Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-17
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lunch and spent several hours with
EIwell on Tuesday of the week he was
murdered. On Thursday, which was the
day before the murder, she said that
he had attended a wedding at the Plaza
hotel.
While Mrs. Larsen. who had misled
the authorities earlier IN the case by her
pretense OF stupidity and her assertion
that she knew nothing about Elwelfs
affairs, was breaking down in tears
under the ruthless questioning Of Doc
ling. detectives were out running down
the most important clews which have
come to light since the murder.
These were telephone sheets which
showed that at 4:59 on the morn
ing Of the murder, Elwell had telephoned
to William H. Pendleton, his former
partner, and that at 500 a. m. he had
telephoned 10 his brother, Walter Elwell,
at Hampstead.
Neither the brother of the murdered
man nor Pendleton, who have both been
questioned. said anything about these
not be reached today, but when a re-
porter telephoned to that address
woman who replied said;
Il have nothing to say about the case
except that the call was not in the
morning but at about 8 o'clock at night"
Shortly after this conversation Dis
trIct Attorney Swami said
II have just talked with Walter FL
well. and he tells me that he had not
been in communication with his brother
for a year before his murder"
MRS. LARSEN
TELLS THINGS.
Beginning with cool wearied air TO
Inn --l
plead ignorance in response to impor-
tant ones, Mrs. Larsen, the housekeeper.
gradually began to give frightened
glances and to make partial revelations
and finally to become hystericaI and
tell a great deal to Mr. Dooling.
She first tried to tell the assistant dis
trict attorney that there were no clothes
in the house except Elwell's.
Were there not some voman's
clothes?"
NO she replied. "only a pink silk
gown. cap and slippers"
Whom did they belong tor"
II co not know
After flushing and evading, Mrs. Lar.
sen said she meant she had never seen
the woman in them. though she had seen
woman there frequently calling on
Eiweu in the day time, add that she as
sumed they were hers.
You hid them, didn't you, Mrs. Larsen,
in order TO prevent a wOmanS name from
being dragged into the Hase?"
Yes"
Did this woman ask you to hide
themf"
NO"
How did you come to hide them
without being asked?'
"I thought it would not D. mica for
them TO be found there"
TELLS. OF
SEEING WOMAN.
Ga further questioning on this point
she admitted she had seen the woman
who owned the garments a few hours
after the murder. She arrived before
newspaper accounts OF the murder lad
been printed and got her information,
apparently. by telephone or messenger.
''She came up all excited, Mrs. Larsen
said finally. "snd said, o, what an acct
dent, Mrs. Larsen""
ST see," Mr. Dooling said, "she knew
your name, though you didn't know
hers"
Yes"
She then explained how the woman
had left when she discovered the detec-
tives.
Did you cut out the initials from
that silk garment before you finally
turned It over to the police 20
mo; that had been done a long time
before"
Mrs Larsen insisted she had not been
bribed or requested to hide the gar
ments.
Did you hide the things before or
after the woman came?"
ut was-I think-O, how can 1 re-
member. There WAS so much going on"
Mr. Dooling decided here to cut short
the examination in the presence of spec
tators He said:
II think perhaps, II I talk to Mrs.
Larsen she will tell me a good many
things that she does not like to tell
now"
Mrs. Larsen nodded her head.
Mr.. Doolirg continued to talk to her
for about an hour longer in private.
When he was through he said that
she had told him some interesting
things.
The woman insisted throughout, how
ever, that what she had done had not
tended to shield any criminals or to in
terfers with the police investigation, but
merely to save the young woman from