New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
[LlCE CONVINCED HEALTHY SUICIDE
 FLEW PHILA. MODEL
r Matches That Found in Her Hand and He Was Wear
 ing Her Shirt
HER SUSPECTS STILL
 ! UNDER SURVEILLANCE

4 Teachers Express Belief in
 aocence of Dead Man Who Ended
 te With Gun While Police Were
 ttcring at His Door in Exclusive
 lantic City Hotel-Detectives
 ieayo Net on Slight Evidence.
 tfladelphia, Jan. 5.-Circumstan-
 evidence which the police say
 noes them that Bernard w. son of wealthy retired Pitts
 h, coal operator, who ended ms
 in an Atlantic City hotel last
 1t. was the slayer of Maisie Col
 E. the model, was revealed early ldvty by an examination of the young 7idds body.
 et twis was positively identified by
 LII pod Powell, the chauffeur who 'olae him and Misses Ethel ana
 e. Kyle to their home in German Nilta last Thursday night, as the man N ater took to Miss Colbert's apart
 sit. Philadelphia detectives, who It to Atlantic City last night, say mo Lewis hair matches that found
 I,hed in the dead girls hand and Miss Lewis was found to be wearing est 'oman's under shirt which corre- Fgerads exactly to garments worn by II $ Colbert. A blood-stained hand Era .hief was found in his pocket ookx.
 thtsyeral men who were friends Of s h.s Colbert and were suspected of
 "a ng knowledge of the crime, will .Tn ept under surveillance until there solutely no doubt regarding their
 lection with the case, the police r.a snsses Kyle, through whom the po- \ ss learned of Lewis identity, main |+heh that he is innocent of the mur- bna and that he committed suicide be- ld,+,oe he believed his reputation had H ruined.
 | e police declared today that they e .,IN built up remarkable circum- iial case against Lewis They had |Dr. Id a warrant against him charging Fon with defrauding Powell, the Pst s'ab chauffeur, who waited eight |WilliA out side of the Colbert apart hith and had planned when they To- |rsity him to accuse him, of being |y vaowner of the wilted and blood Fy. ed collar found in the girls IA me
 erce t., held hds Life in Exclusive Hotel. |on. antic City. N. J., Jan. b. E wle Agnes Colbert, model re- MT. ted for her beauty was found Id Prf, terribly beaten, and strangled w foFone of her own silk stockings lands,er apartments in the Wilton, a ay. Adelphia apartment house, last "A ceFday morning. Last night Ber- erk tgWesley Lewis, Yale, '01, member ent 'e wealthy Pittsburgh family ecutltg. wellv to do, and supposedly lgust lily married-shot and killed Mrs. elf in States Villa, an exclusive rect ence hotel here.
 her, charge that he had committed, ary, ven participated in the murder Waltee model had been made against Il le;s, but detectives were battering 1zonas door, and police reserves were 'n as funding his cottage when he pulled ter vrigger of brand new .22 calibre N. Ei which apparently had been pur- ectrle ed recently, perhaps yesterday, lploy h.e purpose to which 1t was put. MISS cath Lewis found his only possi- Hef escape from an examination by | rs. police of Philadelphia, frankly MS rned to make possible a charge M' eurder against him.
 s.. the six days since the finding of huai models body the police had
 led that Lewis had been in Phila- hia on Friday, that he had en-
 Gned two school teachers sisters, 'uo" iAe theater and supper: that he
 told them of the loss of his bag A h'e between New York and Phila- nsa a.2hia, necessitating the purchase of |anotew outfit and, finally. that after ath sipg the sisters at their home in 10 Nenantown he had motored in st .lcab to Fifteenth and Poplar 'rk let's. where the model lived. alight- ,au. and then disappeared, apparently ftepyi the Wilton. Though the chauf- nsio. had waited for hours, he had 'hl reappeared. The police had iu med, too, that near the girls ynie'V had been found blood-stained
 and collar. Both were new and An En.,a. .ha,,. tb
 oy T wanted to question Lewis, and. euish ugh the circle of Investigation VI iessoi at first had embraced so many E grt,s of nroroinence in pb,l.do1nh;. tn the nccas;on almost a nenic ;r ao,,,o ted fr9ers had heen narrowed a.;,,, ,,r t at tn Enclosed nractical,v on1v Iew;s lumbia not until last night that tbis Upsulaecame known. But to Lewis if 1rch been known for days and it had ], electrked on him that twice yesterday the oh
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