The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-10
THREE MEN HELD AT KANSAS CITY IN THE LEWIS MURDER CASE Body Received Here Yester-
 day and Funeral Will
 Be Held Today
INVESTIGATION BY
 CORONER'S JURY
Girl Tells of Hearing Scuffle and Men Running Upstairs-Was We'll Known Engineer
 on the Frisco

Kansas City, July 9.-(Special)-A coroner's jury instructed this afternoon that Harry M Baker. los2 Penn street, Joseph Wallace and Andrew Simoni, 1928 Penn street. be held for further investigation in connection with the murder last Sunday morning of J. H. Lewis of Birmingham, Ala, an engineer on tho Frisco system. Lewis died shortly after being found in the front yard at 8 o'clock in the morning.
 Baker has been held by the poliee since the death of Lewis. Simoni and Wallace. who are walters, were ordered held as a result of the testimony to- day of Miss Marie Lazear, who lives at 1928 Penn street. She says that she heard them run upstairs shortly after the noise of scuffle was heard next door.
 Baker. on the advice of his attor ney, refused to testify No one identi- fled him definitely as the man who as- saulted Lewis.
 Heard Scuffle Next Door
 Wallace and Simoni were witnesses today. They said they were resting on the front porch of their rooming house early Sunday morning when they heard a scuffle next door at 10S2 Penn street. They said they saw a short, stocky man, which hits in a general way the description of Baker. show ing and kicking another man. They heard the man who was being beaten say something that sounded like the word shoot" Miss I,azear was awak- ened by the noise. shortly after that she says she heard Wallace and simoni run upstairs in her house.
 Officers testified that Lewis had been in trouble at the union station Satur- street police station. At midnight he was released No one has explained how he got to 1032 Penn street.
 Baker was arraigned before Justice Edward A. Setzler this afternoon. He pleaded not guilty to charge of mur- der in the second degree. He failed to give bond of $30O0 and was committed to jail His trial was set for 10 o'clock Saturday morning.
 Wallace and Simoni are being held by the police.
 The remains of J. II. Lewis. an en- glneer of the Frisco system, who was murdered in Kansas City, Mo, early Sun day morning about 3 o'clock. arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and were taken to the undertaking establishment of Lige Loy. Lewis died Sunday morn ing in the Emergency hospital at Kansas City at 5:30 o'clock, as the result of in- Juries received two hours and half before in front of a nouse at lO32 Penn street of that city.
 Immediately following the death of Lewis, his brother in this city was not- fled by telegram, though at that time deep mystery surrounded the cause of his death, the only news received in Bir- mlngham being that J. H. Lewis had been murdered Sunday morning. Lewis skull was fractured and his head and face cut in several places He died without re- gaining consciousness.
 Henry NJ. Baker, the proprietor of the rooming house at 1O32 Penn street. was lodged in the city jail at Kansas City that afternoon charged with the murder, and Andrew Simoni, and Joe Wallace, both roomers in the house, were also ftr- rested and held pending tho Investigation of the mans death by the coroner. Simoni and Wallace later made state mepts that seemed to indicate that Lewis met his death as the result of an attack made upon him.
 Alibi Attempted
 In a statement to s. W. Zickefoose, chief of detectives of Kansas City, Baker said that he and a party of his roomers had been out riding in an automobile at the time that Lewis is said to have met his death, and he denies any knowl- edge of the cause. He says that when he discovered the man in his yard, he thought that he was drunk at first, and that the policeman thought the same. up to the time that the body was lifted into the patrol wagon.
 Statements were made by the roomers in the house that seem to indicate that Baker knew Q great deal more about the death then he cared to tell. A woman next door to 1032 Penn street said that she heard a quarrel about that time in the morning and wondered at tho cause. The house was also searched, and In a card room on the first floor a scene of great disorder was disclosed. There was every evidence that a fight had taken place.
 The body was then turned over to the coroner, ana after the refnHlnS nad been reyeiwed by Deputy Coroner Harry Czarlinsky, they were sent to the estab- lshment of the Muser Undertaking com pany to be investigated by the coroner's Jury. The jury returned verdict of death by homicide, fracture and hemorrh- age of tbe brain. There were three frac- lures on the skull. and according to the deputy coroner, either would have caused the mans death.
 Body Brought Here
 Following the rendering of the partial verdict by the coroner's jury, certifi- cate for the removal of the body to Bir- mingham was given to the Muser fTn- dertaking company. The remains left Kansas City late Monday night. arriv- ings here yesterday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock, and were taken to the estab- lishment of Lige Loy. The body will be held there until o'clock this morning when 1t will be removed to 1900 North Twenty-first street. The funeral will take place from there this morning at II o'clock, with interment at Oak Hin 
 Lewis had been in the service of the St Louis and San Francisco for 23 years as a passenger engineer. The following statement was given out from the chief train dispatcher's office yesterday aft ernoon: Bub Lewis, as he was famil- .,f.~