Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-14

heard in MT Hoadley's office that Webb was at the bath and she went there to get some stock. She had no interest in the ring, but the interest of friendship She did not like to see the man lose his ring.
 | According to MT Mahoney's evi- dence 1t was mostly high balls and such drinks Webb had. not beer. l When he heard Dunais hail Webb he thought old friends had met and left them. There was no woman in the party then.
 Dunais then told his story. He said that he had been at work at a Lithuanian wedding in Brooklyn and got of at o'clock. About 1:15 he l reached Harrison avenue and saw | Webb and woman talking there. Webb hailed him thus: Hello, off, cer; in hurry?" Webb said he was going to have bath and Dunais said he was going also. He changed l his clothes at the station house and when he came down he saw Webb and woman talking near the en- zine house. Before they reached the | police station house Webb said that | he did not think he had enough money, to which Dunais replied that it did not make much difference, he had plenty. Webb asked him If he had hundred, and Dunais said he did not have that amount. He asked Dunais if he had fifty and again Du- | nais answered in the negative. But I have $35 and you can have that said Dunais and Webb took the money Webb and his woman friend spoke for some minutes at the cor ner and walked down the street little ways. Dunais said he got rather nervous then about his money and when Webb came back suggested to him the advisability of giving him some security. While the idea did not exactly offend Webb he did not seem | to like it. He made some suggestions about security and finally gave Du- nais his ring. Then they went into the bath house, gave their things in- | to the rubber's custody and had their baths. Dunais said he took one drink of the cognac, and that it was Webb | who had the bottle. Webb took two swigs and got very sick. After the baths they went up stairs to their rooms, which adjoined each other, and Dunais put Webb's ring on his | finger and kept it there until he left it at McGrath's.
 About 10 on Thursday morning Dunais went back to the bath with | Savers and saw women there. She was talking about the ring and Du- nais told her to have another guess. Webb came down from his room and asked him where the ring was. Du- nais told him 1t was all right and he could have 1t when Webb would pay him back s35. Webb said if the ring was in hook he would get 1t out, and Dunais told him it was in hook already, adding "It's in hook with me. You raised $35 on 1t last night from me-" Webb denied he had bor- rowed any money but Dunais insist ed he had. Dunais said his reason for not telling the policemen where the ring was and how it came into his possession was that Webb was sup posed to be man of finance in this locality and he did not wish to have 1t known that he had been hard up and thus hurt his reputation. Dunais said he has known Webb for some time and he mentioned an instance or two taking place in the north end. Webb remembered the parties men toned, but could not recall the offi- cer. Both were positive about the woman incident in the matter, and NUahh ine tgfn ufa Tl,tn o iS Whn had the cognac in the bath.
 Mir Herschel threw good deal of light on the situation He said Webb told Miss Clayton the key of the off, flee was in his clothes. She searched his clothes, but seemingly 1t was for the ring, not for the key, for she ex- claimed "The ring is not here.' She opened the two envelopes that con- tained Webb's purse and things and which were placed In the safe when he went to the bath. When Webb came down stairs he insisted that the man he met at the club last night had his ring. Yet in the next breath he was equally positive that he had the ring on when he went to his room Herschel called up Johnson. the rubber. and he remembered see- ing the ring on Webb's finger as he was rubbing on the slab. and that when Dunais left his room in the morning he had ring that looked like Webb's on his fingers. Herschel spoke with Webb about the matter and Webb admitted that he might have given the ring to the man he had been with, Dunais. Webb occu- pied room 12 and Herschel said that he found s1.50 behind the mirror there In his search for the ring. This closed the testimony. It was then o'clock and the board retired to de- liberate. About 10:15 Dunais was sent for. but he could not be found and soon after the board announced a postponement until next Wednes- n af