New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-05

| 10 10 a theatre LtNte gAtpUfN INV
a haberdashery store at Thirteenth and
Chestnut streets and bought new
collar
After the show Lewis took the Kyle
sisters 10 the Bellevue-Stratford. where
they danced some more, Lewis entering
into the diversion with such spirit that
he wilted his new collar, and the young
women remarked on il. After telephon-
ing Grace Roberts and arranging the
fatal meeting Lewis took the sisters
home.
When Ethel and Mabel Kyle called at
Police HEADQUARTERS Detective Farrell
greeted them wearing the blood stained
collar found in the death chamber. The
young women shrank back.
my Cod" said one. its his. See
it's wilted the same way"
The detective then brought one hand
from behind his back and produced the
blood smirched shirt. The young wom-
On went white and almost swooned, but,
recovering, they admitted tho black
and-whitc striped garment was ldenti-
cal with the ono worn by their com
panion Of Thursday night.
Lewis's connection with the crime
came especially hard OF belief to the
young Germantown school teachers, IN
the light Of the Pittsburgher's conduct
/ following the murder, which was GER
tainly calculated 20 disarm suspicion.
"Why, on Sunday" said Miss Ethel
! Kyle. "the morning after the girls body
was found, he came out 10 our house I'm
/ the morning and went TO church with
we girls and the rest of the family.
! | saw him again on Monday, and the
murder case was mentioned as we dis
/ cussed current events. He acted as
/ natural as any man could act.
"On Tuesday ! was horrlied TO read
. in the papers that the probable muir
/ derer Of the Roberts girl had taken two
young women 10 our ncighborhood IN
Germantown and then had been driven
/ 10 the scene of the crime, whore he left
/ his bill unpaid Our escort always
seemed 10 have plenty Of money, but
/ the description Of the taxi driver fitted
him exactly.
/ 81 was worried sick. When he tele.
phoned that afternoon | asked him n
/ ne had seen the statement Of the chauf-
/ four in the papers He said he had not.
/ but would buy a paper and read II.
! little later he called me again and said
! he had read the statement OF the taxi
I cab driver.
"But that's just newspaper talk" he
! told me laughingly. Don't bother
/ your little head about it,
The KYLE girls met Lewis last Janu-
/ arv at the automobile show here. Lewis
/ had charge OF an exhibit for the owen
Magnetic Car Company, Of New York,
/ az the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.
Planned to Fight Charge
] Al 4:05 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
while the police were making a coun-
| trvwide search for Lewis he telephoned
/ the home Of the Misses Kyle, at i24
/ West Bringhurst Street, Germantown.
What shall / do?" he pleaded. 81
have been ruined. ! did not even know
Grace Colbert. This is terrible. I've
been dragged into this revolving affair
and Pm ruined
The telephone call, IL is said, came
/ from a point in Philadelphia. Miss
Nav KYLE. sister Of Ethel and Mabel.
who also knew Lewis, answered the
/ telephone Three minutes after Lewis
had rung Off, Detective Hodge called
| Miss KYLE and asked her if she had
heard from Lewis. Fifteen minutes
after the detective had telephoned
Lewis called again, and said:
Don't worry. I'm going Ia straight
en- this thing out. ! have arranged to
see a good lawyer and will do what
/ ever he says"
Miss Kyle told a reporter who was
interviewing her when the telephone
/ hell rang the gist Of Lewis's converse
/ ton.
"Of course. he's broken hearted"
said Miss Kyle. The poor fellow IS
/ almost frantic. What shall ! do" he
asked me. Isn't this TERRIBLE Then
asked him if he knew the dead girl. His
answer came back quickly. with abso-
/ lutely no hesitation: i did not know
/ her. OF course, | didn't
"My faith in him was so great that
/ didn't even ask if he had been driven to
| Fifteenth and Poplar Streets after he
/ left my sisters Then he asked me for
/ advice. and / told him to call up the
/ Detective Bureau and tell them where
/ he was on Friday morning.
"'Why didn't you let the detectives
/ know about your movements on the
I night OF the murder before this ]
asked lie answered:
81 thought the easiest way out was
/ the best. Then he hung the receiver
up. promising he would get in touch
with the Detective Bureau az once.
"Mr. Lewis seemed less worried when
| he called me the second time. lie said,
Don't worry. I've turned my case over
TO mighty good lawyer. and every
thing will be Strengthened out soon
Then he hung up
Girl Defends Him
Miss Mabel Kyle. who. with her sis
ter, told Captain Tate that Lewis was
the young man who had accompanied
them home early Friday morning. also
discussed the affair.
"Mr. Lewis is a wonderful man. she
said. "Ile is wealthy, and the police
will make a great mistake If they at
tempt 10 drag him into this mess. He
is the type Of man who viii fight
met him year ago through a Miss
McCrusker another school teacher
Since then he has been friendly with
our family.
81 don't see why the police should
take the word of a taxi driver How
can they tell that he didn't take Mr..
Lewis 10 his home and then pick up
another fare. whom he took TO the
Fifteenth and Poplar Street address
That is what I believe happened And
If that was not the case. | have SUI
prcme faith in Mr.. Lewls's ability 10
give a satisfactory reason why he was
in that neighborhood Friday morning.
I'VE were with him last Thursday.
We went 10 q performance az one OF
the downtown theatres. and then
lunched at one of the Broad Street
hotels. We came home in taxicab be-
cause il was too late TO get a train TO
/ Germantown Not until read the
papers did / think the police were at
taching any significance TO the tale Of
taxi driver, who, were he really
sincere, would have come forward with
L ne... u.
der was reported. IL is untrue. too,
Ill. I ,.-t- 4,fo 49,