The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-06

a nearby restaurant. From the ques- tions asked by Officer RecOr it looked as though an intimatiOn of improper actions between the witness and the girl in question had been going on,, and | the questions were resented most 1 strenuOusly by the witness, who told 1 the officer that any such insinuations were wrong and unjust to both the 1 girl and himself. The witness acknowl- edged that he had talked to the girl | a number of times over the fence, and 1 on one occasion she had talked with
 him at the elevator, but this was in I the day time in plain sight of every body, and the witness said that any
 statement that she had ever been there with him in the evening was a false | hood. Tn reply to a number of ques- lions the witness repied, Whats that to you,' and this was the answer to question as owhether he was the
 one who had telephoned to Sergeant l Connolly, and made the complaint | against the officers. Officer Recor
 claimed to have been in the dressmak- l CTS house for the sole purpose of watch ing the witness and the restaurant girl,
 except on one occasion when he went
 there to see about a lost dog, at which
 time he was sent there by the captain. | This was his first visit to the house. I Miss Cotterel, the dressmakers daugh-
 ter, had told the witness on one occa-
 sion that Recor was in her mothers house to arrange for fishing party.
 In closing his testimony the witness
 caused laugh by saying that the res-. l taurant girl had been gone from the | place for two weeks, and he then said | that he had seen Recor in the dress ! makers house last Saturday He then asked MT. Recor if he was watching
 the restaurant girl and himself at that ' time.
 The next witness was A. Walston,
 who is also employed at tlrs feed com-, panys, and who was with Stirtz and | Sergeant Connolly when, they timed Re- cor in the house. The witness stated that on June he had seen Recor mo-, tlon to Mary Johnson to come out, and | that when she did he gave her a bunch
 of roses. On June 22 the witness stat | ed that Officer Recor- was in the house
 one hour and fifteen minutes, and then l on June 23 he came out, and entering
 the feed place asked whether Sergeant
 Connolly had been arpund, as testified
 by stirtz. On June 24 the witness had
 seen Recor enter the house at S:30
 o'clock in the morning and stay there
 until $40 o'clock. On July 1, he had
 seen Recor and Cooper go into the
 house at S:15 6. n1., and stay there un-
 til 10:58 a. m. Tha witness said that
 this sort of thing had been going on
 for two months. He said that on one
 occasion Officer Cooper had asked him
 how his (Cooper's) girls were, and he
 had also seen Cooper call Miss Cotterel
 out to talk with him. On one occa-
 sion he said he had seen him in tha
 house an hour. Said the witness, If
 you wanted 8 policeman you could not
 possibly get one. On one occasion
 wanted an officer, and I had to go to
 the station house to get one, as that was the quickest way. Commissioner : Thompson asked the witness If he had
 any personal grudge against the accus- ed officers, and he said he had none
 and was only taking the stand as he did for the public good. President Ull-
 man not only asked this witness but
 all the others if they had been prompt sd in their testimony and they all re- piled that they had not Mr. Walston testified that on one occasion when ! Cooper came out of the house he looked
 at nis watch and said, ''My, I have been in the house just an hour" Off,
 cer Cooper asked tfa witness where he
 was when he had heard that remark.
 and MT. Walston replied, Never mind
 where I was. I heard yoI say so. That's aIl"
 ) George Matthews was the next wit ; ness. He is wagon driver, and saw , Recor go in and out of he place in question several times. He had seen 7 Cooper come out of there once.
 l Mrs. J. w. Cottrell, the keeper of I the dress making establishment in l question, was the next witness. She had asked Officer Recor to investigate 3 what was going on in the elevator shaft l but had made him promise not to bring , her into the matter which he had done. He never came into the house except l when he was called in by the witness t l except the time he went to see about l the lost dog. She had sent for him r the first or second week in June. He 7 was not ill the house on June 24 and g was never there on a Saturday, except r on July i.
 Q Mary Johnson, an employe of Mrs l COttrells and the Mary" referred tc e by the other witnesses, was the next l l witness. She testified that Mrs. Cottre T had asked Recor there on account oi l the goings on in the elevator shaft. Int e witness had been working for Mrs. Cot. = trell for three years. Witness thought = that the first time RecOr came to tht d house was about June 1. Mrs. Cottrel = had six girls working for her in tht
 house up to last week when they al e left but herself. The six girls had beer l, in the room when the officers were S there.
 }. At this point in the investigation s Commissioner Daniel Kelley sprung z : bomb shell by asking the witness fish, n had not gone out on the car one nigh