Bisbee daily review., 1920-07-06
MURDER FOILS kEENES1
 IF DETECTIVES

appeared in it's most dramatic setting II has defied solution by the foremost sleuths of this city. Wealth, divorce, the glitter of Broadway night life, beautiful women gowned. and jeweled ing table and, far removed from the frenzied w!Iirl Of the bright lights" the dotinS parents in thir vineshaded home in the country all these are woven and interwoven into what has been pronounced by detectives the i deepest mystery of years.
 In it's most sinister guise, murder at the hands of and unknown and unSus- pected assassin, death came to Joseph Bowne Elwell in middle age when his most expressing cares amounted to anxiety over a favorite race horse, some intricacy of his ruling passion, bridge whist, or an after-theater en- gagement with the woman in black" or the lady in gray"
 Still breathing, though a large cali Dlt uullel Icu pIOWeu llIIOuSH HIS brain, Elwell was discovered at S:30 in the morning of June II clad in his pajamas and slumped down in a chair against the wall of the reception room on the first floor of his three story house in West roth street. He died several hours later without speaking a word which might betray the ident- -ty of his slayer.
 He was found by Mrs. Marie Larsen, Elwell's housekeeper, arriving for her daily work of tidying up the house. On a table at his side were several letters, one of which, from a racing associate, had been removed from the envelope. The letters had been de- liered by the postman at 7:35. There was no weapon, no footprint, no evidence of struggle, no possible clew except 45 calibre shell, such as is elected from an automatic pistol of the army type and the stub of cig- arctic different from those Elwell habitually smoked. Doors and win dows were securely locked Experts declare that suicide the ory was untenable because ElweIl could not have held the fatal pistol far enough from his head to avoid powder burns, even were it possible to account for the disappearance of the weapon. There were powder marks on the dying mans forehead but no burns.
 As soon as the idea of self-destruc ton was rejected the man-hunt star ted. It's qualifications extended all over the country, into every circle of society and for years back into the uead mans past. Every relative. eevry friend, every casual acouaint- ance or servant, every one who had ever seen the dead turfman was found and examined. Every possible motive Tor his killing was explored. Love af Ialls long buried were exhumed and the principals grilled to discover motiVe Tor the crime. Every real or suspected enmity was probed. All led to the same end-a wealth of informa. ton about the dead mans leisureIv llfe his reputation for suaye good nat ure and his conquest of women's hearts. But not ray flight on the crime itself
 The known facts of how ElweIl spent the night before his death a-o lew. During the early evening inc
 was one of dinner party St a large (lThn1
 Mrs Lewisohn, Miss Viola Kraus and South American journalist who met
 Elwell for the first time that evening. At a nearby table sat Victor Von Schiegel, the divorced husband Of
 Miss Kraus and Miss Ely Hope An derson, a singer whose home is in
 Minniapolis.
 All who were present agree.i after
 ward that tlere was no show Of i'll
 feeling between Elwell and Won
 Schlegell, though they brushed shoul-
 ders on the dance floor, several times with Von SchlegelPs former wife
 dancing with the sportsman
 After leaving the hotel the Lewis
 ohm party, including Elwell. went to
 roof garden theatre, where they Ie-
 mained until 1:30 when all left and
 Elwell was seen to start On foot to- ward his home. Here ends all unas-
 sailable evidence of the murder vic
 tim's movements. A man told inves-
 tigators he had seen Elweil and a
 woman in an upper Broadway dance
 hall at a much later hour A neigh Dor claimed to have seen Elwell driv-
 en home by Il man in racing ear at 2:3O. taIicab driver asserted he had driven the sportsman home di- i rectly after he left the Lewischn par ! ty.
 More important evidence seemed age