Show KILLED HER TO 1 I PREVENT ALARM John JohnG G Price Confesses to the Murder of Mrs Maurice Lew Lewis is of Philadelphia MURDERER BREAKS DOWN VICTIM dF CIGARETTE fr E AND DRUG HABIT Philadelphia Dec Doc 30 John G Price who has been under arrest in this city since Dec 8 hag confessed that he mur murdered murdered dered Mrs Irs Maurice Lewis at 2103 North Eleventh street on the th afternoon of Sept Sopt 10 In a written statement Price says tys that with a companion whose name he refuses to give he went to the Lewis home hoine for the purpose of rob robbery robber robbery bery ber They represented themselves to tobe tone toie be ne plumbers While his companion was as searching the upstairs room Price says sa s Mrs Lewis caught him He con continues es L There was ws a L struggle I caught Mrs Lewis to keep her from scream ling ting and a handkerchief was thrust into her mouth I then drew from my m pock pocket et jt a lance which I had previously stolen from rom a physicians office At this point Prices statement ends abruptly the t following My God I r I cant write rite it I killed her I alone am guilty Uty Mrs Lewis body was found in a She had been stabbed through the tho neck with a sharp instrument The prisoner is 34 11 years old In he was tried on charges of forgery forge p ant and larceny He was acquitted on the grounds of insanity and seni sena to an asylum as asylum lum Later he underwent treatment for br the cigarette and drug habits |