Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-12
The Cramer Mystery.

The mystery in the Cramer case is as great as ever No new facts have been elicited of striking importance beyond that given in the COURIER yesterday regarding the supper at the Radcliffe establishment, which, an after noon contemporary regards as of the greatest importance, as it contradicts the tes= timony of the three principal witnesses, Wal ter, James and Blanche, upon transaction at an important stage of the case. In our re- port it was mentioned that the assistant al MT. Redclife's, MT. Rawlings. saw James and Walter and two young ladies taking refresh ments there as late as IT o'clock Thursday night. Mr.Rawlings corrects us as to James, who was not of the party, the party consist ing of Walter and two young ladies, one of whom Mir. Rawlings thought was Blanche, as she had often been in after refreshments with Walter. We understood James name as mentioned but that was probably our mis- take. Now, who was the other young lady ? which is the real point in the case. It may have been Jennie Cramer, and the assistant at the establishment thinks the two girls were the same two Rlanche and Jennie) who had the breakfast at the establishment on Thursday morning at about o'clock or thereabouts, just after coming from the Nal ley mansion. The afternoon contemporary commenting says:
 ssThis testimony contradicts all three lead ing witnesses, Blanche and James and Walter Malley, and is of the greatest importance. For instance, Blanche testified in substance Tuesday morning about Thursdays doings that
 
 o'clock when Walter Malley called her. was the taking of bath. In the evening after o'clock she
 sure she was not carriage riding with either of the Mal1eyf Thursday evening. She couldn't tell night in a gold preceded basque and a black silk dress She corrected herself and said both Maleys
 called on her at the Elliott House and had supper at
 RedcliTe's. Jennie not around there. James usually paid attention to her.
 She and Walter went to the hotel having been absent about an hour She didn't walk up Chapel street with Walter Malley about midnight Thursday nor with James; nor did James and Jennie or Walter ''In his testimony Tuesday afternoon James Malley said:
 .swaiter Mal1ey and I went last Wednesday evening Douglass room; three then went to Redclinss
 9ad Wstsr snd Tens to hi home in 8 carriage alone this Thursday night no it was Wednesday night.
 s'This witness also detailed how Mrs. Cramer called at the store to get information
 regarding her daughter on Thursday and represented that he made every effort to ascertain for her. It may be we'll to remem- Der this fact''
 ''WaltSr testified follows -I did hear that Miss
 Douglass and Miss Cramer had started for New York I started received a despatch from James Malley jr, that Miss Douglass all right, and back The reason went after them was that afraid
 that Miss Cramer mother had driven her out of the
 house. and that would be exposed for taking them
 being seen on the West Haven car when started tc go to New York to intercept them. returned from Mailey jr at the store Then went to the Elliott House, found Miss Douglass and went to Redclifel then went home. James Mallsy, jr., stayed with that night"
 The above offered ground for the theory \ that Walter, when he posted off on the New York train Thursday to find Jennie, Gas testi | fled to by James, Walter getting no further I than Stamford, where he was stopped by
 James telegram,) was under the impression I that Jennie had gone to see her brother, and that Walter wanted to get her back and no have her communicate with her brother The brother was very fond of Jennie anG she was fond of him, and there were few ss
 crets between them, judging from their affee ! tionate regard for each other.
 On the other hand some who are not rel ! atives or acquaintances of the young Nal | leys take the ground that in all this and th' l stopping at the Malley house there may hav, ! been nothing wrong. This view is taken by ! people of excellent discretion, who thinl \ well of the motto, 'sEvil to him who evi \ thinks" The intimate relations of the par l ties, their having been driving out together [ and the calling of MT. Cramer. ST., at th' | Elliott House, and of the mother at Malley' s both errands being to find traces of th' | missing child, had alarmed the young Nal | leys into soicitude for themselves and tn, ! girl, because their previous relations would
 if anything should happen to the girl, throw ! blame upon them, they nevertheless being ! free from anything criminal whatever.
 Some people say that some other peopl, | are too apt to take every indiscretion, espe I cially on the part of youth, as evidence O \ guilt, and they hold that the three principa witnesses stories agree too well to be con | cocted and untrue in the main, and that tn, ! discrepancies in their testimony are easily tt
 be accounted for as arising from the harass \ ing situation in which they were plunged ana ! the mental worry and excitement consequent \ thereon. They hold that, take almost any ! three parties of the same age anywhere an6 put them through such 8 protracted public ! hearing as to such numerous array o. ! events, and flaws could be picked out jus | about as creditable to the parties and nc ! more than in this case.
 Counsel for the Malleys says the average young lady would not have refused to stay ir the Malley mansion over night with friend ! who was really sick. It was late to go home 1 and to be respected guests at the
 house was fattering to the vanity
 and courtesy to be appreciated by girli
 not accustomed to living in fine houses. Thil
 view finds supporters. Again, people who
 saw the young Malleys give in their testimo
 ny went away with favorable impressions oi | them as answering all questions asked then l promptly and with an evident intent to state everything as well as they could. We givt the above as the remarks made by people 1 who take the above view. On the other hand, the above way of looking at it is scoffed
 at once and utterly ruled as out of the ques | tion by experienced travellers.
 | AI- GAWdEO N1d11cy, 4dbuoE O1 " A1t0E dIlt uncle of James. comes to the front this morn \ ing with the following offer of reward o | $1, ,OOO (published also in our advertising col ! umns) which is most creditable to Mir. Malley and speaks the fathers confidence in man ner which will be appreciated by all: ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD, hereby offer 8 reward of one thousand dollars t. any person or persons who will furnish conclusiv
 evidence against any party parties crinfnaly nected with the death of Jennie E. -Cramer. EDWARD VALLEY. \ MISS DOUGLASS DoINas.
 The New York World of yesterday says a follows regarding Miss Blanche Douglass af | ter her arrival in New York:
 ''The woman Miss Annie Blanche Douglass. who wa examined at the coroner's inquest over the body
 Jennie Cramer arrived in this city last evening iron New Haven and went to the Hoffman House, wher she registered as Miss Clemens, of New Haven. Sh
 said to reporter that she had been advised by he
 counsel to say nothing about the death of Miss Ora mer, and she was satisfied her innocence could b proved She added that she left New Haven becaus
 unpleasant there for her, but that she had no
 departed secretly. She afterward left the Hoffmal House without saying where she was going" AN IMPRESSION NOT BORNE OUT. Among the reports afoat yesterday wa
 one that Richard Lewis, young man of | Edwards sfraof son of &l,.