The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-01-22

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stairway and the door OF Mr.. Colt on the lowe
side; on the other side of that hall there are bu
two doors from the stairs to Broadway. Their
| used to be but enc large room, occupied by Dr. Ar
| noux-hc had IT divided Mr.. Osgeod's door !
| opposite Wheeler's The other door is most OPP
posite No z; the next door to the stairs Thu
Apollo Room is general exhibition room to receiv,
,eri who pay to see pictures w sh, SO o,e
tures. 1t was generally lighted up at night excep
| onunpleasant weather-when no likely visiters-
| no encouragement. But other times open 10 clocl
| in the morning TO 19O'clock at night. l raise NJ
| the windows in the hall aud passage when SWEEP
in the morning, and leave them up in warm weather
| till ii at night, when put the latch down. When
there i no fire Gale: ssa; for, gentlemen generally
windows Of the hall are open there is con-
| siderable drausht. had charge of no rooms
in September Mr. Slocum's druggists store; there
Is large door open into Broadway another larg e
door open into Chamber street, and door at back
of the store open into the main house--int0 the
passage way; this last is all thick boarded door
| no glass in it. Mr.. Slocum's establishment is a
| Their. l frequently see great many people GO in
there That more or less till cold weather stop it,
II closes week day at ii O'Clock, and Sunday eve
nrg it closes at III o'clock. In the WARM weather
the druggist. large doors are generally left open
About September Slocum's beys did not open that
store so early as present person occupy 1t now
They used TO open it about O'Clock in sumner
| between a nd g. Could not tell when Slocum left
it was business little out Of my reach. He staid
till October. never spoke to Mr.. Colt on morn
ing Of 18th Sept He never spoke to me but one
me for key of prvya told him MIR. Wheeler
had KEY answer for him both. That was all the
one word ever spoke to him. was always in the
habit 10 keep my bound, and only speak as spoke
To him II was a minute or two from the time
saw he box Til Mr.. Coli came up to H. first saw
the box as turn ed the bottom of the flight Of stairs
from the third story. The stairway is not spiral
like a corkscrew.
AZ fha sta fror
second third story did not go in reverse drec-
tion the first flight >i stairs from the street to
the frs landing T!
The witness was a good deal puzzled, and could
not explain hims Ii for some time, except by say
ing this: =,
the way and as you go up tho second flight Of
stairs, you 30 higher and higher every step
There was a great deal of foolish aud unneees-
sary delay oocasioned here by the counsel not in
forming themselves Of the state of the stairway
before they came into court And the tiresome
repetitons of the same que tions about the re-
lative situation of the second and third flight Of
stairs, were very silly. ftl.i .ra-
Wir.Ess.- Neither fight Of Stairs extend be-
yond the south line Of the nall, that runs parallel
with Chambers street; or the north line Of Colts
room. When first saw the box, was just
turning from the ihi I'd story stars at the elbow on
flight of stairs leading to the lst foer it was inst
close to the railing. went up stairs 10 The 3rd
story between that time and tho time when | next
saw the box, did not go down stairs in that in
terval the person who moved the box down stairs
was nearer to the bannistei than he to the wall;
the box was near the banister when he stared it;
was then standing in the entry of the second story
coming to sweep the stairs down from the second
to the Ist story; it four O'Clock in the after
noon Ct 17tk Of September that w heoler 70 my
room; he staid two or three minutes talking he
and staid or 8 minutes at Coils door; made
NO attempt to look through the key hole Of Colts
donr / lid nO m n
made attempt to enter that room; did
not even take hold Of the handle Of the door. Mr..
Wheeler did not even take hold of the handle Of
the door; when it was warm, the druggist below
had the door from his store to the hall ene9- n
have etnIhg; fac Used 10 prepare MIR. WheeisTs
tea don't rec collect she went; did not 60 10 Mr..
Whecler's room that afternoon At all. Jus. c"n,o
at his door, and asked if lie heard any thing; ne
told me, I" No-all was quiet" This last time Il
was light; would suppose it to be about ave o.
clock; then saw Mr.. Seignette at the door OIL Mr.
Wheeler's room; l do not recoiiect SEEK , Ios
nette before that time at Wheeler's room; there
might be others there, for only stood a. one sids
of the door; don't light the lamps in the hall; Mr.
Wheeler always light the lamps for his school; as
for the other light IN the hall, Mr. Ridner (sxnio.-
ton rooms, 4th story) had man which used TO az.
tend to that Themselves Ridner, or some one IN ms
employ attends to all the lights in the hall; there Is
gas pipes frem the street; the hall Is always lght
ed with gas, except when the wss.n Ws Jnrea
SAINT, and no company expected: Mr Wheeierha mas
a lamp lighted against the wall BY his door, which
he attends to himself do not recolect if the hall
was lighted that night; the gas lights from the "a
story to the 4th; the light is IN tne en.ly aSou.
centre Of the last step; it projects from the wall
thew were usual Lit up a, night; some'mestney run
the venture; it not my place to a!iena " tas
lighting of these; the rest OF the building On me
| first floor not occupied by the druggist. stere,
occupied by three stores, and basement abouithe
size of the store; they can go from their basement
TO the yard and flom the yard up the other STAIRS
into the main entrance, and 80 out into Cnampers
street; these stores were then occupied; tnere
nunn cle,e by the front door in Chambers street,
and also a cistern in the yard; that's how we
| srnnlv ourselves with water the Prlvles IN the
back yard are detached from the main building
| There is but one door from the main on III
first floor to the back yard, except the respective
door. from the three stores to the yard There arc
also two other doors in the basement, which was
last year occupied as victuaiiing estabiisnm
There were bat six separate privles In that pack
yard. They were di'ti,onteo amons ,ne u nnns
| raIlv giyeni TO each gentleman that hired the
| rooms and several gentlemen had 10 20 t'
| one slace bucause the six privies could ne
aferd to accommodate one eacn ioT SO many
one of the off 4rs has recently called for the ke
and examined that privy that is the officer there
(pcinting to kelyea) the key gave to the once
was the one that opened the Privy belonging to, o
used by Wheeler; some keys opened seveTs
nohrs there were two or three men with the 9th
Ger: il was ten or eleven o'clock at night; 1t wa
| n month or six weeks ago. Mr.. Adams gave m
permission TO give the officer the key saw no
Thing they did the same oiiicer returned noe Tn
kew: there has been no further inspection OF th'
privy. ,
By wHIrISo The pump in the street is tweiv
or Thirteen feet from the main door there Is
pump TO the cistcrn in the yard was not Prese
, when the privy was examined; the floor had be-
= | broken mn: the seat had been SO broken that "
had to cali a carpenter TO make new one.
o Nv SELpoS-I always closed the back door
80 tn. back door is an iron door with swim
. 49, bar 60 il ard is fastened frsm inside. II Ct
?. he eas,lv opened from nside-but not easily fro
The outside Though the bar has been SO bent
. nressing from the outside, that with.a knife y,
pr l;f, nm the bar. You have TO go into into g
oren air IN going from the main building to the P
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