The Washington times., 1921-04-12

man, Oue tuAt no tuOu8nt bn0 AlSO
might have known Jack De Saullos,
the Yale athlete who was killed by
his wife. Blanca. three years ago.
The testimony was spun around Q
mysterious pair Of keys found In the
Stokes home after Mrs. Stokes had
left her husband, which were tried
IN the door of De Saulles' apartment
on Stokes orders.
A private detective employed by
Stokes, who described the loss Of
valuable papers; q negress on the
same payroll, who declared herself
to be the operator of q church: q
private detective, and q household
servant, as occasion required. con-
tributed equally to the spirit Of tho
day.
MARRIED AT TwELvR
Mrs. Hattie johnson was the
colored witness. She testified that she
had been married At twelve years
Of age She said that she ran .
church" which she had inherited from
her grandmother, who was . full
blooded Indian. Her other activities,
she added. included private detective
work. cook. masseur. maid of all
work and any other household duties
that Stokes might request When
Aartin Littetoc asked II Ghe had
worked on tho Elwell case. she said:
mo. sub. but II did I'd have got
the woman that killed him before
now. Yes. knew Evelyn Nesbit be-
fore Stanford White was killed. I
offered to do some work on that
case. ! didn't work on the De Saulles
murder. but II did that woman
would never have got freq. i
suhtinly do think would make q
good Sherlock Holmes. since you ask
me.
Il was going down to see you about
the Thaw case, Mr.. Lttleton. when
you was working on 1t. but when
seen you wanted him to play crazy,
then / didn't GO"
SHOUTS WITH RAGE
Littleton laughed with the court
and audience and encouraged the wit
ness to talk freely. BY interjecting q
soon had Mrs. johnson literally shout
ing with rage at the intimation that
some of her employers were not of
the strictest social type.
She said she had assisted a. q
lookout" when Harry ]. Jantxer and
Leslie Petrie. the Stokes' investiga-
tors. had tried the keys in wallace's
fat In East Thirty-fifth street. From
a point six or eight feet away, she !
said she could see plainly that the |
keys opened the door.
Little succeeded in bringing out |
several discrepancies in her testi- |
mony as compared with the state
ments of other witnesses. The wom-
an admitted receiving $1,000 from |
stokes to help buy a house and about |
s25 a week in addition while she |
worked for him.
Jantzer. who was formerly en-
ployed by the Department of Justice,
admitted receiving about 50. 900 from |
Stokes while gathering evidence
against the young wife. When asked
Tor his notes on the case he said they
had been stolen under suspicious cir.
in the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel one evening.
KEYS FAILED TO WORK.
Jantzer said he tried the keys
which he found at the Stokes home
n the lock of the door of an apart
nent at Fifty-seventh street and
fifth avenue. formerly occupied by
lack De Saulles. The keys did not
It. He explained that Stokes had
uggested the attempt, because a
DR.. Peperman, of the InterborouSh
Company, connected with the late
Theodore p. Shonts. had lived there
Ilso and Pepperman formerly lived
With Wallace downtown.
Littleton brought out that Jantxer
lad found the keys in a drawer of
bureau or desk in a room in the
itokes house at 317 West Seventy
ighth street, which was occupied by
tokes personally. The Investigator
aid the tag on the keys bore the
Iotel Ansonia inscription and the
lumber Of their room occupied there
" Stokes, though they did not fit
he door.
At this point. Betty Inch's activ-
ties were brought into the case by
who produced several let
ers which the witness admitted
aving written to the woman. Tho
ontents were not disclosed, but Il
yas admitted that they concerned
he divorce case. and Jantzer said:
"After writing I saw Betty Inch
nee at Reisenweber's and later
gain at the same place. with Mr..
tokes We did not discuss this
ase the first time"
SAW DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Miss Inch has stated that she was
fYered money to testify in the trial
nd refused. Lttleton asked the in
estigator IL he had ever seen Dis
rict Attorney Swami while engaged
n investigating and Jantzer replied:
Eyes, at the Manhattan Club, where
fr. Stokes introduced me. I saw him
wo or three times"
Littleton did not ask the subject of
he conversations. Later the witness
aid, he went down to Elwell's law
-er and compared the mysterious ksvs
ound in the Stokes home with the
.eys OF the Elwell house. where the
.ambler was killed. They were not
he same. District Attorney Swami
aid last night that he had no recoi-
ection of ever discussing the ElwelI
ase with Stokes or any representa-
i've.
The Investigator explained tnat
'tokes had accompanied him to the
)e Saulles fat when the keys were
ried there. At this point, Henry A.
Wise, associated with Littieton IN the
efense of Mrs. Stokes, showet the
witness a photograph of ,hree woman