The Washington herald., 1915-01-15

the pronGs being forced back This
diamonds are missing from the earrings
chamois case had lain on the table since
the night OF the tragedy and had been
handled repeatedly by several Persons
but not until yesterday was it looked
! into.
Detectives when notified last night by
a Herald reporter of the peculiar dis
cOvery Of the earrings were completely
puzzled.
How did they get upstairs in the front
room when the struggle with Mrs.
/ Hughes occurred at the rear of the hall
on the first floor? Two theories are Of
I fered
The most plausible is that the burglars
I returned to the second story following
/ the struggle That the men did remain
/ in the house for some little time follow
! ing the shooting is borne out by the
statement of Coleman. the chauffeur who
drove Mrs. Hughes and Nicholas Cofinas
her Greek friend, to the house last Satur-
/ day night. Coleman says he drove his
machine along the road several hundred
Yards south of the house to find a place
| in which to turn around and that after
he had repassed the house going north
and had reached the point where the
upper and lower roads converge two
men ran past him in the same direction,
/ his clutch then being in the second speed
! because of a steep and slippery hill.
! This statement OF Coleman had worried
| detectives and they were inclined to
doubt it's accuracy, but the discovery of
the earrings upstairs bears out his as
| sertion.
sequent to the tragedy some person found
the earrings and restored them to the
! Chamois case for a specific purpose.
Wanna Insnecfa HouSe
4 woman intimately acquainted with
| Mrs. Hughes and her home and personal
! affairs yesterday visited the Virginia resi-
| dence accompanied by detectives. The
| party made a tour Of the house and
surrounding grounds and many important
| facts were revealed. Up until yesterday
IT was believed that the four bullet marks
| on the wall in the front part of the hall
| were a result OF the shooting last Sat
! urday night. This was disproved by the
woman. The bullet mark in the jam of
the door leading from the hall to the
! parlor and the bullet mark in the plas-
| tering a foot or so away were the only
ones made the night of the tragedy. The
other two marks were made a week or
| two before New Years Day by a mys-
! terious man who visited the house and
| shot up the place in a semi-apparent
| spirit of fun-making.
The woman said she and Mrs. Hughes
and some other women, accompanied by
the man in question, went to the house
late one night in a cab from Washing
ton. As they alighted from the vehicle
the man drew a revolver, aimed IL sue
| cessively at the members OF the party,
| including the hackman. and made them
line up in the yard in front of the house.
He then fired near their feet, making
them dance" After being amused he
| ordered this woman to hold up her big
mum. She did so, and the mysterious
gentleman fired right through it.
The party then entered the house and
the man continued firing Two bullet
marks are in the plastering OF the wall
near the front door. Another mark Just
disclosed yesterday, is on the sill Of a
window at the top of the stairs. An
other bullet mark was disclosed by the
woman on a big tree in front of the
house.
After the firing had ceased, the man
left the house. When the hackman
went out TO return to the city in the
vehicle, It could not be found any
where. The hackman remained at the