Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-29
5ournaI allo Gonrier.
Thursday Morning. Sen. 29, 1881
Jennie Cramer's Fate.

The Hotel ReSister-Brfnging in the Book-The Name of J. Cramer-Interest Over the Dfscovery-A Variety of Inter- estfng Testimony.
 The Malley trial was resumed a West Ha- ven yesterday morning at 10 o'clock,-the 16th day of the trial. The October term of the Superior Court opens next Tuesday af ternoon. If the Malleys are bound over, it cannot be to that term, as the present trial will not end before the term begins. The grand jury will, however, be called in the | second week in October, and, if the hearing in West Haven is concluded by that time, the Malleys can be taken before it If the State | attorney sees fit. This much for specula- | tion. Business was opened yesterday, MT. | F. 0. King, formerly clerk at the Branford | Point House. taking the stand and producing | the hotel register, in accordance with the de- cision of the counsel for the defense the day | before. The point in question was to sub- stantiate that Walter Malley and Blanche 1 Douglass were at the Branford Point House l the Friday night, August 9th. Mir. King turned to the entries in the register. The | first was on Saturday, July 30, and ran as follows: ''W. E. Malley, New Haven; Miss A. Douglass, New York; These were erased by drawing pen through them, and placed on Sunday, July 31, the day following, | in rather more of a scrawling hand and 8 blacker impression: ''W. E. Malley, New Haven, D.. Miss A. Douglass, New York D." The "D" stands for dinner, and both \ are checked.
 ! The clerk said that Saturdays entry was a mistake, and began with Sundays, but Mr. Bollman instructed him to give all the en- tries That of Saturday was then noted. ! The entry of Friday, August 5, was as fol I lows:
 MalIsy New Raven F estEa SUPP supper r ! supper.
 The witness testified: None of tho entries ! days-Sunday and Friday saw Walter there with lady.
 To Mir. Fox the witness said that both en- | tries were supposed to have been made at the time set forth, and he knew that Walter Nal l ley was certainly at the hotel on the days set l forth.
 MT. Bush cross-examined: The witness 1 said he saw the lady Walter had with him on 1 Sunday, July 31, but did not take particular notice of her and did not recognize her when he saw her again on Friday, August 5. MT. ! King d1d not see Walter make the Saturday entry but when informed by the bookkeep-
 CT, before Walter left the hotel that Sunday,
 that Walter had registered on the wrong day,
 the witness called attention to it and had
 Walter register aright
 ! Some excitement was created by the dis
 covery of the name of Jennie Cramer written
 in & scrawling hand on the register, and part
 ly plotted. The entry was simply ''J. Ora | mer' and nothing more. This entry wit
 ness had never noticed before. He said the | book had been at the will of everybody, and | anybody could scribble in it if they liked ! There were other places in the book where ! names had been scribbled in; many people I coming to see the Malley entry had looked Y at the book Witness did not know the hand
 writing nor who put the name there. Wit ! ness thought it had been written in joke. \ MT. Fox said it was either joke or a fraud ! perpetrated.
 Counsel for the State seemed to attacE | considerable importance to the discovery ot ! the Cramer name, and MT. Bollman asked
 that the hotel book be impounded that i ! might not go out of the possession of th' | court.
 Mr. King admitted that to ssfill out space | he sometimes entered fictitious names anC he pointed out ''J. D. Goodwin as one ! de had previously looked several times a
 the Malley and Douglass names, but nevel I noticed the Cramer name; indeed nearly ! every day some one came to look at the book
 The witness left the hotel August 31 last and since then the book had been in thu possession of Mrs. Baldwin, who was now il | charge of the hotel The witness had ob
 tained the book from her in Branford yester day morning. After Mir. King was dismissed
 the book was impounded.
 ' aa1 of Ra1o resentative in the Legislature, testified tt knowing Walter Malley by sight and to see : ! ing him about 7:2O p. m. Friday, August , ! riding with lady in a side bar buggy, up the ! first hill after crossing the Branford line F ' The hill is the Paper Mill Hill; it is right a | the foot of the lake near the house of Mrs \ Smith. The lady had on, I think, an old golt ? | basque or dress; think there were brass O Y | oroide bands on the hubs of the carriage
 am sure it was Walter Malley I saw and ol , | Friday, August 5; fix the day because ! heard the next day. while in New Haven, O
 the finding of the Cramer girls body, ant
 then spoke of seeing and meeting Walte : | the previous evening; later that Friday even ! ing, about 9:45, I Walter about mil' ! and three quarters this side of the Branfort j. Point Hotel, riding and the lady was witl : ! blm; this time he was coming towards New Haven; I was going towards Branford ;
 am sure it was Walter Malley
 , Cross examined by MT. Bush-It was si, l and one-quarter miles from New Haven whel , l 1 met Walter the second time it was moon + ! light and I saw Walter bend over and tuck il : ! the lap-robe; knew 1t was an old gold basqu
 because I read description of it in the pa ] pers and recollected that it was the kind sh ! had on. Witness being demanded what ! basque was said he was a grocer by occupa | ton, and that a basque was tight-fttins | dress coming to the waist, and old gold wa H I about the color of gold dollar.
 ! Witness fhoupht the ayyvers vera iokiDo ii | asking what basque was but the lawyer ! told him it was no laughing matter and h. ! must answer.
 Mir. Fox said the witness ought to be al } l lowed to explain without MT. Bush going a him like bulldog.
 The justice said he knew what Mir. Busl T | was after. The questions were to test thu ! accuracy of the witness memory. But, he submitted, "he has described a basque l He says 1t IS an over garment worn over he | shoulders"
 e The witness, however, was further in = quired of concerning his knowledge of
 basque, and he further explained in despair | ''It is a tight fitting garment coming to tn | waist'
 And is that your definition of basque ? asked MT. Bush.
 Officer Thomas Kennedy, on duty at tn
 new depot, testified to seeing Walter Male.
 at the depot August 5. This was the tim l when Walter went and took 8 train for Nev
 York to find Blanche and Jennie; whel
 the shore line express from Boston arrived l at 5:O9 D. m. Walter came to me betwee1
 the ladies' entrance and the ticket office; h.
 inquired if I had seen three ladies-tw' l dressed in light and one in dark am sure h.
 mentioned three he asked me if had seel
 them leave on the 43O New York express fol | New York told him I thought I had seer
 three ladies answering that description al
 though I was not certain-that I didn't knoV
 where they went the train from Springfield due here at 5:12-was then running in;
 then went into the gentlem ems entrance
 the east side; no one was with Walter; don
 know that he drove up or that he took th'
 train have no doubt about the day or that i
 was Walter who spoke to me. Witness wal
 not cross examined.
 | The next witness was J. A. Donnelly, o
 101 Middletown avenue, son of Francis Don
 nelly, Esq, and clerk in Edward Malley'
 en ploy. He testified that he had record O.
 the rooms in the Malley or Foote building
 and by whom they were occupied in July anC
 August; it is the rent ledger; haven't it witt
 me. The witness had the cash book witl
 him and said it contained the original entrie