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lass. It can be proved that these letters were written by Walter Maley. They are i n his handwriting, and were written with her knowledge and consent. The first one was marked exhibit O. It read
 NEW HAVEN, August 3, 'S1.
 Dear Miss Cramer Have been ecting to you the last two days Jim is going to bring to Wal ters house this eve ing and would 80 much like to have you join us you call sometime this after noon? Yours in haste,
 Excuse half sheet.
 The second letter from Blanche was marked Exhibit Q and the envelope containing it Ex- hibit R. This letter like the others was iden- tiied by Mrs. Cramer. It was read by MT. Bush as follows:
 Miss Jennie:-would like to you sometime this afternoon before 5:30 If convenient.
 Yours, very truJy,
 Jontine Hotel.
 Answer by bearer.
 The third letter from the Douglass woman to Jennie Cramer, after being recognized by Mrs Cramer and shown to counsel for the accused, was marked Exhibit T. It read:
 NEW HAVEN, 5:3o P. M.
 Dear Miss Cramer In you should like to call, have changed my hotel and am now at the Eiliott House, Cha el and Olive streets.
 Yours ruly, BLANCHE c.
 Excuse half sheet.
 Both Walter and James busily took notes l during this part of the session.
 Mrs. Cramer said that one of the letters | came to the house just as Jennie was gong ! out On the Wednesday preceding her death, l and she did not stop to read 1t. Ihls closed the direct.
 Judge Stoddard, of counsel for Blanche Douglass, now cross examined the witness, asking her as to her place of residence, the cigar store which her deceased husband kept aud other little details. He now came in the cross examination to the facts about the letter from James, which Mrs. Cramer said left at her house at about o'clock in the evening. It was one l of the letters before the court Did you object to her going out with James Malley? Yes, she had not been quite well l the day before
 Did you finally give your consent? Yes, l at last did.
 Did you inquire of your daughter who the party were she was going with? Not till the ! next day.
 You let her go? Yes, after her teasing. l You let her go contrary to your ideas of propriety?
 Objected to by Mir Doolittle, as putting in l the mouth of the witness an idea she had not l expressed. Objection sustained by court. Well, you objected to her going? Yes, | she had been on picnic the day before to High Rock, on the Davenport church picnic, 1 and I thought she was too tired. So that was your only objection? She was too tired and it was rather late notice to go out riding,
 The notice being late caused you to object?
 Yes, it was rather late to get notice to go out riding at p. m.
 You didn't inquire at all as to who the lady | was she was to go with as one of the party James said there was another lady going l Jennie didn't know who she was she said she had not been introduced to her yet Did you inquire of your daughter If she 1 was acquainted with the other gentleman she was to go with? Yes, I inquired either afterward or before. No, didn't know who | she (the lady) was before. Yes, after the ! ride Jennie told me this lady friend of l James. Yes, James asked her different times l before to go out riuing with her, and she did not, as she did not want to go alone. Mir. Doolittle-Ihere, wait moment. Stoddard-Di4 you before this letter know if Jennie was to go riding? Yes, she expect 1 ed to go every day
 Mir Doolittle- There, wait 6 moment. | Had Jennie ever been to ride with James I prior to the 12th of July? No, sir. ! And you didn't know, and she did not know, of going to ride that evening until this note? No, sir.
 l This gentleman with them was New York l gentleman Yes, sir.
 What was his business? Some theatre busi- ! ness, I believe.
 l And the lady who went along, was she ! relative of his She was 8 New Haven l lady.
 1 Did she (Jennie) know that this lady was 8 married lady? No, Jennie found afterward 1 that it Mrs. Brown. ! Don't you know now who this lady was? I Mir. Doolittle-I object as inadmissible The court admitted. The lawyers battled a l few minutes, and one of the lawyers objected at loss of time.
 All right, said Mir Doolittle, I am not paid ! by the day. (Laughter.) Where did they go to ride-to Branford DoS ND ci. I horo hot 1oJ,, 1 or gentleman since the 12th. You understood sthat your daughter met | Miss Douglass that evening? Yes; it was, I X think, at Buell's, East Haven shore When next did your daughter go to ride I don't know.
 l to the character of that lady your daughter went to ride with on the 12th of July? MT. Doolittle-I object Two women have been spoken of l want to find out which one is now being spoken of. Repeated the question. Witness-No, I never inquired about Mrs Brown.
 Did your daughter go to ride again with James
 I could not exactly tell well, I only re- l member three times that they went out rid ing The first we have spoken of, the last was 8 week before she was murdered. think the other time was when she went to
  ley and Blanche Douglass The last time they went out riding they got back about o'clock. The other times she got back once at 12 and once between ? and o'clock I met Miss Douglass at my house the Thurs day before she died yes it was Thursday August 4, 1881.
 Where were you when you saw her? I was down stairs in the kitchen. No, I had not been out of the house that morning. I and my husband were there alone It was be- tween II and 12 o'clock when Jennie and Mrs. Douglass came in. You had made no inquiries to find out where she was? No, sir, I did not look for her; I waited for her.
 She went out the day before and was gone all night, expected to be home at 8 p. m. and you took no steps to find her? No, sir.
 Witness-No, I did not know she was in the house till she came in to me- I heard some one walking. I was busy at household work I saw Jennie coming down the stairs.
 Who spoke first Jennie took the key and said, ''Mamma, come up stairs, I've somebody up there to introduce to you" She said, Mamma, Miss Douglass is up stairs, come up and I'll introduce you to her." She had to l walk some little distance to get the key, and l it after she got it that she spoke to me. | was surprised to see her.
 Whats that sa1d Mir. Jones.
 Mir. Dooittle-She came sudden upon her, ] she was surprised.
 Witness-I sitting down when Jennie | came in. I believe I was sewing. I was at | my work. Yes, got up when saw my | daughter I arranged things to go up stairs l to see Miss Douglass. When I Jennie 1 she was coming in; when I went up saw l Jennie and Miss Douglass sitting the | lounge Jehnie introduced me to Miss Doug | lass; the first thing did after being intro | duced was to walk to the window. No I l did not shake hands with Miss Douglass No; 1 I said nothing to Miss Douglass 1 hardly l noticed her, No didn't bow to her then I walked to the window and walked right back again.
 Why did you walk to the window? Oh, I | was real nervous. I felt real bad.
 What did you say to Jennie? With quiv- ering voice)-I asked her why she didn't come home. The reason l didn't speak to her in the kitchen was hadn't time
 Won't you state, Mrs. Cramer, if you can the words first used to your daughter? asked her why she didn't come home the night before. She said, Mamma, they wouldn't let me come."
 What was next said 7? I said if you really wanted to come home you could have come, couldn't you? She said, No, they wouldn't let her.
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