The Washington times., 1920-03-31

that IT will get wo1 s'
/ Concerning the events that led up
\ TO the fling OF the suit, she said: II
had departed from Baltimore only a
week when ] received from John
Kelley telegram apprising me Of
the death OF my friend.
Lucille died at ! o'clock from
acute brights disease, caused by Sc
we're cold caught in New York We'd
nesday night" the telegram read.
Have wired her mother and Allie to
come Come also"
Came to City st Once.
Mrs. Bristol Immediately took the
train for Baltimore, she said, and ar
rived on Saturday night in the little
apartment, where mourning had re-
placed the mirth and revelry that
characterized here last visit
1t was then, according to her story.
that she asked for a drink ofwhiskey.
due to the shock of the sad news and
the tiresome journey. According to
her statement. Kelley brought her
the whiskey. which, she claims, he
knew contained wood alcohol, and
gave it to her. she states, with the
specific intention OF killing her. to
prevent her testifytng that he had
threatened to kill Miss Sharp. She
had witnessed sevetal quarreis be-
tween the two, she slid, over an At
lanta woman. who frequently wrote
Kelley for monty. and whose mother
often stopped at the apartment on
Eutaw place. 20 visit them
Mrs. Bristol also insisted that she
had not signed any statement exon
Grating Kelley from blame as to hei
condition. The police wanted her TO
sign such q statement, she said, but
she said her eyes were too bad to
make il possible for her to write heI
name.
"The policemen said to me, You're
a smart woman" she added. laugh
ingly...
Il am only twenty-five years old"
she said, patheticaIly, "and I'll have
a long. long road in life to crop.
through in utter darkness. ia rather
have my sight than Keiley's $4,000
or all the money there Is in the
world" ~,
Has Been Arrested.
Little is known in Atlanta OF Mrs
Bristol, except that she was arrested
here on January g, 1917, for being
drunk and disorderly."
"She must have been a pretty rough
customeE". said the police authorities.
"becauseJ she was released on 5000. 75
bail, and that's a much heavier bail
than we usually take for drunk and
disorderly conduct"
The Atlanta police records also
show that the case was tried on
May :, at which time she was fined
S15.75, and the fine was paid
Looking For . sucker-KeiIey.
be looking for another sucker to
bite" Kelley declared, "but they are
barking UP the wrong tree this time
In insisting that the whole thing
was a "frame-up" on the part OF ]. s.
Barwick. whom he calls Mrs. Bristols
financial agent" Kelley said:
"The charge of murderous intent Is
so preposterous that l get mad at my
self sitting here, explaining things to
you.
what did I want to murder Lucille
Sharp for? I'll never get another pal
like her. She was as good a conrad
as any man wants. There wasn't
woman in Baltimore equal to her.
Tells of Girls Death
Lucille never was much OF q
drinker. 1 never saw her take more
than one or two drinks in my life
she took little nip out OF the bottle
Thursday morning and another one
Thursday night. That was all. The
next day she took sick from Bright's
disease, from which her sister also
died, and by Saturday she was gone
Catherine Bristol. however, was
heavy drinker. She was at the bottle
all the time.
"If ] had wanted to murder Lucillo
or Catherine, why would have left
Allie Osman, the Turkish boy OF whom
! am very fond. drink out of the same
bottle? Another thing: That very
Saturday night at supper n prominent
and wealthy widow and her daughter
stopped in to express sympathy over
Lucilles death and asked me IL there
was anything they could do.
i "I thanked them. and then asked
them IL they wanted a drink. told
them I had nothing in the house but
had belonged TO Miss Sharp. Would
I have offered them a drink OF the
whfskey with which / was supposed
TO have intended to murder Miss
sharp and Mrs. Bristol7
Didn't Suspect whi.key.
"when Or. King said II looked as
10 Mrs. Bristol was suffering from
sornc kind OF poison, I never thought
OF the whiskey. Osman had drank II
and he was all right. Mrs. Bristol had
drunk Il and several days had elapsed
before she developed vomiting and
became seriously ilE thought she