Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-08-13
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Mr.. Jarvis was called next, but his
testimony amounted to little. He had
been summoned by telephone to Sun
nyside, had come over at once with
the steward and Mr.. Winthrop, at
present out of town They had been
admitted by the housekeeper, and had
found the body lying at the foot of
the staircase. He had made a search
for a weapon, but there was none
around. The outer entry door in the
east wing had been unfastened and
was open about an inch.
1 had been growing more and more
nervous. When the coroner called
Mr.. John Bailey, the room was filled
with suppressed excitement Mr..
Jameson went forward and spoke a
few words to the coroner, who nodded.
Then Halsey was called.
Mr.. Innes," the coroner said, will
you tell under what circumstances
you saw Mr.. Arnold Armstrong the
night he died?"
Il saw him first at the Country
club" Halsey said quietly. He was
rather pale, but very composed. 'I
stopped there with my automobile for
gasolene. Mr.. Armstrong had been
playing cards. When I saw him there
he was coming out of the cardroom
talking to Mr.. John Bailey
1.-THE nature of the discussion
was it amicable?"
Halsey hesitated.
They were having a dispute" he
said. Il asked Mr.. Bailey to leave the
club with me and come to Sunnyside
over Sunday"
Isn't it a fact, Mr.. Innes, that you
took Mr.. Bailey away from the club
house because you were afraid there
would be blows?"
THE situation was unpleasant"
Halsey said evasfveIy.
"At that time had you any suspicion
that the Traders bank had been
wrecked"
mo"
What occurred next?"
MIR. Bailey and I talked in the bill
lard room until $780,
And Mr. Arnold Armstrong came
there, while you were talking?'
Yes. He came about half-past two.
He raped at the east door, and 1 ad-
mitted him."
The silence in the room was in
tense. Mr.. Jamieson's eyes never left
Halsey's face.
t'Wi1l you tell US the nature of his
errand?"
He brought a telegram that had
come to the club for Mr.. Bailey"
HE was sober?"
Perfectly. at that time. Not earl
ier'
"Was not his apparent friendliness
change from his former attitude?"
Yes. 1 did not understand it,"
How long did he stay?"
About five minutes. Then he left
by the east entrance"
What occurred them"
I'VE talked for a few minutes, dis
cussing a plan Mr.. Bailey had in
mind. Then I went to the stables,
| where kept my car, and got it out"
Leaving Mr.. Bailey alone in the
billiard room?''
my sister was there"
Mrs. Ogden Fftzhugh had the cour-
age to turn and eye Gertrude through
her lorgnon-
'And them"
Il took the car along the lower road,
not to disturb the household Mr.
Bailey came down across the lawn.
| through the hedge, and got into the
| car on the road"
"Then you know nothing of Mr..
| Armstrong; movements after he left
| the house?"
Nothing. I read of his death Mon
day evening for the first time.
Mr. Bailey did not see him on his
| way across the lawn?"
'I think not If he had seen him
he would have spoken of it,
Thank you That is ALL Miss Ger
| trude Innes."
Gertrudes replies were fully as con-
else as Halsey's. Mrs. Fitzhugh sub
| jected her to a close inspection, COM
mencing with her hat and ending with
her shoes. I fiatter myself she found
| nothing wrong with either her gown
! or her manner, but poor Gertrude's
testimony was the reverse of COM
| forting- She had been summoned.
she said, by her brother, after Mr..
/ Armstrong had gone. She had waited
in the billiard room with Mr.. Bailey
until the automobile had been ready.
Then she had locked the door at the
foot of the staircase, and, taking a
lamp, had accompanied Mr.. Bailey to
the main entrance of the house. and
had watched him cross the lawn. In
/ stead of going at once to her room.
| she had gone back to the billiard
room for something which had been
| left there. The cardroom and billiard
| room were in darkness. She had
| CROPPED around, found the article she
was looking for, and was on the point
1 of returning to her room, when she
had heard some one fumbling at the
lock at the east outer door She had
i thought it was probably her brother.
| and had been about to go to the door,
when she heard it open Almost inn
mediately there was shot, and she
had run panic-stricken through the