Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-19
ELWELLNQUIRY
MARLBOROUGH
Swami Admits Possibility
that Murder Mystery Will
Never Be Solved.

New York, July. 17.-District At
more emphasis than before. that the
murderer of Joseph Bovine ElwellI
may never be found. His latest
speculation. as to no solution is word
ed thus.
II hope to see the murderer caught.
The crime may be cleared up, but on
the other hand it is entirely possible
the mystery may never be solved"
Unoficial followers Of the case,
scanning the District Attorneys
words, may conjecture. in their minds
whether the authorities believe that
the case is moving steadily up to the
shelf OF unsolved mysteries of: Man
: haitian crime.
Assault Rumored.
Meanwhile, investigation continues
OF sundry reports in connection with
the case. The police have been in
curing into a story that Elwell was
aui by two men near the New
Amsterdam Theatre about 2 o'clock
on the morning Of the murder, short
~ after he had taken leave of the
AeWlsohn theatre party. Elwell, &C.
cording to this report, escaped from
his assailants by jumping into a taxi.
But one of the men followed in q
second taxi to Elwells house.
When this report vas called to the
attention OF Assistant District Attor-
ney, he said:
"Thts is the first I have ever heard
OF 1T. They (the two men) could not
have hit Elwell very hard because
the medical examiners found no
marks of any kind Of injuries except
the bullet wound. l am afraid there
Is notsthe slightest basis for that ru-
NOR. There could hardly nave been
q fight of that kind on the street
without its coming to the attention Of
the police at an earlier date"
Believes Estate Considerable.
Mr..sDooling estimates Elwell's es-
tate az comfortable. Major Algernon
LalA gertield of Kentucky, official of
.~t.iet Jockey club, called upon Mr..
Dooling. who wished to learn more
about Elwell's turf properties. Mr..
Dooling now says:
"Elwell had sixteen horses, several
Of which AVE been winning lately.
r They shave had much better luck
since his death than they had before
1t. Some of them are valuable ami
mails snMajor Daingerield was. not
willing to guess at their value, but it
runs Into pretty high figures. Then
we know of his trust fund, from
whichfthe incomes had beer. $1,000 a
year and which was previously high
err. The lawyers of the estate say
that it comprised considerable other
property. We have no means of
making an estimate Of the total, but
certainly does~not bear out the theory
that he committed suicide because he
was; broke or that he was dabbing in
petty .bootlegging transactions.
e have investigated his stock
brokerage affairs. He dabbled in
mining stocks a few years ago, but he
had been out Of that line entirely for
two years or more. 1 ave not found
any, evidence that he was ever inn
plicated in anything crooked in his
mining and stock transactions"
il. H. Porter Fined $3.50.
HSsHobart Porter, president of the
American Water Works & Electrical
company SO Broad street. anu an
. ,oftieAsSsin eighteen other concerns.
pleaSs4SdSgui1ty to a charge Of violation
Of the aVolstcad act today in the Unit
ed Rates district court. He was fined
$25n BY Federal Judge Harland B.
Howe, which he paid promptly and
then left the. court room smiling
Charged with having had inroxi-
eating liquor in his possession un-
lawfully, and with aiding and abet-
ting its sale, Mr.. Porter, according to
Assistant United States Attorney A
S. Rothwell. who filed the informa-
!. tion in the federal court, obtained
-four cases Of whiskey from William,
Barnes. secretary to Elwell.
IS H. These cases were seized by depart.
14aknent Of justice agents. Whether this
E~etransaction was known to Elwell anG
! II he was. as has been charged, the
leader of a number of prominent
persons engaged in the manufacture
and sale of illicit liquors has not been
Y'uSther information as to those
| enpape1 in the "hoOt1egging' admit