Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-22

only sound was a gurgling in Lewis throat
as he tried to speak.
II didn't do lit, l didn't do it, was all
he could blurt out, while the district at
torney again and again accused him of the
murder.
The district attorney Immediately or
dered the arrest of Lewis, who was taken
in charge by Constable George TimauS of
Avondale. The news of the finding of the
body was taken to town by an eXpreSsman
BY the time the party was ready to take
Lewis away more than 100 angry men sur
rounded them. Former friends of Lewis
shook their fists at him ard heaped epithets
upon him.
The cur that could kill an innocent child
Lewis neighbors.
Lewis. trembling and perspiring, weakly
raised his voice to protest, but the district
attorney roughly clapped a hand over his
mouth and .bade him be silent. The crowd
withdrew to a clump of trees while the
district attorneys party was waiting for
the conveyance, and after a hurried concul-
tatlon advanced determinedly.
Lynch Him." Shouts Crowd.
Hold on. men, demanded MacElree
What are you up to-?
Lynch him. shouted the crowd.
MacElree and his men drew weapons At
the same time, Chief of Police E. H. Mesky
of Kenneth Square and a force of con-
stables from nearby towns, who had been
summoned by MacElree in anticipation of
trouble after the discovery was made, ar
rived. and there was an end to the lynch
ing threats.
When Mr.. MacElree, who had spent the
night in the vicinity of the Lewis home,
which is about two miles south of Avon
dale, in Franklin township, began to work
On the case again early this morning, he
took charge of the forty or fifty searchers
who presented themselves. He divided them
up into parties of from six to ten men and
assigned each to a section of the neighbor-
hood.
To William Shelley and John O'Brien,
farmers, whose homes are in the vicinity
o. Lewis place, he intrusted the search of
Irwin Lewis home.
Il want this place gone over with a ane
tooth comb MacElree told the two farm
ers, and then he turned to Lewis.
Come along, We'll get the fellows out on
the search he said.
Lewis paused and then followed as if he
desired to stay behind and help Shelley and
the place.
Keeps Lewis at His Side.
"Oh we'll let them take care of that"
said the district attorney and he rode off
with Lewis.
They were on horseback, as were many of
the searchers. MacElree kept Lewis beside
him in his own searching party.
At noon MacElree instructed the search
ers they were all to congregate near Lam
denburg While he was talking to some of
the unsuccessful searchers Shelley and
O'Brien rode up at breakneck speed.
Every one guessed they had come straight
from the Lewis home with the big news.
They called the district attorney aside and
whispered to him that the little girls body
had been found some time earlier, buried
near the barn. They had been riding
around the countryside looking for him.
Mr.. MacElree took the news calmly. He
ordered the searchers to cover their terri
guessed the child's body had been found.
Then he seized Lewis and put him
through gruelling cross-examination.
Lewis did not look at his accuser. He
glanced off to the quiet sunny fields in an
agoay of terror, as if he saw some vision
unseen to those who stood him.
II didn't do it, didn't do it," was all he
could say.
had wept or wanted to weep. but his eyes
were dry and bloodshot, with the fear of
the hunted in them.
Claimed to Have an Alibi.
II can prove 1 was at my fathers house
all day Sunday and at the time the child
was last seen, about o'clock that after
noon" said Lewis, in answer to a question.
Il can prove alibi."
Wen see about that" said MacElree.
At the command of the district attorney
the party then moved to the spot where
the DoGy was tOuIO. Lewis was compelled
to stand by while the body was dug up, but
he seemed to have recovered himself. He
shGddered not and then, but gave no other
evidence Of emotion.
Near one of the little girls hands was
her mouth organ, which she apparently
had clutched tightly to the last. This fact
is taken proof that the child was muir
de-ed beside the hole or had been placed in
the hole, while she still had strength to
hold her plaything.
John Newlin, the child's grandfather. and
Harry Lewis, the accused mans father.
burst into tears as the little body was lifted
irwin didn't TT do it," they cried out,
simultaneously.
The burlap bag was removed from the
childs head and the physicians made a
superficial examination. There was u little
blood on the lips. but it was not the
mark of a blow. There was 4 slight tear
in the dress aboYe the right hip and an
abrasion of the skin beneath but this was
caused by the spade In digging, the physi
clan said.
No Evidence of an Attack.
There was no sign of attack. The cloth
ing was not disarranged The body was
lying half on the side. il a twisted position,
the knees partly drawn up. The face was
down and the arms We're fiattened out over
the head as in q sleeping posture.
Photographs We're taken of every stage of
the exhuming Of the body. Lewis, who was
forced by the district attorney to stand at
the edge Of the hole, averted his face from
time TO time.
Mrs Lewis was told of the discovery,
but was not permitted to see the body.
My baby. oh my baby" she walled.
Lewis was committed by Squire w. w.
Sullivan and taken to Westchester last
night.
Mr. McEIree, in the questions he rained
upon Lewis. taxed him with hatred of his
little stcpdaughter. In suspecting Lewis of
the murder of little Mary his most impor
taat clue was in the facts of Mrs. Lewis
history.
More than five years ago she was en-
ployed as a nurse in the Chester County
ASYLUM for the Insane where she met
Lawrence Butler, an attendant. They We're
TO have been married, but Butler uneX-
pectedly departed for the south. She re-
turned to her fathers home, where her
child was born.
Butler wrote for her to Join him in the
south. but she did not go, and nothing
more has been heard from him. He is now
living in huntsville N. G. -
Lewis and Edna Newlin had been child
hood sweethearts, and they were married
five months ago.
That the presence of the little girl was
a cause of irritation to the stepfather was
the motive for murder upon which Mr.. Mac
F,lree worked, and with these facts he con-
fronted Lewis, declaring he despised the
little gill. Lewis protested that he was
fc n Of and had fOrgiVin his wife long