Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-08
tapuruaI artS Corrier.
Saturday Morning, Oct. 8. 1881.
Jennie Cramer's Case.


 The Maliey case in West Haven was devoid of the presence of Mir. Bush yesterday, who was detained at home, owing to sprained | ankle.
 The first witness yesterday was Patrick | Murphy an employe in the silk and dress | goods department at Malley's store. He tes- tifed to having seen James Mal1ey, jr., on Friday, Aug. 5, at the noon hour, walking with young lady, the couple being at the Park streets. Witness passed them. They were all going in the same direction, and as witness was walking the fastest he overlook and passed them. The young lady wore dark dress. Witness identified the day, as it was an extraordinarily dark day and because next day he heard of the death of Jennie Cramer. Witness frequently walked with James up Chapel street at noon times, when they were going to dinner.
 On the cross-examination witness replied to many questions had been 10 years contlnu- ously in the Malley store; was not related to the family saw James that Friday in the store, but only once his department is far away from mine; didn't remember speaking
 to James in passing him, and didn't turn to
 see the lady's face.
 The next witness was Carl Rudolph Neu-
 mann, janitor of the Foote building on Chapel street, corner Temple; am joiner and
 work at my trade by day and take care of the
 building at night, preserving order and pro- viding for keeping the building neat and clean am helped in the care of the building by my wife I do not rent the rooms; I re- member the week the body of Jennie Cramer was found; rooms 26 and 22 in the building were occupied this week by Messrs. Sloan x@f, tzralr zna1rv they occupied those rooms Thursday and Friday nights of that week; room 29 was va- cant that week.
 The cross examination was quite lengthy Have been in charge of the place IS months; my wife hardly attends to anything as she has chambermaid who takes care of the rooms; don't have much to do in the day time as the occupants are all away; on that particular week in August did not go out to work as I was repairing the roof of the Foote building which had been damaged by the fire in the stable adjoining; did the re- pairing alone; received extra pay for that was at work that Friday on the roof; fin ished it that day.
 Room 29 had been vacant three or four weeks previous to Thursday, August 4th
 that day I had mason at work in the room
 fixing a broken spot in the plastering; the
 masons worked in there three or four hours
 I went to that same room about the next
 
 went down and ordered the sheets put on
 the beds and the floor cleaned; Major Maher
 and workman named Carroll repaired the
 ceiling; have since spoken to Major Maher
 about the time he did that clustering and he
 showed me the bill for the work it con-
 firmed my recollection that it was that Friday
 when the work was done there was talk be-
 tween my wife and me about room 29 after
 the body of Jennie Cramer was found, but I
 don't recollect 1t 1t was nothing unusual
 cannot say of my own knowledge that room
 % was occupied that Friday night, August
 9th, nor a week before or after.
 In response to further enquiry witness
 said: Yes, I did say to the night watch man in the store that Walter had been in the
 building with girls all night several times and the watchman told Walter. Walter came to me and told me if did not stop talking would lose my position. That was said to me in the office of the Malley store several days | before the Cramer girl was found dead | never stated to anybody that had heard l that Walter or James was in the building over | night any night that August week. Witness retired at 10, 12 or o'clock. He had no usual hour. Walter had charge of | renting the rooms, but had no key to %. | There has been only one key to it and that ! is lost now He may have stated that Wal l ter had pass key to all the rooms but 29. He had one himself and duplicate
 keys. The pass key opens 26 but not %. The keys to the unoccupied rooms are in Neu- mann's possession. Neumann remembered a | conversation with Mir. Bollman in which he described the lock to go as an old English | lock with peculiar key, which Walter didn't have He also remembered saying that Wal I ter had pass key and that it opened 26. He might have said Walter had been to room 26 | two or threeEtimes before. He only saw him coming out of room 26 once before and didn't ! know how he got in. It was July 25-he ! didn't remember the day. He came out | alone about half-past ten in the even | ing and witness tried the door of 26. It was ! locked. He came out of 22 22 and 26 are l the same. As soon Neumann tried 26 | all right and went back. There was | a light in the room, but witness | heard no voices. Witness had his keys
 to rooms 2G and g in his kitchen :; | Walter couldn't have got them. Witness | wife couldn't have let him in nor the cham bermaid for they were abed. If they had been up they couldn't, because the keys are | in Neumann's possession In the evening and nobody can have them. The doors were not 1 open when Walter came, but locked, for | witness tried them first at 7 and again at 9. | At the latter hour he showed some one room l 2G Walter must have had a key himself. l The party left at half-past II that same night l Walter was with two ladies and gentleman. | The door found locked after they went. | Neumann didn't notice anyone but Walter. After he heard the body had been found he made memorandum of the times they had | been there-July 21, 25 and 28. On the Fist | and 2Sth he didn't see them come or leave, | but he knew they were there because Walter | told him on the 2Sth about o'clock, that he had taken the key to 29. This was Thursday
 He knew the day because he quit work that | noon at Sargent's shop. Walter took the key l when he went away in the morning; he didn't
 know whether room % was occupied that | evening Walter didn't tell him he was there; | he guessed in regard to the nights of the 21st | and 18th because the chambermaid told him | the rooms had been occupied without his permission then he set a watch if the man he found had been stranger he might have done something; the chambermaid was Ber- | tha Williamson; the rooms occupied were 26 and 22 there is only one room between 26 and 29 and they are both on the same side of l the building there is a roof under room 26, but it doesn't reach to room 29 Bertha Will room 27 was not occupied the first week in August.
 | Recess till 2.
 Afternoon Session.
 The first witness called after the morning
 recess was Mrs. Teresa Neumann. She said
 she was the wife of the last witness and re
 sided in the Foote building, corner of Chapel
 and Temple streets. Proceeding, she said I do not know who occupied rooms P and 26
 on the week Jennie Cramer's body was found;
 I know that my husband worked at repairing
 the roof of the Foote building just before l that he worked in Sargent's shop; I should
 think it was couple of days before; think
 it was before the 1st of August that my hus-
 band repaired the roof; it was before the l body of Jennie Cramer was found that my bushand fixed the roof if was m the Satur