The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-26

Brooklyn she said, ION the afternoon
Of December &c.
J Where is sister, 1 asked Whit
more while standing in the hallway.
she has gone to see Mrs. Heidel,
on Lawrence street he answered.
WHO was she with? L asked.
with that Harry Whitmore told
me.
What Harry?' I asked him.
Harry Hendrickson,' he said, and
closed the door to his rooms.
Il saw Lena last on Christmas even
ing at 1920 O'clock she sobbed.
Mcdonald testified earlier as follows:
Il was a boarder at Whitmore's
house, at 236 Adams street. Whitmore
| always came to Bob's restaurant after
finishing his night work. On the morn
ing of December IS he appeared at
about 1:20 O'Clock. I had last seen him
on Christmas night at the house at
about $3.50 p. M. At the house l had
asked him the night before how he
had spent Christmas. He said; Bum.
WhitmOre Ind Poor Appetite.
''Whitmore told me on the morning
of December 26 at the restaurant that
he had come over to town to get COW
cred, as he had not worked Christmas
night. He looked white and i'll. He
Usually ate heartily, but ate nothing
that morning"
Mcdonald also told how Whitmore
had told him to walker him at the
Adams street house on Christmas
night. He also said that he had usu-
ally been asked by Whitmore to watch
the house il his absence TO prevent
boarders from taking ava furniture.
But on the morning of December 26
Whitmore told him, he said, that he
needn't mind that night as he whit
more) would be at home,
Harry Segal, conductor on Whit
more's shuttle train, testified hat he
saw Whitmore on the Brooklyn bridge
platform at 1:06 o'clock on the morn
ing of December 26. Then ON cross
examination he said that he was not
sure but that it might nave been be
tween 1:06 and LAG. his arriving and
departing times from the Brooklyn
bridge on his Chatham Square shuttle
trips.
81" Employees story shaken.
Caleb e Evans. an elevated dis
patchcr. testified Whitmore had tele
phoned on December - that be was il
and would not work that night.
Startling testimony later, partially
discredited by the defense, was given b!
Henry B.. Kaufman, an Il employee
who. swore that he had seen WhitTnOr'
at nbuut Z y. IN. on Christmas cvc "a
the BROOKLYN bridge In company with
young woman and another man wh'
called himself Dr. Wilson.
Mr.. Simpson in cross-examinatiol
brought out the fact that Kaufman
wasn't sure OF the date. that it nigh
have been December 20.
Frank Elliott, of Boston, was the
asked to stand up in court, and Kauff
man said that he resambled the man h
had seen With Whitmore and the youni
: woman whom is believed to have bee.
l Georgia Dickinson.
I John Fressingcr, another IL" plat
form man, said he had seen Whitmor
[ on the morning of December % on tn
= station platform at about 1:20 o'clock.
= Edwin NJ. Duffy, an Il train dis
= patcher. also swore that Whitmore ha
: %telephoned asking to he relieved fror
t duty on Christmas night.
William g.. Salter, a brother of Mrs
) Lena Whitmore, residing in Schuectedl
IA n. Y, testified that Whitmore had bee
Ultimately acquainted with othe
= women. His testimony was not ma
terial to the issue. Recess was take
with Mrs, Schmitters on the stand fc
n denomination.