New-York tribune., 1910-11-24
POLICE NEAR SOLUTION
OF TRUNK MYSTERY
Trace Movements of Lewis Step
by Step-Find Persons Who
Saw Him Late in 1906.
BOUGHT PLASTER OF PARIS
Dealer Remembers Selling Stuff
in Summer Of 1902-Callier's
Disappearance Brought a
Brother Here on Search.

william Lewis TIE man the police ar.
-,oIing for 10 solve the mystery OF the
--,,-5e- OF Albert G Caller, the young
french artist. whose body was found :
-rses ago y q trunk in the cellar OF the
-ene1aer- house AZ No. 40 West 54th street
-ss traced yesterday 70 e house at No 81.
-sst 50-h street, where he lived in 1905
7hss Is TIE last place Vet found where he
rfved n this city
Lewis lived n the 5oth street house with
= family named Harrison. who moved awav
sbo--- & year ago, but ne vas recoenized
~ persons in the house from the descrip-
rion q hin given by the police and from
-se published pictures Tt was said bv
them thaI Il had been understood that he
-ss Al actor IN e moving picture Mace
Re usually le1t the house between 10 and
= O clock II the morning and came home
again about or O'Clock in the ever41e
Sometimes he went out in the evening in
business closhes and sometimes he wore
rather shabby evening clothes He dtsap-
pes-ed from the 5oth street house late in
1876 OF early in 1907. and no trace has VET
heen found Of him since then
Sold Plaster OF Paris 10 Lewis
TIE police yesterday found The place
-se-e Lewis bought the plaster Of uaris
-Asr was put around the zinc box in The
-runk. Il was IN E small store within
hal9 Z block Of the house in West SD
stree where Caller was last seen alive
The keeper OF Ire store remeuaberd dis
trctlT selling e quantity Of plaster of paris
% Lewis IN The summer of 1872
i vas also learned that the last en-
piovsrs % Lewis before he disappeared in
Jz-ua-y. 1so5. were Ddwa-d Rorke Z. Co
|cc71 =
= Barclay street up 70 3 year ago. Ed
ward Rorke. The head Of rhe firm. died las.
yea, ard his SONS disposed Of the business
snd went 70 Texas. where they have 9
ra-ch-
The trunk containing the body vas sent
ron he norgue TO the College Of Phvsi-
cs1s and Surgeons yesterday for examina-
-to1 h Professor Larkin for traces Of poi-
SIT L was said at the COLLEGE thar the
ezs--1arion would probably take several
6z-x
Met Caller IN q Studio
Lewis net Caller in 1857 or early in 1883
e -he studio Of Samuel McCrae. z china
patr-e-. with g studio a Nc : Patcf7tn
Place NcCrea, died n Roosevelt Hospital
sooc- four months ego from pleurisy. but
ne old woman caretaker Of the building
vhsre he had his studio remembers both
Lewis and Caller She said yesterday that /
Caller vas working for McCrae and that /
LEWIS wenr 70 the china painter locking /
for v-o-k- NoCrae tried him for several 1
non-5s and endeavored 70 teach him some /
rh,1g about china painting. but Lewis dis /
rls ved no aptitude for the work and soon .
had C give II u.
Ee kept I'D his friendship for Caller.
however, and seemed quite proud 70 know /
.he artist, about whom he talked q great
5eaI Mss Critchley, the daughter OF Will
an 9 Cr5cchley. said yesterday Al her
7o--s a. No -G6 Vanderbilt avenue. Brook
VI mat Lewis had lived with them for
.-ze weeks IN the summer Of 1898 after
- Cez-h Of her ErandnoLheT, MIS- Sarah