It developed today that, after the Colbert girl had been killed, Lewis took Misses Loth and Mabel Kyle, schoolteachers of Scranton, to teas and dances at downtown hotels on Friday and Saturday and to theaters on both nights. On last Sunday, Lewis accompanied the sisters to church, they said today. All this time, the police say, the Colbert girl lay dead in her home.

Lewis's body had been prepared for burial at Atlantic City today, and was being held there awaiting the arrival of relatives from Pittsburgh. No inquest was held, the coroner believes, that the case was one clearly of suicide.

The Misses Kyle, through whom the police learned of Lewis's identity, maintain that he is innocent of the murder, and that he committed suicide because he believed his reputation had been ruined. "Mr. Lewis was the victim of a ghastly blunder," said one of the schoolteachers. "I still believe he was innocent. I know that he was an honorable man. He read that he had been drawn into the mystery and ended his life, because he had lost hope of extricating himself and because he thought his reputation had been ruined. He had telephoned us every day since the murder occurred, but it was not until late yesterday that he showed any signs of being worried about the affair. 