Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-23

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1 to try and trap us and I concluded
| to take the girl back and turn her
over to the man again / wrote him
another letter and this other man
suggested that l was getting the time
too near but that would make it much
safer and they were making such big
search he was afraid they would find
the girl
80 Saturday when he came to the
| apartment for this suit case and when
he opened i. up and showed me how
! 1t was, was sure surprised. He said,
the police are already suspicious OF
the place, and he said she was crying
and he tried to stop her or something
like that, and he figured that the
safest way would be to go ahead and
fix it that way and for me to keep
my suitcase in the car and 90 to this
place and if the police stopped me be-
fore I could get rid of it, they might
look at the suitcase and never stop to
open it and 1 thought that might be
all right. He had already gone ahead
and opened it anyway SO in this let
ter I told the girls father if were paid
before 6 o'clock that night that his
daughter would. still be alive and I
didn't find out until after o'clock
when he came up to the apartment.
"Even had 1 written this letter after
we called, even if she had not been
alive, thought he wanted his daugf1-
ter. anyway, no matter what cond1-
ton she was in, and he would rather
| have her and SO / went ahead and
called him up and planned the meet
/ ing place. He was there all right, and
as it happened the night before, I was
there before he came and if there had
not been any detectives he would have
gotten her back And if this fellow
had not killed her, it would have come
out all right as we had planned, be-
cause I am sure she didn't want to
die, because when she was with me she
said, I wonder what the school kids
will say when I go back to school.
They will want to know what did
any everything and am terribly
sorry she was killed myself, because I
sure liked her. (witness weeps).
@. "Give us the description of this
fellow that you say killed her"
'He was about five feet eight or nine
inches tall and had almost black hair
and don't remember the color of his
| eyes. AS far as I memember I think
he had been leading an impure life, he
had score upon his chin but Jnat
might have been from the way he had
been eating. The times I saw him
when I picked him up he had on a
kind of gray overcoat ard he Just h7d
the one slit-a kind of tan suit or
brown. He had kind of rough face"
@. "How old was he?"
"He looked to be not much over %
but he looked older because I think
! he had been leading a kind OF hard
| life"
! @. "Where was he staying?"
Gle would not tell me that because
he was to have his part in the plan
and I my part. Crooks sometimes will
20 back on. each other and if anyone
knew what the other one did and it
makes everything safer and less dan
gerous than if we knew where each
other stayed and don't know where
he kept himself"
@. "He didn't stay in the same
apartment with you?"
'No, I was in that apartment all by
myself"
/ @. "Did this woman have anything
to do with it?"
81 never saw her again. Her first
name was June, think her name was
Dunning."
@. "How much would she weigh?"
"About a hundred and twenty-five
or thirty pounds, guess. She was
about Is or 26 years old, guess. I
know they appeared to be well
matched couple"
q. "You don't know what address
they had?"
"No, I never did know You can
see the condition I was in which being
a crook anyway when I picked them
up. I had oeen alone quite a time any
way. had been to good many
places, to Chicago, and went to New
York and Pittsburgh, and Philadel-
phia and Washington, D. G., before l
came out to the coast" (Witness an
SKIER rambling).
@. do you know where you were
to meet him or where to call hin?"
s'No, he always planned to meet at
places"
@. "You planned where you would
meet again, you didn't nave any au-
dress for any one of you?"
mo, sir"
@. when was the last time you saw
him?"
"The last time I saw him was when
he brought the suitcase up to the
apar4 4ment and he told me when got
the money-if I got the money-to go
UP to San Francisco as soon as l
could safely get away as the police
men were awfully suspicious here any
way. Well, one thing that did happen
Sunday morning, was there was about
200 detectives came up to the apart
ment and looked over the apartment
and started searching it. One OF the
fellows had the name of the apart
noent written on q paper and they
searched every place and when they
came to my apartment, it is interest
ing the way I was singing and playing
the phonograph and the detectives
came in end they looked around and
did not express any suspicion OF me
at all and 1 went out in the hallway
and TALKED to seven or eight OF the