Show ilYSTEltY OF THE COLONEL He is Found and Tells ttbati He Knows Abont liarchell Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatchl NEW Yom Nov 1The mystery of who was the colonel in tho Burchell case and what was his connection with the murder of Benwell was cleared by an Examiner correspondent who had a long talk with Colonel J F Lewis of No 1 Wall street He knows Burchell but has hitherto kept his name out of the affair Burchell has been trying to make out that he did not actually shoot Benwell but that the colonel was his confederate and committed com-mitted the murder He received a letter n day or two since but it is regarded as a fraud as it is in Burchellts own handwriting hand-writing disguised Colonel Lewis is engaged in building waterworks and similar undertakings he employs British capital and business takes him to England Upon one of these trips hu saw Burchell He said I went to Europe with my family Morleys hotel is in Trafalgar square where I stopped until the27th ot January Burchell and his wife arrived at Morleys some time after I had been there and ho stayed there a week longer I met him accidentally in the smoking room where we had a conversation conversa-tion He impressed me as a devilmaycare sort of man about town He told me casually he had been in Canada but hedid not sayjnuch abouthis exp rlencu there The only nerson I ever mtroducedBurchell towasa man in the city who wanted to meet him because ho was Stephensons soninlaw I How about the baggage Burchell left I with you SIt S-It was hardly deserving the name of baggage said Colonel Lewis las there was only a small hand satchel which ho had left in my room saying he would send for it I turned it over to the proprietors the hotel I know nothing about him further I fur-ther than any casual acquaintanc of a week night know I never saw him before or since That letter fromJackson Mich is I I evidently intended to mystify the case |