Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-26
Brines in Debt
$500 to DretUes
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Germantown, related his return home
at l2:0O q. M. Thursday, October u.
lie saw an automobile standing in front
Of his house, but thought nothing of it.
Next morning the automobile was
still there" he said. II saw Policeman
isaac kiker at Chew street and Wash
lhgtOn lane, and | asked him IL he did
not think 1t was an abandoned ma
chino. i looked inside the car. and lust
inside the left front door were two
empty whisky bottles. The pntrolman
looked in the left rear door and found
Colt automatic pistol.
Then, ! looked on the right rcnr
door, on the running board and saw
what i thought TO be blood spots. The
police patrol then came and towed the
automobile away. The machine was
left there some time Wednesday eve
ming"
Cross questioned by Mr.. Gray, he
said he was standing in front of his
house when he saw the automobile. He
SAID 1t was pointed north on Chew
street, against the traffic. and had no
lights.
:, Did you examine the gun?" asked
Mr.. GRAY.
eyes"
WAS il loadcd?"
The policeman pulled the clip out.
/ saw it was loaded
Was it fully loaded?"
81 cannot say. That was the first
time, ! ever held an automatic in my
hand"
Mrs. Walter j. AFFORD. of A East
walnut lane, said that on Tuesday
october 10, Mt 40 p. M. when she
and her husband left their house, they
saw an automobile standing across the
street, headed against the traffic.
/She said her husband remarked he
aunpnscd it was stolen car.
They went to the movies. she tcsti e
ned, and when they returned home the
automobile was still there. She said il
| vas still there at . p. III. on October
~. The woman's husband corr oboratrd
his wife
Car Taken Out Saturday
James +. Stewart. garage owner
nt Fifty fifth and Walnut streets. said
| that the BrineS car had been stored in
his garage until the Friday evening
before Drewe's body was found. IIC
said 1t was Mt the garage Saturday
night also
| ''' "h'h II NtS luh'll AWAY NulUT
day evening ard returned SUNDAY
morning at 3 a. m. The car was taken
out again ut = o'clock Sunday after
! noon. he said. and returned nt } O'Clock
Monday afternoon. At that time Brinc>
bought a few accessories. Stewart said
! and immediately drove away again.
'This." he said, was the last tim,
the car was ut my garage"
At this point, what appeared to be Il
| serious omission on the part of the
! prosecution developed.
Mr.. Stewart was asked by Mr.. Gray
whether he had seen these things hap
! pen. himself.
"No, / got them from the reports OF
employees he said.
"Who was the man who saw these
occurrences you refer tO?'
"John HamiltOn.'
/ "Is he hcrc?'
/ 'Hr is not. " g..
1t then developed that Hamilton hat
not been subpoenacd by the state.
Gray COnfuses Prosecution
After momcntary confusion in tn,
! prosecutions corner, Mr.. Stewart gave
the names of other men whose report,
he had received concerning the move
mcnts Of the Brincs car.
! The names of William Hamm ant
Charles Jones, two Negro employees
were given as those who had tolt
! him of the movements of the car.
Hamm was next called to the witness
stand.
Il found the car Sunday morning
| he said, standing in Chancellor street
| in back of the garage. Mr.. BrincS haC
| always left it on Fifty fifth street
| Sunday morning I fouul II in thn rpnr