Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-28

on your Identification of the woman who, presumably, was in Mr. Holla- days office when he was stabbed. want to be very sure of that identinca- ton. Will you tell me how she was dressedF'
 The witness paused for a moments Thought.
 ''She wore a dress of very dark red" he said at last, with some sort of mar row dark trimming = black, possibly. That's all can tell you about it."
 And the hatT
 sT didn't notice the hat, sir. I only glanced at her."
 But in that glance, Mir. Rogers, did you see nothing unusual, nothing which suggested to your mind that possibly it might not be Miss HolladayT
 Nothing, sir"
 Some change of demeanor perhaps; of expression?
 The witness hesitated
 AI thought she was looking not quite 90 well as usual" he said slowly. "She seemed little pale and worried"
 @Ah! It was dark in the office, was it not, at o'clock yesterday after noon?'
 we had turned on the lights half an hour before, sir"
 '4Is your office well ightedr
 T have light over my desk, sir, and there's another on the wau.''
 sSo you could not see your visitors face with absolute clearnessT
 "No, sir, but quite clearly enough to recognize her," he added doggedly.
 "Yet you thought her looking pale and worriedY'
 ''Yes, sir; that was my impression"
 And when she asked for Mir. Holla- day did she use the words my father as your evidence would suggesty'
 Again the witness hesitated in the ef- fort at recollection.
 No, sir" he answered finally. Her words, think, were, Is Mir. HoIladay engaged at present."
 Tt was Miss Holladay's voiceT''
 q could not say, sir," answered the witness, again hopping the perspira- ton from bis forehead. q have no wish to incriminate Miss Holladay uH- necessarily. I'm not sufficiently well acquainted with her voice to swear to it"
 Well, when you answered her ques- ton in the negative, did she hesitate before entering the private officer
 ''No, sir; she went straight to it''
 ''Is there any lettering on the doorT'
 "Oh, yes. the usual lettering, Fri vate Ofice.'" ts
 So that, even if she were not ac- quaiHted with the place, she might still have seen where to goT"
 'Yes, sir; suppose so."
 "And you stated, too. believe, that you could have heard no sound of an altereation in the private office had one occurredr'
 No, sir; could have heard noth- ing"
 You have been with Mir. Holladay a long time. believe, MT. Rogers?"
 "over thirty years, sir"
 And you are intimately acquainted with his affairsT'
 ''Yes, sir"
 4'Now, Mir Rogers, have you ever, in all these years, run across anything any item of expenditure, any core spondence. anything whatever-which would lead you to think that Mir. Hol- laday was a victim of blackmail or that he had ever had a liaison with a womanT No, sirr' cried the witness. 'FNo, sir, I'm willing to swear that such thing is not possible. I should in- evitably have found it out had it ex- isted." That will do for the present. said Mir Royce. 'T shall want to recall the witness, however, sir" The coroner nodded, and Rogers stepped down, still trembling from the effects of his last outburst I confess that. for my part, I thought we were very deep in the mire.
 The ofiice boy was called next, but added nothing to the story He had gone to the chute to mail some letters. The woman must have entered the office while he was away He saw her come out again, but, of course, did not see her face. He had been em- pIoyed recently and did not know Miss Hollsday.
 Then the physicians who had attend . ed the dead man were called and tes- ttfed that the knife blade had pene- trated the left carotid artery and that he had bled to'death-wss dead. indeed, ! before they reached him. It would . take perhaps ten minutes to produce such an effusion of blood as Rogers had noticed, certainly more than five minutes, so that the blow must have been struck before the woman left the inner ofice.
 The policeman who had responded . to the alarm testified that be had ex- amined the windows and that they were both bolted on the inside. precIud- ing the possibility of any one swinging down from above or clambering up from below. Nothing in the ohice had been disturbed There was other evi- dence of an ImmaterisI nature. and then Mss Holidays maid was called Was your mistress away from home sfternOOny' asked the coro- ner.
 ''Tes. sir. She had the carriage or dered for o'clock She was driven away shortly after that
 And what time did she returny
 ~AbOut 6. sir. Just in tine to dress for dinner
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