The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-02

the Detective Bureau said that he had
been entirely exonerated."
Late in the afternoon a young wo-
man wearing expensive furs was also
brought to the Detective Bureau for
questioning Just before her ar
rival the newspaper men gathered in
an outer room through which she
must pass were asked to step into an
other room, and thus the woman Of
mystery" as she was Immediately
called, avoided any chance of being
recognized.
There were others brought to the
bureau and asked to tell of Grace
name of every person questioned by
him be kept secret for the present.
Theories as to Murder.
In the process Of elimination the
police have developed two theories as
to the murderer. One is that he is
the real sweetheart of Miss Roberts,
the man whom she loved, and who
committed the crime either through
jealously or because she told him on
Friday night that she had wearied Of
him. The other, that he is the man
who had given her the valuable jew
ely found in her apartment and other
pieces of even greater value which
she is believed to have pawned, and
that he was prompted to murder by
the discovery that she was friendly
with other men by finding that she
had sold his gifts to make presents to
another.
Miss Riberts was born in the little
town of Kane, Pa. While she was a
r;rI I,1 on
tracted attention and friends advised
her to seek her fortune in a big city.
She came here and obtained employ
ment soon as a manicurist in the
Keith building 1t was as a manicur-
list the detectives found that she first
began her wide acquaintance with
well known men in this city. A man.,
Tourist employed there now, who knew
her we'll, said yesterday afternoon:
1--WE jokingly called Grace the
Queen Of the Manicurists' All of Us
girls envied her. She wore furs and
diamonds and came to, work every
morning in a limousine and all the
men were crazy about her. Believe
me, Grace never had to walk home.
There was always a big car waiting
to take her" I
Her. figure, declared to be the most
perfect of any woman's in Philadel-
phia, was not long in attracting at
tention. She soon quite the manicur-
ing business. The symmetry of her
limbs attracted the attentions Of a hos
1ery firm. She agreed to pose for it.
She posed for manufacturers of glove
fitting petticoats and for corset max
ers, to whom her figure appealed as a
valuable medium for advertising.
: In the last few months, it is said,
she did little of this work The apart
ment house in which she lived is one
Of the most expensive in that part Of
the city. She had furs, beautiful
clothes; expensive jewelry and ap-
peared, to be well supplied with
The stories told by Marie Collins
who was her closest friends in the
building; by. Mrs. George F.. Miller
who had the apartment across the hall
from her, and Of her own relatives,
agree as to- her popularity and the
large number of her callers.
Janitor Benjamin is said to have
given the detectives much valuable
information concerning men who
visited Miss Roberts, but he refused
to, talk to newspaper men. There was
a reason. Two detectives were with
him. But after they left Benjamin
declared 81 can't say a word" He
had his orders.
Had Not Been Married. 4
y Last night Miss Bessie Colbert,