The evening world., 1910-12-02
Physician Makes Certain by
Finding Platinum in Slain
Artists Tooth.
CALLED ON HIM.
Got Two Pictures and Picked
His Pockets After Victim
Vanished, He Says.

A positive Identification of the body
found In a trunk in the cellar OF No. $50
West F1fty-fourth street as that of AL
bert c. Caller. the artist. was made
yesterday by an out-of-town physician,
who mad been n personal friend of CAL
Hers. according to a statement made
to-day by Deputy Police Commissioner
Flynn.
THE naturalization was made In the
presence of Prof. Larkin of the College
of Physicians and Surgeons and Coroner
Winterbottom,'' said the Deputy Com
missioner. Il cannot at this time reveal
the name OF the man who identified the
remains. Even Coroner's Physician Le-
hane doesn't know the real name OF the
doctor. because he was introduced to
Lehane under a fictitious name.
This man will be present at the
Coroner's inquest. lie was n personal
friend of Callers. as well as his ply
sician. In the spring OF 1902 he treated
Caller FOR some throat trouble and
particularly noticed the filings OF his
teeth, n 1t was because of these fill
lngs that the doctor was so positive
of his Identification.
Found the Platinum Filling.
"He even named the tooth with the
platinum filling and he described the
filling itself. This doctor and DR.. Lee
hane had a dispute on the subject,
Lehane c%ontending that there were no
platinum filings and the out-of-town
physician asserting emphatically that
there were. In order to prove that he
knew what he was talking about the
doctor made an examination and re-
vealed the platinum filling.
The doctor was so sure that the body
was that of Caller hat he wanted to
AXE 1t away and give 1t a proper
burial
THE doctor sad he had received his
last letter from Caller In May, 1902,
In which Caller wrote that he was
sick at Lewis's house in No. 40 West
sixty-third street"
Undoubtedly that was the place
where the Job was done" Commissioner
Flynn commented and continued:
Lewis Robbed the Doctor.
THE doctor further said that Lewis
had called at his house in the country
and said that Caller had gone to
Europe, and had told Lewis to get
two of his pictures which the doctor
had. Lewis got the pictures (Which are
now in the possession of the police),
and, the doctor receiving a call from
n patient At that time, Lewis rode with
hin, in bia hnDVU IN tho railroad ata-
ton and picked his pockets on the way
of a check and some small bills to the
value of eight or nine dollars.
The parents of Caller have been
looking FOR him for the last ten years.
They live in Dampierre. France. which
IL in tho Department OF Jura."
The pictures are still-life oil paintings
of nowe.s. Lewis gave them away as
wedding presents.
The Commissioner gave the credit for
these discoveries to Acting Captain
Clark and Lieut.. Mckinney.
$4,000 Circulars Sent Out.
The record for tine largest number of
police circulars ever distributed In rela-
tion to any crime was broken to-day
when the Police Department began
sending out 5000 circulars with the
pictures OF Lewis and Caller at the
top and a description OF each under
meath.
This number does not include the cir
culars to he sent abroad. but the de-
partment Is going to make sure that
every village, town, hamlet or corner
crossing in the United States that has
n chief OF police will be furnished with
a circular,