New-York tribune., 1910-11-25
NEW MAN IN TRUNK CASE
Learned of the Murder and Got
Part of spoi|s, Police Say.
SEARCH ON FOR FRENCHMAN
Said to Have Been Frequently
Seen with Caller, the
Artist, and Lewis.


The reason for the disappearance of Will
tam Lewis the young Irishman wanted by
| the nolice in connection with the murder
Of Albert Caller, the French artist, whose
| bodv was found In trunk in the base
n,ent Of the tenement house at No. $50
| West 54t1 street a week ago, on the day
that Lewis was to be married when there
uae No suspicion OF the crime, learned
Yesterday when It was discovered that
rbere was a third man implicated in the
| casa at least as an alleged accessory after
/ the fact
This man. like the victim. was French
man. Henri d Anarc the police charge, and
| had been an intimate associate of Lewis
| and Caller His identity was established
| bv search through the Norman pensions
! in this city for further details of the life
! of Caller. It was already known from
one Of the detectives working on the
case that there was a third person con-
| cerned The police had had this informe-
| ton since Tuesday. and when the pensions
were visited yesterday the proprietors at
once wanted to know if the inquirers were
! in search of Henri Anarc. who had been
already sought by the detectives.
! D'Anarc, it was learned, had been in the
employ Of Alexander McCrae the artist
who had his studio at No. Patchin
Place. and who died about four months
ago in Roosevelt Hospital. at the same
| time that Caller worked there in 1898
| 1899. and it was there that Lewis met him
! as well as Caller The old woman care
taker of the building in which McCrae had
/ his studio remembers d'Anarc. Caller and
! Lewis.
Recall Lewis and Caller.
! The proprietors of the Norman pensions
aIso recall both Caller and Lewis. They
say that there are so few persons Of Nor
man extraction in the city that they
could not we'll be forgotten. NJ. Chevalier.
who runs the Maison Chevalier, al No
e02 West 39th street. said yesterday, with
an expressive shrug of his shoulders:
There are so few of US, you know.
that we are not easily forgotten Be
sides, Caller is a well known name in
my country. l come from Bretasne, and
have been in Sierra Leone. too. But
certainly I remember
Nine. Landes. who keeps a boarding
house at No 143 West 47th street, was
another who remembered.
why not?" she asked. Il am from
Normandy. In effect. my friend, I know
Caller well"
Caller is the one best remembered
among the Norman colony He ii was
who had the money TO spend. He is de-
scrfbed by his friends as a man who
practised art as a pastine, but was really
q remittance man, receiving money regu-
Iarly from France and from his brother
in Sierra Leone. He was we'll known to
the proprietors OF the pensions from 1899
TO 1852 as a man who came in with two
ether men, Henri d'Anarc and another
man who did not speak French. The
third man Is identified by his descriptions
as Lewis Caller did the spending for
the Jolly party.
During this period Caller had cottage
in Pelham Road and the three men often
vent there together. The cottage was given |
m partly because il was so hard to get
to and partly because there were COM
nIaints from the neighbors of the carousals
that were neld there. Women were or'eh
in these parties.
While CALLER lived az the home Of Mrs.
Kanny at No. 30S West 18th street. q Arnac
of.An called on him and the intimacy con-
+irnAd after Caller moved to the apart
nent of Mrs Alexander at No. 40 West
e9a street The neighbors there remember
well the visits of the third man. VINO ap-
naarnd at all hours of the day and night
and eaenoed 10 have as little occupation as
'Arnac and Caller
D'Arnac q Sudden Spende-,
,.o,.fo louis and d. Arnac are remem- |
berad by the Normans up TO the summer |
of 1000 Then the three ceased 10 be fire.
o,,e,+arz of the cafes, Henri Arnac /
r1ossoroing out into spender on his own /
account inst before his disappearance
The police are working on the theory lha'
d.Anarc made one of his frequent and un- .
announced visits to the Alexander apart
r,ent after the killing of Caller ana Defore
the bodv was put in the trunk He lNarheu
thus of the crime and compelled a d1Nlsoh
of tho money but unlike Lewis ne chose
~ disaDDear almost Immediately. after
ONLY, a brief display Of his new wealth. III
his former haunts-
The passing of d Anarc left Lewis IN coHl-
narrative freedom to follow his own me-
and he went 70 Harlem. where he became
interested in the fight OF John }. DooIey
70 a1lcceed John F McAvoy as leader of
the old 23d Assembly District. and where
ba also became engaged to marry Miss En-
right.
II was this activity on Lewis's part that
bro,,g1t fts own end For when In 1904
Anarc had spent his part Of the money
and needed more he had no difficulty in !
finding Lewis Dooley's association. the
United Democracy had about 2.100 mem
bers and was giving many entertainments
in the endeavOr to increase the member
ship and get enough men on Dooley's side
10 defeat MCAvoy at the primaries. Lewis
was on the entertainment committee and
was well known to a large circle.
Lewis Forced to Hide
When 'Anarc learned where Lewis was
he began TO demand more money and used
not only Lews's new political duties but
his approaching marriage as a club But
Lewis also was running ont of money at
this time He left the house of the Cloud
sleys at No. IA West l24th street owing
500 and he owed small bills at several
places in the neighborhood. He was unable
to- supply d Anarc's demands. and with the
final threat Of exposure on his wedding day
gave I'D the hope of Miss Enrights money
and went into hiding with his friends the
Meaghers to whom he had sent the trunk
containing the body OF Caller
D'Anarc about this time made his last