The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-05
MURDER MYSTERY
IS SOLVED
tContinued from page L,

fore he left Cor Atlantic City yester
day.
what shall do?" he asked, aftel
:; explaining he had been Implicated
Miss KYLE told him to give himself UP
which she declared he promised to az
mediately.
Two detectives We're on the wire
the entire time Lewis was talking
For several days the phone to the Kyle
home had been tapped
II is understood that Lewis was
with one of the Kyle. sisters as early
MS three O'Clock Friday. Miss COLDER,
was still, alive and talking to Pollce
Magistrate Imber on the phone at II
o'clock that morning. Sunday, accord
ing to Miss Kyle, Lewis spent at their
home in Germantown and went u
church.
"He acted the same as usual, tne
girl said, referring to Sunday.
Thursday night, she said-the night
before the murdeT-her two sisters
Mabel and Ethel, went to theatre
. with Lewis. They had supper at a
hotel and took a taxi home because IL
was late.
Worries had piled up on Lewis, one
z
mess ventures had proved failures
he was reported to have been 1mpn-
Gated in court case in New YORK.
That, broken in spirit, Lewis could not
stand the additional weight OF being
suspected of murder, Is the theory OF
friends today.
Search of Lewis effects today dis
closed two important items-tirst, that
Lewis wore a woman's pink SILK un-
dershirt: second, that the bloody snlrt
and collar found in Miss Cnlherts
rooms after the murder are OF the
same size as that worn by Lewis ana
are of the same make. Efforts VIII De
made to identify the pink silk under
shirt as one belonging to the dead girl.
Captain of Detectives Tate ad-
yanced as a motive for the murder an
argument over money with Wnlch 10
nav the taxi bill Lewis owed fer the
Trip TO Germantown
Lewis needed money" he said,
THE theory is that he entered MISS
Colbert's apartment and asked for as
eistance. Then he demanded a $4Oo |
diamond ring he had given the girl.
When she refused, struggle ensueo
and he killed her.
Detectives are now working to trace
every movement made ~ Lewis after
he left Powell at the curb. waiting for
his money.
The few strands Of black hair
clutched in Maize Colbert's hands
when the police found her body lying |
IN bed last Saturday night, may prove |
one Of the most significant factors IN
the chain Of circumstantial evidence |
being woven by the police.
Police declare these hairs, probao- |
" ripped from the murderer's head IN
he girls terrible struggle for life, /
seem identical with Lewis black hair. /
ii
Chain was Tishtepins:
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 5.-An
ever growing chain of circumstaatial /
evidence was this afternoon closing |
around the name Of Bernard Wesley !
Lewis, scion of a wealthy Pittsburgh |
family, who committed suicide in an I
Atlantic City hotel as detectives !
burst into his room to arrest him in I
with the murder OF Maize
Colbert. Police declared the evidence
points even more strongly to him a
The slayer Of the stunning little
model.
Detectives declared today that
Henry Fox, criminal lawyer, had
in Lewis through news
paper pictures, the young man who
two days ago rushed into his Office
at Norristown and asked to be de-
tended on a charge of murder. The
man hired an automobile near Hayer-
ford and was intensely nervous and
excited as he talked to the, Llwy er.
In addition, tie chauffeur has also
identified Lewis through the same
means, according to police state
ments.
Another significant development
this afternoon was admission by de-
tectives that blood stains. several
days old, mad been found Oh the
socks Lewis wore when he killed
himself These stains, it was said,
were below the shoe tops, near the
ankles, indicating that Lewis, II he
was in Miss Colbert's apartment, was
not fully clothed.
Father Of Dead Man.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 5.-The
name of Bernard Wesley Lewis is to
be cleared IL possible Of actual con
nection with the murder OF Maize Col
bert. Wenman A, Lewis, father Of the
ependthrift young broker. today
planned an investigation with the
hope of learning whether or not his