The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-09-06
THE JENNIE CRAMER CASE.
An Attempt to Clear Up the Mys-
terry "A Motive Furnished.

An Attempt 20 Clear Up the My6-
terry "A Motive Furnished.
Nsw Haven Comm sp~ciai to Gin. Tim--.
While there have been no develop
ments since the last hearing Of the
Cramer jury Of inquest. it has been
learned how the jury expect that
James Malley, Jr., may be proven to
have had a motive for wishing Jennie
Cramer's death. An official connected
with the investigation gives this YER
sion, which gathers up, seemingly.
loose threads Of evidence: 1--WE find
that Jennie Cramer was a virtuous
girl, though imprudent. We find that
she told friends that James Malley
had promised to marry her. We have
reason to believe that at the Malley
house that Wednesday night Jennie
Cramer was overcome by James NAL
leyis promises Of marriage. We then
find that Jennie Cramer, ON the fol-
lowing day and on Friday and Friday
night, in all probability, imp1 r,uned
him to carry out his promises to her.
Her opportunities furnished him the
motive for desiring her out Of the way.
We have evidence bearing on this
promise of James Malley to marry
Jennie, which has not been disclosed.
The evidence that Jennie Cramer
sought James Malley, Jr., after We'd
nesday night is this: First having
left home, she sought him with the
strongest possible plea she could have.
the plea Of being homeless. We know
that Thursday morning she was seen
opposite the Malley store. We think
that she then sent a note to James
Malley, asking for an interview. We
find her going to West Haven and re-
turning very soon after, as if uneasy.
We see her that afternoon with Blanche
Douglass, one Of the Ma!ley party,
and that evening. after waiting on the
the street for some one. she is at Red
clifie's restaurant. Bertha William
son testi6es that James and Walter
Malley slept in rooms over Redcliaes
that Thursday night. the first time
she ever knew James to stay there.
and the MalIeys had two rooms that
night. The next afternoon James
Malley and Jennie Cramer are seen
by two unimpeachable witnesses TAX
ing a short walk together. James
Malley apparently did not wish to be
from the store long enough to have
his absence noticeable. From Jennie
subsequent action We believe that she
expected James Malley to 90 to West
Haven with her. She took a car.
and after it had started alighted.
Then she changed her mind and got
on again. She was seen going to
West Haven bya man who had known
her for years-Keenan, the hackman.
Later that Friday evening We find
James Malley preparing to follow her.
although his friends claim, in estab-
fishing his alibi, that when he reached
home his feet troubled him so that he
could not leave the house. We find
him arranging in the store to take a
horseback ride or carriage ride, and
find him at Redcliffe's about 8 o'clock
that evening, going in the direction
in which Jennie had been traced.
Then the Identification of both Jennie
and James at West Haven by Gil
christ we consider positive. That
death did not result from suicide We
are convinced by these circumstances
She could not have drowned herself,
for her lungs and stomach contained
no water. Had she died from drugs
self administered, she could not have
been in the water. The sand-bars
would have prevented her body from
floating to where it was found. and We
assume that in suicide no one world
have troubled to put the body in the
water from the beach. Death did
not come from natural causes, for the
autopsy shows that all the organs were
healthy. We are forced to the con-
clusion of murder. We expect to
have the chemical analysis show how
death was caused, definitely. Having
established a probable motive, as We
think, for James TO wish to rid himself
of the girl, We confess that We have
as yet no positive evidence that James
Malley killed her. All is circum-
stantial. That James and Walter
should have told untruths about the
last time they saw Jennie alive, when
already the events of the night at the
Malley house were proven, Is one Of
the strongest grounds for suspicion.
As to the alibi, the longer James NAL
leyis friends insist on that the worse it
seems, from daily contradiction.
This Il the first statement made hv