St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 25, 1907

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[swine avERY TION” J VoL. 5a,_No. 188. ___ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1907. = J ~SUBTREASURER IDWVORCE SEQUEL | Beem Thazw on the Rack Before Jerome EVELYN THAW SWEARS ONLY T0 SORDID TALE | (ees _ | -MOTHER USED WHITE'S FUNDS © $173,000 Int —_--—— @&-— --- Chicago Official Says He Has Traced Shortage to Cer- tain Department.

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Bills of Big Denomination Were Stolen During Busi- ness Hours. SECRET SERVICE PROBING |

One Employe Believed to Have Made Admissions in 4 hi Sweat Box. “as (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) CHICAGO, Feb. 25. -- Subtreasurer Boldenweck, who has been assisting the secret service men in the invesiigation } Mr. Boldeweck himself savs is

R _of what the theft of .$173,000 from the United ” States Subtreasury in Chicago, stated today that it had been definitely deter- mined just where the shortage occurred, but he declined to say to what depart- nent it had been traced. He declared himself positive, however, that the amoney had never reached the vaults. Iie said that the only reason for be- lieving that the stolen money had been in bilis of large denomination was that ‘Mrs, Lee Robbins Is Freed From OF SINFUL LOVE Husband Who Repulsed Her at Hospital.

HE IS SERIOUSLY HURT

Default Day in Three Courts Brings Out Many Mismated - ~ Men and Women.

— PLENTY FAIR LITIGANTS

All Causes of Unhappiness, Cru- elty, Drunkenness, Deser- _ tion Are Cited. :

After the granting of the divorce to Mrs. Robbins she and her companion. hastened away to make ready for the, marriage of one of the witnesses—Miss Florence Collins—a bright-eyed girl of iS ‘vVears, The wedding was set for p. m., Monday. Mrs. Robbins testified that [ee Robbins were married — in she and 1897 in 2 b o £3. r le PN 6 _

Bloomington, IJ}. Robbins boarded } and she fell in-love with him and he, with her as they watched each other, coming and going. Three years ago, she said; they came. to St. Louis and made their home at! 174 North Broadway. Up to that time he had been a good husband, and their wedded life had been as tranquil and “Rappy as could have been wished... But next door, at 1702 North Broadway, lived

person ea&iy, wit! The aut exciting suspicion, | Wities ere and in Washing- ' ton have bé@en working night and day in' the robbery since it was discovered. ; F Chief Wilkie of the-’nited States Secret : Service has been keeping informed by | telephone and telegraph-of every de- | velopment, and, according to telegraphic | advices, he will leave Washingion to- | day to take personal charge of the in- vestigation. Shaw” Notified of Theft. Secretary Shaw of the Treatury De- | ‘partment was told of the gigantic theft when in Chicago last week and was in conference with Subtreasurer William Boldenweck and secret service officials. The money was stolen either a week ago Saturday, the next day or last Mon- day. The charges are it was abstracted on Monday. “The 1Q8S Was discovered on Tuesday. All the money of the $10,000. | Just who discovered the loss the sub- treasury officials would not admit last night. Neither would they tell from what department the money was taken nor how the loss was discovered. At first it was believed there must be some error’ in the bookkeeping. It was thought to be impossible“That. such a large sum of money could Rave been abstracted in the face of all the safe- guards thrown around Uncle Sam's strong box. The ledger men involved strenuouosly denied any.error and an investigation showed there was no possible clerical mistake to account for the disappear- ance of the cash. This brought the inevitable conclusion that robbery was the only explana- tion. Just as certain was the deduction that the thieves were emploves of the . Subtreasury and were at that moment pursuing their daily tasks. - Capt. Porter of the Secret Service as- \. sisted in the inquisition. They stood the ordeal, every one of yem. All denied any knowledge of the eft and protested their innocenee with #animity and vociferousness. But the echances were 1000 to 1 that one or more employes actually had -purloined the cash or had connived at the theft bv sume outsider. ° - F Day by day since then the sweating process has been kept up. Mr. Bolden- weck, Capt. Porter and his assistants have worked from daylight till dark- ness and from night until morn. -All of yesterday the investigation proceeded In Mr. Boldenweck’s private office and un- taken was in large bills denomination of $100) $5000 and ® til 11 o'clock at night lights were still burning in his office. | Saturday there came a glimmer of light. A faint clew pointed in the direc- tion of a certain clerk that, followed up, directed the finger of suspicion to an- other employe, a close associate of the first man. These men were summoned into the in- quisition chamber separately and = sub- jected to a grueling examination. The suspicious circumstances against them - were paraded, the certainty of detection and punishment was impressed upon them, and they were advised to make a clean breast of whatever part they had piaved in the conspiracy. One, thought to be.the moving spirit, ecame through the ordeal without turn- fog a hair. -He remained calm and self-possessed. His sang froid amazed the officers, and they put him down as innocent or a master hand of crimin- al‘ty. The other, younger and much weaker, showed signs of breaking down. Just what he admitted the Secret Service men _yefuse to disclose, but it is believed to be tantamount to a confession. Anyway, the admissions he made started the in- yeeti¢qators into re newed activity. Half a dozen operatives started out, _ Re >

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200 ARE REPORTED AULLED WN CYCLONE Storm Ravages Southern Phil- ippines and Renders Thou- Ae sands Homeless. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) MADRID. Feb. %.—A telegram from Manila announces that the Southern Philippines have been ravaged by a ey- clone, tit 200 persons were ki!"1, and thousands rendered homeless, — - x4 - tu gl 7 . foe | # adi Si Bn ie ie ae : “ee = “ 4 iss oo ok x 9 & : 7 pe CRSA cs a

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it would have been impossible for any-| Mt. aud Mrs. Frank Baker. She said body to-have‘taken $173,000 from the of-| tat the first unhappiness of her life fice In small bills and escape detection, | 2™O8¢ when Hobbins began to look too but that a pickace of $173,000 In S008 | fondiy at Mrs. Baker, bills could have ty” carried about the! Suit Found Him in Wyoming. months ago, she said, Robbins deserted her. Mrs. Baker ~wont on a visit to Peoria, the witness said, and Robbins went to the same place. After hat, she testified, the two went to Den- ver, and later to Garland, Wvo., to- gether. It was at Garland that Rob- bins was. served in his wife's suit for divorce. ; f A week ago tast Saturday, she said, the wandering pair came back to St. Louis and the deserted wife, Mrs. Rob- hins, and the deserted husband, Frank Baker, heard of their arrival.- It was neighborhood gossip, she testified, as Was the story that Mrs. Baker had spoken of herself as Robbins’ wife. A week ago Sunday ‘night Mrs. Bak- er, escorted by Robbins, started to the theater, and Baker shot ae in the back as he boarded a BroadWavy car. i Mrs. Robbins said that she had Tout) Some

to see her husband at the hospital, but that he had said “That woman is not my wife. Take her away. do not; want to she her.” é Mrs. Johanna Powers, Mrs. Mary Ann | @ollins and Miss Florence Collins, all of 1704 North Broadway, testified to tie | good character of Mrs. Robbins. Miss Florence Collins said she was to ba mar-: ried in a few hours to Rolla Rutledge | at her mother’s home on North Broad- ' way. On the ground that her husband had committed a crime before her marriage, for whiel\he had since been sentenced to five years in the Missouri Peniten- tiary, Mrs. Anna L. Fuller, 4868 Greer avenue, was granted a divorce from Bert S. Fuller, alias M. M. Letts. in Judge Allen's gourt. She testified that Fuller or Letts was Postmaster at Cristobal, Panama, when the wedding took place, in November, 1906. In December Fuller was arrested on a charge of forgery brought against — him at Kansas City She said that at the time of his arrest he confessed to her that he had not only been known as Fuller and Letts. but also as Ledtz and Armstrong. She was granted a divorce and her maiden name of Anna L. Lassen restored. FREED ON TECHNICALITY. Information Insufficient Case of Louis Valli. Louis Valli, proprietor of a grocery at King’s highway and Shaw avenue. was freed in Judge Sale’s court Monday of a charge of embezzling $5000 of the funds of the North Italy American Society. He was formerly secretary of the society its members say. i _ Attorney Gernez, representing the de- fense, filed a demurrer, stating that the information did not show that Valli ever held office in the society, or that the society was a benevolent organization e eee oe which the prosecu- jan TAS Drought relate , . spat aeic nn gx related to benevolent | On this showing Judge Sale demurrer, upheld the

in Se SN eee. see WOULDN'T HEAR HUSBAND. Judge Tracv Ancered by Man's | Complacent Recital. A husband's recital of his ow 7 8s OWN com va ter . > ” ror ; ‘ 7? ” pacency en angered Judga Tracw Mon-

day that he refused to allow the cam.- vletion of the man’s testimony. The husband was Frank Mueller of 2959 Missouri avenue. He was being prose- cuted by his wife on a charge of threatening her I'fe with a razor. He was fined £100. Mrs. Mueller, a blonde, dressed jn black and wearing a picture hat with long black plumes. had given her tes- timony, and Mueller took the stand. The Judge asked him why he and his wife senarated last September and Mueiler replied: “Il work at night a great deal, and I learned that she was going out with other men-———"’ “And you wanted to live with her after that?’ demanded the Judge. When Mueller answered in the af- fiymative Judge Tracy's eyes flashed. “Get, down.” he eried, “I don't want to hear anything more from you."’ Mueller attempted to speak, but the Judge cut him short. Mre. Mueller, in her testimony, that she was living with law, - Mrs. said her sister-in- Augusta Fulcher, at 2119 South Ninth streeet. to which address Mueller came on the evening of Fed, 12, and, brandishing a razger. demanded that she live with him again. She said ashe pretended to consent, so that Mnel- ler would be quieted while Mrs. Ful- wer could summon a policeman, t *s

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Government Counsel Insists - Transaction Shows Great Inflation. : (By Associated Press). NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Through his attorneys, Edward H. Harriman, on the stand today in the investigation of his group of railreads ky the Inter- Commission, fought desperately the effort of one of the Government's attorneys, Frank Kel- logg, to obtain the names of the indi- viduals who sold Chicago & Alton stock to the Union Pacific. Mr. Kellogg's question was interrupt- ed by Attorney John G. Milburn. who said the policy ‘of his clients. himself and his associates was to be as liberal as possible, but he must deny that. this question was within tue scope of fnter- state commerce, wide though that prop- osition be; it was purely a private mat- ter. He said he wanted to raise the question in a general way at this time. because it would arise often during the inguiry. He asked that the inquiry be limited to interstate transactions. Answering Mr. Milburn’s contentions. Attorney Kellogg declared that the value of the Alton road had been in- flated beyond all reason—‘a conspicuous example of inflation,”” he declared. He insisted that it was clearly within the power of the commission to inquire into the entire transaction. The commission announced that would decide the question later. Mean- time, the examination of Mr. Harriman regarding the Chicago & Alton. pro- ceeded. The Government is’ renresented bv Kellogg and Severance of St. Paul. and the Harriman party by Judge Lovett, it John G. Milburn, Paul D. Cravath and Maxwell Evarts. The commissioners on the bench were Chairman Knapp, Lane, Prouty, Clements and Harlan. Informers Are Immune. Mr. the first witness sworn when the examination began at the Federai Building at 10a. m. The inquiry is being watched keenly by Wail street and by financiers the world over. It is said those enemies of Mr. Harri- man in Wall street who have placed in the hands of the Government the shafts Which will be used to pieree the head of the Union Pacific have been prom- ised immunity from punishment for any breaches of the law of which they may have been guilty. Mr. Harriman -westified’ that the pur- chases of the Union Pacific in Baltimore & Ohio amounted to $45,000,400, and were Harriman was to be paid for in March and September. He said he met the iate President Cassait of the Pennsylvania Railroad in August or September at Bar Har- bor and discussed the purchase of the Baltimore & Ohio. He did not think he discussed the price With Cassatt. There were no conditions with Kuhn. Loeb & Co. as to the purchase of Baltimore & Ohlo, and no outside understanding. It was a clean transaction, he sai¢. After the decision of the Supreme Ceurt of the Uniteu States dissolving tne Northern Securities Co.. the interest of the Union Pacific company in that cor- poration Was returned to them in shares, of the Northern Patific and Great North- ern company. These subsequently were sold. as Mr. Harriman - explained, be-~ cause the revenues derived from them were limited, and the proceeds were in- vested in stock of the Hiinoia Central Railroad Co., the Atchison, Topeka

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weather is. com- ing and the sky -witl be serene and Mon- dav night. That - IVEME A | JOP JN THE CHICAGO SUB- TREASURY L NEED THE MONEY, dias clear > will prove some

compensa tion for the dis- agreeable’ wading throug) stush and-= slid- ing: over si'p- perv sidewalks that made S¢*t. Louiscans mis- erable Saturdsy night and Sun- dav. The fore- cast issued: for Monday morn- ing read: “Pair tonight, followed by in- ‘reasing cloud- ness TueSday; warmer; vari- able winds, be- coming south- erly; minimum teniperature tonight, about 36 degress.’’ The minimhm - temperature in the period from Sunday morning to Monday morning was 31 degrees at 7 a. m. Monday. Rain or snow fell in all districts east of the river Sunday and also in Mis-

souri, Arkansas, Texas, Louislina, Wes:- ern Montana, Idaho, Washington, Ore- gon and Northern California, Thunder- storms, accompanied by heavy rains, were a spring diversion in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Easterr Texas. The weather was colder in some sec-- tions of the Northwest and Southwest, but elsewhere in the country it was warmer. ~ DANCE ABOVE DEAD MAN. Merrymakers Heedless of Sor- row in Faust’s Family. While the body of John Faust lay in the darkened flat at Second and Oak streets, Alton, where his home had heen, a dance continued till 2 o'clock Sunday morning ‘on the floor above. Requests from relatives and friends of the dead man that the merriment be stopped were ignored by the dancers. Faust lived on the second floor. He died Thursday and his family arranged, for the funeral Sunday afternoon. Sat- urday night a little group of mourners assembled to watch through the night. At the usual hour for such affairs to begin, voung people, laughing and talk- arrived the hail the floor

ing, ai on above the Faust flat. Soon the dance music began to throb through the build- ing. in strange contrast to the ~ low tones and sad faces of the group of watchers below. One of these went upstairs and re- quested the guests to retire. They fre- fused and the dancing continued, The Faust family appealed to the police, but they said nothing could be done. It was a matter of humanity and courtesy, not of law, they said. So the dance continued until lohg after. midnight. TALKING WITH GIRL, SLAIN. Paducah Stabber Flees With Young Woman. Special to the Post-Dispatch. m PADI'CAH, Ky., Feb. 25:—The police are searching for James Ferguson, a contracting carpenter, who stabbed and killed Gus Morris,” a young railroad man, at Eighth and Campbell streets

/ last night. Morris, who was year old, was talking >to a young woman Ferguson passed them and brushed seainst the youne woman. Morri« asket im why he did that and Ferguson, without a word, turned and stabbed Morris above the heart. Morris ran a half square to a private residence, burst open the deor and fell dead on the

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wre - Settlement of Point Involved. junction favorably to the city. ' The suit was ‘brought by H. A. Hiaeussler and R. M. Hubbard and was denominated as a “friendly” action, but the vigor with which it has been pushed has given’ rise to the idea that it was not so friendly as it might have been. the railt isenting Lhe tie Cry

tition that it would amount to this to construct and maintain a bridge of which the cese Judge Kinsey Announces Decision in the Friendly Suit Brought as a Test But Hands Down No Opinion— Case Will Be Taken to Supreme Court for Final (ity officials may proceed to issue the $5,000,00 of bondg for a’ free bridge across the Mississippi River, so far as the Cireuit Court is concerned. Judge Kinsey, Monday, decided the bridge bond in- onds would have free use. The contention iegislative buifding of the pridge,and the Issuance or the bonds had the effect of minending Arguments were The proposed issue of bonds was at-);sev u ween ago hist Saturday tacked on the ground that it violated {case was taken under adviseinent. : the State Constitution and the City ly handing down his decision Judge Charter, in that the intended purpose | WKinscy made no comme»nt and it was Was to loan the credit of the city to} net aceompanied by memoraridi. : railroad corporations. It was contended it has been understood that no mattel in the arguments in support of the pe-| what the decision in the ¢ ireuit Court, of the attorney repre- the city officials, has been that act authorizing the charter. : heard by Judge Ikin- and the would be taken to the Supreme

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al a Witness Swears She Never Went to Physician With _ Jack Barrymore—Admits Thaw Sent Her Money With Flowers When She Was on the Stage, but Says That Practice Was Comm se (By Associated Press.) — 3 NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, under the Proge- cuting Attorney’s' grilling again today at the trial of her husband for the murder of Stanford White, testified that on her trip to Europe her own mother, Mrs. Holman, was the only one who used any of the funds raised on the letter of credit supplied by White. Harry Thaw, she said, had called this money testified that her mother used all of it. - of your gacquaintance, given you any presents?” 3 “*No—other than violets.’ +4 Mrs. Thaw admitted that she had often been to supper with George W. Lederer and Jack* Barrymore, the actor. She was confronted in court by Dr. Carlton Flint, but denied positively that she had ever seen him before, or that -+she had gone to him with Jack Bagry- more, Justice Fitzgerald ruled out the question when District Attorney Jerome asked her if Scanford White had never urged her to have Jack Barrymore ar- trested on a criminal charge. Mrs. Thaw was called to the stand at opening of the session, and without any preliminary statement District Attorney Jerome plunged into the cross-examination. Mrs. Thaw looked refreshed after her three days’ respite, and answered the first questions con-| fidently. ° Thaw brought with him from the Tombs several packages of letters and papers. Mr. Jerome, as on the previous days if his cross-examination, continued to jump about from point to point in the witness’ story. He first asked her if she had not had trouble with her mother in Allegheny, Pa., before go- ing to Philadelphia to live—if she had not run away with a girl. Mrs. Thaw replied in the negative. Mr. Jerome’s next question was: “How long after the drugging in the Twenty-fourth street house was Ift that the account was opened for you in the Amsterdam Bank by Stanford White?” . “lL ean't tell how long—it might have been a month.” \ “When did you first eet Frances Belmont?” “When I was in ‘Florodora.’” Mr. Jerome continued to hold the menace of documentary evidence be- fore the witness before answering his questions, formed on affidavits from her mother. “Had you gone to supper with Fran- cis Belmont before you met White?’ he asked. Again the replv was in the negative. The witness said she had gone to sev- eral suppers afterward, but White was present at all of them except one. Iwo Men Teok Her Home. Mr. Jerome asked the witness if she had not often gone to supvers with two men whose names he whispered to her. “IT never went with them, but they were present.’ ; “Did they not on occasions take you home?” “One took me home once and the other twice-—-but there was always an- other girl with me.” “These suppers were after the the- ‘Teg *’ After leaving the ‘‘Florodora” com- panv the witness was next employ éd with the ‘‘Wild Rose’ company, which opened in Philadelphia. Her mother went there with her. ? e “Da you know Angela Vincent? asked the District Attorney, “Ves.” A letter and enveloné were shown Mrs. Thaw, who identified the writing as that of Stanford White. The envel- ope was postmarked Boston, Jan. 20. 1992, and was addressed to Charles Hartnett, White's private secretary. Tt read: “Dear tnett: Mrs. Nesbit to let you K Miss Evelyn decides to #0 eation. Then send this note canti'e Trust C'o.: “Please notify Miss Nesbit that on receiving word she ix about to atart on her vaeation you will send ber the weekly checks for 825 and an addi. fienal check for 8200. “Yours truly, STANFORD WHITE.” The introduction of this letter and. eeveral checks signed by Evelyn Nesbit and her mother refreshed Mrs. Thaw’s memory to the extent that she said she lived at the Audubon Apartments from Feb. 10 to April 1. 1992. Between April 1 and April i7, 19, Mrs. Thaw and her motber went to live at the Hotel Wel- lington. The District Attorney spent come time in developing this point, and apparently attaches much importance to if. The checks were in payment of hotel bills, and were drawn against a deposit made in the New Amsterdam Bank by White to the joint credit of Mrs. Nes- bit and her daughter. All of the checks drawn against this account were Signed by both Evelyn and her mother. First Meeting With Thaw. The witness testified that she first met Thaw either in December, 1901, or Janu- ary, 190%. at dinner at Recors given by Thaw. This dinner was after a matinee, and lasted perhaps an hour. She was taken to the dinner by another girl. The date of the rext meeting with Thaw she could not reeall. “At this dinner.’ asked Mr. Jerome, “was Mr. Thaw rational?’ “Why. yes.” “When he came to pay the check, he didnt require any help in making the change. didn't uire anyone to tell him the denomination of his bills?’ “No, iz.’ se W Please telephone know whenever on her va- to the AMer- » a gnit against Thaw. Ta vith flowers?” callea upon you? “Did he ever send you any money ““Yes—once—at the theater.’’ “Was this before or after he ve had “Tl can’t remember.” Yad mind’ “Yes, it did. That is why I remember “You were not in the habit of recely- ing money from men, were you?” “No,”’ (indignantly). “How many times had you seen before he sent the money?’ “I can't remember.” | “Didn't jt strike you as strange?” _ “Il knew it was always done at the theater—I saw it going on all the ti Fe you, know him well?” ss TO v “Did_ your mother make you send. the money back?" “No %* Mrs. Thaw was next questioned re- garding a costume supper at the Hoff- man House late in the summer of 1902, which she and Thaw attended. Sne had no photographs of the costume (it was a borrowed one) she wore on that oceasion.. The supper broke about 2 or 2:30 a. m. After that the witness did not see Thaw for a iong time; he went abroad, she said. ; Questioned’ as to how often she saw Thaw up to June, 1902, she sald she could not state definitely. ‘I don't think 16 times,’ she said. : - “You were shown a paper in’ Abe Hummel's office?’ *VYes.° I wash shown a signature, not paper.” “Is that the signature?” Mr. Jerome — showed her a paper. “That is the name; I can’t identify the signature.”’ At Mr. Delmas’ request Mr. Jerome said the paper was signed “Ethel Thom- as." Mrs. Be said she had not read the paper, nnd Mr. Jerome did not his efforts to find what it contained. is supposed to have been connected a Thaw Was Rational. Up to Februarg, 1902, the witnes net observed anything irtational about Thaw. He had not proposed marriage tp her, and his attentions were not more ed than those of other men, she §aid. “When you returned from Eurqpe tn October, 199%, did you not go di George Lederer’s office and tele to Stanford White?” “I did not.” ee “Didn't you try to telephone Mr. from the wharf where the shipdod “ft Ald not.” “Didn't you see George Lederer be- fore you saw Stanford White?’ “No s* °

She first saw. Lederer in 1902, she sald, when she went to him with a from Mr. Marks, looking for a tion. i “Did you ever go to supper with Led- erer?” ‘*Pegs.”’ ‘Alone?” “Pea”: * Met Barrymore in Tower, The witness first met Jack Barrymore in the summer of 1902, in “The Tower.”™ Stanford White and some other men and girls also were there. She could not say when next she saw Barrymore. She had gone to supper with him fre- quently, and alone. | “Did vou ever go to Dr, Carlton Fijot we Jack Barrymore?” “9 fo." 4 “Ever see him?’ ; “Not that I remember.” ' “Did White contimrually objeet to you going with Rarrymore?’ “Yesr—after he had seen my mother? a “When did you last see Mr. Barry- more?” “When I went to call on his sister fm Pittsburg, Im 1906."’ Confronted by Decter. P At th's point Dr. Carlton Flint. whe had been sent for by the prosecution, appeared in court, was escorted to with- in a few feet of the witness, and eon- fronted her. | | “Did you ever s¢e that man before?” dgmanded Mr. Jerome of Mra. Thaw. he witness turned quickly tofard the neweomer, hesitated a moment, and

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then said: a Ney er.” ; pee “You are sure?” ‘sald Mr. Jeroen, 2 threateningly. : “To the best of my knowledge I never saw him before.” on “Did you not go to him with Jack. Rarrvmore?T’ - | oe. | Ban | Dr Flint withdrew. “Bid you ever stav oot all night with Barrymore?” asked the prosecutor. ‘ ee Ss “Didn't vou €o to supper with Rar- rymore one night and send your mother telegram saying you were spending the nicht with another party?’ “ft remember nothing of the sort.” “Did Stanford White at any time geek to have you take action against Barty. mere? Mr. Delmas objected, that the qare-

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