Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-10
SAW BIG MAN FLEEING
SLAIN MODELS ROOMS
Cleveland Salesman Says New
Murder Suspect Could Not
Have Been Lewis
WORE BIG DIAMOND STUD

\ description or a man who may he the
murderer Of Maize Colbert was furnished
to the police today by B. c. Brown n
travelling salesman of Cleveland. O.. who
was passing the Wilton Apartments Friday
December %. as man jumped from the
window OF the models apartment ON the
first floor
The man was thirty-hvc or forty Years
old. according to Brown. had a fun face
aud weighed probably 100 pounds. Brown
is sure Bernard w. Lewis who committed
suicide in Atlantic city was not the man
Brown said he saw the man on train
going from Philadelphia to Washington tn"
next day. The body was not discovered
until late that night and Brown explained
that at that time he did not even know a
murder had been committed.
Brown made his statement voluntarily to
the police in Cleveland today. He and ]. NJ.
Marshall, another salesman were passing
the Wilton at about 1890 on the night Of
the murder.
HEARD SCUFFLGNG
we stopped fora few seconds in front
of the apartments" he said we heard a
noise like some one scufing about. Then
from a window on a side street jumped
Il man ile carried his coat on his arm
and seemed excited.
lie jumped almost into our arms We
grabbed him. but let him go when he said
he and his wife had been fooling about
The man had big diamond stud in his
shirt front"
James s McFayden. head Of the Pitts
burgh Union Stock Yarlls and personal
friend Of Lewis, described Le"'is to Brown
as being small of stature and not weigh
ing more than 1855 pounds.
SAW HIM AGAIN
81 left Philadelphia the next day going
to Washington, and on that train saw
again the man who jumped out Of the
apartment window" said Brown. "IIe still
wore the big diamond, Another friend Of
mine, who was on this train, spoke to him,
calling him by name.
II didn't learn about the murder for
several days. Then after Lewis had killed
himself saw statement by MCFayden.
whom | had once met in business After
TALKING with Marshall decided to write
McFayden- could clear Lewis"
Magistrate 4. Harry j. lmber. who. prior
to his electiOfE was an investigator for the
Committee of Seventy, and his two consta-
bles Nathan Weinsten ana Edward
Abrams, We're questioned today by Cap
tain Of Detectives Tate in the hope that
they can throw some light on the murder.
lmber has been questioned before and, from
the information in the possession of the
police he was probably the last person to
talk with the girl before she was killed.
They talked on the telephone, He also
was among the nISt 10 learn OF htT FutdlH
a negro whose home is said to be near
the scene of the murder has been missing
since the model was killed, according to
Coroner Knight The police are searching
for him.
> CORONER ASSAILS COPS
81 don't believe that Lewis killed Miss
Colbert" said Coroner Knight today The
police have acted in this case as though
the COroner's office wasn't on the map, |
haven't been consulted in the case and have
been ignored in the investigation / feel
that Miss Colbert was slain either by
negro an inebriate or some illiteTate person
hut ! am more inclined 10 think that she
was killed by a negro. Why don't the
police go out and look up some of the per
sons who have been mentioned in this case
instead Of interviewing them at hotels and
at other places? The detective bureau is
the proper place TO question persons.