The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-13


 The first witness today was Sigvard library He was called for the purpose of refuting Miss Gingles' statement that she read the papers at the library on January last. She stated on the stand that she read the advertisements of po- sitions.
 we do not have newspapers for the use of the public" said Mir. Sorenson. I've get the papers quarterly and then they're bound up in big volumes We do not get them daily"
 On cross examination by MT. O'Donnell, representing the defendant, MT. Sorenson stated there were tables in the reference room where the public could read news papers.
 Mrs. Edna Wolf, matron at the La Sale street railway station, told of two interviews which she had with Miss Gingles in January subsequent to the first alleged attack and prior to the Wellington hotel bathroom mystery. On the first visit to the depot Mrs. Wolf found the lacemaker in the ladies wait ing room. She complained of feeling faint. Mrs. Wolf had forgotten the incl dent when Miss Gingles reappeared week later and reintroduced herself.
 Lacemaklng Secret.
 T asked her what I could do for her and she said she had been arrested on complaint of Miss Agness Barrette. She said she had been bound and cut in the Wellington hotel and her clothes taken away. I asked her if there was any suggestion of white slavery made to her and she said there had not. She said Miss Barrette abused her because she would not give up her secret of lace making.
 Again I asked here if there was any thing l could do for her. and she said, Well, if anybody comes here tell them you found me weak and hungry. I haven't eaten for three days I told her I would say nothing except about her first visit when she appeared sick. About an hour later she appeared with a stout woman. The woman asked if it was true that Ella had been at the station and was suffering l from weakness due to lack of food" MT. O'Donnell then cross-examined the | witness
 Did Ella appear sick and falnt?" Yes"
 Did she tell you anything about being taken from her home by two women?' Yes; she said Miss Barrette and an- | other woman had taken all her laces and had then taken her to the hotel" You mentioned white slaveryY" Yes; we always ask all young women who come to the depot and seem to be lost whether any one had approached | them"
 Girls Questioned. l "Is it then so prevalent that you aues- | ton all friendless girls who seek your as- | sistaDce?"
 l Yes"
 Did Ella know what white slavery pleant7'
 l Yes" | William H. Luthart, clerk at the detec- l tive bureau, testified that he had inspect ed the lace in dispute between Miss Bar rette and Miss Gingles. | Were you in the office when the night | gown and robe were brought in?" | Yes"
 Did the gown appear to have been | laundered?"
 'No sir, it seemed to be new. It bore 1 the name of "A. Barrette'' in clean ink | To satisfy myself that the ink had not l been through the laundry with the gowr | I mcistened the writing and it blurred
 The testimony of the gown was intro
 duced by the state to show that the night
 gown in which Miss Gingles was found 1T l the hotel bathroom did not belong to Mis-.
 Barrette, but had been purchased by Mis-.
 Gingles and the name "A. Barrette'
 written thereon. Detective Joseph Kinde | gave evidence damaging to Miss Gingles l narrative of the attack in the bathroom
 "We examined the bathroom transon
 and Miss Barrettes room The lock ha,
 not been tempered with and the ledge o
 the transom was covered with undisturbet
 dust, showing that nobody had crawlet
 over it as claimed by Miss Gingles."