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'The Days Of Expert Evidence' - A Locked Room Mystery &
Cranford's Joe Elwell
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: December 31, 2024, 7:50 am
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The reference to Elwell is in regard to the 1920 'locked room
mystery' murder of one of the pre-eminent bridge players in
America, playboy Joseph Bowne Elwell....an absolute sensation in
Manhattan at the time.
Newspapers covered the murder and investigation
Three decades after the Ali case, some were lamenting the
changes taking place in court-room trials....from the theatrics
of the Gilded Age to the less exciting court room sagas of the
'20s.
It is, without a doubt, the most mysterious locked room mystery
in US history. It remains unsolved forever.
And the victim was born in Cranford....
In the early morning hours of June 11, 1920, Elwell was murdered
with a gunshot to the head from a .45 automatic in his locked
house in New York City. The murder has never been solved. A 1921
confession was determined to be the false utterance of a
mentally ill man. The crime generated considerable publicity:
The New York Times covered it almost daily until the end of
July, the Chicago Tribune published eighteen articles, and the
Los Angeles Times published twelve. This classic "locked room
murder" was the inspiration for S.S. Van Dine's mystery novel
The Benson Murder Case (1926), which introduced his famous
fictional detective Philo Vance.
New York Herald
January 22, 1921
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In case anyone is interested in the Elwell murder:
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bowne_Elwell
From Cranford Library archives:
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#Post#: 3996--------------------------------------------------
Re: 'The Days Of Expert Evidence' - A Locked Room Mystery &
Cranford's Joe Elwell
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: December 31, 2024, 7:56 am
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There's a very good chance that Joe Elwell's family.. and even
Joe himself....knew George Damon. Joe was 18 years old in 1891.
They lived 8/10s of a mile from each other.
By the age of 18, he was known as the 'Bridge King of
Manhattan'. He accumulated a massive amount of money based on
his skills in the card game.
Meanwhile, in another card game, fellow Cranfordite George Damon
loses his shit over the silly game of Euchre. ;D ;D ;D
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