The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-22

roof?' She said He was sitting still. =
I said, Did you pun the curtain upa'
She said, No, I just pulled the curtain
aside and looked OUT ] said, What
did you do then?' She said, / went
into the middle room and to the bureau
drawer and got Mr.. Brennan s gum and
put two blank cartridges in 1T, and
Told Tommy.
s She said: | went in and told Tom
my | thought somebody was trying to
break into the house. She said, Tom
my got up and listened, and l told him
not to make any noise, as it would
scare e. the children She said, Tommy
nsteined and said he didn't hear any
- ! said, What did you doq' She said,
Il left the revolver on the commode. )
!. said. What commode9' She said,
nOn little stand near the couch where
tommy was sleeping
SAID, Did you take the shells
g w. !. She said, nNo.n I said,
i, Was Y as there a Light there7" ''Yes,o
saS Sald' di6 ion the same stand" said
went to bedy 01 s aGt 6 ShG v sald thin
any further Of it9O She said, HNo. ,
| said, nDid you go back to the window
and look any further out?'' She said.
NO" I said, "Why didn't you7'}
She said, II didn't hear any further
noise and WASH scared, She said,
49, l., Went to bed to Sleep" I said,
= What time, was thatq' She said, q It
must have been half-past eleven.'' T
SAD hoy dc 90 you locate the time9'
iEshe said, "@When 1 went back it was
you know it was twelve o'clock9''
she SAID, II heard the courthouse
Chimes I said, "What were they
ringing9" She: said, bringing tie
hour Of twelve.' I said, HWhat
CHINESE" She said "Coourthouse
chlmes.' A court: officer was standing
there and he said courthouse chimes
ana not ring after 1890, and she seemed
kind Of embarrassed. 1 L
She Was Afraid.
ing with Tommy, # she c was AS afraid 1.-THE the
man would come into the house. She
said she was afraid. She said that She
| hadn It been in the house long, that the
chlldren were nervous that night, and
she then went back to bed. And I said,
,,Weren t you afraid when you went
back to bed and hadn' It looked?' And
sI3, said. Yes. [ was afraid I said,
why dldn It you take the gun with
youg' And she said, Il WASH It thinking
about it. I said, Are you sure YOU
left it?' She said, Yes, L left it on the
commode near Tommy's COUCH T asked
her what kind Of a gun it was. She
said, Little black gun, about that long
(lnd1catflngl, five chambers in it, ]
sald, Had you ever looked at the gun
said IBID you S op pau it S3e s Rsa sa Gd's
I broke it open I asked her, ANY
shells in it. She said, NO said
! How many shells when YOU left It on
the 'standq' She said, Must have been
! only two blanks in it when I left it on
the stand. She said she fell asleep
then and didn It remember any more. 8
',When next did you have any con
nectlon with this defendant9' "Tht
next Sunday..'' ,..-. .s
! "She described the man the same a.
at the previous interview. She said sht
first thought it was Mr.. Brennan, bu
then she saw it could not be. I asked
her if there was any light in the room
she said there was not. asked her i
the shades were down, she said the,
were. ! asked her how, at that time o:
night and without any light, she coult
distinguish the mans features. sh
said she didn't know
"Did you have any other converse
ton with hers" eyes, sir; on Mon
day night at the city hospital.' -:
| -, . How Man Got In. -
II asked her how she supposed tn,
man got into the house. She said h
1 got into the HOUSE, thru the window owe
4 the shed roof. 4 asEoi her if the win
dow was open. She ,said 1T was ope1
about a footyirI ASKED her why it wa
OPEN, she said because it was swelle(
and she could not close it,
j told her that the window was close,
that night and she said, "Well, then
I don't know anything about it."
j, ~'sNow, after you had talked to tn
defendant, did you go up and examin
that houses' ri did, on Monday.n
Did you examine the shed9' ="
did -
|"What did you do?n IT locke
; out of the window onto the shed; An
! I examined 1t from the ground.'
! Mr.. Cary objected to any testiman..
{ showing the condition Of the shed O.
the Monday following the commissio
Of the crime. The objection was sus
tanned until it was shown that the she
was in the same condition on Monda
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