The New York herald., 1921-04-09

m. He says the doorbell did not ring
while he was In the house. The post
man rang the bell. and IL is a loud bell
He says that after the shooting, as he
IAN past the reception room to the front
door he took quick glance into the re-
ception room and saw a figure slumped
on a chair"
Yesterday he said that he did not
look into the room and saw nothing OF
Elwen except his feet as he went UP
and down stairs. Oswald's conclusion
an open mind but that the mans story
does not ring true. He admits that
the story has not been shaken in any
important way, and that IL is extraordi-
narily consistent. He was impressed
BY Harriss sense OF fairness indicated
BY his saying, after observing that the
photograph of the woman handed to
him by the detective was Slightly
familiar:
BE sure and use the word slightly
in making your report. for I don't want
to harm her reputation"
Harris. in a blue serge suit, was
asleep on cot IN his cell when COR
respondents visited him this afternoon.
He accepted with thanks box OF
cigarettes and put them in his pocket
without lighting one. His hair was
fumbled, but he did not look especially
tired.
''They all look like sisters" he said.
after looking at the newspaper por-
traits of the six women It's pretty
hard to tell them apart. isn't it,"
Didn't Know Mrs. EIweII.
His glance kept returning to the
photograph of the woman who he
thinks may be something like Mrs.
Fairchild. He remarked that this was
different photograph of her than
the one he saw in a New York paper
within two weeks after the Elwell MUIR
der. This doesn't look as much like
her as the other one did," he remarked.
In the course of the conversation he
was reminded that the widow of FL
WELL who was separated from her hus-
band, had an office at 1866 Fifth ave-
nue. when Harris ran an elevator there.
He was asked If he had ever seen her.
He said he might have, but didn't
know. ~ tr f
AS he turned back to his bare, sagging
mattress, beside which stood bottle. OF
coffee, he called TO the departing Wis
itors
Give my regards to my sister when
sou get back to New York"
Mrs. Harris, describing her husband
as mot guilty, Just crazy said to-
night that she was walking with her
husband on Riverside Drive the eve-
ming before Elwell was killed at the
time he says he was riding to Van
Cortlandt Park with Mrs. Fairchild.
She said her husband always told her
everything, even when he forged a
check, and that his innocence of the
Elwell murder was indicated by his
walking by the house with her a few
evenings after the shooting and point
ing out the house, about which and the
murder he had been reading.
HE couldn't have done that with a
guilty conscience" said the wife. On
July 3. 1890 she said, she went to visit
New York. He went to stay with his
Central Park South. Thereafter, after
rejoining her husband in New York,
they went to Syracuse because living
was cheaper. She went home again
and Roy wrote her from Chicago, De-
troit Kalamazoo. Montreal and Roches-
ter.
Mrs. Harris told Detective Oswald
that she and her husband went to New
York in January last year and lived
most OF the time with the Weinmanns
until July, although there was short
stay at 6S West Sixty-eighth street. All
this time. including the day of the muir
der June IL. Harris was running an
elevator at 366 Fifth avenue, according
to his wife. Harris says he consented
to take part in the murder because he
was out of work and broke.