New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-10


described him, said no one answering
that description had been in Miss Ora
ham and Miss Conrad's apartments on
the 9th.
"He Lied" Mr.. Bloom Said.
IF Cumming said he found package
of letters behind the trunk In the sitting
room on the 9th" exclaimed the super
intendent. "he makes false statement
II Gleason told you that Cumming sald
70 him he had made an arrangement
with me TO search the rooms. why cum
ming liedr'
In chronological sequence this Is MI
Blooms account OF what happened AZ
the Varuna on the It'll:
THE shooting Of Mr.. Stokes occurred
shortly after o'clock. After he was
shot took the girls into another apart
ment and kept them there awaiting the
arrival of the police. The door to their
apartment was locked. and had the Key
IN my pocket. Bicycle Patrolman IuiN
WAS the fist policeman TO reach the
Varuna. and think he got there about
600 o'clock. He had not been In the
building more than few minutes before
Detective Mccormick came.
mccormick and Tully went right up
TO the apartment in which the TWO
young women were. Then they tooh
them back TO their own apartment L
unlocked the door for them to enter. Al
ter very short time they left the bulu-
ing, taking the girls over TO the station
house.
Il know the door of their apartment
was locked from the time they left Tor
the station house 10 the time McCor-
mick returned with other detectives at
tsched 20 the West 6Sth street station.
When the girls left here under arrest
went TO another floor Of the building.
but TO the best Of my knowledge and
belief no one could have entered their
apartment in the interval unless pro-
vided with key which could unlock the
door. My hall boys did not take any
one up to the apartment.
Accompanied the Detectives.
THE interval between the time Nc
Cormick left the building and his return
was probably three quarters of an hour;
II may have been less; it certainly was
not more than an hour When he re-
turned with the other detectives-I think
there were four OF them-I took them up
TO the girls rooms myself and stayed in
the sitting room throughout the time
they searched the apartment
The shortest one of the detectives,
whose name l don't know, saw the trunk
in the alcove and went over 10 examine
its contents. lie had some difficulty in
opening IT and the trunk was pulled out
into the room. The detective began to
rummage through IT, 1 saw him haul
out package of letters This package
was not small one II looked to me as
II il contained about twenty letters, Dos
sibly more or possibly less. 1t was tied
with pink ribbon. The ribbon was slight
L. faded and was very narrow. / believe
you call it baby ribbon.
He took the package and turned it
over to another detective. whose name
don't know, but who seemed to be in
charge Of the men. The package was
opened. Several Of the letters were read
hurriedly and then they were put in a
pasteboard box Later other letters
lying loose in the trunk were added to
them. Then the box was tied up, and
when the detectives left they took it
with them.
There was no other package Of letters
found IN the trunk. The others were
lying loose.
when the detectives left locked the
door and put the key in my pocket. l
did not see Cumming that night. and do
not believe that he got into the apart
mont Whenever l entered the girls
rooms l always took one Of the hall boys
or an employee of the building with me to
be a witness to the fact that | did not
take anything away or disturb what was
there.
II do not know Mr.. Gleason at all 1
DO not know Mr.. Stokes OF course.
saw him after he had been shot.
Cummings Story impossible"
Cummings story of finding the letters
is not true. In the first place. il would
have been impossible. The night of the
shooting the detectives made a thorough
search and if any letters had been be-
hind the trunk in the. alcove they would
have been bound to see them, and so
would /. Then Mr. Moore came q day or
two later. lie gave me a note from Miss
Graham. asking me TO let him search the
apartment. At Mr. Moore's request
went up with him. He went through
everything that was in the trunk, and
after pulling IL out searched the alcove
thoroughly. If letters were there he
would nave found them
cot course. when the detectives re-
turned on the 9th I should have asked
them TO show me their search warrants
before let them enter the rooms. but I
never thought OF that, and / never i'm
agined that they had a Stokes detective
with them. Why, they talked with him
just as If he had been one Of them"
Mr.. Boon went on TO say that he
stood ready and willing to go into court
and swear to what he had said. In fact,
he seelnel anxious for an opportunity
20 tell under oath that he had not know
irgly permitted any employees Of Mr..
Stokes 90 search Miss Conrad and Miss
Graham's rooms.
The Varuna's superintendent told Of
. another episode on the night OF the
shooting I.c said that when he took
the detectives up TO the apartment he
saw straw hat lying on the floor near
the door, picked it up and carried it in