Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-10

A. The name of the wine don't remem- | Der. It was light wine. E O. Was it catawba. claret, or what2
 A. It tasted like sherry.
 O. How much wine was taken by the par |
 A. Two glasses each Next we went into the dining room and had some ice cream, nuts. cakes, etc.
 o. Who waited on you2 7 A. Mir Walter Malley gave us the ice cream.
 : o. Go on and state in your own manner what happened
 A. After that we went into the smoking room and staid for half an hour, ,and then Miss Douglass complained of being sick Miss Cramer went over to Miss Douglass, who was sitting on the lounge with me, and spoke to her few words of sympathy. We told them there wasno need to go home that night un- less they wished to. We told them we could give them room. They wanted to go. but we insisted upon their staying. They pre- pared to go as it was late in the night, about also told them as it was quite late and 8 good distance to the carriage that they ought to remain.
 o. Was there 8 carriage attainable at the house at that time?
 A. Yes, sir but it being late we did not want to get it.
 o. They had been out before in your car riage
 A. Yes, once.
 O. Go one with your own narration.
 A., After a while Miss Cramer said to Blanche If you are sick, Miss Douglass, I will stay with you. Miss Douglass was anx- ious to go, wanted to go, but found that she was unable to go. As said before told them we would give them room up stairs and wake them in the morning at any hour they wished. Finally they went up stairs. The ladies went into their room and we into yOa -E> ov,I half 8. m. Walter went and rapped at the ladies' door.
 Q. Have you any idea of when you re- tired?
 A. About half-past eleven or twelve. It was about half an hour after Miss Blanche Both MT. Walter Malley and I dressed and went down to breakfast
 Q. Did all of you take breakfast and were the servants around then?
 A. Yes, sir.
 o. Did the ladies take breakfast !?
 A. I did not invite them as had no right to- Walter and myself had breakfast alone, and then Walter went up stairs to see if the ladies were ready. They went out, as I said
 before, across the front lawn, and got into the horse cars and rode up to the end of the line, as they were going up. This is the last that saw of Miss Cramer alive. saw them returning down on the horse car. I did not 4A4ooOoSA of going by the path. Walter and I stood behind the double door and saw them go, Walter at one door and I at the other. Q. Did you get behind the door Gaugh- ter.) A. No sir.
 Q. Did you see any signs given by the ladies?
 A. I saw one of the young ladies wave her hand this way, (making gesture o. When did you first become acquainted with Jennie Cramer
 A. A year ago last June or July; there was band playing on the Green; Mir. Higgins of New York city, was working in the store at the time; MT. H. and I were strolling about. Witness here detailed at length that he and Mir. Higgins saw two young ladies, one of them being Jennie Cramer, and they made their acquaintance They talked if l teen or twenty minutes, went and had some ice cream at Redcliffe's, and then went and ! sat on the North church steps awhile to- I gether, and then separated, Mir. Higgins and Jennie sitting on one of the benches of the Green. We sat apart about an hour, and | then, it being late, we joined one another and escorted the ladies home. MT. Higgins afterwards sent notes to Jennie, ! and later, MT. H. having left us and gone to New York, Jennie called at the store to get | his address, saying that she had written him but that the letters had not reached him. ! gave her the address. This was in Geptem- Der or October. Later she called and said | she had lost the address and gave it to her \ again. did not see her from that time un- | til our first carriage ride three or four weeks | ago. O yes, did see her once more that ! was the night Barker & Ransom's stables \ were burned. Her little sister was with her. ! MT. Higgins bowed to her. I Q. How came you to take a carriage ride | with her three or four weeks ago? l Witness here related that friend, Mr. -,G1 Mo- ! him at the store and asked him if he had any lady friends that would take 8 carriage f ride with them. Witness thought of Jennie l Cramer and, after deliberation, concluded to I renew acquaintance with her, and witness ! being busy with the show window, Mir. Duff wrote the letter of invitation Qetter produced and identified by witness). Jennie accepted 1 the invitation, and said she would be ready ! in half an hour. Continuing, witness said: Mir. Duff and I drove to her house; Miss Douglass and MT. Walter Malley had started | down to the shore before, and MT. Duff and | Miss Cramer, and I and lady that goes by I the name of Miss Brown-I believe that's her name-no, it's Mrs. Brown, I think. She | lives in State street; I don't know the num- ! ber
 0. Is she young or elderly lady? ! A. She is short and rather good-looking, ! and thirty-tw or thirty three years of age. | Q. How long have you known Mrs B? I l Q. Was she formerly of West Haven? 1 Witness thought not
 l Q. Where did you leave Mrs. Brown when | you returned?
 ! A. Don't remember.
 1 O. Where did you get Mrs. B {? A. Mrs. Brown met us on the far side of ! the Green at the Temple street gate o. Was she there alone? A. We had made arrangements to meet
 her there at half-past o'clock. It was the ! first time had ever been in her company.
 We four drove to the east shore, BuelPs be- ing the first place stopped at. We had sup per there. When we got there Walter and ! Miss Douglass had supper. We sang there. ! We had been in the parlor some fifteen min utes when Walter and Miss Douglass came
 in. MT. Duff introduced both ladies to Mir.
 Walter Malley and to Miss Douglass.
 o. Did you know Miss Douglass before
 that evening?
 II. A. No, I had met her at the Fremont I House; Mr. Walter introduced me; at Mir
 Buelps we ordered whiskey punches for our.
 selves and wine for the ladies; we drank hal1 | of ours and the ladies tasted of theirs; we I remained there until about eleven o'clock
 and then took Mrs. Brown to her house.
 o. Between what streets was her house? ! A. don't know.
 | Q. Were you born in this city?
 A. No, sir; have been here number o1 years
 Q. We'll, did she live in the part called 1 Fleet street or near Neck bridge2
 A. It was good distance up towards Neck
 bridge
 Witness then said that he did not know the
 whereabouts of MT. Higgins at present, and
 that he met Miss Cramer the next evening,
 she calling at the store, where he found her
 waiting for him when he returned with MT.
 Duff. After 8 conversation they parted. He walked with her that day from the
 store as far as the new Green, when
 Jennie saying that she had forgotten
 something, they walked back and Jennie l went up into Miller's billiard room and
 shortly after returned, Mrs. Miller accom. panying her to the door, They bid Mrs. Mil Ter good night and then witness and Jennie I went and sat on the North or Center church steps, he did not know which, for about half l an hour and then witness escorted her home. The next day Jennie and Mrs. Miller called at the store. She left Mrs. Miller at the mil ! Emery department, and then she had an in- | terview with witness and invited him to call and see her. Witness was told to drop note
 when intending to call, as Jennie had 90 much company. Next day he wrote saying that he would call and called that evening. That was l the only time he ever called at the house ex- cept the night when they went to Buell's and