San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-30


nected on any Grnrr IWuau :ace as
saw on hers that morning
IL am Mrs. Mary Winters" she said as
stepped into the room Il am here as
witness in the case to come before the
coroner this morning"
gave her a seat ia the private office,
and she just sat there ;.Il cried until the
coroner came in. remember that | laid
my spray of flowers down only for a mo-
ment and she took 1t IN her arms, as she
might have taken Il baby, and cried over
that. knew from that
Oh, you want her testimony. do you?
Well, there wasn't much Oft. She cried
a great deal. wrUng her hands Il great
deal, and got al tangled up in her an
swers. She actel 10 uIA like Il woman
who was trying to talk about something
of which she knew nothing At last she
broke down entirely.
Il cant 90 ON with the farce" she
cried. You can take me away to prison
if you like. nave testified falsely about
the coachmanS name. He was my own
brother! His name was Emmett Gould.
| am to blaine for his awful death. Stop
your inquiry &..d take me to prison"
And from that time to the time she
left the stand nothing more could be got
ont Of her. Only for the presence of the
officer who had made the original in
quiry at the Melville house she would
doubtless have been detained by the
coroner as Il Suspicious person. This
that she could have had anything to do
with the murder, and the coroner be
iieved him 1t SEEMS that the officer had
located her il another part of the house
mt the time thu murder WAS committed,
and couldn't abandon his theory. He
knew great deal about who didn't
commit the murder, but when it came to
finding out who did he very promptly
gave 1t Up. Somehow these police OH
GERS have an irresponsible way OF giving
everything up--except their places and
their salaries!
lou needn't object to that last sem
tance. Mr.. Charles Gates. You are too
sharp man not to know it to be true.
Mrs. Clark Melville's testimony is the
next on my record. You want that, l
suppose. in order to keep the connection.
\ very Gigaified witness was MIS-. Clark
Melville. 1t Disguised me to see how
they all cringed before her. Her testi-
mony amounted to nothing so far as the
real point Of the inquiry was concerned.
| can't see what the coroner wanted her
for, unless lie was interested with her in
clearing Mrs Mary Winters of the sus-
picion which hal somehow become at
tached to her since the night of the muir
der.
You would thank me to write down
what she said, ell, and have less to say
regarding my own impressions: | tell
you she didn't say mach Of anything.
III supply You with an exact copy Of it,
combining the questions and the answers
50 as to make it Ineligible Make what
You can of it:
Il WAS subpRnaed at my own request.
can tell You nothing about the unfor-
tunate affair which, for the time being,
has brought my family and myself into
public notice. am informed, however,
thar anything relating to any of the per
sons now. under suspicion will be ac-
cepted 10y the coroner If | am to rely
upon the public prints and the hints Of
the public officials, member of my
household is one OF the suspected parties.
| refer to my housekeeper, Mrs. Maggie
Winters, and am here in her interest.
Don't think by that that intend TO
argue for her. 1t is my purpose only to
repeat Il strange story she told me few
days after the murder. She told it II
confidence, and only repeat it now with
her consent.
"She came from New England vii
lage at the request of her brother-the
murdered mal--in search of her hv5-
band. Perhaps the word husband eX-
presses too much in this case. should
have said i'll search of man who welded
her one day, and the next became lost in
the great mass Of Federal troops march
ing south. Three days after her arrival
in New York IT, brother and sister en-
tered my employ.
1.-The records Of that portion of the
Federal army to which my hOusekeeper's
husband belonged show him to have
been accidentally killed in hospital
camp in Virginia in the winter of 1883.
The letters my housekeeper received from
this city. both before and after the date
of her husbands death, according to the
army records, show her husband to have
been alive and we'll here. These letters,
of course, We're written by her brother,
and it was her brothers hand and brains
that urged and guided her on in the
hopeless search.
"All the years she lived in my house the