Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-17
Who were the ladies ?

I did not know.
 Jennie was the taIlest one of the ladies and was ahead she wore light dress and straw hat am positive it was Jennie.
 Yes sir observed James Malley's dress he wore dark cutaway coat and straw hat
 Can you describe the other lady?
 She was short and rather thick set; had a full face and wore dark suit. |
 It was about a quarter past eight when l saw them go through the gateway; they | caRe from the direction of the horse rali- road track saw them later in the evening | coming from the direction of Atmore's bath | ing houses should judge that it was from | nine to half-past they came from the bath 1 ing house platform Jennie Cramer was ahead. the other lady followed, and then l came James Malley and two other men; one of the men had black mustache; he was eight or ten feet behind the other gentle men; have no doubt about it being Jennie Cramer and James Malley saw at that time-
 Did any of the parties speak to you
 Yes; Jennie Cramer spoAN to me on Beach street when she got of the bath house plat form.
 Witness continued-I did not see the body of Jennie Cramer on the shore, but saw the body at the morgue in West Haven I recol- lected when I saw the body that I had seen her the night before; I told two or three
 that I had seen Jennie the night before
 Mrs Atmore one that told and MT.
 Smith was another.
 Cross examination by MT. Fox-I am g
 years of age and was born in New Haven
 my father and mother dead saw my
 partner that evening in front of the stable;
 know gentleman by the name of Clark
 that keeps a stable on the shore; don't rec
 ollect that I saw him that night was
 around in hack that night with party; it was after saw these other parties the parties in the hack were named Whitehead Baker, Mooney and others; met them first in front of the Massasoit House. kept by Twitchen & Beers this was after 10 o'clock; soon as went into TwitcheQ & Beers Baker invited me to ride with them we had some lager there, and after having two or three drinks1w with them treated think Mooney treated last; they were not intoxicated,
 neither was I; after leaving there we went to Cooley $ Williams this was about II o'clock; had something to drink there I drank seltzer; we probably had three or four l drinks in Cooley & Williams drank seltzer every time; remained there until about quar- ter past II; from there went to Smiths bowling alley on Beach street. At this point Mr. Bush objected to this line ! of examination as having no bearing whatev- | CT on the case. It made no difference how | much the witness drank later in the evening and after he saw these parties. l MT. Fox argued that however clear the | mind of the witness might have been before, ! it could not but have been clouded if he had gone on debauch afterward; he said 1t was important to show who the parties were that ! this witness was with, where they came from | and what they were doing on this fatal Fri | day night. It may tend, said Mir. Fox, to l throw some light on this case. Justice Booth said it was unnecessary to | inquire about the number of drinks the wit | ness took, but the attorney might inquire | where the witness went. l Witness continued-After leaving the bowling alley went to Twitchell S Beers and got there at 1131.
 l You will swear to this will you? l Yes will.
 Where did you go then? l Went out the side door and went to my 1 stable saw team under the shed then went back to Twitchel & Beers after getting | my coat this was twenty minutes to 12 the party that was with in the hack were there
 when got back we stayed three or four | minutes and then took drive down on the l shore below Waverly Grove and turned l around and came back Mir. Twitchell was l with us at tbis time; we stopped at John ] Lyon's and went into the kitchen, but not l into the barroom; this was probably a little
 after 12 o'clock; we stayed three or four min
 utes; did not buy anything, as we could not | get 1t; from there we drove back and left Mir. l Twitchell in front of his own place; after
 leaving Twitchell we drove over to the | Thomas house on Commerce street; this was
 in the neighborhood of 1 o'clock; then we f
 Ransom's stable and stayed there until morn ing; got up about half-past and came back
 to the shore about half past 8. | Mir. Fox-Have you told all you know | about these parties on that Friday night Yes sir ; I have.
 Have you not told different story from 1 this
 No, sir.
 Did you not say before the coroner's jury that these men you saw with the girls were I quarreling
 Yes, and say so now. The man with the black mustache said he would have 1t or somebody would die ;' the girls were ahead and the men behind it | was not James Malley that said this none of
 them were sober in my opinion. Re-direct-Mr. Bush questioned the wit | ness at length in regard to the horse and car
 riage that he found under his shed about 12 o'clock Friday night witness said that it | was bay horse that would weigh about 300 | pounds; the carriage vas a single top buggy, with no lap robe or whip; the horse had a | sheet on him; the harness was 8 rubber ! trimmed one.
 The next witness called was William A. Harris. He said he lived at 124 Chapel l street and had charge of the Western Union Telegraph office. Continuing witness said | that he found dispatch sent by James Nal | leytto Walter Malley to Stamford, Conn, on August 4.
 The dispatch was produced and showed | that 1t was sent at 5:35 D. m. on August 4. Witness said there was no question about | this, and introduced proof of the same. The | dispatch read as follows:
 To Walter E. Malley, Stamford Depot Office: l Blanche O. K.; found her at the dressmakers. | J. VALLEY. Mir. Bush-Did you receive August 4 a
 dispatch from Walter Malley to James Nal I ley from South Norwa1k, Conn. :? 'T did"
 l Dispatch produced and read SOUTH NoRwALK Conn.,. August f.
 Have received no dispatch from you Find out and I telegraph immediately Cramers brothers address 1 any other news to me a. Gilsey House. l Witness continued: This dispatch was
 received in New Haven at G:51. It was sent
 out at 7:15 and brought back and then sent l out again at o'clock. It was recelpted for, but cannot tell who by, except that it is signed James Malley, jr. or ST. MT. Bush-Did you have any other mes
 sage from Walter to James Malley on that | day?
 1 thought he should be excused from produ- ] cing all the telegrams named in the subpoena
 as they were too indefinitely mentioned. | Yet he was prepared to say that those two dispatches produced in court were all that
 were sent by either of these parties on that l day.
 | There was no cross-examination of this witness.
 John J. McCue was next called. Witness
 said he lived in New Haven; have been em-
 ployed on the West Haven shore; was there
 on August 5 was employed tending alley
 for Smith closed up about ten minutes of
 12 on that day; went down by Howes' on
 the beach while there heard woman's voice; it was not very loud heard mans
 voice also there was nothing peculiar about
 the voice; she appeared to be talking to
 somebody should not think it was a quar- l rel; MT. Smith, who was with me- thought
 the parties had got left by the horse cars;
 the voices sounded as though they came from
 the shore about opposite the Beach House, ,al-
 though cannot say whether the sound came l from in front of the Beach House or on the 1 shore.
 Severely Injured. John Smith, spring maker at the New
 Haven Spring company's works on Franklin
 street, and living on the corner of Myrtle and Hamilton streets, while assisting in mak-
 ing changes of machinery at the shop yester-