The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-02
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She was a widow living above
small millinery shop on Federal
street. Allegheny. She had one
daughter. Alice, who did stenog-
raphy and tipping al a means of
livelihood. She had no office,
and worked at home. Many of
the small stores in the neigh
borhood employed her to send out
their bills. There was card at
the street entrance beside the
shop, and now and then strangers
brought her work.
Early in December the prisoner
had brought her the manuscript
of play to type, and from that
time on he came frequently,
sometimes every day, bringing a
few sheets of Manuscript at time.
Sometimes he came without any
manuscript, and would sit and
talk while he smoked a cigarette.
They had thought him unmarried.
On Wednesday, February TWEEN
ty-eighth, Alice Murray had dis
appeared. She had taken some
OF her clothing-not all, and had
left a note. The witness read
the note aloud in a trembling
voice:
Dear Mother: When you get
this shall be married to Mr..
Ladley. Don't worry. Will
Ewrite again from N. Y. Loving
ly, ALICE.
From that time until week
before, she had not heard from
her daughter. Then she had a
fcard, mailed from Madison
Square Station. New York City
The card merely said
I Am we'll and working.
ALICE"
The defense was visibly shak
len. They had not expected this
and l thought even Mr.. Ladley
whose calm had continued un
broken, paled.
So far, all had gone well fol
the prosecution. They had prov
ed a crime, as nearly as circum'
stantial evidence could prove Q
crime, and they had established
a motive. But In the identifica'
ton of the body, so far they had
failed. The prosecution rested
as they say, although they didn'
| rest much, on the afternoon OF
the third day. :,
The defense called, first of all,
Eliza Shaeffer. She told of a
woman answering the general de-
scription of Jennie Brice having
spent two days at the Shaeffer
farm at Horner. Being shown
photographs of Jennie Brice, she
said she thought 1t was the same
woman, but was not certain. She
told further of the woman leaving
Unexpectedly on Wednesday OF
that week from Thornville. On
cross examination, being shown
the small photograph which MT.
Graves had shown me, she fdenti-
fled the woman in the group as
being the woman in question. AS
the face was in shadow, knew 1t
more by the dress and hat: she
described the black and white
dress and the hat with red trim
ming.
The defense then called me.
had to admit that the dress and
hat as described were almost
certainly the ones | had seen on
the bed in Jennie Brice's room the
day before she disappeared.
could not say definitely whether
the woman in the photograph
was Jennie Brice or not; under a
magnifying glass thought II
might be.
Defense called Jonathan Alex
ander, druggist who testified
that on the night in question he
had been reused at half past
three by the prisoner, who had
said his wife was i'll. and had
purchased a bottle of a proprie-
tary remedy from him. His iden-
tification was absolutely.
The defense called Jennie
IBrice's sister, and endeavored to
prove that Jennie Brice had had
no such scar. IL was shown that
rshe was on intimate terms with
her family and would hardly have
concealed an operation of any
gravity from them.
2 The defense scored that day.
They had shown that the prisoner
had told the truth when he said
he had gone to a pharmacy for
medicine that night for his wife;
and they had shown that wom-
an, answering the description of
Jennie Brice, had spent two days
In a town called Horner, and had
gone from there on Wednesday
after the crime. And they had
shown that this woman was at
tired as Jennie Brice had been.
That was the way things stood
on the afternoon of the fourth
day, when court adjourned.
Mr.. Reynolds was at home
when l got there. He had been
very much subdued since the de-
velopments OF that first day of
the trial, sat mostly in his own
room, and had twice brought me
a bunch on jonquils as a peace
He had the kettle boil
ing when got home.
you have had a number of
visitors" he said. "Our young
friend Howell has been here. and