The evening world., 1920-06-15
ELWELL CASE STRLKINGLY LIKE FRITZ RUECKERT II

and borrowed the car Of friend
Eamed Edison. At the last minute his
own car was repaired and he used At
READ OF MURDER THE FOL.
LOWING MORNING.
AZ Morgan, N. j., the car broke
down and he put II in a garage and
went 10 Red Bank by train. reaching
Atlantic City at 1130 Friday night
He read OF the tragedy the next morn
ing At breakfast. attended the COM
vention. and returned 20 Morgan for
his car. which he drove back. Arriv-
Ing last night o.
He said. according to Mr.. joyce. that
he had never had a quarrel with
Elwell and that he has only the kind
lest FEELING for his former wife. He
said he was glad she got a decree, and
that the only trouble was he had
been bachelor 80 long when he mar
ried he could not get over his bachelor
ways.
Mr.. and Mrs. Won schlegell were
married four or five years ago and
separated n year ago A divorce was
granted and Mrs. Won Schlegoll re-
suzned her maiden name. She and
Elwell had been seen frequently to-
gother,, and Il was rumored In GER
tain quarters were engaged to DO
married. Elwell's closest friends. It
appears, were under the impression
that he and his wife were divorced,
ana IT did not develop until after his
murder that they were merely living
apart.
The Rltz-Cariton affair, the inves-
tigators aid not learn until last night,
was a divorce party" celebrating
Miss KrauSs freedom.
On learning this. Assistant District
Attorney Joyce last night at o'clock
invited TO the dead mans home all
the living members OF the divorce
party In hope Of getting a better line
on where Elwell went after leaving
the party at Seventh Avenue and 42d
Street at 2 A. NJ. Friday. The Levi
Bohns and Miss Kraus we're accom-
panied by their lawyer. Lyttleton
Fox. and were in the house four and
q. half hours, leaving about 1.30 A. NJ.
to-day. There were accompanied by
q man named Berg. said 20 be a mill
llonaire friend OF ElweI. The police
quoted him as saying he would spend
q fortune 70 bring about the arrest
OF Elwells murderer. Mr.. Fox re-
fused 70 make any statement on
leaving.
Won Schlegell had arrived with two
detectives before the Lewisohn party
left. but was taken TO Elwell's bed
room on the third floor. the examlna-
tion OF the others continuing on the
second floor.
DETECTIVES USING PROCESS OF
+A ELIMINATION.
The police are now giving consider
able attention TO the similarity OF the
murder Of Elwell to that OF Frederick
Rueckert, Vice President OF the White
Metals Company. slain by a masked
assassin who waited in his luxurious
bachelor apartment in Hoboken. N. ].
There were many elements about the
Rueckert murder similar 10 those Of
Elwell's slaying-women, photographs,
dinners, drives and theatre parties.
Rueckert was slain on his return
from a theatre party in the early
morning as ElweH was. Rueokert q
Z naturalized American, was conspic-
uOus during the war for his activities
: against German propagandists and
tpies. lslwell was German spy
hunter as a member OF the American
, association. The mystery OF Rueck-
: srt's murder has never been cleared
up
The Elwor case investigators have
been working out an elimination pro-
gramme. Not only have they been
wedding out possible acquaint-
ances who might have slain him,
but have been throwing into the
discard such witnesses as they are
satisfied have given them all the In
formation they possess. Among the
latter are Mrs Marie Larsen, the
houSekeeper; William Barnes. Ell
4 wells secretary, and Edward Rhodes,
the chauffeur. Assistant District At
torney Joyce said he believed they
had given all the information they
have and that they are eager to assist
in every way in clearing up the mys-
terry.
BY . similar elimination process
many os the stories and clueg have
been diaproyed or abandoned. In
. NestiEatIon has revealed that Elwen
ysas q very careful man In his deal
ings with women. Apparently he
destroyed all his letters. The only
ones found were those received with
IN a short time OF his death. and they
were not OF consequence.
The pink silk lingerie found yester-
day has proved useless as clue, be-
cause there 10 no way TO tell how
long II had lain away In box. II
may have been merely a sentimental
souvenir that he had had for years.
Some OF Elwelrs friends thought a
search of his home would disclose
hundreds OF scented missives, pos
albly a filing case filled with them.
There was nothing OF the kind.
Another surprising thing was
that though there were hundreds
Of photographs Of feminine
beauties, not one was auto
oraphod or bore any written tes-
timonial Of friendship.
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