New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
Girl Student
Now Enters
Elwell Case
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and Mr.. Won schlegell smiled at each
$3.50 o'clock, and Mr.. Won Schlegel
ard I left about 9:45. We took a cab
to my apartment in East Sixty-first
Street. which We reached about 10
o'clock, and Mr.. Won Schlegell said
good night. He did not come in with
me. He said something about going
home.
81 went to bed and the next morning
! went down to the Grand Central Sta
ton to take my train home, and | was
astonished to hear the boys crying out,
All about the Elwell murder!
While Mr.. Swami repeatedly stated
that Miss Anderson had no connection
whatever with the case. her statement
that she was home at 10 o'clock that
Thursday night before the murder is
undoubtedly wrong"
Telephone Record
He pointed to a statement of Mr..
Won Schlegell that he left the Ritz
about II o'clock that night and that
he left his guest in front of her
apartment at about 11:3O o'clock.
After several definite statements
from various members of the District
Attorneys staff that the question Of
any telephone calls from the Elwell
home on the morning of the murder
had been thoroughly investigated. and
that no such calls had been made, it
was learned yesterday, thirteen days
after the crime, that at least two at
tempts were made by some one in the
after midnight. Officials of the Coum-
bus Central, 426 West Fifty Eighth
Street. told investigators yesterday
that they have record of a call COM
ing from 96S9 Columbus, which is 244
West Seventeen Street, Elwclls house
While this record gives the date
as June IL, 1920, Mr.. Swami says it
does not give the hour. The recollec-
ton of the telephone authorities is
that the call came between 1890 and
! o'clock in the morning. There were
no other calls at this central that
morning. The police were unable to
get any further information on this
point yesterday because of the absence
Of Miss Margaret Entler, the telephone
operator who got the calls. Miss
Entler, who lives at 436 East Eighty
first Street, is now at Rutherford
n. J.
This development. If confirmed
would seem to indicate that somebody
other than Elwell, was in his home
then; Elwell. it is known. having
been with the Lewisohn party on the
roof Of the Amsterdam Theater unit
at least :45 a. M. 1t is known. too
that some one was in communication
with Elwel at his home at $50 O'Clock
the fatal morning.
The telephone company says that The
mysterious one-o clock calls were fol
l.sAl Far Rockaway, which is the
phone number Of William H. Pendleton
at Cedarhurst. l.. l. Mr. Pendeto
says he didn't get any calls at tha'
time. that he expected none and cam
unde rstand what Elwell. if it was he
could have wanted to get into touci
with him about.
If it was not Elwell. and the prob
ability is, say the police. it was not
who was in the house at the time
How did they get there ? Did they have
a key and why were they trying tt
reach Mr.. Pendleton. are the ques
tions that are now being investigated
by the authorities. It is possible, they
reason. that this person concealed hin
Or herself about the house until the
morning and then, awaiting Favorable
moment, fired the fatal shot
Another Discrepancy
/ Another discrepancy has now cropped
up in connection with the mystery O
the locked doors Charles S. Torrey
the mail carrier, who went TO the III
we'll home early on the morning of the
murder. said yesterday that he foun(
the outer door Of the vestibule open
something which he had never encoun
tered. except on one other occasion
This is in contradiction TO the testi
| mony Of Mrs. Larsen. who says she wa