellow the knot, then In the center,
5tneii not atall.
His little toupee- made Of the fin.
eSt gauEe-this he would turn and
turn about on his long, perfectly man
ictired fingers, and he would say in
"a eyen drawing voice:
Women are fools-the fool is
In their flesh. They hide It away,
yes, and the better, the harder 10
dnd, the more exciing-l like do
ing things well, but when I've
accomplished q thing, then I'm
done.
-Thsn he would carefully place his
hair Is he wanted It and begin to pat
u down, one strand laid exactly
straight upon the other.
And he would say, I like them
cold, false, beautiful-but withal-|
daring, racy, Q little worldly-a little
past twenty seven, let US say-wita q
memory Of q pasta woman who
might perhaps be a little worn with
love, but amused at the devastation
land Laughing, that's It, laughing.
They should laugh always, in the face
Of eyerythlng-they should take
things either with humor, or with
hautAur.,
ale had no child quality in him, e1-
cept perhaps his mania for his own
I looks, 3,
sHe was forever admiring himself,
with his hand forever at the lip, kiss
ing goodby to those who had let him
see that be was q great deal to them.
Ia made acquaintance easily and
while he could be conventional, he
cared nothing for conyentionality.
Many Of his women friends he met
well, most Informally.
The ideal which he certainly had
vas the snake woman-perhaps you
would call Il the vampire, | don't
know that's the popular word now,
isult Ii!
he cared nothing for me, after the
first; cared nothing for me as the
mother Of his son.
sHe loved nothing in art. He
ieered me for adoring Omar Khay-,
yam-he said It was all about drink.
said It was all about love-but he
would have none Of It.
"He was . marvellous dancer, but
( be cared nothing for music except to
dance 70. He had q passion for REQ
decorations and for rugs, but he neye,
really loved but one thing-gambling.
He loved lie as no man has loved
ne. who have seen him dress for
koura, know also that he was not q
nan Who could have killed himself
ite 200 ridiculous.
!. sHe has spent hours, numberless
hours, over some quack's theory Of
lie.
.There was one man who told him
that Il herate five raw prunes before
lSch meal thGt he would live to be q
hundred and fifty. He did It.
..4sAnj had he killed himself" she
& nd, The would not have done It with.
fodkNig and without teeth. He would
fES done II in grand manner-he
7kprif hzve died 'beauttully'-with
BE scent oi flowers about him, and
his body made magnificent for Its last
tepose that the last woman to see
+ hin-whoeyer she was-could have
] seen n him only that dandy that he
made himself for the world"