The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-30
- ADAMS
WOULD KILL HER



the letter. and to answer In caro-
Attorney y. II. bumps. In the Ma
Ic building.
orles w. Meyers. the lake fireman
Adams met In Columbus. and
eove deposition derogatory to
~ character, was cross-examined
attorney Bumps, Thursday after
Bumps laid considerable stress
the fact that Meyers had double
osed" Adams, which the witness adj
lifted almost with pride. taking all
the sting out of the answer. II
~ giving him q taste OF his own
fotcine." said Meyers while Adams
oirmed In his chair.
John A. Adams plot to defame little
osa REM. vile enough for the ex-
pifation OF the most perverted VIII
~ In the lowest and most brutal
fade OF cheap melodrama. was laid
ore. Thursday. In Judge Connolly's
curt. where Adams Is on trial on the
barge OF Turing Rosa into fake
marriage.
Adams lost his self-satisned, leer.
ng smile when Waldo w. Robinson. a
ea-going engineer from Boston. took
he stand. Adams paled. then flushed
deep red. During Robinsons trip
hammer testimony. the defendant fair
v writhed In his chair with nervous
hess. II was triumph for the prose-
tuition. and for little Rosa REM.
whose face went strangely white
hough she held her head proudly. as
bne indicated by that very vile story
hat was being told for her, instead
pr against her. as had been planned.
Robinson, a man OF about As, had
he typical sailor bluntness.
Il met Adams ON the levee In Gin
finnati, March ~, just at DUSK" he
bald. II was looking over some boats
when the stranger accosted me. Ho
|old me that he wanted me 10 make
bome dispositions for him, and took me
bver TO the Rand hotel TO his room.
hitter getting me lot of clothes, In
fluding shirt that was too big. and
red necktie.
Practices Writing Names.
''He had me practice writing a lot
pr names In different writing. | wrote
my own name: then Walter Grin
bell. then Sidney Johnson He de-
he best for his purpose. He explain.
ed that | was TO be witnesses for
him In case, and he wanted to use
me right practiced writing all even
ing. Then he bought me a 1O-cent sup
per. lucent bed, and the next MORN
ing bought me 10-cent breakfast OF
coffee and rolls. Then we resumed
the practice OF writing fake names in
| 10 ~
sition that he had all made out and
was going to have typewriter. was
Ito sign the name OF Walter Grinnell
Ito II. and was to swear that I used to
know Rosa REM In Louisville. Ky:
that had often seen her I'm free
|and-easy' and that | had seen her nick
up men In the place and take them TO
a resort on Second-aye. | was to go
before a Justice OF the peace and
swear to that.
Then said to Adams, why |
haven't been in Louisville since 1854
and IL the justice should ask me any
questions, would get into trouble
right a-ay. But Adams said he would
tx that, by getting a Louisville CITY
directory mt the public library.
could look up the names OF streets
and people and be able to act as
though knew the town well.
Fiend's Plot Revealed.
Adams was going to get me n
Prince Albert coat. and dress me all
up. and | was 10 tell the Justice thar
l was a commercial traveller. and tust
repeat that. over and over, IL he asked
me about my self.
Then | was TO come TO Detroit and
appear as w. w Robinson. a CONNER.
cial traveller. | was to be witness IN
court here. | was TO swear that met
Rosa REM on train between Louis
vile and Cincinnati and that ap-
preached her. telling her that used
TO know her in Louisville: and that
/ had asked her TO stop of I'm Cincin-
natl for the night. | was to swear
that she replied she had no money,
whereupon | suggested that | had
plenty. Then. was TO swear we went
TO hotel. and registered as man AMI
wife. staying there together until the
next morning. when | put her on the
train and sent her TO meet her uncle
who was TO turn out TO be Adams.
I'VE had 1t all arranged. and Adams
suggested that we go out TO dinner,
when two officers walked into the
room. and took Adams into one room.
anc left me in the other. Then they
questioned me. and | admitted that I
had known Adams only seven hours"
The officers we're Detectives John
p. Plug. OF Cincinnati, and George
Larkins, OF Detroit. ..arkins had
trailed Adams, and the two sleuths
were In room No. 43l, next 10 the one
In which Adams was plotting with
Robinson, during the whole transac-
ton. They heard the conversation
through an open transom.
Detective Corroborates story.
Detective Plug then took the stand.
and corroborated Robnson's testi.
mony. He said that he took Adams
10 the station where Adams was
"saucy," declaring: Il can shape up
a case To suit myself II want to, and
It's none OF your business"
Not in the state Of Ohio. you can't"
Detective Plug told him. Adams was
reprimanded and released. but Larkins
kept the paper with the signatures.
which Robinson had been practicing.
Mrs. Joseph Morse. proprietor OF the
rooming house. at No. 55 Elizabeth-st
west, where Adams was finally arrest
ed. testified that Adams .old her Rosa
was his little sister. but tried TO get
one room. Mrs. Morse didn't think IL
right. and. insisted that they take two
rooms. They were there from the
Friday before Thanksgiving, until the
Saturday after that holiday. During
the latter days. Mrs. Morse heard Rosa
crying frequently. Her suspicious
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