The Washington times., 1906-09-15
PITTSBURG POLICE
LOOK FOR SLAYER
May Arrest the Murderer of
Mrs. Lewis Before the
Day Is Over.
BODY LIES IN HER OLD HOME
Husband Of Butterfly Girl Offers
$1,000 Reward for Her
Murderer.

PTTTSBURG, Pa, Sept. TO- 1t is
learned that Philadelphia detectives
have been working in conjunction with
the detective forces of Pittsburg and
Allegheny and have followed up clues
which one OF the Pittsburg officers says
viii probably result In the arrest today
Of the man who murdered Mrs Lewis.
No name nor mtimation of the mans
identity viii be made public.
Body in Her Old Home.
In the humble, uninviting home OF
her parents. on Royal street Ale
gheny. which she lorsook only a few
years ago for the brighter and gayer
life Of another stratum or society. the
body of her pretty Molie Ness-as she
Is known here-reclines in death, await
ing burial. That this child of life and
lover Of gayety left ner home because
f. was too dun and uninteresting has
no effect upon the sorrow over her sad
homecoming.
They had looked for her many times,
bringing back her vivaci-y and bright
cning the home.
But the decrcplt father. the aged, al
most collapsed. mother and three sis.
ters tonight sit mourning over her fate
slaper. Their common sorrow has made
them closer KIN than ever b1forc with
Maurice never OVer-Welcome with the
family because they felt he had robbed
them Of the pride of their home for
Mollie was, without doubt, the sunshine
Of the household, from her childhood.
Husband Offers Reward.
Now Lewis comes back 70 them. de-
termiued on avenging the death Of his
wife. His sincere grief has made him
one with the family. He has offered a
reward of 1000 all the money he has in
the world for the arrest and conviction
of his wifes murderer. He is deter
mined 10 leave nothing undone toward
that end.
J. has been printed in the papers OF
Pittsburg that Karl Ness. father of the
WO nan so bTutally murdered i'm Phila-
del9hia. was a wholesale liquor dealer"
Instead, he is but peddler who for
years has eked out meager living by
pedGiing from door u door kegs OF beer
which he bought at Wholesale from the
brewery near by.
Her Lowly Origin.
1t would be dlmcult TO find a more
lowly origin than that of pretty MoHie
Ness. Six years ago she became the
wife OF Maurice X. Lewis. here. Last
Monday she was murdered hrutalV in
Philadelphia. The father Is a Russian (
Pole. who for years worked as a laborer /
su one of the Allegheny mills. He paid /
EOr the home. but IL is a very small /
house of two stories and the whole af- (
fair at the time he purchased IL. prob ]
ably did not cost more than 500, The
street on which the Ness family lives
and has lived tor the past twenty yeIrs, I
is one of the most obscure in the city |
one given over to foul-smelling stables /
and milk sheds. with here and there a I
saloon of the lowest order The inhabi- I
tants of the street are Of the most lowly /
kind. yet all speak well Of poor Noble /
Ness
II was from this rough section on /
the hillside Of the rCughest portion OF 4
Allegheny that there fluttered the gay
Molle years ago.
She always liked good clothes and 4
got them " was the crude way In which /
one of the sisters Of the young dead /
y oman sal. And that seems 10 tel /
Il ALL
While the others slaved and were /
-5ntect tn I've in the sqUliOT OF Royal /
street. Mollie Ness had higher ambitions,
and so she passed uD the ill-smellinB
cows and pigs, and In her new clothes
came TO Pittsburg. and got position in
the confectionery oalaCe Of RcymeT
Bros and this I'm 'self was sufficient
glory for the whole street