The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-30
TELL OF THE GRAY WOMAN WAS IN THE EMPLOY OF WILLIS TO STEAL THE CHILD AWAY
 FROM MRS. ELLIS. On Her Arrival in Pine Bluff Ellis Grew MeIancholy--Mrs. Ellis Pro-
 tested Against the Persecu- J
 cution by Willis.

Little Rock, Nov. 29.-The exploits Of Viola Gray, alleged to have been a woman detective in the employ of N. P. Willis, in Pine Bluff, Ark, an- other bunch of the letters of Wihis to the little Mary Frances Willis and her mother, Mrs Ellis, and the re- plies to the letters of Willis, some of them burning with pathetic protests against the persecution of the insinu- ations contained in the missives, marked the testimony introduced to. day in the case of w r. Ellis, charg- ed with murder for the killing of Will lis here last July.
 w. J. Williams was the first witness called. He is an insurance agent of Pine Bluff and had known the defend. ant for few months. He was for merly on the police force for some months and knew Viola Gray He had conversations with her and detailed some of them to MT. Ellis Witness said she told him she was a detective, and was down there either 10 steal the child or to get evidence of such a character against Mrs. Ellis that the courts would take the child away from her and give her to her father The woman detective wanted him to help her.
 Witness said Viola Gray told him all about taking a chambermaid from Little Rock to St. Louis. Witness said the woman told him that there would be 5000 in it if he would help her get the little girl; the defendant seemed to be very much worried when he told him about this woman.
 Crosaexamined by Prosecuting At torney Campbell witness said he met this woman some time about the first of February. He said he had not been on the force long when he met the woman. Witness said the second time he saw the woman she sent him note to come to the Antlers' Hotel. She told him she was down to steal that child; that she had the money and was going to get her.
 She told him some of Willis rela, tiyes had sent of box of Christmas things for the little girl and she was satisfied they had never given the things to the little girl, and she Want ed the evidence about that. Witness said he had Mir. Ellis point out the child to him so he could keep track of the little girl and prevent the wo- man from stealing her. He said rne first time he discussed the woman detective with Mir. Ellis he seemed worried tand that at each succeeding discussion he seemed more and more worried. Witness said Viola Gray WAS in Pine Bluff for quite while and that when he met her 1t was on the occasion of her second visit to Pine Bluff; she said she had made three visits to Pine Bluff.
 J. NJ. Reidinger is a citizen of Pine Bluff and has known the defendant six or eight years. lie also knew Viola Gtay. He had been patrolman at the l Union Station, and the defendant had come there sometime in the lare spring to find out If he had seen a party described as Viola Gray, and told him the woman had been at his house and was there for the purpose of kidnapping the little girl, Mary Willis, and asked the policeman to watch the trains and see that she did not carry her away.
 Witness said this occurred in the early spring and the defendant was very much worried, and very much 1 changed fpm his former self. The woman was about Pine Bluff two or three menths, but he never met het and never had any conversation with her.
 1 Crossexamined, the witness said he oouAd not remember the dates and
 that If might fs,ye been in December