New-York tribune., 1910-11-21
WEALTH COMES TOO LATE SEEKING MAKER OF TRUNK
Police Hope in That Way to
Throw light on Murder Mystery.
mo TRACE YET OF LEWIS
Detectives Are Now Convinced
He Was a Waiter in Better !
Glass of Restaurants.

TIE Impression that first prevailed among
the police that william Lr-vis. tte man Of
wnom knowledge is 90 earnestly sought 20
reveal the mystery Of the boslJ found IN =
trunk in the basement ot No So West 5ith
street last THURSDAY, was waiter IN
cheap restaurant has given place 70 the
belief that his employment vas in res
taurant OF good quality.
The cheap restaurants -of the city have
been thoroughly canvassed, with no results
Walters in such places seldom work at one
counter for moro than six months az
tine and make little iupI~ssion on thess
who employ them. But Il was before the
search OF the cheaper pIa ces was given ID
/ that the police tessn the hunt in the res
tsurants Of better Gags
Lewis they now say. though they are
locking for him by his description rather
than bv the name. was a waiter OF some
ability and worried in the best places. They
are OF the orluion that ne man who
received eooC pay and acc11mulates much
more n tips and saved considera' sl. from,
his earnings Like nnanv waters thsy say
he Led shah hIy in order 70 savs, and vss
seldom 20 be found n his room and M
grated often
1t is nos his mans OF life trst A1nszss
the detectives. but IS complete disappear
ance afte- 190. Nd hing has oeen learned
Of him in ANY % what were said 70 be ms
old hau1ts- Pi,itn Meashers the man vino
saws Lewis left tie trunk with him. has
been around with the oficers.fer three day,
and is growing hs ggarI uIshr the strain of
The search
Il an an hone 7 man ne said yester-
day and 7 vaz 10 frd Lewis r don't
L i 7s
/ this cloud T val Z the mystery cleared Up.
I will do anv1hin TO help tbe police
J Meagher's nei1 1hbors agree with his DE-
| scription of hiTrs elf All ~ them say that
/ he is a qj.ier- hz ri working man and 1EIar
! I've spends lis nights II home with his
! fanily. Tho aieaFh15 we're always de-
voted TO each otsIeI,' said william Weber
/ yesterday
| Weber has lived in the house a. No. 45e
: West 18th street FOR nine years, AMI he
/ known the Esasn.rs to- all o< the IN
4, years that t5ey have lived there. Mrs
Meagher often went 70 meet her husband
] in the evening when he came home from
work Webber continued she frequent
/ l. took the cli,t rem with her. and the peo-
/ pic IN the ho;I1 often spoke of how u1ucsr
/ they seemed TO think os each other
I Mrs. Neasb r seems most worried now
+ foT the childrs l. She seems 70 think that
this Will be ne sort Of a cloud that will
taunG over ther all their lives. unless Lewis
/ is found and The mystery is cleared up
! The tag tha was found on the trunk = ~
7 he examined o-,Eay by David y. CsTvali-r.
! the handUritt 3 expert. and the police hop.
70 gain from it cjsv that will lead 10 th.
I discovery of Who first shipped the trunk
The course II the trunk from 18th street
:, 54th st~et is easy. but the question oc
( street still remains open The polio. have
I some hope that the tag ~iIl prove TO bs
: that of the man who made and sold III,
/ trunk
/ The report Of Professor Larkin vheth-
er there was poison in the body /. still 20
come. This report is not expected until
/ Wednesday OF Thursday.