New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-06
police Find Curtain Rope
from Her Room in
LewiS's Pocket
poIICE STILL SEEK
MOTIVE FOR CRIME
woman's Diamond Ring
Gone. but Can't Be Traced
TO Dead Man


r,g.selphia. Jan. 5.--The Grace
- murder case has not been closed
y, suicide Of Bernard Wesley
Who killed himself in Atlantic
~ yesterday as he was about to be
-....,s charged with having slain the
model
Vbgs the police unearthed new evil
s.... to-day which Captain Of Detec-
-. lanes Tate says established "to
morsl certainty" that Lewis, Yale
=, and black sheep of prominent
p,,.borrh family. killed the girl, still
=, one has been found who ever saw
lewis and the girl together.
dozen persons who knew Grace
pobsr,s were Quizzed anew to-day, but
,,.itivs evidence of an acquaintance
~, between Grace and the Pittsburgh
80, is lacking. a week before her
s.,4b Grace boosted 20 Marie Collins,
,.r ebpm. who had an apartment on
~ second floor Of the Wilton, that she
s,S "rcw friend, a regular sweet
lss-t" whom she described as a"real
rsrtiemar." but Miss Roberts would
-. reveal the name of the new claim
an on her affections even TO Marie,
hsr closest friend.
This nav have been Lewis, the police
nv There is another story that Lewis
NJ. Grace Roberts last spring at
fashion show In Atlantic City and re-
t,rred 20 Philadelphia with her A
ousrrel followed and Lewis went away.
One detective is working on me
+baorv that Lewis never had spoken TO
Grace Roberts except over the teIe-
rbone before Friday morning. But one
hing appears certain, and that Is thaJ
Lewis te'enhoned 10 Miss Roberts
srar-nort from the Bellevue-Stratiord
Hotel a. 1880 Thursday night and pre-
sumab'v made an appointment ior
later In the night. Lewis was then
With the Misses Edith and Ethel Kyle
the Germantown public school teachers.
Lewis Wore Woman's Undershirt
womar's silk uudershirt was found
mon the body of Lewis. Il is believed
rat his own underwear was soaked
WITH the murdered woman's blood and
hat The shirt which he wore TO At
lsrtic CITY belonged 20 Grace Roberts.
There are teeth marks on his left hand,
and both hands and forearms are
scretcred. The blood stained handker-
chief. found last night, and spatters
Of blood on the mans socks are also
regarded as evidence Of his guilt.
As the store of seemingly overwhelm-
rg circumstanual evidence against
Lewis accumu.ates. this feature stands
as perhaps the most unusual phase Of
very unusual murder case. Twenty
men whose relations with Grace Rob
erts we're the talk Of the town have
never been under suspicion, yet man
never seen boz the young woman's COM
Dany, il appears certain, murdered her.
The motive for the crime is alto
gether lacking. a crime Of passion, say
some detectives. Others believe Lewis
may have strangled the young woman
IN an effort 20 secure funds. A diamond
ring she wore, worth $3.50 is missing.
Moose Made from Curtain
Detectives brought back from Allan
&c City length of portiere rope, fash
Toned IN the shape Of a moose, which
they say they found in Lewis's over
coat pocket Captain Tate sent the
sleuths 70 Grace Roberts's apartment
and presently they returned with the
word that the rope matched the por-
.eres Do Miss ROberts's rooms, piece Of
which was missing.
That shows said the captain, chat
hehad prepared 10 strangle the girl with
a piece or n0rtierc rope, but changed
his mind and used a silk stocking? Ny
men also have found some wisps Of
rerr In frd . % -r &. D. t~b
looked on first examination. Com
parson establishes that this hair be-
longed in Lew.ss head and apparently
vas pulled out in the terrific struggle
ne had with his victim. With this, it
looks Ike the case was about cleaned
up, but we have got TO keep going until
We get something on the relations be-
"sen this pair. That's what gets me-"
4 key found in Lewis's pocket at
Atlantic City enabled the police TO
,isee his movements in Philadelphia
following the taXicab journey from
Germantown 10 Fifteenth and Poplar
streets, and thus account for the sp-
parent hiatus In his existence from
fuday 10 Wednesday. The key was
70 room in the Adelphia Hotel. The
register showed the room had been
assigned % a man who registered as
D. l.. Moore, of Chicago, at 1858 o'clock
On Friday afternoon.
Discarded Garments Found
., Harry Mitchell, The room clerk;
Aary Mealy, q maid, and two bellboys
positively Identified the picture Of
LEWIS as the likeness of y. L. Moore"
A'tcheu told Lieutenant Wood that
EEnen Informed a So a day room was
me best there was available, Moore"
replied; "Oh,, that's all right. just
want TO clean up"
On the roof Of the hotel employees
CHARTERS just below the window Of
LeWiss room, Lieutenant Woods found
Z SUIT Of underclothes which would
nave tt Lewis. On both sleeves and
Oh tne right shoulder of the shirt
we're spots which looked like blood.
because the garments had been in the
.ah Tor several days 10 was necessary
turn the clothes over to chemist
10Y exam nation.
Lewis locked himself in his room
shen he entered. .and the hotel at
~ehes do not think he left il until Sat
sIlay night. Five empty pint whiskey
'asSs were found there.
me police determination to keep the
S.se open is reported to have been
sseentuated by a story said 70 have
oesil told by young woman who lives
% me vicinity Of the Wilton, and who
'sefls She saw Grace Roberts alive at
clock on the evening Of Friday, De-
semoer %. The young woman is re-
ported to have been positive in her
statement This would overturn a good
mare Of the case against Lewis, mas
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