The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-30

his direct examination. He said the reason he. noticed Viola Gray in the crowd was that the conductor on the train had told him she was a woman detective.
 On redirect examination the wit ness was asked to describe the wo- man. He was shown pohtos of her and said they were pictures of the same woman who called herselsSViola Gray. These pictures xefe aken in negligee attire es-of them silting oy table on DaI which were bottIfs and glasses raf attorneys for thi state objecte hs these pictures going to the js.YsAnd the objection Tas sus- taiyed for the present.
 Frank Stewart, constable of Pine Sipff. had also met Viola Gfay when she was there. He said hf had con yefsaiiens with the womab and that he had related them to tBe defendant in the latter part of the winter or ear ly spring. The woman bid him she wanted to find out some one who had been out with Mrs. Ellis and if they could find someone wAf had been out with her that they (thy constable and the woman) could @ge. piece of mon l ey.' The constable said Ellis had come to him anu asked him if there was not some way to get the woman out of town and stop her from an moving his wife. He said he took steps to get the woman out of town and the attorneys for the state ob jected to his telling what these were The court and attorneys retired into chambers to argue the admissibility of the evidence. The court ruled the evidence was competent.
 He said the steps taken were that he took the matter up with the as- sistant chief of police and they ar ranged to have her caught in a room with a man and arrested for violating the city ordinance. Witness said she was so caught, but he did not stay for her trial and did not know what was done with her.
 Witness said there was a marked change in the actions of the defend ant from happy, cheerful man to a Respondent and morose man.
 | Cross -eamined the witness said he could not fix a date, but he thought the time Ellis came to him and told him woman was there trying to kid nap the child ana asked the witness to help him, was some time in Jan uary. He related practically the same story ill the cross-examination as ne had in his direct examination. He did not remember all the conversa- 1 tions he had with the defendant and could not remember all that had been said in these conversations. Witness said Jack Tnoxel was the man who I went out with the woman. Witness said if the woman had told him she was trying to kidnap that child he would have arrested her
 Ed Francis assistant chief of police of Pine Bluff, said he and Will Ellis had been chums. He said Ellis was always jolly good fellow until this trouble. He said he knew Viola Gray and had conversations with her. sno wanted him to assist her in some de tectiye work; that she was employed by MT. Willis and got $150 per month and S5,000 in addition if she could get evidence detrimental to the character of Mrs. Ellis or kidnap the child, ana for the purpose of leading her On he agreed for the sum of S2,O00 to as. slst her, but he agreed to do so as a friend of Will Ellis and that he re- ported to him every conversation he Lad with her. He was to get Ellis out and get him drunk and see if that would not cause his wife to do some. thing that would compromise her, but | witness said that the Gray woman told him that any sort of evidence, truthful or otherwise, that would com promise Mrs. Ellis would get the money.
 He then told of the plot to get the woman out of town. and witness said \ he was the man who arrested Viola i Gray at resort and told her she would have to pay fine then and every month after that or leave town. Said he gave her orders to leave and she left town. Witness described the woman and identified her pictures as the woman he said left and went to Jnnesboro and he had conversation over the phone with her. She want. ed to come back to Pine Bluff and have personal talk with him. an.i it
 Was then she outlined her scheme to kfdnap the child or get Mrs. Ellis in some compromising position. He said
 in two pr three weeks he called her