Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-01
CLUBMAN SOUGHT
AS GIRLS SLAYER
Model Said to Have Feared
Visit of Wealthy
Chicagoan
COPS HUNT CLUE TO HIM
Detectives Believe Woman Was
Attacked Last Friday by
Man From West

A wealthy Chicagoan with membership
in several exclusive clubs in Philadelphia is
being sought by detectives as the possible
slayer Of Mrs Grace Roberts, artist model.
who was found beaten to death on Satur-
day in her apartment at Fifteenth and
Poplar streets.
Discovery this morning OF II Chicago time
table in the wonan's apartment together
with fear expressed tcfore her death that
a man from Chicago had vowed he would
come East and get her. started the MIR
der squad on a new trail.
Detectives feel certain that he is a club
man and stopped at one after his arrival
I'm Philadelphia. The theory ts that he ar
rived on Friday, went 20 the apartment
in the morning, being IN fact the visitor
known TO have been in the girls room
shortly before noon on Friday, Whether
he ls in tho city or whether he has returned
West the police have not yet been able
TO ascertain
IN TERROR or VISIT
\ friend Of the model who also was
known as Maize Colbert told Captain of
Detectives Tate today Of the terror the pro
posed visit of the man from Chicago mad
aroused in the girl who was slain.
Grace was greatly worried last week.
this woman told Captain Tate. she told
me that she was frightened because a man
from Chicago had said he was going 20
make a call, I understood from her that de
had threatened to Kill her
This man, according to Captain tate, was
the buyer Of the furnishings in the apart
ment. lie also had assisted her financially
from time to time Belief that he heard
rumors, through clubmen IN this city, and.
being angry, made the trip here for the
express purpose of killing her. became firm
~ fixed in the minds of the detectives after
the developments following discovery OF the
body.
The motive OF robbery, as advanced by
the girls family, is shattered by this latest
clue. Vincent Colbert brother OF the
model, said yesterday that robbery was
the cause of the Staying, but invest!ga ion
by the police resulted in the discovery that
but one diamond ring, valued at several
hundred dollars. is missing. This partially
strengthened the trail leading to the man
from Chicago. as the ring is believed 70
have been Of the many presents be-
slowed by him on the girl and taken by
him from the apartment on Friday,
BROTHER IDENTIFIES BODY
Colbert and his sister Bessie identified
the body this morning, He said the victim
had never been married, thus changing his
earlier statement that she had been welded
The cheap shirt and collar found near
the body, the head of which had beer
cfuBneu by UHllTOU, are Oc'nB Eeln ~
the police as exhibits. They evidently be,
longed TO man OF a lower type than tht
clubman sought by the police. Whether in,
clubman used them for the purpose Of later
discarding them is another angle that has
made the trail leading to his capture u1ol,
complex.
Complaints of the model that a "niggei
from New York; had been threatening hei
life and had been seen near the house were
passed over IN view Of the more promis.rl
clue of the Chcagoau