The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-23
uIp6E GOTHAM HOLDS THAT MULE ToLLiVER SHOULD
 REMAIN IN JAIL.
NEiRESS TELLS HER STORY
Declares That She Threw Beer Bot. tie at skuIkng Form in Stairway,
 Not intending 10 Hit or Hurt Any. one When She Committed the Act.

Circuit Judge Gotham yesterday morning denied an application for bail made in behalf of Milie Tolliyer. the negro baWdy house keeper, who IS under d first degree murder indict- ment for the killing of Charles Bowen. young countryman of Social HilL who was injured in the woman's re- sort on Elm street. and died some few days later al his country home tn Hot Spring county
 The Tolliver woman, powerful ne. gress of big proportions, straight loIg hair, suggestive of the indian CluJ" title of her resort, and dressed in a large shiny black imitation seal coat. was the only witness examined she having been introduced by A.torneNs Boulc and Mooney, for the defense. Prosecuting Attorney Witt resisted the action on behalf Of the state
 The attorneys submitted the case without argument but when Judge Gotham indicated his decision in tue matter Mr Bouic wanted to present some argument. 10 which the court listened Mir Bonic urged that the woman had right 10 strike 10 pro tect her premises from attack but Judge Gotham called the attention of the attorney 10 her own evidence, m tpi g.. lao sh seH afft with the bottle Was going down the stairs. and leaving Tie premises, when she throw the object
 The woman was examined on dt rect evidence by Attorney Bouic, and stated that she had been here about eight years and had conducted the immoral house on Elm street She had many negro girls there, and white men visited the place On the day 1 question, or rather the night in quas- lion she said that 1t was Saturday nght or Sunday morning. between r. 0 clock midnight and 1 o'clock that lcUr boys came in.o the place. She salC she ushered them into the dance hall part of the resort, and that one Of them was drunk, and leaned against the piano. She asked eacn to contribute a nickel for the piano playing machine. and two gave her g nickel and two refused
 She said that she went out of the Fpnru than tt,t. r fr.ut ysVlpr tRHaTp one man was, and that later she heard steps on the stairs, and two other men came into the house. She Sd .d that she escorted the two others 10 the dance hall, and the four who had some together went out and she IT, turned to the front parlor room. She described that the door 70 the stair way had d glass panel in it, and that She heard crash and stepped into the hall, and that she heard some one of three men there about the stairway say that some one had thrown rock through the glass panel
 The woman said there was a quart beer bottle beside where she was standing. and that she looked down the stairway and saw a form retreat Ing. and that she picked up the bottle and hurled at the man She said that she then went into another room and picked up heavy stein pitcher 10 throw, but that when she got back the form had disappeared.
 The woman testified that there had been no trouble in the house that Mght, and that she did not know she mad hurt anybody. She said she thought the form running down he stans was that of a negro. She dld not account for how the other one white man of the four who were there had disappeared. She dld hot know why she drew the conclusion that it was a negro's form running away. She said she never knew uhiI her return from Pine Bluff the foi- lowing Friday that there was a war rant for her.
 Prosecuting Attorney Witt and Cir- cut Judge Gotham both quesuoheu the witness closely for the state bringing out some statements thal VIII be preserved for the trial ol the murder charge on December 10 when ! is called in circuit court. The "o' man on cross examination said there We're eight inmates, but that she dsu not know whether any Of them sd" the affair in the hall. She dld not know any of the white men there
 After the decision by the judge the