The Washington times., 1912-05-13
CHAPTER VIII.
Mrs. Anselm's Narratives

cFTom the Corouer's Report.
il SWEAR to tell the truth, the whole
truth. and nothing but the truth.
So help me, God!
My name is Mary Anselm. | have
been married. 1 am forty-six years Of
age. 7 was born at Salem, Mass, and
my father was a Presbyterian minister
II is OF no use your asking me ques-
tons What 1 know of my poor mas
ters AFFAIRS and about what happened
on the night he was murdered. i will
tell you in my own way. L am a person
who has always made It her business to
mind her own and nobody's else's. AMI
every person has right to so to perdi-
tion in his own way, II he is fool enough II
TO go that way.
Very well, then. I will tell my story
and be done with it, l was in the serv-
ice of Mr.. Bellair for eight months and
two weeks and a good master he was,
80 far as matters between master and
servant went.
have seen things in that house thai
some people might have said were not
Very well. You can draw your own
conclusions. l may have drawn mine,
but that's my affair and his-poor man
pc was the very thing he said to me
when first entered his house
Mrs. Anselm," he said there is
nothing in this house Of which ! am.
or need be, ashamed, but there are
many things which you mightn't under
stand. and / therefore caution you
m not the kind OF woman who neds to
be cautioned twice. caution you
against troubling yourself about my af-
fairs. You will have your own to at
tend to. and II they are discharged
properly"-which they were-"you need
fear no Interference from my side of
the house"
That's what ne said. and he lived up
90. n vnHty ;,a hot
j dare say he did his. I am sorry he
came to a bad end. I always felt some
thing was wrong. and at lines I wanted
TO warn him: brlt as said before
Well I did say that before, and f you
bear 1t in mind. I'll come to the point.
The first queer thing that ] noticed
was that Mr.; Beilair had 2 room which
with dust and papers and what not, for
ne kept the key of it, and II ever it was
tidied he must have done II himself
no. ! didn't blame him. He didn't know
Mary Anselm, and why should he trust
me or anybody else?
What he did in that ICom. ! don't
know or care. 1t was something
Icoultn't understand. anyway. There
W ere bells in it and things that clicked
No, the telephone was in the hall down.
have been private one. Ana then there
was thing that made noise like q bis
,car, only fiercer 1t might have been a
cat for all I know. for I ONLY heard II
Ion The landtn" just outside the study
door.
Nc. We didn't keep a "a; in the house
RUt what makes me think it might have
been a cat. or even a tiger or an ele
infant, was because nothing in tha
house would have surprised me.
Many "A time I've opened the from
door to let in all sorts of ;ow-brcd peo
Ipe-.tramps. and worse than tramps-
men who looked like thieves and mur
derrrs. No, M. Ford did not look lil1'
IL, ,Af ,kI,In 40
BEEN .'f, Both. M TRRat:s for you 10 % ssy"no
me. But the only two men who eve,
entered that house while I Vas there
IFord and Mr.. Gsttys. Yes. the police
were there-as You're so smart. And a
one tim" you were there yourself, Coro
What sort OF things besides low bre,
Ipeople did see in the house? Coffins
and dead people. IL you want to know
saw him bring coffin In more thar
would bring 1t. and he would sign
paper and give them a dollar or two
and tell them to come back next morn
ing or in a day or more. as the cas-
might be- After that they'd take th
coffin away again:
What he did with the coffns. | don
know. l don't see what he could har'
done with the coffns; anyway. Yo'
mean what did he do with the dead peo
pls7 That's different. I don't know
but did notice queer thing abou
one of them-iust once, and that Wa
the first time he brought dead mai
20 the house.
At that time ] wasn't prepared 70
dealings with coffips and answering tn
door to let in dead people, so l--yes,
tried to find out what Mr. Bellatr wa
up TO. 1 didn't find out much. whic
served me right, anyway, for Nstenin
at the door.
The three men and the wagon tina
brought the coffin went away; and ther
master and the coffin. Yes, I'm sur
of that or wouldn't say 1t. There wa
nobody in that room upstairs but NJ
Bellair and the coffin, unless there va
a man there before. which is not likely
leastways, 1t wasn't Mary Anselm VIII
let him in. That was month befor
Mr.. Gettys came to live there. l al
sure OF what / say. All the men VIII
took the coffn to the room came o.
again, for opened the front door fo
them--and mighty glad to see them g
TOO. Hadn't even the decency to wlp
their shoes, or take off their hats in
Eentleman's house.
Yes. - Then went upstsirs an
stood on the Hrst-hoor landing for
little while. Mr.. Bellsir's study wa
on the first floor. BY that I mean on
Sou like, 1t was one flight up.
The study door was shut-and locked
have no doubt, as Il always was
heard nothing for a while, then it wa
noise;;-just like a Hather blgslsh ca
You had to be very near. and keepin
very STILL to hear it at all
After y while / heard somebody tall
ing. I thought, OF course. il was m
master. Who else could it have beer
Tut 1t wasn't Mr. Belair's voice. WIZ
tVer II was, was cursihg sonethln
scandalouS. and you'd have thought this
he was drunk--whoeveT he was don
remember the words. and wouldn't n
peat them II ! did, but il was somethin
about man named McGurk haVin
squeezed him like lemon ana then r.
fused him Il drink. rne language va
something scandaloUs.
That stopped in minute or tw
Then heard another man singlnl
slnGtnR-yes, singing. l think va