The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-05

this awful crime, yet they are after
me. What shall do?'
Go straight to the Detective Bu-
reau and tell the truh,' urged May
Kyle.
"T don't know said Lewis. How
can 1 tell what should do?, I am in
nocent, and 1 am ruined. Why, do you
know that I did not even know Grace
Roberts, and yet T am dragged into
this revolving murder and I'm a ruined
man for life?'"
Then, as far as Miss Kyle could re-
call, Lewis suddenly hung up the re-
ieciver. While Miss Kyle was per-
picked as to what her duty was,
Lieut.. Hodge, of the detective force,
called her up. She told him of the
conversation.
(! This was a clue which the detec-
tiyes pursued with utmost vigor, and,
while they were establishing the fact
that Lewis had called up from a point
within Philadelphia. Lewis again
called up, this time from another pub
lie telephone booth. Miss Kyle glanced
at a clock as she answered the call.
and noted the time as 1920 Lewis,
speaking in a much calmer and more
collected tone, said to her:
Don't worry, Miss Kyle. You have
been very kind to me. Believe in
me still. I have engaged good
lawyer. I will do whatever he ad-
vfses. I'm going to- straighten this
thing all out. Goodby."
| Thought Lewis Broken Hearted.
Before Miss Kyle could answer, the
4 connection was broken. From sub
seuuent developments, it is believed
that he must. have gone almost i'm
mediately to Atlantic City. The final
chapter of another tragedy had open
ed.
Hes simply broken hearted" said
May Kyle to a reporter. "He told
me positively he did not even know
! Grace Roberts and I can understand
! how gentleman of his position and
standing could feel even about being
connected by name with such case
as this.
"Oh, yes" she continued. II re-
member another thing he said. I
asked him why he had not gone al
/ ready to the Detective Bureau and
] given himself up, since he had moth
ing to fear by telling the truth. Mr..
Lewis replied, I didn't go because I
thought the easiest way was not to
and that the easiest way was the
best way"
The movements Of Lewis as told
to the detective force by Misses Ma
bel and Ethel Kyle, in their chron-
illogical sequence, and in connection
with the developments Of tn emurder
mystery follow:
Thursday afternoon-Calls IN
Misses Kyle and asks them to go to
dinner and the theatre with him.
They accept. Dimes with them, takes
them to show, has dinner with them
at Bellevue Stratford, gets 4 taxi and
drives them home and is then driven
to Fifteenth and Poplar streets in the
early hours of Friday and enters
Grace Roberts apartment according
to Nstatement Of chauffeur, who
charges him with evading taxicab
; bill.
Il Saturday afternoon-Calls up the
Misses Kyle, and makes engagement
to take them to church the next day
Saturday night-Murdered body OF
Grace Roberts discovered.
TOOK Gifts TO church.
Sunday-Takes Misses Kyle to
church, and talks with them a long
time. Detectives discover that a taxi
had stopped before Wilton apartment
apd a man leaving it had entered
Miss Roberts suite early Friday
morning.
Monday-Papers print that detect
ives are Searching for the man who
entered Miss Roberts apartments in
the early hours of Friday morning
and believe they soon will find him
Lewis reads of the search that is be-
ing made to locate him. Again gets
, in touch with the Kyle girls.
Tuesday-Papers announce discov-
cry of Elwood Powell, the chauffeur
T who drove the Kyle girls and Lewis
home Thursday night, and Lewis tc
Miss Roberts early the following
morning. Tells that he has given de-
scription of Lewis, and police on his
! track.
v Wednesday-Lewis again talks with
1 Kyle girls, although there are rumors
{ they have told police of him.
Thursday-Lewis knows that Kyle
: girls have told all about him tt
t police. He calls them up again. Goes
], to Atlantic City and kills himself az
3 he is about to be arrested on charge
made by the chauffeur.
Girls Identify Collar.
Late yesterday afternoon, after
, Miss Kyle had told detectives of he]
, telephone conversations with Lewis,
several went to her home in Ger
mantown and carried with them the
; soiled. collar, which, with the blood
stained shirt, were the two importan
pieces Of tangible evidence found il
the models apartment on the nigh
!, of the discovery Of the murder
In the presence of the three Mise.
Kyle, one Of the detectives took thi
soiled collar. and, fastening it around
his own neck, asked them if the,
could identify it as the collar Levi.
had worn while he was entertaining
them Thursday night.
They responded that so far as e
collar could be identified, the,
thought it the same.
Il am sure this collar it exactI,
similar to the one he wore," the,
, declared.
Incidentally, Lewis committed sui.
eide on the day Of the funeral OF