Arizona republican., 1917-01-05

said Isn't this terrible?"
 Did you know the Colbert girl?" Miss Kyle said she asked him.
 "Of course I did not know her" he is said to have replied.
 "Then why have you not called on the detectives and explained where you were on Frday?' Miss Kyle asked. ''Why didn't you let them know before this?"
 Lewis is said to have replied: T thought the easiest way was the best"
 Lewis was silent for a few moments and then said, according to Miss Kyle Don't worry, l am going to straight en this thing out I have arranged to see good lawyer and will do what ever he says"
 Lewis then hung up the receiver. He called again in a few minutes, it is said, and repeated his admonition that the sisters should not worry about the matter.
 Thursday night, while Lewis was out with the Germantown teachers he is said to have called up Miss Colbert by telephone. During the dancing that night his collar became Wilted, the Kyle sisters said, and he bought new one at the hotel. This collar was the same size as the blood stained collar found in Miss Colbert's apartments. IL also became wilted, the teachers say. and, according to the detectives work ing on the case, the collar found in the apartment had been discarded because it was wilted.
 Captain of Detectives Tate in a statement tonight said that in his opin- ion Lewis is the man who committed the crime He added, however, that the investigation of other clues will ssIf auric and Mice Calbart were alone in the room together when she was killed it is possible we m;C never know any more than we found out tonight" he said.
 The jewels missing from the Colbert apartment, with the exception of a large diamond ring, were found today in a pawnshop by the police. Miss Colbert had pledged the jewels four days before Christmas and with the money advanced by the pawnbroker she is said to have bought Christmas presents for her family.
 No murder in years so thoroughly aroused the police and the public as the mysterious, brutal crime brought to light near midnight last Saturday when Maizie Colberts sister, after re- peated efforts to get her on the tele- phone, called at her apartment. The colored janitor of the apartment house finding the doors locked. climbed through a window at the solicitation of the sister and discovered the ter ribly beaten body of the beautiful girl. clad only in violet silk pajamas, lyine on the bed The form was covered
 with a sheet and an effort had beer made by the murderer to indicate sui eide by attaching a rubber hose to a gas jet and placing it over the mur- dered girls face. But the murderer overlooked the detail of turning on tho gas.
 Circumstances made 1t apparent that the girl had been dead many hour. wter her dead body was found.
 Letters and photographs found ir | Miss Cclbert's apartment served tt ! connect several prominent Philsdel- | phiars with the gay life the girl had i been leading and they were summoned i before the detectives and questioned 1 regarding their association with her i Miss Colbert was 27 years old. ShC l came here from Kane. Pa, eight year. ago and soon afterward assumed tho name of Mrs Grace Roberts. Hel family assert. however. that she was i never married. She was possessed o great beauty of form and face ano this led to her reflection SIS d mode 1 for advertising photographs.