Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-26

wear?
A. Kind of a gray hat with
green crown.
Q. Was it a straw?
A. think it was kind of a tweed
mixture.
Q. Would you judge that they
were partners, did they all seem
equal terms?
A. would say that Steve was the
leader and that this woman was
close second.
O. Were they husband and wife, do
you think?
A. / could not say.
Q. Did they cut off a lock of Jour
hair or two?
A. At different times not at the
same time.
Q. Cut off two locks?
A. Yes.
Q. And when was this?
A. 1t was just before we left the
other place day or two.
Q. And who cut that off?
A. Rose. She used her scissors
Q. Did she say what they were
going to do with it?
A. The man told me afterward.
Q. Which one?
A. Steve. He said that mother still
believed that / was drowned and that
they had done everything that they
could to kill that theory and that he
would send my hair and that if that
did not convince her he had been
looking at my finger, that if she
doesn't believe that 1 am going to
chop that finger off and send her
that and perhaps she will believe
that.
Q. Did you take that seriously:
A. l did not know whether to
take him seriously or not, but real
lied that they must have spent lot
of money for they had watched me,
they said that at no time had our
car ever come in or out that they
hadn't been instantly notified, that
had not gone anywhere that they
didn't know the date.
Q. I want to get you back to the
SSSNAA Se'seoAA ~ IHC 0oJ JOu N4oeIp-
peared. You say there were some
life-guards holding little parade
or little inspection or exhibition when
this party called you?
A. Yes, it looked to me as though
one man was teaching them some
thing.
Q. Are you certain that Mrs. Shat
fer was not on the beach right at
this time?
A. I do not believe she was. She
had gone to telephone. She brought
some orange juice when we first
went to the beach.
Q. How many times were you in
bathing that day?
A. 1 went in two or three times,
the water was cold you know.
@. Did you drink any of the orange
juice or do you remember?
A. I think did, but I am not
positive.
9. Where did you get the orange
juice?
A. think Mrs. shaffer got it.
@. How did she bring it?
A. In a container.
Q. When you went down, did you
go in swimming and then come back?
And tell Mrs. Shaffer to go phone
your mother, do you remember that?
A. Yes, 1 was studying my Bible
and working on my sermons and l
maze list of things for her to ger.
Q. Did you go in swimming again
while she was gone?
a. Right while she was there,
she fingered a moment.
Q. Do you remember if you went
in bathing after Mrs. Shaffer came
|. back with the orange juice and the
candy and that she held the orange
juice up to you and you made the
remark to her to bring it on out to
| yon in the water?
A. No, 1 don't remember any
thing of that kind.
Q. You mean after she 'phoned?
A. No, I never saw Mrs. Shaffer
| after she telephoned.
Q. You never saw her after she
left to telephone?
! A. No. I think she must have made
a trip up to get these things. I rent
! ca a little tent and put it down there.
Here we were in this little restaur-
ant Gndicating) Mrs. Scnaeffer went
one way and | went the other way.
went this way to the little place in
front of the hotel where the man who
has the tents, picked out the tent, took
it down and put it on the beach, and
went into the tent and read my
Bible. It was so inconsequential that
| it does not specially remain in the
vivid events.
| @. What I am trying " find out is
where Mrs. Shaeffer was at the time
you disappeared?
A. aim sure she was telephoning
c. How much time do you think
elapsed, if you can remember, how
much time do you think elapsed from
the time she started to go to tele-
phone and you went back into the
water to take swim, from that time
until these people accosted you?
A. I would say just under Is min
utes; I had no watch. 1t was a colo
day. L went out hand over hand, right
out and back, and stood for moment
watching these boys, and heard this