New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-01
Rival Also Is Wounded bv
Jose Arens u House
Near Tha in Which
Elwell WIS IA rdered
Norman II; q Called
To Get Beiong ings
Broadway olicemanHa1ts
Taxicab in Which Were
= Survivors of Tragedy

Jose a. Arenas, young South Ameri-
can dentist, was found dead from bullet
wounds yesterday evening in his apart
mcnt at 116 West Seventeen Street.
only little more than block from
the house whore Joseph B. Elwell was
murdered-2l4 West Seventeen Street.
AT about the time that detectives
from the West Sixty eighth Street
ponce station, summoned by neighbors
who had heard the shots fired, were in
the dentists apartment COMPARING his
death to that of the whist expert.
Patrolman Conrad Walters. Of Traffic
Squad c, picked up clew which led
to detailed account of the shooting bv
I. witness.
Walters, on duty at Sixty-sixth
Street and Broadway, law coming down
broadway axicab from which pro
truded the upper part of woman's
body, with bloody clothing and a wound
IN the breast revealed by the torn
waist.
me natrolman jumped on the run
hiiG poard OF the car and q man who
was supporting the woman's body told
MIN that she had been shot and ne
was taking her to hospital, Walters
cleared the way with his police whistle
and directed the driver, Alexander Rob
erts, to ignore the speed limit.
1T Was round at 1toUseVeit Hospital
that the bullet had gone close TO the
heart of the young woman. She is Mrs.
Elmer Shultz, a chorus girl, twenty
Years old, and known on. the stage as
Ruth Jackson. Her companion in the
taxi was Ignacio Mart. twenty-five
years old, Cuban, who lives in West
SlXty-1ourth Street, in a house whose
number he could not remember. From
him Walters obtained the account of
the shooting of Miss Jackson, which
was ali explanation also, of the pres
ence of the dead Arenas in his apart
ment III West Seventeen Street
Cuban Discovers His Wound
AS the young Cuban started the tale
Walters regarded him curiously for a
moment, and then interrupted him.
"Hold on minute" he said. "You
We're shot. too, weren't you?"
Marti stared in astonishment at the
rent in his coat to which the policeman
was pointing and felt to convince him
sell OF the trickle of red which Dor
dercd it. A bullet had grazed his chest,
tearing the coat, shirt and undershrt
without his realizing it. When the
wound, a superficial one, had been
dressed he resumed his story.
Arenas, he said, an attractive and
popular member of the Latin section
on the upper West Side, had been most
attentive to Miss JACKSON. The young
woman, Marti said, had been more
responsive to his own advances, enough
SO to arouse the jealousy in Arenas.
In this mood he said, Miss jackson
wished to have 10 more to do with the
dentist and had asked Marti to go with
her to his apartment to get some be-
longings of hers which Arenas had.
They reached the apartment a little
after o'clock yesterday afternoon
Another Latin American, Juan NAL
danado. of u West Sixty-fifth Street,
was chatting with Arenas in the front
room.
After some general conversation,
Marti said, the dentist asked NAL
danado if he would object to leaving
them alone. He did so. Still courte-
Arenas excused himself for a moment,
saying that the articles Miss Jackson
sought were in the next room.
Dentist Opens Fire
When Arenas returned, said Marti,
he had revolver in his hand and be-
gan to shoot as soon as he got into the
room. TIL sudden noise and smoke
frightened the young Cuban. A win
dow in the big bay which juts out
from the fve-story brownstone house
into Seventeen Street was open and
Marti cleared the sill at leap.
He landed in the areaway beside the
basement door with jar that racked
his joints and rendered further move
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