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XKW YORK, July 17— Kvery ele- ‘
men! of the classic detective tale has
appeared in its most dramatic setting
in th«* KUvcll case which since June
11th has defied solution by the lore
most slewths of this city. Wealth, di
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these are woven ami interwoven into
»\ii..t ha> been (iionounml by detect
ives the deepest mystery of years.
Tn its most sinister guise, murder,
at the hands of an unknown and un
Mispected assassin, deatli came to
Joseph llowne Klwell in middle ag«
when his most engrossing care*
amounted t»* anxiety over a favonti
race horse, some intricacy of his rul
ing pa»ion. bridge whist, o» an after
theatre engagement with "the woman
in black** or "the lady in gray.”
Still breathing, through a large
calibre bullet had plowed through his
brain. K l well was discovered at
in the morning of June 11th clad in
his pajamas and slumped down in a
nair against the wall of tin
room on the first floor of his three
Story house in West 70th street. Hi
died several hours later without
sneaking a word which might betray
the identity of his slayer.
He was found by Mrs. Marie Lar
sen. Kl well's housekeeper, arriving
for her daily work of tidying up tin*
house. On a table at his side were
Several letters, one of which, from a
racing associate, had been removed
fiom the envelope. The letters had
b:cn delivered by the postman at 7:
35.
There was no weapon, no footprint,
n - evidence of a struggle, no possible
clew exc ‘pt a 4."> culibr»* shell, such as
is ejected from an automatic pistol of
t.'ic army type and the stub of a ciga
rette different from those Elwell hab
itually smoked. Doors and windows
w ere securely locked .
Experts declared that a suicide
theory was untenable because Elwell
CouM not have held the fatal pistol far
enough from his head to avoid pow
der burns, even were it possible to ac
count for the disappearance of the
weapon. There powder marks on the
flying man's forehead but no burns.
As soon as the idea of self-destruc
tion was rejected the manhunt start
ed. Its ramifications extended all over
the country, into every circle of socie
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*.y ami for years back into the dead
man's pa>t. Kver> relative, every
friend, every casual acquaintance or
seivant. eveiy one who had ever seen
viic dead tuifman was found and ex
amined. Kvery possible motive for his
killing was explored. Love affairs long
buried were exhumed and the princi
pals grilled to discover a motive for
the crime. Kvery real or suspected en
mity was probed. All led to the same
end — a wealth of information about
the dead man’s leisurely life, his re
putation for suave good nature and his
conquests ot women's hearts. Hut not
a ray of iight on the crime itself.
The known facts of how Elwell
>pent the night In fore his death are
few. During the early evening he was
one ol a dinner paity at a large hotel.
Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Lew
isolin. Miss Viola Kraus and a South
American journalist who met Elwell
for first time that evening. At a near-,
by table sat Victor Von Schlegel, the
divorced husband of Miss Kraus and
Miss Elly Hope Anderson, a singer
whose home is in Minneapolis.
All who were piesent agreed after
ward that there was no show of ill
feeling between Elwell and Von Schie
del, though they brushed shoulders on
I the dance floor, several times with
Von SchdegelT.s foimer wife dancing
with the spoilsman.
After leaving the hotel the Lewis
ohn party, including Elwell, went to
a roof garden theatre, where they re
ma;ned until 1:.”»() when all left and El
well was seen to start on foot toward
his home. Here ends all unassailable
evidence of tin* murder victim’s move
1 ments. A man told investigators he
had seen Elwell and a woman in an
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upper 1 {roadway dance hall at a much
' later hour. A neighbor claimed to have
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seen Klwoll driven home by a man in
i racing car at 2:.*»0. A taxicab driver
as.-ei ted In* bad driven the sportsman
home directly after_he left the Lewis
ohn party. .More impoitant evid?*nce
seemed to lie in the statements of
Margaret Kntlor a telephone* operator,
who declares she tried to put through
two telephone calls from KKvcIPs
homo between 2 and 2:2,0 o’clock on
tin* morning of the tragedy. The num
ber culled in each case was that of
William II. Pendleton , a fonner rac
ing partner of Klwell’s. When intero
gated he said he could not imagine
why Klwcll should have been so anx
ious to communicate with him during
the early morning hours. They had not
been intimate in many months, he ,
said.
After two weeks of investigation
and merciless publicity the small ar
my of investigators became definitely j
^operated into two factions. Both '
preface their theories with the state
ment, “nothing is impossible,” and
each clung doggedly to its pot “solu-1
tion.”
The first faction, including a major
ity of the detectives, said. “What if
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