Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-06-10

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She then tells of how she had at
tended the races the following day at
Young's request with her brother-in-
law and sister. Young told her to
meet him that evening" as he had
something very important to tell her.
Denies Buying Revolver.
eve arrived at the hotel from the
race track at seven o'clock. On the
way home we stopped nowhere. We
did not stop in any pawnshop. was
never in pawnshop kept by man OF
the lame of Stern. 1 was never in
any pawnshop in my life. a8u
THAT night we did not go near
Sixth avenue. l was not present any
| where when pistol was purchased,
then or at any other time. AS for this
| man Stern, never saw him.
Cali the time, from the moment l
| left the race track on June till l got
| home, both Morgan Smith and his wife
were with me-" 9-.u& ~ r
- Nan Meets Young.
1t was about II o'clock when Young
called her up and asked her to meet
him: II took the train, went to One
Hundred and Fortieth street, and when
| / got to the bottom of the stairs / saw
/ Mr.. Young standing in front OF a
| saloon on the corner. .15v 40
"Mr. Young was talking to a mum
| I did not know who at the time-and
as he saw me coming he nodded his
head for me to keep on going and not
to stop. l walked by them-didn't
recognize them at all. II had not gone
very far when Mr.. Young came walk
ing back of me and whistled. knew
the whistle. 1t was one he had used
/ to attract my attention. The tune was:
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden!' Il.
ct started to walk faster-just play
! ing. He ran up and grabbed hold OF
/ my arm and we, walked up to, the cor
ner, then crossed the street and walked
down to the next corner back to One
Hundred and Fortieth street.
"He explained TO me who it was he
had been talking tot was Mr.. Luce,
his -brother-in-law. ~
ssWe took: a surface car down to
Eighth avenue and One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street. Then we went
into a saloon as he said:
LETS go i'm here and sit down and
have talk He ordered a. glass OF
beer for me, but would not let me
drink it. He said:
al don't want to sit here. What
i will we do-take driver And I says
All right We left there, and went
outside and got into a cab and drove
for an hour or an hour and halt
through Central park. .1,.G..l,5'
i e Young Plans Trip to Europe.
while alone with Mr.. Young in the
saloon and in the cab, he said: Now,
4 Nan, will tell you what it was i had
to say to you this afternoon. l must
go away; l have been trying to plan
and see how could get loutsof it, but
there is absolutely no way; the only
thing for you to do Is to come on after
me; we are going on a slow steamer,
and you must leave on fast one, be-
cause + planned and planned and
planned; besides, told the folks
would go on fishing trip and leave
my wife with Harry Thatcher's wife
He is my chum in England. And on
this supposed fishing trip Twill meet
you, and we can be together for three
| or four weeks. Now, will you do
that?'
II said / supposed would. 1 did
not give him any definite answer, but
did not want to go. Well, we talked
about what we would do when we got
over there, and one thing and another
and finally returned to the saloon"
Young had arranged to meet Luce
| here and GO. home with him. so that
his wife would not suspect that he had
met Nan.
| Young Drinks Heavily.
"While we sat there guess Mr..
Young had Is or 20 drinks Of straight
whisky. I drank very little. He
talked about the way he had been
spending money, and when he had the
money out of his pocket to pay for
some of the drinks he counted off five
| $40 bills and he said: Here, put that
with the rest of your money; put all
that money somewhere so that Luce
will know nothing about it. Don't for
goodness sake make any break and
say you are coming over there. Be-
cause if Mrs. Young ever saw you
again there would he trouble
"He would not let me put the money
in my purse for fear that Luce would
see it. He made me take all my money
and put it in my stocking. Then told
him I was hungry, and he suggested
going over to Luce's table and having
something to eat. He was beginning
to show the effects of his drinking.
So the three of us had something to
IL C0nc1udad on pa oat II