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Evelyn\u2019s friends were dumbfounded, and doubtful, of Ewing\u2019s description of his wife\u2019s behavior. A drunken, foul-mouthed Evelyn was simply inconceivable to them.\u00a0 There was nothing in her past that suggested she would behave that way under any circumstances. Contrarily, she was known to be ladylike and charming.<\/p>\n
Two weeks following Evelyn\u2019s disappearance, Ewing informed her chauffeur and handyman, Frank Justice, that his services were no longer required.\u00a0 Frank had worked for Evelyn since 1943 and was stunned that he was being let go.\u00a0 Ewing handed him a check for $100 and explained that he was taking Evelyn east because he was \u201cdiscouraged with the way the doctors were making no headway with her diagnosis.\u201d Ewing also told Frank that the only thing the doctors had decided was that Evelyn did not have cancer but may instead have mental problems.<\/p>\n
Whenever Evelyn\u2019s friends inquired about her Ewing cut them off, telling them bluntly that Evelyn was suffering from cancer, though he never specified what form the disease had taken, and that it had been her decision to go off on her own to seek treatment. Again, Evelyn\u2019s friends didn\u2019t buy Ewing\u2019s story, and if they had known what he had told Frank they would have been even more suspicious.<\/p>\n
Evelyn had been gone less than a month when Ewing visited the Cunard Steamship office.\u00a0 He spoke to the manager, Frank Hannifer, about a trip around the world \u2013 for one.\u00a0 The proposed trip would cost $7,250 \u2013 nearly twice as much as the average man earned in a year in 1955. \u00a0The trip never materialized, but Ewing did put down a deposit of $1700 for a trip to the West Indies.<\/p>\n
For a man with a sick wife, Ewing didn\u2019t appear to have a care in the world. In fact, he was acting like a bachelor.<\/p>\n
In July, Ewing met Harriet Livermore and began to entertain her in the Bel-Air home. Harriet was the widow of Jesse Lauriston Livermore<\/a>, a stock speculator known as \u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street.\u201d Harriet and Jesse were married only 7 years before he committed suicide in 1940.\u00a0 He had suffered some reversals of fortune and in a suicide note left for Harriet he described himself as \u201cunworthy of your love.\u201d<\/p>\n Jesse Livermore<\/p><\/div>\n When Harriet asked about his marriage, Ewing had a ready explanation.\u00a0 He said that she had abruptly walked out on him.\u00a0 Harriet was curious as to how a woman could up and walk away like that.\u00a0 Ewing said that Evelyn was always prepared and routinely kept $18,000 on her person. That should have made Harriet\u2019s eyes pop out on springs like a cartoon character, but obviously the rich have a much different idea of pocket change than the rest of us. Harriet got an earful about Evelyn from Ewing who said that his runaway wife was a chain smoker, an alcoholic and a lesbian. Ewing eagerly defamed his absent wife at every opportunity.<\/p>\n Harriet asked Ewing why, if Evelyn was so horrible, he hadn\u2019t divorced her.\u00a0 He had an explanation for that, too.\u00a0 He said that all he had to do was wait for seven years and if Evelyn didn\u2019t reappear he would be entitled to everything \u2013 money, property, the whole shebang. According to Ewing he could afford to wait.\u00a0 He had sold his property in Milwaukee (never letting on the property wasn\u2019t his to sell) and that he was in a comfortable financial position.\u00a0 He then asked Harriet if she would accompany him on a trip around the world (but only if they went \u201cDutch Treat\u201d); or to Guatemala.\u00a0 Harriet declined the invitations.<\/p>\n Mrs. Marianne Beaman, 46, Santa Monica dental assistant, explains to reporters how she met L. Ewing Scott, whose wife is missing mysteriously, and the subsequent dates she had with him.<\/p><\/div>\n While he was dating Harriet, Ewing met another woman \u2013 Marianne Beaman, with whom he also started keeping company.\u00a0 As he had done with Harriet, Ewing didn\u2019t hesitate to air his dirty marital laundry.\u00a0 Evidently, Evelyn\u2019s disappearance was a great strain on him.\u00a0 He said he thought, but wasn\u2019t sure, that Evelyn had attempted to poison him.\u00a0 Then he walked that statement back a little and said that even if she hadn\u2019t tried to do him in, the fact that he thought her capable of such a thing was indicative of her deteriorating mental condition.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t have a shred of credible evidence that Evelyn had ever attempted to harm him.<\/p>\n According to their mutual acquaintances, Marianne and Ewing didn\u2019t have a torrid love affair.\u00a0 Acquaintances described them as \u201ctwo lonely people who enjoyed chatting together over a dinner table.\u201d \u00a0If dinner conversation lagged maybe Ewing would take the time to explain to his date why Wolfer Printing Company had a $6,000 judgement against him dating from 1953. The judgement had to do with a book project.<\/p>\n In 1953, Ewing met with William Good, vice president and general manager of Wolfer Printing Company at 416 South Wall Street<\/a> in Los Angeles.\u00a0 \u00a0Ewing had brought with him a manuscript, provocatively titled \u201cHow to Fascinate Men\u201d. Ewing said the book had been written by a UCLA professor, Charles Contreras, whom he had met at the Jonathan Club<\/a>.\u00a0 William had his doubts about the author, he had a gut feeling that Ewing had written the book himself.\u00a0 Not that it mattered.<\/p>\n When the book was ready, Ewing came and picked up 25 copies \u2013 then he disappeared. Wolfer Printing was stuck with 9975 copies of \u201cHow to Fascinate Men.\u201d<\/p>\n Ewing\u2019s carefully curated personality as man with financial acumen \u2013 a man worthy of his smart, capable and cultured wife \u2013 started to unravel.<\/p>\n Deftly juggling stories like a Barnum & Bailey circus performer, Ewing managed to keep Evelyn\u2019s friends and acquaintances at bay for nearly a full year. During all that time no one, except Ewing \u2013 if you believed him \u2013 had any contact with Evelyn.<\/p>\n By March 6, 1956, Evelyn\u2019s brother, Raymond Throsby, had had enough. He filed paperwork to become the trustee of her estate. James B. Boyle, who had been Evelyn’s attorney for over 20 years, had a copy of her will in his office safe, but he was adamant that he would not reveal its contents unless or until he was compelled by a court order.<\/p>\n While Ewing waged war on the trustee front, his attorney attempted to fend off cops who wanted Ewing to submit to a lie detector test. And to add to his stress, Ewing was subpoenaed to get him to produce some of Evelyn\u2019s jewels and papers.<\/p>\n Ewing was under increasing scrutiny in Evelyn\u2019s disappearance.\u00a0 What would he do?<\/p>\n NEXT TIME:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ewing makes a move.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ewing wasn\u2019t concerned by Evelyn\u2019s disappearance.\u00a0 Fiercely independent, she was known to go her own way, and that is what he told her friends that she had done. 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Ewing ordered 10,000 copies of the book and a custom designed cover.\u00a0 The cover alone cost $750, and it featured a blonde who didn\u2019t look like she\u2019d need an instruction manual.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/derangedlacrimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/scott-gems.jpg\")
It didn\u2019t take long for things to heat up among the possible contenders for trustee. A three-way battle loomed on the horizon.<\/p>\n