Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-22

| Hiss LeOnard's Statement.
| The New York Herald, OF Tuesday, pub
fishes tie 10 lowing: Mr.. Smith has made
a statement, which was published in a morn
in; paper yesterday, in which he sfirms tina
| he knows and has known all about Mrs
Smith's acquaintance and correspondence
with Callah7n and that there was nothing
that he did not approve in her conduct
| Her meeting with Miss Leonard two or lhree
times, he said, was promptsd by kindly
sympathy for a woman she considered to b,
| Callahan's victim, and he himself, while ht
| doubted whether Callahan betrayed Miss
| Leonard, looked ON her ss crazy or an ad
| ventures.
MISS LEoNARp's REJoINDER.
This publication reused Miss Leonardo
extreme anger and she spoke with grea
freedom and fuency TO the Herald reporter
| who called on her in her CELL Miss Leonard
is an attractive young woman, slight in fig
| ure, with fine eyes and mouth and manner
of unusual refinement. She is very well edu.
Gated and her command of language is unu-
susl. Nothing but her astonishing self.
possession could be considered 10 indicate
that her character was open to suspicion
ard this is evidently the result of .remeu-
dous nervous tension. Her thoughts were ex-
pressed logically snd clearly, though with
great excitement, and various physical signs
betrayed the nervousness. For example, as
she talked in a sitting posture she tapped her
email left loot repeatedly en- the floor to EN-.
phasize her words, and this was done with
such force that The floor reverberated like q
drum.
"Mr. Smith Gays that he doubts whether
Cal betrayed me, aud yet he says that he
hasn't seen Cal for year and half" che
said, with enc oh, sis. snow, he nsver saw
me ill Cal left me. 1 minated no such
thing. Ii he hasn't seen Cal, how does he
come 10 such a conclusion? I tell you, Cal
- in the city, and Mr.. Smith knows where
ne If, and is in communication with him."
CHARACTERISTIC DETECTIVE WORK
How do know Cal is in town." she con-
tinued. "Fll tell you. After / shot Mrs.
Smith / wanted to leave the room. | could
not stay there with her. At first Dr.. Blondel
and DR.. Phelps would not let me go, and l
insisted that would go or call policeman.
Mrs. Smith begged that no policeman be
called, as she could not endure the publicity.
Finally they let me go when | told them /
was living at No. 124 Lexington avenue IN
der the name Of Harrington. l demanded
my pistol, telling Dr. Blondel that he should
not keep II 10 show 10 alter years as a me-
nlento of what had been dooe ia bis office,
but DR.. Phelps objected, and 1t was left
there. Next morni1g before I was up two
detectives came and talked over the
case with me. They told me Pd have
TO go TO headquarters, aud / told them L
wouldn't go unless they got carriage. One
OF them asked who Eould pay Tor it, and the
other said, 'Ou, Cal will have 10 pay for it.
That's all right That's evidence enough
for me that Cal was the one who had me cent
for. When we got TO headquarters l was
taken into Inspector Byrnes's room, and he
pas very polite and very polite. He wanted
me 10 give up the letters l have from Mrs
Smith 10 Cal. ,old him nothing on earth
would make me give them up. was afraid
when they got them they would take me to
an asylum, and told Inspector Byrnes they
couldn't do that, for l had told the whole
thing 10 a reporter and ne would demand to
know where l was. / hadn'I, you know, but
was afraid of Inc asylum, and / said 90.
know enough of Cal 10 be afraid of it.
THEY DO THIS DIFFERENTLY IN FRANCE.
"Well, when Mr.. Byrnes heard that he
said had got myself in trouble, and two or
three of the detectives came in and sand If /
h Ad told reporter the m alter would all De-
come public. They said they had intended
10 let me 90. All they wanted was that l
should give up the Letters. But said,
YOU can't let ne go. A crime has been CON-
mitted. You must keep me- You see ad
read in Gaborian's stories how the Paris de-