The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1917, Page 8

RT BL A than three months and shail ha’ quate exit facilities The Building Department the pl holding structure too «| structed of non was rushe plans for the iacie at Broadway And Sixty-cighth st d by the Board Ke to be safely con- THE INSTRUMENT OF QUALITY ran OE Pel CLEAR AS A BELL OU hae received extra moneys in the last f. 7 wone—a dividends were increased. hemes was delaree holiday paesents were unusually substantial, or your salary was raised. Invest your money in « way that will give you lasting aone SONORA eons You should now 10) the phonogra; have red to own. cates HS HO $75 $100 $150 $175 $190 $225 $350 $1000 Fifth Avenue at 634 street 60 Broadway. Standard Arcade 279-281 Broadway at Reade Street MIGHEST CLASS TALKING MACHINE IN THE WORLD, ALUE is reflected in all our Winter suits and over- coats—value in fabric qual- ity — value in non-fading colors—value in thorough tailoring — value in design and style, and lastly price value. | BROKAW BROTHERS 1457-1463 BROADWAY Fifth Avenue, 37t Misses’ Tailored Suits Plain or Fur Trimmed Models Of wool velour, broadcloth, velour checks or gabardine. 14 to 20 years, 15.00 Heretofore $24.50 to $45.00 Misses’ Winter Coats With or Without Fur Trimming Of wool velour, mannish fabrics or seal plush. 14 to 20 years. 18.50 Heretofore $24.50 to $39.50 Girls’ Winter Coats Fur Trimmed or Tailored Models Of wool velour, zibeline, cheviot or checks, 6 to 14 years, 8.50 Heretofore $14.50 to $18.50 Misses’ Afternoon Dresses Embroidered or Fur Trimmed Models Of crepe meteor or French satin, also of Georgette crepe or velveteen, 14 to 20 years. 18.50 Heretofore $29.50 Ribbed Cotton Hose Black, white or tan, fine ribbed; also corduroy ribbed in black only, Sizes 6 to 10. 1.00 6 pair for buflding shall not be used for more rejected they called for a AWABSRA RENE ab eH, ed THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917, — Will Spare No Money to As- certain if Suicide Actually Killed Pretty Model. PITTSBURGH, Jan. 6.—The name of Bernard Wesley Lewis in to be cleared, If possible, of actual connec- tion with the murder of Mazin Col- bert, or Grace Roberts. Wenman A. Lewis, father of the young apend- thrift, to-day planned an investiga- tion with the hope of learning wheth- er or not his son's suicide was an act denoting guilt or one of hysteria. He hopes his son had no connection with the crime and monoy will not be spared in the inquiry, The wealthy retired coal magnate !s prepared to spend a goodly part of his fortune to bring out the truth. Mrs. Bernard Lewis was said to be still prostratet by the shock of her husband's death to-day. For a year see VRAIS ASRS ROME ArT TUONO Tn [FATHER OF LEWIS PLANS INQUIRY TO CLEAR SON'S NAME the broker and his wife have been estranged and she has de her home with her mother, Mrs, Joseph Fawell of Beechwood Boulevard Lewie has been in Pittsburgh very little since the estrangement. In Warren, Pa., seven years ago, Maizte Colbert deciared she would ex- act from society full compensation ‘because It refused to accept her. “They will pay; I'll make them or Me in the attempt,” she is said to have told a girl friend shortly before she left Warren to embark willfully upon the course that brought death to her and Lewis. By “they” she meant society. Maizie was a waitress In the Ex- change Hotel in Warren, There she fell in love with a young millionaire, member of one of the wealthiest and most prominent families in North- western Pennsylvania, The match was broken through the Interference of her flance’s parents. (Continued From First Page.) that was because he knew ho was guilty of killing Miss Roberts. The belief that he committed suicide be- cause of remorse over his arrest on @ forgery charge is not logical. That incident took place in Pittsburgh sev- eral years ago. He knew that the warrant charging him with beating his taxicab bill was simply a subter- fuge to get him in custody for the murder.” The police utterly discard the theory that a third person was pres- | ent when Miss Roberts was murdered. FIRST SAW GRACE ROBERTS IN A FASHION PARADE. Asked if they knew how Lewis 2 should have killed himseif— | Tranklin Simon & Co. h and 38th Streets Annual Clearance Sales—SATURDAY During This Sale No Approvals or Credits Misses’ and Girls’ Apparel Misses’ Fur Trimmed Suits Trimmed With Various Furs Of broadcloth, wool velour or velveteen; also a number not fur trimmed. 29.50 Heretofore $39.50 to $59.50 Also a Number Not or maize. Special Ribbed Cotton Hose Black or white, broad ribbed; also black, white or tan, fine ribbed. Sizes 6 to 10. 6 pair for $1.65 Misses’ Fur Trimmed Coats Of wool velour, Bolivia cloth or seal velour plush. 14 to 20 years. 29.50 Heretofore $39.50 to $49.50 Girls’ Winter Coats With Nutria Beaver or Natural Raccoon Fur Of broadcloth, wool velour or zibeline, 6 to 14 years, 18.50 Heretofore $24.50 to $29.50 Misses’ Evening Gowns Silver Lace Trimmed Of French satin, in peach, turquoise, white, pink 14 to 20 years. 19.75 we | ale of Girls’ a ys’ nd Boys’ Hosiery SCRATCHES ON SUICIDE LEWIS'S HANDS; HAIR GLUTCHED BY MODEL LIKE HIS made the acquaintance of Miss Roberts, some of the detectives said the two met for the first time at At- lantic City @ few days before last Easter Sunday. Philadelphia mer- chants gave @ fashion parade on the Boardwalk, half @ dozen of the prettiest models in this part of the country being engaged to display the spring finery for the benefit of thou- sands of women who spend Easter week at the famous resort, Grace Roberts was the figure in this exhibition. . Lewis, the detectives say, saw her sweep by in her stunning costume, and was im. mediately smitten with her charms. He was introduced to her a few hours later. Tho detectives say that the leading 14 to 20 years, Fur Trimmed 28 pair YOUNG PITTSBURGHER WHOSE SUICIDE SOLVES SLAIN MODEL MYSTERY SRRHARD Wits OU” festivities, in which the models took @ prominent part during the nights) that followed, estabilshed a record! for high-powered revelry never before equalled in Atlantic City. Investigation to-day disproves the | the ory that Miss Roberts was in finan- [cial straits, Detectives say she had $1,000 in @ focal savings bank. Capt. Tate said he had heard the report that Wenman Lewis, the wealthy Pittsburgh coal operator and father of | a the suicide, was on his way to this city. It is understood the elder Lewis is coming here to find out all he can about his son's movements in this city. SUSPECT FOUND DEAD BATHROOM. Tho suicide of the young spond- thrift was most dramatic. It took place in the bathroom of an apart- ~ | bathtub. ment in the States Villa in Atlantic City, where detectives had trailed Lewis from Philadelphia, When the detectives broke into the bathroom being braced against the head of the calibre rifle witb a silencer attach- ment was near his right temple. His hand was almost touch.ng the trigger. He had removed his coat and was dressed in @ blue shirt, black trousers | and shoes. He had stuffed the spaces between his door and the jamb, plugged the keyhole, had crammed paper into the window cracks and hung a towel over the transom of the door as if he might have intended to turn on the gashad | she did not see him again. The muzzle of a new .22) the detectives not interrupted. As reclined in the bathtub he had placed an extra cartridge on a ledge within reach, apparently to) use in case the first bullet failed to) kill. On the bureau was a box of} cartridges from which the two had! been taken. Tho rifle was new. The detectives heard the pistol shot as_ they entered the suite. Detectives declared to-day that Henry Fox, a criminal lawyer, had recognized in Lewis, through news- paper pictures, the young man who two days ago rushed into his office! at Norristown and asked to be d fended on a charge of mumer, The man hired an automobile near Hav- erford, a suburb of Philadelphia, and Was intensely nervous and excited as he talked to the lawyer, The chauf- feur has also identified Lewis. Policu acknowledged this afternoon that three weeks ago Miss Roberts received blaackmail letters, demand- Ing money, They were turned over | to Police Lieutenant Little, who} ordered the girl to go up to a destg- | nated place, but nothing happened, A police guard was then stationed around her apartment and had been! removed but a few days before her murder, \ All day yesterday the police he had searched for Lewis, for whom a warrant bad been issued, ‘This warrant charged him with de- frauding Elwood Powell, the cab! driver, of his fare, but the real pur-| pose for whicy the police wanted him | was to question him regarding his| movements in the vicinity of the Wil- | ton, where Grace Roberts lived, early | on Friday morning last. After taking two sisters, Misses Ethel and M 1 Kyle. Germantown school teachers, with whom he had passed the carly part of Thursday evening, to their home in Powell's taxicab, he returned to Philadelphia and left the cab near the Wilton, He fatled to return and pay the) chauffeur $19 that was due him, Friends of Charles Kater of Ma- ty, known throughout Phila- “white Heht" district as mpigne Charley" because of his weakness for buying wine, sald to- delph RIVERSIDE DRIVE WOMAN ADMITS POLICE | QUIZ IN MODEL®CASE Over the telephone to-day from her | apartment at No, 24 Riverside Drive, a Miss Ripley said to an Eve- ning World reporter: “All L know about the Roberts case | has been told to the Philadelphia | police, They called me up and made inquiries. Ygu can get all the in-/ formation from them. I knew both | Grace Roberts and Mr, Lewis—-that | is all T care to say.” | It was reported from Philadelphia that Miss Ripley had introduced Miss Koberta to > net un ies a it 3 ne te 7 worl ee ty Hesag otets & Auk Bireet for hull at once, —. te tetera ett na rcennctetesnsmcsit tL day he was all broken up by the way his name had been brought into the case, He was one of Misa Roberta's intimate friends. Several prominent residents of his home town hurried here to console with him over the publicity he has been receiving. Bernard W. Lewis was thirty-seven years old, He was married and had one child, but had been estranged from his wife since September. He vas a momber of the class of ‘01 at ing Yale, but left the university at the end of bis sophomore year, ——— LEWIS WELL KNOWN IN WHITE LIGHT ZONE; TWICE ARRESTED HERE Bernard W. Lewis, the suicide sus- pect in the Grace Roberta murder mystery In Philadelphia, had a career in New York that included two ar- rests and many exciting experiences, He was well known in the White Light district for a time and had a wide acquaintance in the automobile business, For several monthe in 1915 and 1916 he was @ salesman for tho automobile firm of Jacobs R. & L. Company, No. 1767 Broadway. From the fall of 1916 until July 1916 Lewis lived as a roomer in the flat of @ Mre. Blackman at No. 605 ‘West Eleventh Street, and was a famillar figure in the cafes and ea- loons of that part of town. He was arrested in July, 1916, and did not return to Mrs. Blackman’s, Subse- quently he left the automobile con- jcern, saying he was going to Pitts- | burgh to launch a big moving picture | theatre, Mrs. Blackman told an Evening World reporter to-day that Lewis called her on the telephone about two weeks ago and sald he was coming to see her. He appeared the next day; rent a room. Mrs. Blackman had no room and Lewis left. The Evening World reporter learned that Lewis went to another flat in. the same house and engaged @ room. He said his baggage would come later. The next day the woman who had rented the room to Lewis re- ceived Information from a caller that Lewis had been in some trouble over @ gambling house raid in Seventy- second Street. She asked him for | business references, which he prom- the young man was dead, his feet ised to produce. He went away and This was! in the early part of last week and it would appear that Lewis went from here to Philadelphia. Lewis settled in New York after ‘he had been sued in Pittsburgh for $40,000 by Joseph Ritter, now a resi- dent of New York. The suit grew out of the organization of the Pitt Theatre Company of Pittsburgh, in which Lewis and Ritter were inter- ested. Lewis was’ accused in that action of misrepresenting conditions in or- ganizing the company. ‘Ine suit haa never come to trial. and said he was about to engage in the rubber business and wanted to \ The police records show that a Ber- | nard Lewis was arrested July 4, 1916,| was arrested as a fugitive from at No. 605 West One Hundred and | t wanted in Pitsburgh on & Bleventh Street, on a charge of hav- | larceny charge. Pittsburgh dest worth $1,000 from Miss Lillian Schrode of No. 630 West One Hundred and Twoifth Street she had intrusted the bond to him to be used in incorporating a cigaretto company of which she was to be a member, was dieoharged H ite Police Court. Mn Oot. 16, 1916, a Bernard Lewis BONW IT TELLER ECO, bond | say this was later dismissed when the family made a settlement. Lewis was at one time @ of the Wall Street brokerage firm Moore, Leonard & Lewis, but was dropped more than a year the firm was reorganized os 2" Shoore, Leonard & Lynch. “We didn't like him,” was the only reason Mr. Leonard would give to- _ day for dropping Lewis. stolen an Anglo-French She told a Magistrate Lewis made restitution and in =Washington » FIFTH AVENUE foun STREET Continuation of the January Sale of Lingerie Mh AT MUCH BELOW REGULAR PRICES Specials for Saturday Only: ‘* Crepe de Chine Undergarments Nightgowns (Steeles model... .sseccpecesssees 290 Le: Other gowns spectally priced at 3.95 to 9.75 Combinations cof Sotin o Crepe... 4. <seisies Other combinations specially priced at 3. 95 to 12.75 2.95 : “Bontell” Undergarments Batiste Nightgowns (Grechen model... True e sss» 45 Other nightgowns specially priced at .95 to 4.95 Batiste Combinations «Lee rimmed... TTT 95 Other combinations specially priced at 1.50 to 3.95 -, 150 1.95 Brassieres. -. Made of tung and ‘let lace Crepe de Chine Bodices With imitation Irish lace band Crepe de Chine Bodices... 0077... 16.65. Surplice model with wide band of imitation Point de Paris January Sale of Corsets Formerly 4.00 to 8.00 1.95 2.95 Bontell and Gossard Corsets included D. PRICE & CO. 6" Ave. Corner 18" Street BROOKLYN Women’s & Misses’ Suits Reduced to $5, $10, $15 & $18.95 | No + Alterations Advance Sale of New Spring Dresses $49.95 a AG 4 The two Embroidered Serge Dresses flustrated featured al $10 A very completé assortment of exquisite models, showing the various new style ideas and the correct colori $409 Included are Ser, Taffetas, Crepe de “The above also on sale at our? BROOKLYN STORE and 1,000 Embroidered Voile Waists ", hines and Com tions—in sises 14 to 44, The prices demonstrate more than ever { n y D. 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