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Show ill GIRL WAS MURDERED BY LEWIS Philadelphia Police Run Down More Clues in the Colbert Case. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10. After miming down scores of clues aud questioning ques-tioning virtually everyone who they believed could throw any light on the murder of Matzie Colbert, tho- model, in her a part men ts here on December '20, the police declared tonight that nothing had .been revealed to shake their belief that the crime was committed commit-ted by Bernard W. Lewis of Pittsburg. Lewis committed suicide in Atlantic City several days after Miss Colbert's body was discovered. Reviewing the ci rcurostantiaJ evidence, evi-dence, which, they claim, points to Lewis Lew-is as the slayer, the detectives tonight said that it had been definitely established estab-lished that the Pittsburger had been acquainted with M iss Colbert for at least a year; that his body was identified identi-fied by a taxicab driver as the man he took to the model's apartments early on the day the crime is believed to have occurred; that a man's shirt, collar col-lar and necktie were found in the girl's room, and that Lewis bought a shirt, collar and necktie on the same day, and that wounds on Lewis's hands undoubtedly un-doubtedly had been made by teeth. The discrepancy in time, in statements state-ments made by some of the witnesses as to conversations they had held with Miss Colbert on the dav she is supposed sup-posed to have been killed, is dismissed by the police on the ground that a mistake mis-take easily could have . been made as to time. The motive, they say, was a quarrel over money. Botu Lewis and the girl were said to have been in straitened circumstances. A proposal to re-enact the murder so far as details are known was made to the authorities today ,bv John Colbert,' a brother of the model, who has been authorized to conduct a private investigation inves-tigation into the mvstcry. The plan -"was laid before District Attorney Ro-tan Ro-tan and Superintendent of Police" Robinson, Rob-inson, neither of whom have signified whether it would be carried out. |