Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-06-26


lieve from the sound of car coming
and going, that the larger man, the
one they called steve" was absent
good deal of the time. Then came
day that they told me about the ques-
tions mother had asked someone to
prove that was alive.
@. About how long ago was that?
A. ] cannot tell you, about the
middle of the time 1 was there.
@. Did you change places at all
or move at all.
A. No, not until this time, three
or four days ago.
@. DO you remember what the
questions were?
A. They didn't tell me at first
that they were questions. The lady
began to talk about how hot it was
and spoke about how good a ham
mock would feel and asked me if L
had ever slept in hammock, and 1
said, Yes, we used to have a wire
one in the country" She said, did
you have it on the piazza and was it
hot there" I said, NO, we had it
out under the apple trees" Then l
noticed that the men were coming in
more and were asking different things
and l said, "Why are you asking me
these things, what is the idea?" They
told me that they were soon going
to let me go, they said, THE old
lady was coming through with the
money now pretty soon" They meant
my dear mother. They said that [
could soon go and that if 1 would
just be good and answer these few
questions that they might help con-
vince her. l think they must have
been putting out some feelers to-
see what she would do. I refused to
answer any more and the man said
own good you will answer them and
answer them quick, using profanity.
1t was then that he touched my
finger with the lighted cigar butt,
but I just WINGED and said go
ahead" and he stopped and he seem
ed to be ashamed.
O. Was this room in this house
you were in nicely furnished?
A. It appeared to me to- be two
steps walking upstairs, but I do not
think they occupied that floor The
room was papered, had a paper with
kind of blush stripe and pink
flowers.
Q. During this time were you
always kept in this one room?
A. Yes.
@. Did this window look out over
any country, could you see?
A. There was a board fence, the
top of which was very high.
= @. Could you judge whether this
was out in the country, or in som.
little place?
A. 1 could not tell, judging by
the heat I think it was down south
somewhere, what / could see over the
high board fence was like the des-
ert. os
@. Was it a modern> house9
A. No, I would not say so, but
it did have small bath.
@. And a lavatory?
A. Yes.
@. With a flush toilet?
A. es, but no electric light; only
kerosene lamps.
Q. I want you to describe, if you
can, Sister Mcpherson, the furniture
in your room, so that in case we
were going out to look for thai room
and had an idea of place we want
ed to search, we could know that it
was the same room you were in?
A. The wallpaper had a small
border running around the top. The
ceiling was not papered; it had
some cracks in it. There was an
iron bedstead, double bed, dresser,
well used, brown colored with the
varnish pretty well worn off, and
a mirror, rather wide mirror, a
rocker and a chair; that was all, ex-
cept the cot ~ ..ag
q. Did you place any mark or any
writing of any kind in the room?
A. No.
y. There was a rug on the floor?
A There was no rug on the floor.
There was one door and one window
and the bathroom door. There was
no clothes press, but a little cur
tain over the corner Of the room.
Q. Today is Thursday and you
came in here yesterday morning; that
would be Wednesday morning. About
how many days before that was it
that you were taken away from this
place and placed somewhere else?
A. 1 am not sure, but 1 don't be-
lieve it was more than three or four
days.
q. Tell us exactly what took place
from the time you were moved from
this place to this other place?
A. The man they called steve"
came back from some place or other.
The man had a book of some kind
and l gathered that in it was the
time they were going to try to ger
Whatever they were to get out of
the church. And they were going to
move me to a place that they said
nobody would ever find me, for a
short time. They did not tell me
any of their plans however, but that
night, l had been asleep L think quite
while, when the lady woke me
ana told me to get into my clothes
and they took me out blindfolded
and bound, but not gagged, and she
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