Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-16
DEEP MYSTERY
AT LIBRARY IS
Barred AT LAST
SECRET OF SAFE BURGLARY Is
REVEALED
WHISKY OF DIRECTOR OF RE.
Scar HID IN VAULT
Loss of "Medicine" for Young Women
Causes DR.. Jones to Have Conn
bination on Steel Box
Changed

4 last it. is out! The dread secret
been revealed!
All through the trial of Miss Celia
Gleason, on charges made by Miss
Julia Blandy, there have been vague
hints about burglary in the library.
Several witnesses have testified the
combination on the safe was changed.
Who was this burglar and what was
she burgling, for all the library at
tendants, excepting the librarian, the
director of study and research and the
negro page, are "she.' Last night this
deep, dank mystery was unveiled.
Dr. c. J. K Jones is said to have
kept a half pint of whisky in the safe.
DR.. Jones is director of study and
research at the library. He is also
minister of the gospel. He has the
fatherly feeling of pastor for his
flock towards the young women of the
library staff and this fatherly feeling
he exercised in a number of ways. He
was particularly solicitous about their
physical welfare and when one of them
became i'll whisky promptly was pre-
scribed. When they were too i'll to go
to him themselves for whisky they
sent the janitress and the rotund
guardian of the whisky bottle "doled
out the Dose" When the bottle was
not in use it was safely slowed away
in the safe and the latter locked But
someone besides DR.. Jones learned the
combination of the safe. The whisky
disappeared Therefore the combina-
tion of the safe was changed.
These were salient points brought
out in the cross examination of Dr.
Jones by Attorney Herbert ]. Goudge
ct lo hao opin of ~ inUpSti-
cation last night.
Jones Sees Something Shocking
Once DR.. Jones was on the point Of
telling something really dreadful, but
he restrained himself. This was a
reference to coming into the librarians
office when Librarian Lummis was abb
sent and finding Miss Celia Gleason
and Miss Pearl Gleason together. He
said that what he saw on this oc-
'casion shocked him dreadfully. 1t is
promised that this real shocking thing
which DR.. Jones witnessed VIII be
brought out when the defense puts it's
witnesses on the stand. The defense
says it was not really so dreadful,
after all, but that it all depends on
the point of view.
The cross-examination of DR.. Jones
last night was not as interesting as the
night before. A large part of the time
was consumed by DR.. Jones giving
evasive answers to the questions put
to him by Attorney GOudge and requir-
ing the repetition of the questions sew
eral times before a direct answer could
be secured.
When he did not answer evasively he
appealed to the civil service commits
sion, protesting against answering.
When forced to answer directly
whether the various charges he had
made and the copious notes he had
read referred to Miss Celia Gleason he
would reply:
I'm a generalwise."
DR.. Jones Cracks Joke
Once DR.. Jones cracked a joke. 1t
was harmless little joke, but it
tickled him almost to pieces. His chin
whiskers stood UP straight with merri-
ment, and for the rest of the evening
he was in a most complacent mood.
Attorney Goudge was referring to
the incident related by DR.. Jones of
finding an empty whisky bottle in the
work room and detecting strong odor
of liquor.
did you recognize the odor as whis-
ky?" asked Mr. Goudge.
NO replied DR.. Jones' at was not
concentrated enough for that"
Then he softly chuckled all the even
ing.
nat lHlS SdtiiS empty WHISKY bOlLHS
the good doctor found in the work room
might have been one of his own, which
had escaped from the safe, probably
will be introduced in evidence as the
case progresses.
The bearing of Miss Celia Gleason
during the entire trial has been one of
the most interesting features. Where
others have shown heat. she has re
manned calm. She has smiled serenely
while witnesses were trying to make
her out a person who violates all the
rules of the library and social decorum,
at will.
The case will be continued next Fri
day evening.