The evening world., 1920-07-14
DETECTIVES TRACE
GIRL WHO CASHED
ELWELL'S CHECK
Also Anxious to Question HuS-
band of Young Woman
Whose Letters Turfman Held
AS WITNESSES.
Society Friends Had Thought
Whist Expert Might Wed
Frequent Companion.

A young woman and her husband,
both of high social standing and known
in New York and in summer and win
ter resorts Of America, are to-day in
the centre Of District Attorney Swann's
investigation into the Joseph b. Elwell
murder mystery.
They are now outside of the District
Attorneys jurisdiction. He cannot
summon them for cross-Questioning.
He has, however, detailed detectives to
look into their goings and comings,
and also to learn where they were and
get all information pertaining to them
on the morning Of 'Elwells murder
and the preceding night.
A packet of letters, a cancelled
check and the gossip OF socially
prominent persons have given the
District Attorneys office hope that
the young married couple may fur
nish a clue in the mystery.
The letters, as already told in The
Evening World. were found in Ell
wells home several days after his
murder. They were addressed TO the
Young woman, then unmarried, and
some OF them were just the average
personal. confidential correspondence
from girl and boy friends that a
young girl might wish to keep from
her parents-or, il married, from her
husband too.
How she came to select Elwell as
her literary custodian is not known
but the cancelled check, payable tc
the young woman and signed by Ell
well, is taken by the investigators tc
indicate that the turfman had man
oeuvred her into a position where
she felt under obligations to him anc
in which he could control her actions
by threatening to expose certain
things to her husband.
YOUNG WIFE'S NAME SHIELD
ED BY SWAMI.
| Because the District Attorneys Of
flee believes the young woman wa!
brought into Elwells life eithe
through her own indiscretions o
through Elwells superlative cunning
Mr.. Swami has taken care to shielC
her name.
The same care is being accorded tn
husband who the District Attorney
office is careful to link with the cas-
as a desirable witness" and not as
Suspect" or as anything approachin
suspect"
That the husband OF the girl Of IN
letters had reason himself to b
Jealous Is indicated in a bit OF societ
gossip which came to light to-day
1t was said that before the "letts
girls" marriage after her fiances r.
turn from war Elwell and she wer
together 80 often at parties in Me-
York and at different watering u
sorts, Palm Beach and other fash
ionabls places, that society came p
look upon them as a match"
A new character has entered tn
case as the result Of the "lette
girls" correspondence. He is no'
believed to be in Chicago, and Dis
trict Attorney Swami has sent a de
tective there to watch him. Ret
cence in regard to this mans iden
tity was maintained by the DistriC
Attorney to-day. but It was lcarne
that the new character was men
toned in one of the girls epistle
and that he is the divorced husban
Of woman who admitted havin
been a friend OF Elwell
MIR. Swami to-day assumed fu
charge of the Investigation DO n {
the packet Of letters and retIrne
. checks. He would make no state mel
except that he was hopeful OF a solL
ton Dy his men, who are runnin
down every possible clue, no matt,
how remote.
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