 After less than a year in the Lower East Side, Lewis's bullet-riddled body was found in Twelfth Street near Second Avenue.He was found with $170 in his pocket, $700 in his shoe and had about $3,000 deposited in the Bowery Savings Bank.The murder was never solved and it was also revealed at his funeral, held as an orthodox Jewish burial by his father, that Lewis was in actuality from a Sephardic Jewish family in Brooklyn.