The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-10
Man Who Saw Killer
Leave Wilton Is
Located
.TALKED WITH
FLEEING PROWLER
Later Learned Name
of Supposed
Assassin

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Brown a travelling salesman. wno
was passing the Wilton apartment
Elm Philadelphia a, the time thr
.slaycr OF Mazie COLDER, leaped from
~her apartment window. said pos
.iive4y today that Bernard " Lexis
twas not the man ne saw leas ne
-ihe Wilton
: brown had been shown pictures
~of LOWS and had been given q tuA
@dereripiicn Of Lewis by one ol RE
iatter's personal friends That
-nlan / SAW leaving the Wilton nas
snOt Lewis" said Brown ilc vas
eirobably s or 40 years OLD. had fil
Rather stout face. and would weigh
4atoui ia0 pounds. l am sure il vas
-not Lewis "
Drown said he saw the same mar
rihe next day on a PHILADELPHIA iu
ewasbinston train. and heard him
Scaled by name
After Lewis committed suicide Va
an Atlantic City hotel while de'ec-
tives were knocking az his door 90
question him about the Killing az
the Philadelphia model Dec. - the
positive statement WAS issued by
Philadelphia police thar Lewis
KILLED the girl This statement was
Withdrawn later after other motives
were produced for Lewis suicide.
Browns statement today was vol
untary Tie and J NJ Marshall an
other travelling salesman he said
were passing the Wilton az about
1880 D m on the might of the
crime.
we stopped for a few seconds in
front OF the apartments" he said
1--WE heard a noise like someone
scufHing about. Then from win
dow on a side street Jumped a man
He carried his coat on his arm ans
seemed excited.
'Iie jumped almost into ouf
arms. We grabbed him but let hin,
60 when he said he and his wife
had been 'foolinr about The man
had biz diamond stud in his shir'
front
James : McFayden, head Of tha
Pittsburgh Union Stock yards and
IA personal friend OF Lewis de
1scribed Lewis as being small ~
sstature and not weighing more THAI
sjs5 pounds.
II ten Philadelphia the next day
sgolng 20 Washington. and on that
.train saw again the man who had
Jumped out OF the Wilton apart
ment window. said Brown. III.
.siill wore The big diamond An
sother friend OF mine who was on
this train spoke to him. calling him
sby name
Il didn't learn about the crime
flor several days Then. after Lewl
had killed himself / saw state
ment about McFayden. whom I haf
tonce met in business After talking
with Marshall ! decided to write
McFayden and tell him could clear
Lewis"
Brown said personal reasons pre-
vented him from making known his
business connections and home
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. l0-The
grewsome killing OF Maze Colbert
pretty stocking and corset mode
viii be re-enacted IN the very apar,
ment in which her battered bod
was found l2 days ago. Il VAS an
nounced today. John Colbert. broth
er Of the slain girl. requested thai
he slayi scene b. reproduced
II want TO show. he explained
that the slightest noise IN my sis
ier's apartment could have been
heard nv bofh the ianitor and Mario
Collins.
The performance" will be staged
upon the theory that o man. som
ing from taxicah entered the
apartment Then. the last night ok,
girl with the form divine" u known
10 have lived. will b. gone oveF
Furniture and glassware viii be
hurled about. duplicating a. nearly
~ possible the noise Of the models
struggle for life.
" detectives sitting In Miss Cot
llns' apartment find The noise GO ihe
struggle must have been loud
enough to have awakened a pcrseH-
The investigation may be started
along new lines. " was indicated
Miss Collins WAS known as Nazir
Colbert's best friend Her apartment
was close 20 that ~ the model Boil
The Collins girl and Police Mag
trate Imher. who talked 10 Miss Col
bert the day she Is supposed 10 have
been slain. will be questioned fuf
Their today.
District Attorney Rotan decided
npon this ~ The result OF conflict
ing statements both have mads
lioth volunteered the information
they had talked TO the model or
the telephone some time about il
o'clock Friday morning, Dec -
Some time after that Miss Cplbsr
MAS murdered
When Henry , Bass. cicfs m
.ncn's furnish,hs store. told The ais