The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-12-19

the Hawaiian Hotel He never played
poker at my house.
''On June IL some people tried TO get
him into game but he would not go ia. !
| never saw him bet on horses, but
think he did. When he did he would
telephone downtown to some friend
about the horses. / never heard of
him keeping woman downtown. He
was very close-mouthed and never
talked much about them
he talked a good deal about the pain,
he had in his head and suffered muc1
, from the, old bullet wound there He
tod me about how he was shot in the
head
Did you know of Benefits using
mOrphine2" asked a juror
, BENNETT USED MORPHINE.
/ Yes. he took morphine for the pam
The doctors used to give him whiskey
he told me ne used morphine; / am
sure he said so. he told me at my
house. l never saw him take it, He
had neuralgia in his head, and said that
was the reason he took it. / asked him
once if he was not afraid of taking too
much. He said no.
AT one ume-it was the night of
Prince David's luau. after the Prince
had come over the Pali-Bennett came
TO my house. He had been drinking L
had closed up. He wanted to sit and
talk. but took him along with me to
speech there and some. of the boys told
him TO sit dowp. He felt bad about
that / had introduced him. to Prince
David before that. That calling down
Strengthened him up. On the way home
he talked foohshly about committing
suicide, said goodbye and Well meet
on the other side
L felt nervous about him and told
him | would take him home We walk
ed as far as McCullum's house in the
park and then he asked me to go home
and get him strong cup of black eof-
fee. We went back to the house and
made him a cupful. He was on the
back veranda- While the coffee was
boiling he asked me for some plain So
da- l could see him through the win
dow.
Il saw him taking something out of
his packet And put It in@a giasssorfle-
thing white and in little Jumps 1t
struck me then that he was taking
some poison. / took the soda out to
him. He had his hand over his glass
and il was shaking. 1 told him to drink
out OF the glass / had. and he said to
pour II in his glass. / noticed that ii
did not fiZz when / poured it in, but il
made the water look dirty. When he
raised the glass he said something like
Goodbye, and remember me to all the
boys
The minute he raised his glass I hit
ceiling. He said to me. 'Ottmann, you
may think you have done me a favor
but you have not; I tell you ii takes a
lct or spunk to get UP nerve like that
! then gave him his coffee ard took
him home. He did not want the SEN
. try to see him as he went in
: The next morning he came to me
} and had another cup of coffee l called
him inside. / told him IL he had any
such intentions again to go somewhere
, else. He said. I have overstayed my
I limit on this earth anyhow
; He has only been in my house once
; since; that was three weeks ago last
? Sunday. / remember the time he tried
I To take poison as ii was the day before
Z election-November 5, the time Prince
> David came over the Pail. He always
complained of pain in his head. He
r said he could not ride the ColonePs
\ horse sometimes because. he said, Il
4 jars my head too much At times
y thought he was out of his head. H
; would come into my house and si
| down and order coffee and sandwich
. and put down his quarter Then h
4 would walk out. Pretty soon he would
> come back again and ask for coffee
A told him he had already ordered. an
. he would rub his head and say, oh
yes"
SHE KNEW OF INVESTMENTS.
. Miss Comyn, who appears to hav
I been the most intimate friend and con
d fdante that Miss Schneider had, wa
q called to the witness stand and tol,
A Of her last meeting with the dead girl
. They had been talking of Clara's mon
p ey matters, at the girls room in tn
n house where she died.
5 she had told me before about hav
n ling lent some money TO a friend for in
vestment." said Miss Comyn "hi
q name was Campbell I advised her I
4. get IL back from him, and she aske
< him for II. He gave IL back to her tn
n next day. about 800. and when 1 say
v her again she said she had given IL t
a another friend Of hers to invest il 70
- her. with some more money. ] tried :
- get her to get IL hack and keep il i
n her own hands. but she said 1t wa
a safe and that her friend was getting
,e per cent a month out of il. I told ne
n that that looked bad. and was impos
l. sible. She said that she would get tn
n money back. but that If she left ii wit
~ her friend she would have sixteen hun
n dred dollars by New Year When
Iv asked her II 1T was two hundred dollar
- she was going 10 make sixteen hundre
n out Of. she said IL was four hundred
u knew something was wrong. and
said 70 her, You try 70 get your priv
"A riDal back. Clara. and never mind th
ID interest: you try to get your princip;
D back right away
n she knew what I meant and st
n looked at me awfully funny and awfu
of " disappointed.
70 "Tf should lose that money ST
as said. T should not feel like ever livin
D anv more
"A "She looked very sad and worrie'
. 477d 7 sat down beside her and said
her. Don't feel that wav: ~ Won dor
nj get your money back. YOU Just look /;
- your two big strong hands. and the
X 70 to work and earn II all over AGAR
he She only shook her head and locke
C ~ut the window and wouldn't talk.
could not get her tn say the man
as -ane only she said he worked in n
az Government stables and that he W;
I'd -ruch older than she was-about IS
NJ 80 years old. I asked her If she had s.
III rurity for the loan. and she said We
at but when pinned her down to II al