Is Perplexing The Police

   The Evening News has the following concerning the Elmer Shreeves murder :

    "The task which confronts Capt. McDonnell's men in attempting to unravel the mystery which surrounds the death of Elmer Shreeves is one of the most perplexing the department ever had to deal with. In addition to Detectives Brooks and Monaghan, Detectives Baker and Fenton were detailed on the case today. Hugh McGinnis was again brought over from Nick Miller's and cross-questioned by Capt. McDonnell, but nothing new was learned.

    "If Shreeves was murdered, what was the motive? If he committed suicide, what was the motive? As yet, there seems to be no adequate reason for either theory.

    "The police are inclined to believe that the poison was not administered to Shreeves at Nick Miller's, but at some other place, and that if it was given him by a second party, he was simply steered into the Cadillac square 'joint' to be left to his fate.

    "As far as Charles Miller, Nick's brother, is concerned, the authorities know that he left the city and went to Ohio to work. They are acquainted with his whereabouts, and are satisfied that he knows nothing about the mystery.

    "The efforts of the detectives are now concentrated in an attempt to trace Shreeves' missing watch, to learn something of Shreeves' movements before he came to Miller's saloon, and to find the mysterious Belle Rose and the woman who inquired for Shreeves' body at the morgue and Mrs. Lakin's house."