Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-03

paper bore the words: Date of will, Jan /,
1885, "Roundtree'' and "Knett,' or
Knott" From the shape of the paper he
took it to be some sort of wrapping or Gov
er for another paper. The ends were torn
and not cut
After the judges death a number of old
papers and letters, which Col. Sterett and
Mr.. Holt took from a closet upstairs were
destroyed They were personal letters to
the Judge of sort that he would probably
not want any one ever to read Judge Holt
made II practice to preserve all his let
tiers and papers, even old pamphlets and
circulars that were sent to him through the
mail After his death all his papers of
value were taken away by the safe deposit
company.
Mr. Worrhington showed the witness The
alleged will and asked him where he saw 1t
first
AT the register OF Wills"
do you know how it got there?'
Indeed. do not"
You are familiar with the judges hand
writing Do you think he wrote that pa
per-
81 don't think he ever did,
Referring to the matter OF MI Devln
visit to his pool room after Judge Hoits
death StrotherS said:
"A gentleman came IN one day and asked
NE if my name was Charles Strothers.
said II was. and he wanted to know IL
recognized him i told him didn't and he
told me who he was ] asked him II he was
the executor under the will. and he said he
was
Il asked him what he thought of the
will He said he didn't know anything
about 1t but that the Judge had given him
a good send-of- that might come in handy
for him some time. and that there was
big pile in it for him
I told him that I had never seen him
about the judges house He said no. that
IT was a darker-coIored man that let him
In when he used to call"
After the judges death, the witness said
he went over about a bushel OF visiting
cards that had been preserved in tie
house
Did you find any of Mr. Devlin's cards
among them"
Il id not find one"
Strothers said that when the judges
health began TO fail Mrs Washington Holt
wrote TO him, and invited him to come and
live with them He declined. for he said he
was too old to be a pleasant visitor. and
would get along well enough where he wal-
StTothers, when you wrote letters for
Judge Holt to Miss Hynes, how did you ad-
dress them
ITO Miss Elizabeth Hynes"
Not to Miss Lizzie Hynesr'
mo, sir
How do you remember that%'
Because l used TO hear him call her Liz
lie, and sometimes i would forget and ad-
dress her letters that way. Every time he
would tear up the envelope and make me
write it again"
the witness was asked how many letters
he had written to Miss Hynes
I wrote several"
'Only severalT'
That depends on how many several
means
How many do you mean by IT,
Oh anywhere from two to a hundred
In answer to another question, Strothers
said that some time after Judge Hollis
death he made copy of the judges diary
which was then in the possession of Mrs
Sterett After the funeral the servants
We're in charge of the house but SO far as
had
to the papers
When was it that the judge and the
colonel used to make fun of Mr.. PETERS
whisksrS?''
L don't recolIect that. but 1 know II
was about couple of years after 1 went
there before there was much POPULARITY
between the two gentlemen"
Mr.. Darlington tried to get the witness
TO TX the date apparently in the hope that
he would name time before the Kansas
man entered the Senate His efforts fail
ed. however. for Strothers said that his
recollection was less precise on that than
II was on any other point
Stroihers was asked what paper it was
that ne read from to the judge about Major
Throckmorton being in trouble. He said
II was either The Star or the Post
What was the nature of that trouble?''
Il am not sure, but / think IL was some
tEIng about the major holding two posi-
uons at the same time; that he was in the
army and also in the street cleaning de-
partment in New York
wv hen l finished reading 1t the judge told
me that he had assisted the major out of
trouble before 1t then that he made
the remark that Major ThroC kInorton was
the biggest scoundreI on earth"
Cross-Examined.
Further. the witness said that since the
judges death he and his wife had lived
in the house Otherwise no use had been
made of it Strothers said that the stable
was rented to ex-Detective Block and a
coIored man, a friend of his, also stabbed
his horse there
Who rented them the stabIsp"
Il did"
TO whom was the money paidg'
TO me-
What did you do with the money!
ION yourselfH'
Yes. sir
How much rent did they payr'
Mr. Block paid 81 moath The other
fellow paid S-sometimes
Have the Holt heirs ever promised to
judge INC
mo, sir. He paid me. and they don't
owe me anything"
money for anything?'
No. sir. they have not
StrOthers said that he paid no rent for
the Holt house At this point Mr. Darling
ton produced several large photographs of
Judge Hollis property at the corner of New
Jersey avenue ana = street southeast 1t liz
fine Old fOur-stOry house with handsome
grounds about it The photographs showed
that the stable Is daubed over with a big
sign, which informs the public that coal,
wood and Ice are for sale there in large or
small quantities
Strothers admitted that he painted the
sign there He said that since he had zone
out OF the pool room business he had eked
out the income from his little shop by
doing such odd jobs he could get
why did you quit your pool room?7 he
was asked
Because 1 couldn't get my licen.e re-
newed
Weren't you arrested and fined for al
lowing minors to play pool?"
Yes, 81: but that time / was made to
suffer for anothsrs misdoings."
weren't you policy piayerr'
NeH, have played policy sometimes"
Gets Interesting.
The witness identified a number of let
tiers as some of those that were written
by him at Judge Hollis dictation. For
some reason that did not appear on the
surface Mr.. Darlington paid particular at
tentiOn to some Of the details of thu hand
writing.
Il notice." said the lawyer that Won
made your periods in 4 very peculiar way"
Now. l object to my brother injecting
n tic