 His revolvers and a seven-inch knife, found inside his waistcoat, were confiscated when he was brought in.The desk sergeant remarked that the gangster's knife could have been the possible murder weapon although it was later found that the knife had not been recently used.The detectives hoped to get a confession out of Lewis and, having yet to inform him as to why he had been arrested, they put him in the back of a paddy wagon and drove him to the city morgue.