The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-06-03
NO. %

HOI1le, OH the CVCuluS VI thS odhiC
day l received the letter. Winter
steen was at my house the following
Monday, about. eight O'Clock IN the
evening. Knorr was at the house
when Wintersteen came. They met
in the kitchen. Wintersteer looked
very much excited. He looked differ
ent from any other time / ever met
him. He refused glass of beer say
ing he had sore tongue. He said
he hadn't been feeling well. He told
me there was hell up in Bloomsbury.
I thought he wanted to have pri-
vate conversation with Knorr, and so
l left the room and went out in the
yard l asked him what there was
hell up i'll Bloomsburg for, and he
said some one 'had tried to blow up
Waller's house, and that they suspect
ed him. He said he guessed he had
better get out of town, as he was
afraid some one had followed him to
my house. He told me to be careful
not to give away the whereabouts of
Cliff After Mr.. Win:ersteen left,
Cliff showed me $50 that he had
given him. Cliff had a newspaper,
which he said he had given to him.
He read the paper to me. 1t con-
tanned the news of an explosion in
Bloomsbury. Just before Winter
steen left my house, he told me that
if anyone asked where Cliff had been
l should swear that he had been at
my house all the while. His wife he
said would swear that he was at home.
l can't remember the date of Winter
steen's next visit, but it was not very
long after the former time. l met
him on the porch. He asked me if
Cliff was in and l told him he was. l
heard him tell Cliff that there had
been a man in his Office that day,
and that he was afraid he was detec-
tive, but he didn't pay much attention
to him. He made an engagement
with him for three o'clock that after
noon. heard him tell Cliff that
Waller was a son-of-a- bitch. He said
that Waller had hired watchman.
He said that he believed the man who
followed him to Reading was the same
man that had been in his Office. 1
don't remember that he said anything
to Cliff about the way he had come
from Bloomsbury to Reading. The
next time 1 saw him at Reading was
on Tuesday before Thanksgiving in
November. He stayed at my house
Tuesday night Cliff was not at the
house that night. 1t was about half
past three on Tuesday afternoon
when Wintersteen arrived. Cliff had
told me that he was coming. He
asked where Cliff was. 1 told him
where he could find him. He said
that he would go down to hotel Penn
and register his right name, as he had
met man from Bloomsburg He
said "damn it l didn't want to see
him." I don't remember the Blooms
burg mans name. When Winter
steen came back from hotel Penn he
had satchel. He didn't have it the
first time. He went back after it.
He talked some about money. Said
he had left Bloomsburg with SIS, that
he had given Cliff $50, and bought
mileage book for $40. In talking
about the explosion up in Bloomsburg
l asked him how the devil they had
found it out. He said he had give
Cliff money to get out of town.
Cross-examined.-My name is Mrs.
Sallie Cast. sometimes went under
the name of Miss Name Black. Sallie
Hennig is my maiden name My
house in Reading is known as the
Cast house, it has no other name l
have no business. 1 decline to an
swer the question as to how I obtain
my living. Before last Christmas 1
kept sporting house. l believe in a
God and hereafter; 1 never told any
one that 1 didn't believe in God. I
l know J. R. Phillipy. l never told
him that 1 didn't believe in a God,
and that taking an oath was a pure
form. l know Mrs. Lydia Bishops,
but / did not tell her that | didn't
believe in God or hereafter. 1 never
talked to Mrs. J. r. Phillipy on the
above subject | know Sarah A.
Brown, but didn't talk to her about
God. Yes, Cliff had dressing case
in the attic Of my house it contained
, his false whiskers and some other
things There was no dynamite in
the satchel. l never saw any dynamite
, till | came to Bloomsburg. Mr..
Wintersteen made seven trips to my
+ house. | swore at the hearing before
the Justice that he had only made
six trips, but found l had made q
f mistake. Cliff had been living witt
, me about two years. He hac
p been in business before this. never
!. had ANYTHING against Wlntersteen