What additional evidence they required before making an arrest. It was reported, but not confirmed, that they were a wait in his identification by salesgirls who are said to have sold him large quantities of perfume possessing the same odor as that which seemed the man's shirt found in Miss Colbert's apartment.
The man in question is said to be about middle age, and to have inherited a million dollars from his father. He is well known in many cities, and scores of his friends are reported to have come to his aid. According to one of these friends, he had spent large sums of money on Miss Colbert, and was extremely jealous of her. Both he and the former manicurist, this friend stated, had violent tempers, and it was his belief that the woman had been slain in self-defense during a quarrel. He said the up-state mail had come to Philadelphia in response to a letter from a lawyer who wrote that the woman was planning legal action, possibly a breach of promise suit, but instead of seeing the lawyer, he was said to have gone directly to the girl's apartment, and the quarrel followed.
Captain Tate still adheres to his theory that the murder was committed by a degenerate, and declares that the man from the interim of the state has given a satisfactory explanation of his whereabouts last Friday, when the crime is believed to have occurred. 