Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-03
THE CRAMER CASE.
NO EVIDENCE THAT A MURDER WA
COMMITTED,
But Gossip in Abundance Blanche Doug
las Still Denies that She is Cog
infant Of the Manner Of len- B
MES Oeath-Arssnic Dis Fl
covered in the Stomach.
THEFATAL INSTRUMENT WAS A DRUG

NEW HAVEN, September 2.-Coroner
BoIlman said yesterday that he had
secured two witnesses who will corrobo-
rate the testimony OF witness Mattoon'
the clerk in the drug store under the
Elliott House (where Blanche Douglass
stopped), placing Jennie Cramer and
Blanche Douglass together on the night
OF Thursday, August 4. One OF these
witnesses is Mrs. Charles Klippsteip,
who lives at No. l56 Chapel street, di.
rectly opposite the Elliott House. The
other is Mrs. Crofut, a milliner doing
business in the same building. Mrs
Klippstein says that her sitting room
commands view OF room in the Elliott
house, W hich Blanche Douglass occupied.
When Mrs. Klippstein first saw Blanche
| Douglass she fancied that there was
something about her which was un-
pleasant. On Wednesday afternoon,
August 3, she saw Jennie Cramer 60
| into the Elliott House. The blinds OF
room No. were partially open and Mrs
Klippstein looked into the room curious
lv because she knew Jennie Cramer
well, and because she thought that the
girl ought to be home rather than at the
hotel. About 7:30 or s o'clock in the
evening (the night OF the Malley-house
affair Mrs. Kippstein saw Wa tier NAL
| lev enter the room while Blanche Dougs
lass and Jennie Cramer were sitting by
the window. The light burned low in
| in the hotel room, but Mrs. klipp.
stein could see well. Walter had
| a bag of peaches. He offered one to
each OF the girls, but they do not &C.
cept them. Walter took one, laid the
bag down and removed his hat. About
ten o'clock Mrs. Klippstein
Saw Jennie Cramer Standing at the Head
Of Lounge.
Jennie appeared to be ready to go
home. Mrs. Klippstein noticed that
Walter Malley and Jennie Cramer look
ed unhappy, or she fancied that they
did; then she closed her blind. James
Malley was not seen that night by the
witness. The next afternoon, between
l and 2:30, the same person saw Jennie
Cramer and Blanche Douglas enter the
Elliott House (corroborating Mrs. Mil
Ter, who said that she saw them
toIether that afternoon) about
7:3O o'clock that Thursday even
ing no hours later than Jas. Malley, Jr.,
admits that he saw Jennie Cramer alive
Mrs. Klippstein saw young man whom
she thinks answers the description OF
James Malley, Jr., and Blanche Doug
lass and Jennie Cramer 60 from the Ell
liott House up Chapel street. She
thought that James Malley, Jr., and
Blanche Douglass seemed to be depress-
ed, while Jennie was in good spirits.
Just before Jennie left room No. Z, Mrs.
Klippstein and Mrs. Crofut, the millin.
er, were both at Mrs. Klippstein's win
dow and saw Jennie fixing something
about her throat. When the party
emerged from the house Mrs. klippsteln
remarked to Mrs. Crofut that Blanche
looked sad. Mrs. Klippstein is sure
that the man in the party WAS not Wal
ter Malley, whom she knew well though
unacquainted with James. Mrs. Crofut
is acquainted with James, however,
and went to the Jail after the Malleys
were arrested and identified James NAL
| lev, as the man she saw that Thursday
night.
Blanche Douglass's Story.
Blanche Douglass talked to a gentle
man at the Jail to-day, who subsequent.
ly reported from memory what she said
to a local newspaper man. Although
she had access 10 the daily papers, and
must have seen several contradictions
| by reputable persons OF her original
testimony, she adheres to the story that
she never saw Jennie Cramer later than
Thursday noon. She denies that, after
she had learned that Jennie was dead
and had accompanied the Malleys
out to the Hillhouse woods, she heard
either James or Walter Malley drop
ANYTHING to indicate how Jennie died.
She SAYS that when she heard the news
from a reporter she felt 'as if she should
90 crazy" After she met the Malleys
she asked them il it was true that Jen-
ME was dead. Beth believed that she
was. Then Blanche says that she was
more excited than ever and wanted to
90 at once to New York. She explain
ed this desire by saying that she didn't
want to be mixed up in the matter.
Both Walter and James Malley insisted
that she should stay in New Haven,
and said that it would be worse for her
should she 60. Since she was brought
back to New Haven she has never seen
either of the Maleys nor has she ever
heard one word from them to indicate
the cause OF Jennie's death. She com-
planned that every one seemed in
eli ned to blame her for the tragedy
and said that the State authorities prom.
] ised not to imprison her il she would
tell all she knew, which she claims to
have done. (She has told more, without
| doubt, than the jurors will diyulge. }
When Walter Malley learned that re-
porter had found the name OF Lizzie
Bundy on some OF Blanche Douglass
clothing, the woman says that he
dash ed his hat on the hotel floor and
declared that no money should be
spared to keep the name out OF print.
(He subsequently tried to purchase
newspaper silence on this point.) She
saws that she was willing to tell the truth
then, but Walter prevented it. That
same afternoon Walter gave her money
TO 90 to New York. She claims that the
persons who think they saw her with
Jennie Cramer on Thursday afternoon
and evening are mistaken, and says that
she can prove this.
The Chemical Analysis.
Attorney Bush had decided that the
Malleys have right to demand separate
trials, and it is probable that Walter will
prefer this course. The criminal pro-
ceedings will be resumed next Monday.
Professor Chittenden's chemical analy'
sis of Jennie Cramer's remains will be
the basis of the proceedings. A promi'
nent lawyer to-day called attention to
this curious coincidence: In both the
Stannard murder and this the motive is
obscure, but in both it is alleged to be
fear OF disgraceful discovery. But while
Hayden's alibi was unshaken, the alb
of James Malley, Jr., is assailed iron
many directions Hayden was known
to have purchased arsenic. To connect
drugs with James Malley's actions in
this instance, for it is foreshadowed that
q drug was the fatal instrument, Coro'
ner Bollman has made q tour OF the
drug stores. His discoveries are kept
secret, il he has made any. Detective