New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-18

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Again the witness hesitated in the eff
fort at recollection.
No, sir he answered finally. "Her
words, think, were, is Mr.. Holiday
engaged at present? y
1T was Miss Holidays voice?''
Il could not Say, SIR answered the
witness, again hopping the perspira-
ton from his forehead ST have nd
wish to incriminate Miss Holiday I'M
necessarily. I'm not sufficiently well
acquainted with her voice to swear
to it,
well, when you answered her ques-
tion in the negative, did she hesitate
before entering the private Officer"
mo, sir; she went straight to it."
rs there any lettering on the door?'
"Oh, yes, the usual lettering, .Pri-
yate Office"
$50 that, even if she were not ac-
qualnted with the place, she might still
have seen where to go?'
Eyes, sir; suppose So"
"And you stated, too, I believe, that
you could have heard no sound of an
alteration in the private Office had
one Occurred?"
mo, sir; 1 could have heard moth
ing"
"You have been with Mr.. Holiday
q long time, 1 believe, Mr.. Rogers?''
"Over thirty years, SIR
"And you are intimately acquainted
with his affairs?"
Eyes, SIR
''Now, Mr.. 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 Mr. Hol-
laday was a victim of blackmail or
that he had ever had liaison with a
Woman?"
mo, sir"' cried the witness. ssNo,
sir! I'm willing to swear that such
thing is not possible l should in
evitably have found it out had it ex-
isted."
THAT will do for the present." said
Mr.. Royce. 81 shall want to recall the
witness, however, SIR
The coroner nodded, and Rogers
stepped down, still trembling from the
effects of his last outburst confess
that, for my part, thought we were
very deep in the mire
The Office 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 en-
ployed recently and did not know Miss
Holiday.
Then the physicians who had attend
ed the dead man were called and tes-
titled that the knife blade had pene-
trated the left carotid artery and that
he had bled to death-was dead, indeed,
before they reached him. 1t 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 office.
The policeman who had responded
to the alarm testified that he had ex-
amined the windows and that they
were both bolted on the inside, preclud-
ing the possibility Of any one swinging
down from above or clambering up
from below. Nothing in the office had
been disturbed. There was other evil
dence of an immaterial nature, and
then Miss Holidays maid was called
WAS your mistress away from home
yesterday afternoon?'' asked the coro-
ner.
Eyes, sir. She had the carriage or
dered for 3 o'clock. She was driven
away shortly after that"
''And what time did she return?''
"About 6, sir. Just in time to dress
for dinner
did you notice anything unusual in
her demeanor when she returned?''
The maid hesitated, fearing doubtless
that she might say too much.
miss Holiday had complained CT a
headache in the morning. she said,
after a moment. "She was looking
bad when she went out, and the
drive made her worse instead of better.
She seemed very nervous and ILL I
advised her to lie down and not dress
for dinner, but she would not listen.
She always dined with her father and
did not wish to disappoint him. She
was in a great hurry, fearing that he'd
get back before she was ready
There's no doubt in your mind that
she was really expecting him?'
"Oh, no, sir! She even went to the
door to look for him when he did moi
come. She seemed very uneasy about
him.
That was one point in our favor Ger
tainly
.And when the news of her fathers
death reached her how did she bear
it?"
ttShe didn't bear it at all, SIR, an.
swered the maid catching her breath
to choke back a sob. "She tainted dead
away Afterward she seemed to be in
a kind of daze till the doctor came"
THAT is all Have you any ques-
lions to ask the witness, Mr.. Roger"
'Only one,'' said my chief, leaning
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