The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-03
IT WAS CALLER IN THE TRUNK
POLHE VIII iSk THtT LEWIS
ne INDICTED FOR va RIDER.
Phy sirian Who Treated Callers Throat
Makes Identity of Dead Man Certain
Police Oct Two Of the frrnchman's
Paintings which Lewis Gave \Wa,.

| commissioner Flynn announced yest"r
day that m" police are now satisfied thai
The body found in a trunk m house on
West Fifty fourth street IL that OF Alher'
4 Caller. the French painter. The iden-
iification OF the remains was made posi-
tive by ply stefan whose name the police
are unwilling at present TO divulge The
police will ask that William Lewis. whose
name was s,enoilled on the trunk in which
the body was found. be indicted for muT
der
Commissioner Flynn gives the credit
Of obtaining this positive Information TO
acting Captain Clark and Lieut.. McKeDny
| OF the West Side division OF the detective
bureau. They are said to have found
the physician who IN 1902 treated Caller
for throat trouble The police saw that
the physician lives out II town They
saw he will testify mt the Coroner > inquest.
| The physician told the detectives that
he was positive that the body was Caller r.
He had examined the mans throat 80
frequently he said. that he was faniliar
| with his teeth He was taken before
| Coroner Winterbotrom and Prof Larkln
OF the College OF Physicians and Surgeons
| and described 10 them Caller = teeth.
You arewrong IN one point. said Prof
I-ark'n there was No platinum iillIng
such a. Won describe
\ closer examination Of the teeth. how
ever. showed the platinum filling where
! The physician had described IL.
The physician also h ad a letter from
Caller dated Nav IL. 100, This IN the
latest date az which the. police have am
record that Caller was alive. and they
! believe 1t In tho last letter he ever wrote
In II he complained Of feeling sick ana
said that he ~as then stopping with
LsewIs NJ 40 West Sixtv-third street
A few days later Lewis called on the
physician He said that his friend
Caller had gone to Europe and had
directed him 10 call AZ the doctors TOT
a couple Of paintings 10y him which ih''
away with him Before Lew ~ left. the
doctor saws, lac had to 70 o'II To make
a call and Levin went with HIM ia tn.
carriage After Lewis had left him the
doctor discovered that eight or nine
dollars W as missing from his pocket
The police. have found ihes.. paintings
and they ar. now at Headquarters They
are done IN oils and framed IN gilt On-
Of them IL Of lilies OF IA" valley in "a bowl
Two butterflies are poi-sd over rh.
flowers The other ~ Of a bowl Of roses
The signature 4 4 Caller - plain on
the latter. ON the former " ~ partly
hidden by the frame. but still legIbl"
The-. pictures rh- police say were given
away by Lewis a. wedding presents
One went 10 "A friend of has IN Jersey Ciiy
and the other To "A friend u The Bronx
Both were presented IA 1900
The police have also learned something
of CALLERS family His parents now
dead. lived IN the town of DOmpi.rr-
Department of Jura. France His rela- Z
tIv-r. COMMISSIONER Flynn says have
been looking for him for theta r,n years
The circulars describing Caller will NOS
be sent A. the police feel that they haV.
found hIm Those describing Laws
however l5W0 Of them. Will h. scattered
one will be sent - every Tow q
which boasts even "A sheriff