New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
had dried. The police believe it was the blood of Miss Colbert.

the blood of Miss Colbert.
 Lewis had stuffed the spaces be- tween his door and the jamb. He had crammed paper into the window cracks and had hung a towel over the transom of his door. He had provid- ed well to accomplish his end, for he had put an extra cartridge on a ledge within his reach as he reclined in tho bathtub. Apparently he intended to use it if the first failed. On the bu- reau was a fresh box from which these two cartridges had been taken.
 There was little blood about the temple, where the bullet had entered, but there were marks on nearly all his fingers and apparently this blood came from scratches which marked both hands as they might had he em- ployed them in a struggle with some one.
 On the bureau were copies of Phil- adelphia, Atlantic City and New York newspapers, and across the front page of one was this fiaring headline: Girl May Solve Model Mystery" Be- meath this was large picture of Miss Colbert, or Grace Roberts, as she pre- ferred to be known.
 Captain Malseed took charge of Lewis body and last night Dr. Scud- der had not determined whether or not he would hold an inquest. It's only purpose would be to learn more of Lewis movements since Friday night and of his relations with the model. He was well known hero, and was de- scribed by many as Thigh llyer". And there information about him end- ed until last night.
 Undone by Tax!cab Btll.
 Even now the police have not traced to its beginning the acquaintance of Lewis and the model. They might never have suspected it's existence and Lewis might be alive were 1t not for so small 8 thing as a $19.GO taxi- cab bill. Lewis did not pay it, and so set in motion the inquiry which he himself closed.
 It was the bill for taxicab in which Lewis drove the Misses Ethel and Mabel Kyle from the Ritz-Carlton ho- tel, Philadelphia, to their home in Germantown on the night of the mur- der. With them he had made the rounds of hotels after an evening at the theater, he had driven them home and then had returned, riding part way on the box with Elwood Powell, the chauffeur. to whom he explained that he wanted some fresh air.
 It was Powell who dropped him outside the Wilton, who waited long and anxiously and who departed after he had failed to trace his fare into the apartment house and had de- spaired of collecting hts $19.60. It was Powell who went to the police with this tale of minight ride that had ended outside the murder fat and he carried it to them because he wanted his $19.60.
 From the moment of the discovery of the murder the Philadelphia police had been at 8 loss which way to direct their energies. There was not Q lack of clues but rather @ plethora of them for letters and cards, autographed photographs and books in profusion filled the rooms of the girl who had been known as the model with the form divine" Moreover, the names were those of public officials, of men prominent in society, of college men and of men who had made names for themselves in amateur athletics.
 Captain Tate and his men had turned from one to the other, meeting at every hand men who acknowledged their friendship with the girl but who proved their innocence of any con- nection with the crime The police evolved theory after theory,
 They theorized that the girl had been slain by 8 man whom she had beggared and whom she was about tu discard. And they arrested a con- tractor. freeing him only after he had been confronted by Miss Marie Col lins, confdante of the model and by the janitor of the apartment house Richard Benjamin. They theorized that she had been killed by a discard cd suitor when he learned that she was about again to take up with a l man from whom she had been l estranged. And they hunted this man up and questioned him. He was a wealthy brewer, and like the other, he established his innocence.
 The theory on which they finally fixed was that two men had been in , Miss Colbert's flat on Friday night One was an admirer So was the other, but his acquaintance was of longer standing and his attitude tow ard the girl was somewhat different in consequence. This man the police now think was Lewis.
 They are certain that he entered the apartment to find the other man there | and became angry at once. As they