Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19
MT. Doolittle thought abcIt two miles.

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 MT Doolittle said it was half mile nearer han Mir. Peck s house, and referred to t.Ie nap.
 Judge Blydenburgh said something about lothing store L.ll bo!.rd advertisements as to distances.
 Mir Doolittle agreed to drive down in fif- cen minutes to the place, and drive slow. Mir Peck himself appeared at this point. MT. Peck arrived and Mir Dn0i'ttlu direct ed Mir. Peck to produce the letter on the stand. with emphasis on the stand, this being l rebuke to Mir. Jones' who had reached to look at tie letter. Nr. Peek went immedi- atey to the stand and Mir Jones went up to the witness stand and looked at the letter and grumbled at the darkness iD the court room, the window curtains were raised up and more light wae afforded.
 Mir. Peck was there between her first and her second statements any letter delivered to her (Qbjc1tcd to.
 Question changed and witness said the letter present written by himself at re quest of Mir. Kelsey in answer to n note sent | him by his wife, which was on the other side | of the page. Part of the language was wit i ness' and part Mir. Kelseys and the letter | was signed by witness; Blanche was under my care at my house in West Haven; l was | in the Town Clerks office, West Haven, when | received the note from my wife, and at re l quest of MT. Kelsey wrote the note in Mir. | Kelsey's presence. The letter was delivered to my wife by Mir Hinman and by her to Blanche. It was returned to me by my asking for it.
 Did you know that Blanche sent the letter: I know by the conversation with Blanche Objected to. Mir. Jones was delayed from reading the letter by objection from the State who claimed the right of cross exam ination.
 Mir Jones read the note from Mrs Peck to her husband, as follows:
 Dear Ji Jin-Blanche is very much worried. She is afraid if she giveE up her lawyer there will be no one to go bonds for her Will it mako any difference l think she will have to go to jail if she does
 tSigned] ANNIE
 MT. Peck-That was my wife's signature and the letter on the back is the one I wrote.
 Do you know as fact that Blanche can write?
 Mir. Doolittle-What does he know about it?
 Mr. Jones-The witness can best answer the question.
 Mir. Peck-No, she tried to write her name as Annie Zimmerman and had to make her mark. She cannot write.
 What did you do on receipt of that letter from your wife? I showed it to Mir. Kelsey at the Town Clerks office. MT Kelsey di rected me to write the reply, and I followed his directions as he told me to write the best could, not in detail but the letter is about every thing he told me to write. He was at the time the note came to me telephoning to New Haven, trying to get connection with Judge Henry Stoddard
 Mir. Jones-In consequence of what had occurred did you verbally offer any protec tion to the girl?
 was told by Justice Booth to get her story out of her the best way I could. told her about the reward
 What did you talk about the money for ? 1 thought money was good anything to ta about. Laughter
 I told her the town of Orange had offered $1, 900 and Malley another $1, 900, and if she turned States evidence she would get well paid and get light sentence. Yes, 1t part of the bargain that her counsel Judge Blydenburgh, be discharged Yes, the State would prosecute and provide her counsel.
 Mir Doolittle-And Malley would pay her $1. .0O0. Laughter
 Witness-Dr Painter saw her Mir. Pick cit was there before her second statement; MT. Pickett said to the girl the State generally easy with those who turned States evidence and would no doubt be easy with her MT. Pickett there about aN hour; this was before she made her second state ment MT. Kelsey and Dr. Painter were in the house with me when Mir. Pickett there they were down stairs and Mir Pickett and Mir. Reilly were up stairs Reilly repre-, sented himself friend of Blanche Doug lass after Pickett came down stairs we three were waiting for him down stairs; yes, I told Blanche MT. Kelsey was first select man and town agent and his promises were good
 Did you advise her and urge her to accept the proposition? I did Dr. Painter was at my house at daylight with letter from somebody in New York that he wanted to give her; I went up to the postoffice MT. Pickett went to Mir. Kelsey's" to dinner and came down there at ? o'clock and got her statement and at o'clock the all-night session of the jury was held No, sir; from that time forth she had no further to do with her counsel, to my knowledge Mir. Blydenburgh came out with the man Ryder and she sent word to him that she bad dispensed with him. Mo- she didn't see him Yes, I saw the letter Dr. Painter brought there; the letter is here.
 Mir. Jones-Let's see that letter, if you please? Letter passed to him and exam ined all round
 After sparring between counsel Mir. Jones said-We propose to show that Dr. Painter one of the jury, and one of those much inter ested in the case, went to New York and in duced a friend of that girl to write letter to this girl telling her what protection she would have, and giving the word of Dr. Painter as to inducements, etc.
 The Kelsey Peck letter to Blanche was now read as follows
 If Blanche does she sIys she will have the word of Mir K laey that she shall have protection.
 Signed J. II PECK.
 Mr, Peck-Yes, sir, that's me his sigma ture
 Did MT. Kelsey promise she should have protection? I read the letter to him. I added the next line after my name.
 Mir Jones-I will read it if I can.
 Witness-I signed my name and read the whole to him.
 MT Jones-Read the last
 Mir Ke sey has just for Judge Stoddard to come right out as her adviser in place of Rlyde.
 The Sadie Munroe letter, brought by Dr. Painter to Blanche, was then read, as follows To Miss Blanche Douglass
 Kindness of Dr. Painter. Friend Blanche
 Dr Painter has been here this ming and tells me you refuse him tell him ything more that may know. For God eake, my friend, do what o,,Hf I'm, #