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 THE ELM CITY TRAGEDY. 
 
 Containing a Full and Complete Account of 
 
 the Life and Deatli of 
 
 JENNIE E. CRAMER. 
 
 GIVlNd 
 
 ALL THE EVIDENCE THAT LED THE JUUY TO HOLD JAMES 'MALLEY, Jr., 
 
 AS HER MURDERER, AND TO DENOUNCE WALTER E. MALLEY AND 
 
 BLANCHE DOUGLASS AS AIDERS AND ABETTORS. 
 
 CO., P*xiblisl:iers, 
 -eet. New York. 
 
THE 
 
 BEAUTIFUL VICTIM 
 
 The Elm City. 
 
 Fl/LL, FAIR, AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF ALL THAT IS 
 
 KNOWN OF 
 
 THE TERRIBLE FATE 
 
 OF THE TRUSTING AND UNFORTUNATE 
 
 JENNIE E. CRAMER, 
 
 GIVING ALL THE PARTICULARS THAT CAN BE 
 ASCERTAINED ABOUT 
 
 MISS ANNIE BLANCHE DOUGLASS, WALTER MALLEY, 
 AND JAMES MALLEY, Jr., 
 
 AS ALLEGED PARTICIPANTS IN THIS 
 
 TERRIBLE SOCIAL TRAGEDY. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 
 M. J. IVERS & CO., Publishers. 
 
 Copyrighted, 1881. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Had a thunderbolt from a cloudless sky dashed to fragments the noblest 
 elm in the City of New Haven, it could not have so startled the inhabi- 
 tants as did the announcement that a young lady of their own acquaintance 
 had probably been cruelly outraged, and either done to death in a most 
 fiendish manner, or else driven to take her own life to drown the recollec- 
 tion of the barbaroVis treatment she had received from two reputed respect- 
 able citizens. It has been for long the custom of the dwellers in quiet 
 country towns to talk with pious horror of the " dangerous classes," and 
 shudder at any allusion to the horrid roughs of large cities ; but it is time 
 to call a truce and inquire if there is not spreading through the so-called 
 Upper Ten in rural places a dissolute style of life that spares no woman in 
 its lust, and spares no life if it interferes with their social position. While 
 our noble President is lying on a bed of pain, barely holding on to existence 
 by a slender thread, from a wound basely and causelessly inflicted by a 
 wretch who was but lately the pet of people who affect superior piety, 
 comes the announcement that a most fiendish outrage, and probable murder 
 has been committed right in the heart of " a land of steady habits." 
 
 In this book we shall tell " the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but 
 the truth ;" believing fully in the majestic motto, " Let justice be done, 
 though the heavens fall. " t i i 
 
 lUI 
 
THE BEAUTIF<JL VICTIM. 
 
 THE NARRATIVE. 
 
 New Haven, the beautiful City of Elms, was startled from its propriety 
 and awakened to a sense of horror by a terrible announcement at half-past 
 five o'clock on the morning of the 6th of August, 1881. Jennie E. Cramer, 
 a comely young girl, was discovered in the water, face downward, dead ! 
 
 The place where the body of the poor girl was found is known as the 
 West Haven shore. It is a section that fills in a way the relation of a 
 watering-place to the city proper. 
 
 A sort of coroner's jury, possessing very little power, and showing scant 
 capacity, took cognizance of the case. But little resulted from their incon- 
 sequential consultations, and the mystery thickened instead of clearing 
 away. Enough, however, appeared without any deep probing to make the 
 least suspicious conclude that at least one dreadful crime had been com- 
 mitted. There appeared to be a disposition to huddle off the remains of 
 the unfortunate one to her early grave, with the stain of suicide affixed to 
 her memory. The newspapers had, however, blown the news of the sus- 
 picious circumstances far and wide, and the bloody deed would not 
 " down" at the bidding of those who appeared to have an interest in hush- 
 ing up the terrible affair. 
 
 Before entering on a detailed narrative of the circumstances preceding 
 and attending the death of the unfortunate Jennie E. Cramer, it will be 
 well to introduce here sketches of some of the more prominent persons 
 mixed up in the matter. 
 
 Jennie E. Cramer, the girl whose death has so attracted public comment, 
 has been very well known in New Haven for the past five years, although 
 she was only twenty when she died. She was introduced, while yet a child, 
 by her mother to such society as was at her command, and thereafter was 
 undeniably a belle in certain circles. The Cramers are people of very small 
 means, the father keeping a tobacco and cigar store on Grand Street ; and 
 while their respectability was never questioned, it is certain that mother 
 and daughter were in the habit of attending public balls and dances at 
 which the greatest care was not exercised to keep out people of doubtful 
 character. Later the daughter was seen often at similar places without 
 her mother, and her society was much sought by young men about town. 
 She was well known and well liked for her beauty, which was undoubtedly 
 striking, and for her high spirits and good company, although she was not 
 well educated, nor particularly attractive mentally. 
 
 But, although she was so well known in a class of society in which char- 
 acter is not the test of admission, and although she was sought after by the 
 
young men of anything but doubtful reputation with whom New Haven 
 abounds, she never was reputed to be a vicious girl. The worst that has 
 been said of her for the last few days during which her name has been 
 bandied about freely by everybody in town is that she was fond of doubt- 
 ful society and would be found frequently in places and in company that a 
 more careful young woman would have shunned. Her parents either hav- 
 ing implicit confidence in her, or else underestimating the peril she ran, 
 took no pains to prevent her from associations that were full of danger. 
 She was petted and indulged at home and allowed to take her own course. 
 
 Among the young men who were attracted by her beauty and who sought 
 her society more or less openly was James Malley, Jr., a young fellow who 
 is well known in sporting circles and who has contrived in a few years to 
 earn a reputation which is looked upon in his circle as enviable and in 
 other circles as the reverse. He had the command of considerable money, 
 and was by no means afraid to use it in his pleasures. His cousin, Walter 
 Malley, was his companion in his leisure hours, and, being the same kind 
 of a man, also with considerable money at command, he enjoyed a similar 
 reputation. Walter Malley is the son, and James Malley, Jr., is the 
 nephew of Edward Malley, the proprietor of one of the largest dry goods 
 stores in New Haven, who has accumulated a considerable fortune in his 
 business and ranks among the rich men of the city. His residence is in a 
 fashionable quarter and in a large handsome mansion, with cultivated 
 grounds, statuary and fountains around it. 
 
 Walter Malley was educated at Seton Hall College, and during his stay 
 in New York was known, as he has been since his return to New Haven, as 
 a fast young man, with money to spend. He made the acquaintance in 
 New York of a woman who has passed by several names, but is known here 
 as Blanche Douglass. She was an inmate of a house of ill-fame in Thirty- 
 first Street, kept by Lizzie Bundy. Notwithstanding her character young 
 Malley appears to have become infatuated with her and spent a good deal 
 of time and money in her company. He is said to have been introduced 
 to her by a theatrical manager in New York, the son of another theatrical 
 manager, both well known men about town. Since Malley's return to 
 New Haven he has visited Blanche Douglass in New York several 
 times. About a week ago she came to New Haven, and during her stay 
 here she was in his company almost constantly, rooming indeed at some of 
 the first-class hotels, but visiting and being visited by the young man. 
 
 With her visit to New Haven began a story which, imperfectly as it is 
 known, is connected, in the minds of everybody who is at all conversant 
 with the circumstances, with the unfortunate Jennie Cramer's death. James 
 Malley, Jr., had been pursuing Jennie Cramer for a considerable time with 
 attentions that seem to have been to a certain extent distasteful to her. It 
 was not to her a novel experience to be thus pursued, and she was not 
 easily to be won. A number of notes written by him to the girl, and pro- 
 duced in evidence, show that he was not entirely successful in obtaining 
 the favor of her company on excursions, drives, etc., to which he invited 
 her. He asked her to visit Coney Island, on an excursion to leave New 
 Haven on a Saturday night and return on the following Monday, but she 
 did not go. The ultimate rule of her conduct seems to have been that she 
 must not remain away from home overnight, and thus, while she received 
 Malley's attentions in part, and was even out with him on one occasion until 
 four o'clock in the morning, she yet maintained her rule, or that of her 
 parents. 
 
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 Here it is well to introduce the material points of the first evidence of 
 Blanche Douglass, as she is generally named, her flight to New York City, 
 and her subsequent return to West Haven, as her vacillating story gives a 
 key to much of the future defence set up by the Malleys. 
 
 Detective James B. Brower, of New Haven, arrived in New York City on 
 the morning of August nth, and exhibited his credentials to Superintend- 
 ent Walling, calling for the arrest of Blanche Douglass. The warrant is 
 based upon the oath of Mr. Elim Hall, who is designated as a grand juror 
 of the township of Orange, Conn., of the inquest held before Justice Met- 
 calf, and the charge against the girl is that she " did wickedly, corruptly 
 and feloniously, falsely testify and swear that she slept in the Elliott 
 House, in the city of New Haven, on the night of Friday, August sth, and 
 that the last time she saw Jennie Cramer alive was on Thursday, August 
 4th, at about twelve o'clock noon, then well knowing that said testimony 
 was untrue and false," and that her testimony, the paper further recites, 
 was material to the inquiry in the case of Jennie Cramer. 
 • Superintendent Walling detailed Detective Haley to accompany the 
 New Haven officer, and the two were instructed to report to Captain Wil- 
 liams, at the West Thirtieth Street police station. The captain intrusted 
 further inquiries to Detective Dunlap, and not long afterward that officer 
 found in the second story of a house of ill-fame in West Thirty-first Street 
 the object of his search, with Mrs. Lizzie Bundy, the mistress of the house, 
 and Sadie Munroe, an inmate of the place. There were evidences that 
 Blanche Douglass had hurriedly prepared to move to another house. A 
 dispatch from New Haven had apprised her of the mission of Detective 
 Brower. At any rate, her lips were sealed, and it was only on her arrival 
 in the Thirtieth Street police station, half an hour later, that she became 
 at all, but only in a degree, communicative. 
 
 As the prisoner was led up to the desk in the police station, where she 
 was confronted by Detective Brower with the warrant for her arrest, the 
 police formula was. recited to her. She was told that she had been arrested 
 on a charge of perjury, and that Captain Williams wanted her " pedigree" 
 as a matter of mere record for his blotter, but that she was at liberty to 
 answer or not such questions as he would ask. She is small of figure and 
 passably good-looking. Her attire and general bearing were those of an in- 
 telligent girl who had already seen something of the world, but there was 
 nothing about her to indicate depravity. She wore a blue cambric dress ; 
 and a Gainsborough hat with gray ostrich plumes. There was no conspic- 
 uous jewelry to dazzle the plam men by whom she was surrounded in the 
 police station, and her replies to the questions that were put to her were 
 made in a low, tremulous voice that told those of the by-standers who did 
 not see her face that she was weeping. When asked her name, she replied ; 
 
 " Annie Blanche Clements." 
 
 " Where were you born ?" 
 
 " In the United States." 
 
 It had been explained to her that she need not disclose her birthplace, 
 and that all that the police could extort was merely her nationality. She 
 gave her age as nineteen years, her condition in life as that of an unmarried 
 woman, and her residence as the place from which she had just been taken. 
 
 As it was after the morning court hours she was committed to a cell to 
 await the reopening of the Jefferson Market Police Court at two o'clock p.m. 
 
 At about a quarter to two o'clock the detectives took her out to a Sixth 
 Avenue car, and on the way down to the police court she said she made the 
 
acquaintance in this city seven or eight weeks ago of Walter Malley, of New 
 Haven, and that upon his invitation, about four weeks ago, she went to 
 New Haven and became a guest in the Tontine Hotel. He called upon 
 her frequently, and took her out riding, and at length at a supper with him 
 she was introduced to James Malley, Jr., and Jennie Cramer, neither of 
 whom she had ever seen before. After a week of such festivities as were 
 offered by Walter Malley in New Haven, she returned to New York, but 
 soon she was lured back to New Haven. She took board in the Elliott 
 House, and was thence taken out riding by Walter Malley, who was accom- 
 panied by James Malley, Jr., and Jennie Cramer. 
 
 On Wednesday, August 3d, James Malley, Jr., visited Annie Blanche 
 Clements, alias Blanche Douglass, and asked her to invite Jennie Cramer 
 to meet him and herself in Walter Malley's house. Accordingly she sent 
 to Jennie Cramer and got an affirmative answer. The party thus made up 
 dined in the Elliott House, and went thence to Walter Malley's house. 
 There the two couples spent the night, Walter Malley with Annie Blanche 
 Clements, alias Blanche Douglass, and James Malley, Jr., with Jennie 
 Cramer. " There seemed to be no hesitation in Miss Cramer's manner," 
 the prisoner continued, as the street car neared Jefferson Market Police 
 Court. " Jennie made no fuss ; she seemed to be a wild girl, but in what I 
 had seen of her in our riding out and dining around in New Haven she 
 betrayed no looseness." 
 
 " On Thursday morning I went with Jennie over to her mother's, and her 
 mother made a great fuss and threatened to tell Mr. Cramer. Mrs. Cra- 
 mer talked angrily to Jennie for some time, telling her she should be turned 
 out of doors. Went out of the room leaving us together. Jennie now 
 said that she must leave her father's house. She talked of this for a while, 
 but nothing that she said indicated a thought of suicide. At length she 
 left the room, and after I had waited for a while to see her mother, as I 
 wanted to tell her that I had not enticed her daughter, I went back to my 
 hotel. This was at eleven o'clock a.m. or thereabouts. An hour later or 
 at noon on Thursday I saw Jennie in a Savin Rock car, and that was the 
 last I saw of her alive. On Friday night I slept in Walter Malley's house." 
 
 " But you testified," a detective interrupted, " that you slept in the El- 
 liott House, and yet the chambermaid says the bed wasn't disturbed." 
 
 " Well, I slept in the Malley house." 
 
 The prisoner's further admissions, taken in connection with what she 
 had said in other interviews, favored the impression that the discrepancies 
 to her narrative of events are traceable to a desire to shield Walter Malley. 
 
 The magistrate said that under the warrant produced before him he could 
 hold the prisoner for ten days awaiting a requisition, but that if of her 
 own free will the prisoner should consent to go to Connecticut he could at 
 once commit her to the custody of Detective Brower absolutely, and that 
 immediately thereafter the detective could take his own means of producing 
 her before the court in New Haven. Justice Morgan added that Mr. B)y- 
 denburgh might properly consult with his client as to the best course to be 
 pursued. 
 
 Mr. Blydenburgh and the prisoner thereupon retired to the private con- 
 sultation room, and there was a long consultation. 
 
 One whose duty had led him into the house in which Blanche Douglass 
 was arrested said : " Sadie Munroe was her room-mate while she was in 
 the house," and says that " the girl was all the time worried about some- 
 thing." Sadie said further : " She is a girl of the most generous impulses, 
 
and was very fond of Walter Malley, who was in love with her, and came 
 every Saturday night to remain over Sunday. We went to Coney Island 
 yesterday, and Blanche was nervous and excited all the time. We had 
 spoken together about her visit to New Haven; but even to me she did not 
 talk frankly about that. I think she had been trying to shield Walter 
 Malley from harm, and that but for such an effort her testimony before a 
 coroner's jury and the stories she now tells would be the same in every 
 particular." 
 
 The counsellor said that the prisoner had elected to accompany Detective 
 Brower without any circumlocutory legal process. The papers were at once 
 made out, and Blanche Douglass started with the detectives, Brower and 
 Dunlap, to get her effects from the house whence she had been taken. 
 An hour later the party were in a train for New Haven. 
 
 From the moment of the discovery of the body of Jessie E. Cramer, the 
 authorities of West Haven, and those of New Haven, its immediate neigh- 
 bor, as well as most of the citizens of both places, displayed the most 
 heartless indifference about the sad affair. The/ were only roused from 
 their indifference and supineness by the goadings of the press of New York 
 and other cities. Some of the consequences have been that the heartless 
 malefactors have had time to try to drill themselves into telling one consis- 
 tent story ; while there is no knowing how many persons in the possession 
 of damning facts have had their mouths covered with greenbacks in order 
 to ensure their silence. Another result is that the story of the crime is 
 told piecemeal, from day to day, as it is ferreted out by the reporters of 
 the leading newspapers. 
 
 At the coroner's jury examination held at West Haven August 6th, the 
 day of the finding of the body of Jessie E. Cramer, her father, Mr. Jacob 
 Cramer, a respectable man, a German cigar-maker of New Haven, testified 
 as follows ; I recognize the body as that of my daughter ; the last time I 
 saw her alive was Thursday noon ; she came with a woman who called, her- 
 self Miss Douglass, but went away without dinner ; she had remained away 
 all of Wednesday night and her mother scolded her and did not like to see 
 her with this woman ; " Oh, she slept with me at the Elliott House last 
 night," said Miss Douglass, " and no gentlemen are allowed there ; it is all 
 right ;" we didn't think so, as we were discussing methods of keeping her 
 home and making the Douglass woman keep away from the house she went 
 off and we could not find her ; Jennie has been sickly and we had been 
 willing that she should have all the pleasure she could ; we did not object 
 to her going away, but when it came to remaining overnight we could not 
 allow that ; this Douglass woman had been to the house before ; she said 
 she came from Flushing, L. I., and roomed at room No. 7 Elliott House ; 
 yesterday, when she didn't return, I went to the Chief of Police and re- 
 ported the fact ; I also went to the Elliott House to search for her, when 
 Miss Douglass sent word by a porter that my daughter had gone to New 
 York to see her brother ; she has a brother there ; but I knew that she 
 couldn't have gone ; I now believe she was in the hotel all the time, se- 
 creted from me, and that the woman deceived me ; James Malley had been 
 to the house to see Jennie several times ; he made her acquainted with this 
 Douglass woman, saying she was a cousin of the son of Edward Malley, the 
 dry goods man ; this son brought her up from New York ; I went also to 
 James Malley and asked him where Jennie was ; he said he didn't know ; 
 that she said she was going to New York to see her brother ; I received 
 letters from him and Miss Douglass also, saying she had gone there. 
 
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 The physicians found no bruises sufficient in themselves to cause death, 
 but concluded that she had been seduced within twenty-four hours. Dr. 
 Painter stated that Mrs. Beecher, who resides near the place where the body 
 was found, had informed him that she heard a scream from a direction to- 
 ward the Kelsey wharf at half-past two o'clock this morning. Soon after 
 she saw a beach wagon driven rapidly up the street. It turned to take the 
 road to New Haven and struck the curb. In it were two men, and, she 
 thinks, a woman. 
 
 Deputy Sheriff Peck testified that he saw the girl in the railroad grove last 
 evening about eight o'clock ; near her was a small, rather dark complexioned 
 young man, with a black mustache, who was lying with his head in another 
 woman's lap ; they all appeared to be of one party ; he did not see them 
 go away. 
 
 The man who attends the flying horses said that the same party were at 
 his place between seven and eight o'clock. They rode for half an hour and 
 then went to the swings. 
 
 The following facts were elicited at this time ; we give them in the form 
 of a connected narrative : 
 
 About five weeks ago a lady giving her name as Blanche Douglass stop- 
 ped at the Tremont House, in New Haven. She stayed there half a day, 
 and then went to the Tontine Hotel, where she remained three or four 
 days. While in New Haven he says she was visited by Walter and James 
 Malley. While she was at the Toutine she says that she rode out with a 
 party, including the brothers Malley, to Buell's, on the East Haven shore. 
 At Buell's the Malleys introduced her to Miss Jennie Cramer. Mr. James 
 Malley says that the first time that he ever went driving with Miss Jennie 
 was a little over a month ago. He had been acquainted with Jennie about 
 a year, but had seen her only a few times. On those occasions he had met 
 her accidentally, and had said very little to her. On a Saturday night pre- 
 vious to July 23d, while Jennie was home, a little cash girl from Malley's 
 store brought her the following note in James Malley's handwriting : 
 
 " If you will overlook my audacity in requesting your company on a 
 pleasure trip to Coney Island, leaving by to-night's boat, and overlook the 
 lateness of the invitation, I will feel honored by your consent to come. We 
 will meet Walter and his friend, and return Monday morning at seven 
 o'clock. 
 
 " If your answer is yes, meet me on the corner of Temple and Chapel 
 Streets at 10.30 this evening." 
 
 Miss Jennie evidently understood who Walter's friend was. Subsequent 
 developments pretty surely indicate that it was the lady known as Blanche 
 Douglass. At all events, judging from the following letter, Jennie's answer 
 was favorable : 
 
 " Dear Jennie : I feel very grateful for your kind answer, and feel very 
 sorry things have turned out as they have. Walter has received a telegram 
 from his lady friend saying she cannot come to our city this afternoon on 
 account of illness, which makes things all mixed up again. But the next 
 time I will take care that nothing of the kind shall occur again, for I shall 
 make no engagements again until I see her in our city. Hoping you will 
 not blame me for anything, as I have done everything in my power to have 
 all parties meet, truly yours, j. m." 
 
As tending to show the intimacy existing between James Malley and 
 Miss Jennie, the subjoined note, also written previous to July 23d, will be 
 found interesting : 
 
 " Dear : I will call upon you this evening at about 8 o'clock ; let me 
 know by br. if you will be at home. Respect, yours, J. M." 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Cramer both say that Mr. James Malley was in the habit 
 of calling upon Miss Jennie at their house. On July 23d, Miss Cramer 
 received the following from James Malley : 
 
 " July 23, 1881. 
 
 " My dear Jennie : Our lady friend. Miss Blanche, is to come to our 
 city on the 6 o'clock train this evening. We would like to have you see her 
 this evening, so as we can make arrangements to go somewhere for to-mor- 
 row. Please call at the store this evening. I will tell you what hotel she 
 is at. Let me know what time you will call at the store. Respect, yours, 
 
 " J. M." 
 
 malley's dry goods store. 
 
 On the same day, later, the following was sent : 
 
 " Dear Friend : Would you like to drive out to the shore with a party 
 of four of us and have sapper and music? Please say yes, and we will call 
 for you. Yours, etc., James Malley." 
 
 To this note Miss Jennie must have replied that she was going out of 
 town, and that she could not make an engagement. 
 
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 The lady known as Miss Blanche Douglass arrived in New Haven at 6 
 o'clock on the night of July 23d, and registered at the Tontine Hotel. She 
 
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 says that she wrote Mr. Malley asking him to engage a room. He met her 
 at the depot and took her to the hotel. On the 26th or 27th she says that 
 Miss Jennie called upon her, sending her card up by the clerk. She staid 
 two hours or more, and then both went to Redcliff 's, the Delmonico of New 
 Haven, and had some ice cream. After leaving Redcliff's, she says that 
 Jennie asked her to go to Malley's store. She did so. They remained in 
 the store about an hour. Walter Malley then accompanied her to the Ton- 
 tine and James accompanied Jennie home. On the next day Miss Jennie 
 received the following letter : 
 
 " New Haven, July 28, 1881. 
 
 " Miss Jennie : Would like to see you some time this afternoon before 5^ 
 if convenient. Yours very truly, Blanche Douglass, Tontine Hotel. 
 
 " Answer by bearer." 
 
 Blanche says that this meant an invitation from James Malley to take a 
 ride. Jennie came to the hotel about 6 p.m. They met the Malleys on a 
 street just off Chapel Street, and again drove down to Buell's, at East Ha- 
 ven. There was a dance at Buell's, and instead of dining there they went 
 to a neighboring hotel, where Jennie said that they could get a good supper. 
 Blanche tells a contradictory story as to where they went on their return 
 from Buell's. At first she said that the Malleys left them at the Elliott 
 House. Afterward she said that the Malleys drove their own team and the 
 girls got out at the Malley mansion. It was between r and 2 a.m. They 
 went to a holel over Redcliff's. Miss Jennie said that she was thirsty and 
 wanted something to drink. They were in a private room containing a sofa, 
 a centre table, and half a dozen chairs. James Malley went out and got 
 four glasses of soda water. They remained there till 3 a.m. Walter left 
 Blanche at the Tontine Hotel, and James went home with Jennie. 
 
 On the evening of the 29th, Blanche says, Jennie's sister called on her at 
 the Tontine Hotel and asked her to come to Jennie's house to tea. She 
 replied that she was too tired. The sister said that Jennie wanted her to 
 call upon her if she went out. 
 
 Meantime Blanche wrote a note informing Jennie that she had taken 
 rooms at the Elliott House. 
 
 On Saturday, July 30th, Blanche says. Miss Jennie called on her at 5 p.m. 
 She dined with her at the Elliott House. While she was there AValter Mal- 
 ley came in and asked them to have some ice-cream. Jennie replied that 
 she could not, as she had an engagement with somebody else. 
 
 On Wednesday, the 3d of August, Miss Jennie received the following 
 letter : 
 
 " New Haven, August 3, 1881. 
 ' Dear Miss Cramer : Have been expecting to see you the last two days. 
 Jim is going to bring me down to Walter's house this evening, and I would 
 so much like to have you join us. Can you call this afternoon ? Yours in 
 haste, Blanche." 
 
 Before this time Blanche says that Miss Jennie wrote to James Malley 
 asking whether Blanche had left the city. Blanche acknowledges that her 
 note to Jennie was forwarded by Walter Malley, Jennie accepted the 
 invitation. She called at the Elliott House, where the girls were joined 
 by James Malley. Blanche says they accompanied James to the Malley 
 mansion. The old gentleman was absent at Saratoga. Walter Malley re- 
 
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 ceived them. They saw nobody else in the house. They had ice-cream, 
 bananas, and white wine. Walter Malley played on the piano. About 
 11.30 Blanche says that she felt sick and lay down on a sofa. Walter 
 offered to get a physician, and she declined the offer. Then Walter said 
 that if she felt very bad she could have a room upstairs. She and Jennie 
 went upstairs, and went to bed in the same room. Blanche says she was 
 very sick and did not sleep more than an hour that night. They were to- 
 gether all the time, and left the house alone about 8.30 in the morning. 
 
 Walter and James Malley corroborate Miss Blanche's story. Blanche 
 says that they went alone to Redcliff's and had breakfast. From Redcliff's 
 they went to the Elliott House, and, at Jennie's suggestion, Blanche ac- 
 companied her home. Blanche says that Jennie urged her to tell her mother 
 that she had spent the night at the Elliott House with her. Jennie said 
 that if she told her mother the truth her mother would tell her father, and 
 her father would kill her. She said that her father had treated her cruelly, 
 and when angry had dragged her about the room by the hair of her head. 
 On reaching Jennie's house and telling her story to- the mother, Blanche 
 says that Mrs. Cramer was much incensed, and threatened to tell Jennie's 
 father. The mother said : " What a bad girl you are ! As soon as your 
 sister Minnie comes home, you will have to leave the house. I will tell 
 your father, and I won't have you about the house. You are a terrible bad 
 girl, and this is the third or fourth time you have been out this way." 
 
 Jennie replied that Blanche had invited her to stay with her at the Elliott 
 House, and that she had done nothing wrong. The mother left the room 
 in a rage, and Jennie turned to Blanche, saying : " Come, Blanche, let's 
 go ; they've turned me out of the house. She'll tell father, and father'll 
 kill me." Blanche says that she refused to go with her, and that Jennie 
 then left the house alone. Blanche remained there fully ten minutes, and 
 as Mrs. Cramer did not reappear she departed. The father of the girl con- 
 tradicts this statement, and says that the two girls left the house together. 
 
 Blanche declares that after leaving Mr. Cramer's house she got on a horse 
 car and went to her dressmaker's. While riding past the corner of Church 
 and Chapel Streets she saw Jennie in a Savin Rock car which was standing 
 near the Green. On her way back to the hotel Blanche says she met Wal- 
 ter Malley, and told him of fearing trouble. Toward night Mrs. Cramer, 
 becoming alarmed at Jennie's absence, called upon James Malley at his 
 father's store and inquired concerning her daughter. James must have 
 visited Blanche immediately afterward, for on returning home the mother 
 received the following letter : 
 
 " New Haven, August 4, '81. 
 " Mrs. Cramer. 
 
 " Dear Madame : It has pained me exceedingly to hear from Mr. James 
 Malley that you were under the impression that your daughter Jennie was 
 with me. I thought when I requested her to remain one night with me 
 that I was doing her a. favor and kindness, but it has turned out otherwise. 
 This morning when you left the room she started up immediately and 
 wished me to follow her. I refused to go till you returned, feeling you 
 would blame me further. After Jennie had left the room some ten minutes, 
 not seeing you, I left. Since that time I have not seen her except that I 
 think I saw her in a horse car going toward Savin Rock. She mentioned 
 yesterday that she thought of going to her brother, who lived in New York, 
 soon. When you called at the hotel to-day, I was at dressmaker's, and 
 
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 am sorry that I was unable to tell you this much in person. If I should by 
 any chance see her, I shall deem it my duty to acquaint you immediately. 
 Yours, very truly, Blanche Douglass." 
 
 While Blanche claims that she was at her dressmaker's the father called 
 upon her and was told that she was not in. On Friday morning the mother 
 of Jennie Cramer received the following letter : 
 
 " Mrs. Cramer. 
 
 " Dear Madame : As I promised, I called on Miss Douglass to know if 
 she knew anything about your daughter Jennie. She informed me that she 
 did not know where she was or where she had gone to, and feels very much 
 hurt that you should blame her for any of Jennie's doings. As you say she 
 had no means to leave town with, it is my belief that she is stopping with 
 some of her friends, and trust she is home by this time. Yours, etc. , 
 
 " J. M alley, Jr." 
 
 From the time that Blanche Douglass claims that she saw Miss Jennie 
 Cramer on a Savin Rock car no one has testified to seeing her alive. 
 
 At daybreak on Saturday morning Asa Curtiss, a grizzled old fisherman 
 at Savin Rock, six miles below New Haven, on the Sound shore, discov- 
 ered the body of a woman lying in one of the numerous channels with 
 which the beach is seamed. The tide was coming in, and the body lay face 
 downward in about a foot of water. Curtiss, greatly shocked, dragged it 
 up a few feet on the dry sand, and ran with his information to the nearest 
 of a line of bar-rooms and restaurants which, built upon spiles, extend 
 from Kelsey's wharf eastward just at the edge of high water. A knot of 
 men speedily surrounded the body. The second comer recognized it as 
 that of Jennie Cramer. The body plainly had been but a short time in 
 the water and looked very natural. It was taken to the West Haven 
 morgue, near by. Drs. Painter and Shepard made an examination. The 
 face was discolored. A bruise on the forehead looked as though it might 
 have been made by the sand. Her left ear and her lip were slightly cut, 
 and her mouth bore a pale stain of blood. There were slight bruises on her 
 right shoulder also. In her pocket was a blue purse, trimmed with beads, 
 and containing fourteen cents. As she lay in the morgue, there was sea- 
 weed and sand tangled and sprinkled in her hair. A string of glass beads 
 that she had worn about her head was broken, and her hair was also 
 sprinkled with the bits of these. An inquest was begun the same day. 
 The lady known as Blanche Douglass testified substantially as is reported 
 above. She is about twenty years of age, and is good-looking. Her dress 
 was rich and striking. She had two counsel. She said that she lived at 
 No. 231 East Thirty-fourth Street, New York. 
 
 Walter and James Malley were also on the stand. Their story did not 
 differ materially from that of Miss Douglass, whom they have frequently 
 visited since the discovery of the body. Both assert that they have not seen 
 Jennie since Thursday morning. Walter says that on Friday night he was 
 at Branford Point with Miss Douglass, miles away from the spot where 
 the body was found. James says that he was at home that night, where 
 he was seen by the members of his family, Miss Haley, a dressmaker, and 
 Mrs. Malloy, a milliner. He was asked whether all the members of his 
 family saw him that night. 
 
 " Yes, sir," he answered. " My father came to me after the newspaper 
 reports were concluded and asked me where I was Friday night. No, he 
 
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 came to me and said, ' It's a lucky thing for you that you were home Fri- 
 day night.' " 
 
 James said that on Thursday Walter heard that Jennie had gone to New 
 York with Blanche. Fearing that he would be blamed, he started after 
 them, and at Stamford was stopped by a telegram from his brother inform- 
 ing him that Blanche was in New Haven. 
 
 The doctors have made a post-mortem examination, but decline to 
 make any statement until called to testify. It is said that no water was 
 found in the stomach, which would indicate that the girl was not drpwned. 
 
 About the person of Miss Cramer were articles of value, and nothing 
 was missing which she was known to have carried with her. There were 
 wounds which could not have caused death and which, according to the 
 earliest supposition, were received by contact with the sand at the harbor 
 bottom. The right side of the forehead was scraped, the nose seemed to 
 be dislocated, the lower lip was badly cut and gaped open, the right 
 shoulder was braised, the left ear was cut, and from this the blood oozed. 
 All these injuries, except the bruise on the left shoulder, could have been 
 received from the sand, and had the girl fallen on a stone the shoulder 
 wound could be accounted for. 
 
 In the meanwhile between the first investigation and the resumption, held 
 August 9, i88i, all kinds of rumors were flying around, and many theo- 
 ries more or less likely were broached. Some of these rumors were after- 
 ward proved to be unsupported by legal evidence ; yet they are necessary 
 to be considered by all who desire to be thoroughly acquainted with every- 
 thing connected with the atrocious affair. 
 
 It is not disputed that James and Walter Malley were among the ac- 
 quaintances of Blanche Douglass and Jennie E. Cramer. The young men 
 are twenty-two and twenty-three years of age. They are short and slender, 
 with dark hair and eyes, and each wears a small dark mustache. They 
 dress similarly, and in the regard of physical manliness are greatly de- 
 ficient. It is said that Mr. Edward Malley, father of Walter Malley, and 
 uncle of James Malley, Jr., has two extra detectives employed, and offers 
 $1000 for conclusive evidence as to the party or parties who caused the 
 girl's death. That the unfortunate young lady was outraged very shortly 
 before death the physicians on the jury firmly believe. 
 
 Sadie Munroe is a room-mate of Blanche Douglass, and has lived at Liz- 
 zie Bundy's for some time. While at the house in Thirty-first Street this 
 morning the reporter contrived to have a few words with her in reference 
 to her chum's character. She was enthusiastic in her defence of Blanche. 
 " I thought all the time," said she, ' that it was different from the way 
 Blanche told of it, as I read it in the papers. But Blanche said nothing to 
 me in confidence, although I could see she was worried about something. 
 She is a girl of the most generous impulses, and seemed to be fond of 
 Walter Malley, who was very much in love with her, coming down every 
 Saturday night to remain over Sunday with her. We spent yesterday at 
 Coney Island, and Blanche was nervous and excited all the time. We 
 had spoken together of her visit to New Haven, but even to me she was 
 very reticent ; and, do you know, when a woman won't even confide in 
 her chum about a matter of that sort she does a good deal more for a man 
 than he would do for her." 
 
 And with this little bit of feminine deduction Miss Sadie relapsed into a 
 meditative silence. 
 
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 " Then you think the contradictions in Miss Douglass's testimony can 
 all be reconciled to the hypothesis of self-sacrifice?" suggested there- 
 porter. " Quite so," said the woman decisively, as she selected a big 
 red-cheeked peach out of a basket at her elbow. " And if Walter Mal- 
 ley is any sort of a man he'll come out and acknowledge his part.' 
 
 " What part ?" " Helping his brother James pass the night with poor 
 Jennie Cramer," rejoined the young woman unhesitatingly, and with a 
 most refreshing directness. 
 
 " Do you think the theory that Miss Cramer poisoned herself from — ah 
 — that is, because her mother spoke harshly to her— is correct ?" ventured 
 the reporter. " Why not? Or from shame. Do you know," continued 
 the philosophic young lady, as she stopped munching her fruit for an im- 
 pressive moment, "that women are very peculiar about these things ? If 
 they sin willingly, with their eyes open, they are happy as long as they are 
 loved ; but if coercion or anything of that sort is used they go to the other 
 extreme, and from outraged pride or delicacy, or anything else you may 
 call it, they want to commit suicide at once; and," she concluded sol- 
 emnly," if they get the chance they generally do." 
 
 These views, although not valuable in a court of justice, possess an in- 
 terest as enabling the psychologist to trace the different mental stages by 
 which the idea of suicide is gradually developed in the feminine mind, from 
 the point of view of a woman under the circumstances that have just oc- 
 curred. Whether the woman's conclusions, derived presumably from close 
 observation, will carry their due weight with a jury is as yet an undeter- 
 mined question. 
 
 RESUMPTION OF THE INQUEST ON THE BODY OF MISS JENNIE E. CRAMER. 
 
 The inquest in the case of Jennie E. Cramer, aged twenty, who was 
 found drowned of West Haven shore on Friday morning, was resumed to- 
 day. Dr. Mitchell Prudden took to New York some of the organs of the 
 deceased for careful examination. No external bruises or external marks 
 of violence appeared upon the surface of the body. The internal organs 
 are chiefly normal, with slight fulness of the blood vessels. There was no 
 water in the stomach. The body was found face downward. The gen- 
 eral opinion is that she could not have committed suicide. 
 
 Annie Blanche Douglass testified that she lived at No. 231 East Thirty- 
 fourth Street, New York city ; she came here a month ago ; the deceased 
 and James and Walter Malley spent Wednesday night at the house of 
 Edward Malley ; the reason given by witness for staying all night was that 
 she was taken sick, and Miss Cramer stayed to keep her company and slept 
 with her ; the next day both went to Mr. Cramer's house and told the 
 prearranged story that Miss Cramer stayed with the witness at the hotel ; 
 Mrs Cramer, according to the witness, upbraided Jennie, and the latter, 
 fearing her father's anger, said she would leave the house and go with the 
 witness ; Miss Douglass did not want this, and went away alone ; the next 
 and last time she saw Jennie was on Thursday noon, in a horse car bound 
 for West Haven ; Jennie did not see the witness. 
 
 JAMES MALLEY'S TESTIMONY. 
 
 James Malley, Jr., then testified, and occupied the attention of the jury 
 until dusk. He said that he last saw Jennie Cramer alive last Thursday 
 morning as she was leaving Walter Malley's with the Douglass woman ; he 
 
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 had invited the two to come to Walter Malley's house the night previous at 
 Walter's request ; he thought that the wine drank was sherry ; when the 
 Douglass woman complained of being sick he and Walter Malley urged the 
 girls to stay all night and offered them a room ; he didn't want to call 
 Malley's coachman to carry them home because he did not want the 
 coachman to know of the party in the house ; the girls were not at break- 
 fast the next morning, and the witness said that he didn't know but that it 
 was singular for them to leave the house so unceremoniously ; he had 
 known Jennie Cramer about a year. The Mr. Duff, mentioned by Mr. 
 Douglass, Malley said, was connected with a New York theatre ; he did 
 not believe that Miss Cramer was dead when he first heard of it ; he told 
 Mrs. Cramer, after Jennie had left home, that should he see her he would 
 say that her mother was sorry for the rebuke she had given her, but he 
 never saw her again ; he had told Mrs. Cramer that Jennie had gone to 
 New York before this ; Mallej- denied that he had been at the West Haven 
 shore within ten days, and there were no peculiar relations between himself 
 and Jennie Cramer ; there was no reason why he should address her as 
 " Dear Jennie" in his notes to her ; he thought it was two or three weeks 
 since he invited her to spend a Sunday at Coney Island with him ; he 
 denied ever making any improper proposals ; he did not believe that she 
 committed suicide. Mr. Malley intends to prove an alibi. 
 
 Blanche Douglass testified at the inquest on Jennie Cramer's body that 
 she had known the girl about a month. Jennie Cramer was in New York 
 about the middle of July from Saturday until the following Wednesday. 
 No particulars have been brought out at the inquest in regard to the man- 
 ner of their forming an acquaintance, but it is supposed that they met first 
 in New York. The circumstances attending Blanche Douglass' stay here 
 lead many persons to suppose that her object in coming was to promote the 
 intimacy which James Malley, Jr., was desirous of establishing between 
 himself and Jennie Cramer. Whether she»came for that purpose or not the 
 circumstances indicate that she succeeded in doing exactly that thing with 
 a result that was probably never dreamed of by any one of the four. 
 
 She, Blanche Douglass, arrived in New Haven on Sunday, July 31st, and 
 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday seems to have divided her attention 
 between her dressmaker and junketing with the Malley boys. On Wed- 
 nesday Jennie Cramer called on Blanche Douglass at the Elliott House, in 
 pursuance of an arrangement made by James Malley, Jr. While she was 
 there he came in and invited the two women to go to Walter Malley's resi- 
 dence for a visit, Blanche Douglass consented readily enough, and Jennie, 
 after a little urging, said she " didn't mind." 
 
 The West Shore is a k^d of Coney Island on a small scale. It is the 
 residence of a few persons who are reputed wealthy, but in summer it is 
 the resort for summer boarders, one first-class hotel and a number of 
 smaller ones having a large patronage. It is also a resort for the young 
 people of New Haven, many of whom go there to spend a summer after- 
 noon or evening. There are bathing, dancing, music, and various small 
 games, such as are to be found in full blast on a sunny Sunday at West 
 Brighton. Railroad Grove is a cluster of trees and booths near the water, 
 where beer is to be had and where the young people stroll and amuse them- 
 selves as they choose. Near this grove is a long pier extending into the 
 Sound, and used mainly as a promenade. The beach is a very shelving 
 one, with numerous bars that are only covered at the highest tide. 
 
 Inside all these bars, lying on the beach, in a spot to which no tide 
 
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 would have been likely to drift it, the body lay. It seemed apparent that 
 she had either died there or that her body had been cast there from the 
 shore. No human probability exists that the tide brought the body there. 
 
 Unfortunately West Haven, in which town the West Shore is located, is 
 not under a city government. As soon as Asa Curtiss, the fisherman who 
 found the body, and one or two neighbors who were on the spot almost 
 immediately had placed the body in a decent position. Deputy Sheriff Peck, 
 who constitutes the police force of the town, notified Justice of the Peace 
 Metcalf, who, under the Connecticut law, was the person to act as coroner, 
 and he caused a jury of inquest of six persons to be summoned. This 
 jury took a superficial survey of the body and were about to return a ver- 
 dict of " Found drowned," when some astute person suggested that there 
 was some doubt whether she was drowned or not, and the jury immediately 
 took a recess of two days. What their object in doing this was nobody has 
 been able to determine, unless it was to consider the question whether it 
 was worth while to order an autopsy to be made at an expense to the town 
 of $30. 
 
 At any rate an autopsy was ordered after a delay of more than forty-eight 
 hours, and, with corresponding promptness, the authorities have delayed 
 until now finding out from the doctors who made the examination, the re- 
 sult of their labors. It is certain that these'doctors, or rather Dr. Prud- 
 den, for it was he who had charge of the work, has made no report as yet, 
 excepting that he has replied to one direct question from one in authority, 
 that he was unable to tell definitely what the manner of the girl's death was. 
 
 Enough has been learned, however, to warrant certain statements which 
 bear on the case directly, either as suggesting clews or as substantiating 
 certain facts that were suspected. In the first place it is certain that if 
 Jennie Cramer had preserved her virtue up to the last few days of her life 
 she was certainly unable to do so to the end. 
 
 It is not certain whether there-was any struggle on the part of the unfor- 
 tunate girl to preserve her honor at the last minute, but it is reasonably cer- 
 tain that no such struggle took place. There are, however, grounds for 
 suspecting that she was under the influence of some drug when she died, 
 though I am unable to learn anything definite about the character of the 
 drug. Mr. Marsden, an old resident of West Haven, who studied medi- 
 cine in his early days and who has always paid considerable attention to 
 medical science and has had a great amount of experience in handling and 
 dissecting dead bodies, declares that there was a very unnatural odor about 
 this body when it was taken up. He is positive that it was the odor of 
 some drug, and says that it suggested laudanum. Asa Curtiss says there was 
 a terrible offensive smell about it, but knows nothing about what kind of a 
 smell it was beyond these facts, and that there were huckleberries found in 
 -the girl's stomach. Nothing can be learned of the result of the autopsy, 
 though Dr. Prudden has acknowledged that he found traces of drugs in the 
 body. 
 
 It is said by those who picked her up, and who are used to handling 
 bodies of drowned persons that she was not drowned. The question of 
 death is, therefore, an open one and has divided the community with the- 
 ories of suicide and of murder. Of course inquiries were at once made of 
 the Malleys and of Miss Douglass, and it is certain that the testimony they 
 gave was not entirely in accordance with the facts. How far that discrep- 
 ancy goes of course can only be determined by the facts as they shall be 
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 first place, the two Malleys testified that they did not see Jennie Cramer 
 alive after Thursday morning, and Miss Douglass testified that she only saw 
 her once, and that was in a street car going toward the New Havtn depot. 
 Walter Malley testified that when he learned from Miss Douglass of this 
 fact he started at once for New York, supposing that Jennie had gone 
 thither, but when he got as far as Stamford, he got a dispatch from his 
 cousin Tames stating that Jennie was all right, and telling him to come back 
 here, which he did. He made no explanation of why he followed Jennie 
 or of how James knew that she was all right if he had not seen her, nor did 
 James explain the matter, but both insisted that they did not see Jennie 
 alive after Thursday morning. This latter declaration is undoubtedly false ; 
 as I wrote yesterday, the clerk of Kedcliff's restaurant says, and there is 
 documentary evidence of his assertion, that Walter Malley took supper with 
 the two girls on Thursday night at the restaurant. The check for the sup- 
 per is now in the possession of C. F. BoUman, who is acting as counsel for 
 the coroner's jury. After the discovery had been made by a New Haven 
 newspaper man that Redclifi's clerk was ready to give this evidence Wal- 
 ter Malley, with his counsel, visited the restaurant and demanded the 
 checks be given to him. 
 
 THE THEORY OF SUICIDE NOT BELIEVED. 
 
 As to any other of Jennie Cramer's movements during Thursday and 
 Friday, nothing is known by the public. That a girl so well known as she 
 was should have been around New Haven for two days and a night and 
 not be recognized seems unlikely, and it is therefore generally believed 
 that she was in retirement somewhere and very probably in company, at 
 least part of the time, with the people who falsely swore that they had not 
 seen her. It is true that there were a number of people who were reported 
 to have said that they saw her on the West Shore on Friday evening, but 
 only two of them now stick to the story, and it is thought she did not spend 
 the evening there. 
 
 It has been thought that she realized her shame when it was too late and 
 committed suicide, but the suicide theory is not generally adopted. It is 
 argued that if she were alive when she went into the water, and had died by 
 drowning, there would be water found in the body, and if she had killed 
 herself by poison she would not have been found in the water, and even if 
 it be supposed that she died on the shore and staggered or fell into the 
 water the laceration of her face (for there was a cut on the forehead and 
 another on the hip) remain unexplained. This laceration, it is believed, 
 was caused by her being dragged over the sand or shells by the tide. It is 
 thought possible that she may have killed herself with poison and that some 
 person may have carried her body to the shore and thrown it in. Differ- 
 ent stories of wagons being heard near the beach on Friday night have 
 been told, but none of them bear investigation any more than the stories of 
 persons who claimed to have seen her on the beach on Friday evening. 
 Popular opinion here points to the theory that she was murdered, and sus- 
 picion is naturally directed toward the three persons last known to be in 
 her company, though no strong case has yet been made out against them, 
 nor, indeed, any case at all, excepting by their own contradiction. 
 
 No further exposition of the domestic arrangements of the Malley house- 
 hold has been made public than the evidence in relation to this visit of the 
 
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 two girls to the two young men. This, to say the least, was peculiar. 
 Walter Malley received his cousin and the young ladies in his father's 
 house, where his father's family all live., The party was in a room apart 
 from all the other inmates of the house, and care was taken to prevent the 
 servants from knowing of the presence of the two girls, or at least from 
 seeing them. They were entertained with a light supper of cakes and wines. 
 None of them drank very heavily, according to their own testimony, none 
 other being available, but before the evening was over Blanche Douglass 
 complained of not being well, and said that she felt unable to return to her 
 hotel. Jennie Cramer, although she had previously refused to remain 
 away from home overnight, was induced to stay on this occasion. 
 
 What passed during the night is only known by conjecture and from the 
 testimony of the two Malley boys and the Douglass woman. They testify 
 that the girls slept together in a room by themselves, and that no impro- 
 priety marked the occasion. The young men both corroborated this, say- 
 ing that they both slept in another room, and that they knew nothing of the 
 girls' departure early next morning. 
 
 To keep the reader fully apprised of all the facts and opinions in this 
 mysterious case, we will now furnish a re'sum/ in which a running com- 
 mentary will be given along with them. The respective dates will show 
 exactly how the investigation progressed, and also what was thought of 
 the developments from time to time. This summary is mainly taken from 
 the New York Herald telegraphic reports. 
 
 New Haven, Conn., August ii, i88t. 
 The mystery attending the death of Jennie Cramer, which has been 
 growing deeper and deeper as time goes by, was by no means cleared up 
 to-day by the developments which have been made by the eijterprise of the 
 press. Nothing so far has been learned in any official way in regard to 
 the crime, and the adjournment of the inquest for a week was apparently 
 for the purpose of allowing the public to collect what evidence was obtain- 
 able, and so save expense to the taxpayers and trouble to the officers of 
 the law. The developments spoken of are mainly the discovery of testi- 
 mony that goes far to contradict the evidence given by the persons origi- 
 nally suspected by reason of their being in company with the unfortunate 
 girl only a short time before her death and by reason of the suspicious cir- 
 cumstances of the association. It will be remembered that Jennie Cramer's 
 body was found on Saturday morning last about five o'clock and that she 
 had not been home after Thursday morning, at which time she received a 
 scolding from her mother for having stayed away the previous night in 
 company with a woman who passed by the name of Douglass ; and with 
 Walter and James Malley she left home with the Douglass woman and was 
 not seen again alive by her relatives. Of course the three persons men- 
 tioned were first questioned. Even such officials as have charge of this 
 case could scarcely fail to perceive the necessity for that, although, as one 
 of the lawyers in the case said to-day, " all they have done so far is to pre- 
 pare a case for the defence." At the inquest the Douglass woman and 
 the two " Malley boys," as they are called here, swore that they had not 
 seen Jennie Cramer after Thursday morning. This, if it were true, would 
 leave two days and a night unaccounted for in the girl's life, for on Friday 
 night she was certainly seen alive by a number of persons near the place 
 where her body was found on Saturday morning. 
 
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 POSITIVE TESTIMONY. 
 
 But although the testimony now obtained is not yet sworn to there is no 
 doubt it will be, and it directly contradicts Jennie Cramer's three com- 
 panions. The Douglass woman testified that she spent Friday night at the 
 Elliott House, at which hotel she was a guest. It was shown that she was 
 registered at the Branford Point Hotel ten miles away, but she swore that 
 she returned from there to the Elliott House and entered the hotel through 
 the office entrance about eleven o'clock, and did so because the ladies' 
 entrance was locked. Passing through the office she went to her room, 
 and remained there until the next day. When the two chambermaids 
 went to Miss Douglass' room on Saturday morning she was out and her 
 bed had not been disturbed. One of the domestics remarked that Miss 
 Douglass had made her own bed and thought it rather a strange proceed- 
 ing. It was some time after the room had been put in order that Miss 
 Douglass had returned to the hotel. The hotel authorities flatly contradict 
 the woman's statement about entering the hotel through the office. If she 
 had done so, such an unusual proceeding would have attracted the attention 
 of the clerk, who is positive that Miss Douglass did not enter the hotel at 
 the hour she says — eleven o'clock — or any other hour of the night. To say 
 she entered through the office because the ladies' entrance was locked is 
 looked upon as sheer nonsense, because the ladies' entrance is kept locked 
 both day and night. While stopping at the hotel she was out many nights 
 much later than eleven o'clock, and was always admitted at the ladies' en- 
 trance after ringing the bell. 
 
 "What do you think of Miss Douglass' statement about this ?" was 
 asked of a gentleman connected with the hotel. 
 
 " I think she lies : yes, I know she lies. She never stayed here Friday 
 night. She did not get in until about nine Saturday morning, and she 
 could never have entered through the office, or she would have been seen." 
 
 " How many nights was she away from the hotel ?" 
 
 " Two, Wednesday and Friday." 
 
 ANOTHER CONTRADICTION. 
 
 Another important contradiction, which can and doubtless will be laid 
 before the jury, is that of a clerk in a restaurant in this city, who says that 
 instead of it being true that the Malleys did not see Jennie Cramer after 
 Thursday morning, his record shows that on Thursday night, about half- 
 past ten o'clock, Walter Malley came in with two ladies and had supper. 
 He is positive about it, and is certain one of the females was Miss Blanche 
 Douglass, whom he had frequently seen with Walter Malley, and the other 
 he identifies as Jennie Cramer, after seeing her picture take i by Bowman. 
 But this is not the only reason that he is positive of the identity of the two 
 girls. He remembers distinctly when Miss Douglass, accompanied by a 
 lady, came in Thursday morning for breakfast, and he is positive the two 
 ladies that were accompanied by Walter Malley in the evening were the 
 same two that had breakfast together in the morning. James Malley was 
 not with the party. It was late when they left, eleven o'clock or after, and 
 they were the last custom&rs served that night. The check for the supper 
 is on file, and was shown, together with that for the breakfast of the two 
 women, to a reporter this afternoon. The plot has thickened, and by to- 
 morrow it is confidently expected that a consecutive story of all the cir- 
 cumstances can be told which will serve to indicate what the cause of Jennie 
 Cramer's death was. 
 
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 New Haven, August 13, 1881. 
 
 After an entire week of masterly inactivity the authorities of this city 
 and the amiable gentlemen who run the few public affairs of the little ham- 
 let of West Haven came to the conclusion that something ought to be 
 done in regard to the death of Jennie Cramer, and took steps to secure the 
 arrest of Blanche Douglass, the woman who was associated with the story 
 of the unfortunate girl's last days. It will be remembered that this witness, 
 after telling a story that has been since shown to be false in several particu- 
 lars, and after having acknowledged being with Jennie overnight on Wed- 
 nesday in the Malley house, and denied seeing her after Thursday morn- 
 ing, was allowed to walk quietly away and leave the State. Such a thing 
 was at once denounced by the public, and the neglect of the authorities to 
 keep her at least within reach was denounced as stupidity or worse. The 
 peculiar machinery of the law was set up by the officials as a defence, and 
 after they had proclaimed for four days that they had no power or right to 
 arrest the woman they did exactly that. After they determined, however, 
 to do this, they only accomplished it with the aid of a Herald reporter, 
 who had two days before ascertained from Captain Williams that he knew 
 Blanche Douglass and had his eye on her. When the authorities here ex- 
 pressed a doubt whether they would be able to find her in case they thought 
 best to arrest her, the reporter informed them that he would give them the 
 assurance that she could be found if officially sought. 
 
 On Friday night they sent to him in great haste, saying that a warrant 
 was issued for her arrest, and that her counsel had learned of it and had 
 started for New York, and asking him (the reporter) to make sure of her 
 arrest, which he did by telegraphing to Captain Williams. 
 
 The warrant that was issued was for perjury. Police Commissioner 
 Catlin, of this city, said to-day that a number of things were being done 
 that ought to have been done a week ago. The Douglass woman, he said, 
 ought to have been arrested at once and not allowed to see any one. 
 
 Yesterday," said he, " I came to the conclusion that it was time New 
 Haven did something, so I went to the Chief of Police and asked him what 
 had been done by him. He said he had not made any very active move 
 for the reason that it was not a New Haven case. I told him it was time 
 we did something, and if any expense was incurred it would be made right 
 by the Police Commissioners. It was then decided to arrest the woman, 
 and a detective was sent to New York to arrest her and bring her to New 
 Haven." 
 
 STRANGE CONNECTICUT LAWS. 
 
 Police Commissioner BoUman, who agreed, after almost a week, that 
 it was time to arrest a woman suspected of complicity in the murder of a 
 New Haven girl, says in his capacity as counsel to the coroner's jury, that 
 the New Haven police had no right to arrest anybody on suspicion of com- 
 mitting a murder in West Haven without a warrant from West Haven ; and 
 further, that the justice of the peace who acts as coroner has no right to 
 arrest anybody on suspicion of murder, nor had the coroner's jury any 
 right to order such an arrest. 
 
 The arrest, however, was made, as was said, by Captain Williams, in 
 New York, and the woman making no objection to being taken from one 
 State to another, she was brought here this afternoon. 
 
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 \ Blanche's statement to the police. 
 
 Blanche Douglass arrived in New Haven at ten minutes past six p.m. in 
 charge of the detective who went to New York after her. She was dressed 
 in a plain travelling suit and brought no baggage excepting a valise. She 
 appeared troubled and distressed, and as she passed through a crowd of by- 
 standers to the carriage that was in waiting she put up her hand in such a 
 way as to hide her face from the too curious gaze of those who recognized 
 her. She was driven directly to Police Headquarters, where she was 
 questioned by Chief of Police Webster. His interview with her was pri- 
 vate, and the only knowledge the public have of her statements is from the 
 chief's report. According to this she said : "I will tell you all I know 
 about the case ; I told a wrong story about the Wednesday night we were 
 at the Malley house ; was there in one room with Walter Malley, and Jen- 
 nie Cramer was in another room with James Malley ; I do not want to see 
 any of the Malleys. I do not want to be locked up in a cell such as I was 
 locked up in to-day. I want to go where it is comfortable. If you will 
 treat me well I will tell you all I know about the matter." 
 
 " Is it true that you left Jennie Cramer's house with her last week, Thurs- 
 day morning ?" asked the chief. 
 
 " No, I did not, and I never saw her again after I saw her on the car 
 bound for West Haven, as I supposed." 
 
 To other officials who questioned her she told substantially the same 
 story, giving a little more detail. 
 
 Her counsel advises her, naturally enough, not to talk to any one but 
 the authorities, and she has been subjected to no cross-examination. The 
 only action that was taken was in relation to the prisoner's custody. She 
 was arraigned almost immediately before Justice of the Peace Booth in 
 West Haven, and charged with perjury in having sworn that she slept in the 
 Elliott House on Friday night and that she did not see Jennie Cramer 
 alive after Thursday morning. 
 
 Her counsel, Mr. Blydenburgh, asked that she be admitted to bail, and 
 Mr. Bush, counsel for the Grand Jury in this case, asked that the bail be 
 fixed at $3000. 
 
 Mr. Blydenburgh claimed that this was excessive, and it was fixed at 
 $1000. As she was unable to furnish bonds for that amount she was 
 remanded to the care of Deputy Sheriff Peck, and with the consent of the 
 justice was taken to the deputy sheriff's house for the night. She had 
 begged that she should not be locked in a cell, and as no one desired to 
 have her locked up, it is likely that she will be kept in nominal custody 
 only. Bail will probably be given soon. 
 
 After she had been arraigned and relieved by not being locked up she 
 exclaimed : " Oh, I am so happy ! I have told the truth now, and I am 
 sorry I ever did anything else." 
 
 Naturally the Malleys refuse to say a word to any one, but keep their 
 own counsel in regard to the case, and what their line of action will be in 
 the present juncture can only be guessed. The fact of their having testified 
 to having spent the night where the two women were in the Malley's 
 house in a separate room from them, and having testified that they did not 
 see Jennie Cramer after Thursday morning, seems to make the case as 
 strong against them as against the women. To-night they are both in con- 
 sultation with their counsel, and with hers. But, of course, no particulars 
 of tlieir talk or plans have been obtained. 
 
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 The popular feeling in regard to the arrest is shown very clearly by the 
 editorial utterance of the New Haven Union this afternoon. It is exactly 
 what one hears said on almost any street corner at almost any hour in the 
 day. The Union s»ys : 
 
 " From the confession of Blanche Douglass yesterday in regard to what 
 transpired at the Malley residence on Wednesday night, it is clear that 
 James Malley, Jr., is an important witness. He was the close companion 
 or lover of the dead girl. He cohabited with her on Wednesday night, 
 even if he did not assault her. The case has reached that stage now where 
 the strong arm of the law must be exerted to get at the bottom facts. This 
 is not a time for dilly dallying." 
 
 The question of expense alluded to above has been an important con- 
 sideration, in the estimation of the people charged with the solution of the 
 mystery. As a detective said to me yesterday, " Every time I go out to 
 look at anything about this case I have to pay my own expenses and I can't 
 afford to do that." One of the coroner's jury, with true Yankee thrift, 
 suggested the other day that some of the expenses of the investigation 
 might be defrayed by putting the pictures of Jennie Cramer on sale, but 
 the suggestion was not adopted. It is perhaps fair to suppose, now that 
 something has really been done which shows an intention to work up the 
 case, something more will be done, but so far there is no particular reason 
 to suspect the West Haven authorities of being in earnest. 
 
 As an example of the manner in which the investigation is not being 
 pursued City Attorney Pickett's statement to-day is of interest. He said : 
 "I am in a quandary. I don't know what to do. I would give a great 
 deal to discover the result of that autopsy, but I cannot. Dr. Prudden is 
 in New York, bat even if I saw him I am assured that he would tell me 
 nothing, all present at the autopsy having been pledged by the jury of 
 inquest to say nothing about its result until the time comes for them to 
 testify before the jury, which is next Tuesday." 
 
 One result of the delay has undoubtedly been good. It is certain that a 
 good deal of testimony has been discovered by the enterprise of the press 
 that the coroner's jury would never have been likely to get at unaided. 
 Several persons have volunteered the information that they saw Jennie 
 Cramer in company with some man on Friday. None of these stories ap- 
 pear to be entirely reliable, excepting that told by two young men, William 
 Twining and George Audley, who met her walking in company with James 
 Malley, Jr., at the junction of Temple Street and Whitney Avenue in the 
 afternoon of Friday. Twining knew her perfectly well, having been a 
 schoolmate of hers, and Audley knew Malley. Audley did not know the 
 girl, and asked his companion who she was. 
 
 Unless the arrest of the two Malleys shall be decided on it does not seem 
 likely to-night that any further important developments will be made before 
 the meeting of the coroner's jury next Tuesday. 
 
 Dr. Prudden, who reached this city at nine o'clock yesterdav morning 
 on his return from New Haven, says that a microscopical examination of 
 the remains has yielded no evidence of the presence of any preparation of 
 opium. He cannot give the pubhc all the results of his investigations, as 
 the coroner's jury have pledged him to silence. He intimates, however, 
 that the medical branch of the inquiry is to be yet further prosecuted. 
 
H 
 
 New Haven, Conn., August i4i 1881. 
 
 There is no longer any reason to doubt that there is actually a desire on 
 the part of the town authorities of West Haven to find out something in re- 
 lation to the terrible tragedy that is now a stain on the fair name of the town. 
 I would be guilty of great exaggeration if I should report that they are 
 determined to find out Jennie Cramer's murderer or murderers, if she was 
 indeed murdered, but that there is a disposition to do something was shown 
 to-day. After eight days it has been determined to have a chemical analy- 
 sis made of the girl's internal organs, as there is excellent reason to be- 
 lieve, as was reported two days ago, ihat there were drugs in her body when 
 she was found dead. This is beyond question a laudable move. It would 
 have been well to make it, even if eight weeks had elapsed, if it had not been 
 done before. It had been supposed by the public until to-day that such an 
 analysis had been made already, but the marvellous expert employed to 
 make the examination says, with the utmost sang f void, that things may 
 undoubtedly be learned by chemistry, but that he is a microscopist, not a 
 chemist, and when he was instructed to make a thorough investigation he 
 did not consider it his duty to cause any analysis to be made, as that was 
 not in his line. 
 
 This is the same gentleman who withholds all information about the 
 autopsy from the city authorities of New Haven, on the ground that it is 
 not proper for him to say anything until the coroner's jury meet again, 
 which is on Tuesday. He thus leaves the city attorney entirely in doubt 
 as to his dutv, but he acts according to his ideas of propriety, as he ex- 
 presses it. The arrest of Blanche Douglass, as she is commonly called 
 here, and the preparations made to-day by Counsellor Bollraann on behalf 
 of the jury, are indications that, so far as they go, are accepted with satis- 
 faction by the jury, but there is no doubt that the verdict of the people is 
 that the Malley boys should also be taken into custody. It is argued that 
 if a woman who is young, poor, and a fallen woman — one of the defenceless 
 classes —is arrested, the two young men who employed her for the purpose 
 of inveigling another young woman of respectable parentage and fair posi- 
 tion into a night's debauch should not be allowed to go at large, not even 
 watched closely by detectives, as is believed, simply because they are rich. 
 
 EVENHANDED JUSTICE NEEDED. 
 
 The Union here calls emphatically for evenhanded justice, and claims 
 that it is not being administered. Counsellor Bollmann smiles and denies 
 flatly that there is any dispostion on the part of the authorities to favor the 
 Malleys. 
 
 " They are here," be says, " and are not likely to run away. At least 
 they are no more likely to run away now than they would be after an ar- 
 rest, for the bail would not be fixed at any larger si;m than it was for 
 Blanche Douglass, $1000, and that would be no inducement to them. 
 They will be more likely to talk if they are free than they will be if put 
 under arrest. We would rather not have arrested the girl if we had been 
 certain of her appearing when she was wanted." 
 
 In the meantime the week's adjournment has proved to be an ill-advised 
 step. That some delay was perhaps wise for the purpose of allowing the 
 public to talk over the facts and to give witnesses an opportunity to volun- 
 teer their testimony. People do not deny but that a recess of a week should 
 be taken, although it was undoubtedly a favor done, of course, unwittingly 
 
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 to the murderers if the girl was murdered. It will be remembered that no 
 testimony was elicited at the inquest in relation to the unfortunate girl's 
 last two da}s of life — from Thursday noon until Saturday morning. Very 
 little is known about where she was or how she spent her time. The re- 
 pentant Magdalen who tried to shield the partners of her folly by perjury 
 does not even yet acknowledge that she litd in sajing that she was not with 
 Jennie Cramer after Thursday morning. Yet the one thing that has been 
 developed since the jury's adjournement is that they were together on 
 Thursday night. It is probable that some of the stories told by different 
 persons about her having been seen on Friday with James Malley are mis- 
 takes, and no one here expects that it will be proved that she was seen aHve 
 
 THE MALLEY MANSION. 
 
 on Friday in any public place. But that she supped at Redcliff's restaurant 
 on Thursday night is, as already stated, perfectly established. 
 
 To-day another bit of evidence is brought to light in the statement made 
 by William Arfmann, one of the proprietors of the South End House, a 
 reputable restaurant on the east shore half a dozen miles from the city. 
 He says that on Thursday evening the two Malleys, accompanied by two 
 ladies, stopped at his hotel for supper. One of the ladies was Jennie 
 Cramer, who, together with the Malleys, was well known to Air. Arfmann. 
 The other lady he did not know, but she answers closely to the description 
 of Blanche Douglass. A supper for four, consisting of several courses, was 
 ordered and partaken of. The party was jolly, and made things lively with 
 songs and laughter. His attention was particularly called to Miss Cramer 
 by the fact that she expressed dissatisfaction with some of the table ware, 
 
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 and it was changed at her request. Four bottles of claret wine were order- 
 ed and drunk by the party, though toward the last Miss Cramer protested 
 that she would not drink any more. Notwithstanding her protest, she was 
 urged, almost to the point ot forcing it upon her, to continue drinking. If 
 there is no mistake about the date this story supplies an all important gap 
 in the testimony. So far as the evidence went before the coroner's jury, 
 there was no positive evidence as to Miss Cramer's whereabouts from 
 Thursday noon till Saturday morning, when she was found dead. The facts 
 above recited carry the case one step farther. It is proven that the quartet 
 were together Wednesday night, and that the two girls breakfasted together 
 Thursday morning. Mr. Aifmann's story brings the whole four together 
 again Thursday night. Those stories about eating and drinking of the 
 party have given rise to a theory of the case, which, however wide of the 
 truth it may eventually prove to be, certainly fits all the facts known, and 
 is the only theory yet advanced which does not contain palpable inconsis- 
 tencies. It is conceded that the girl was extremely unlikely to have com- 
 mitted suicide, and if she killed herself it was probably unwittingly. On 
 the other hand there seems to be no motive apparent which would 
 induce the Malleys to kill her, and certainly none that would induce 
 Blanche Douglass to have any hand iij her death. Yet she died, and 
 the testimony of one credible witness is that there was a very unusual 
 offensive odor about her when she was found. Moreover, he (Mr. 
 Marsden) positively says that he distinguished the smell of laudanum 
 mingled with other strange smells. Now, on Wednesday night, at the 
 time when Jennie Cramer is first known to have submitted herself to James 
 Malley, Jr., there was a supper of cakes, bananas, and sauterne. The 
 next morning she ate porterhouse steak and mushrooms and drank milk for 
 her breakfast. It is not known what dinner she ate, but according to Arf- 
 mann's story she ate a supper of several courses anda liberal supply of 
 claret. Later, Thursday evening, she was in the Redcliff restaurant and 
 drank milk. Huckleberries were also found in her stomach. Late Thurs- 
 day evening one witness is ready to testify that he saw two women go into 
 the Malley house. It is generally believed they were Jennie and Blanche 
 Douglass. Little doubt exists that Jennie Cramer spent Thursday night 
 again in company with James Malley, Jr. 
 
 It is not at all unlikely, considering her experiences for two days past, 
 that she was taken ill. It is not to be expected that the Malleys would call 
 a physician unless they were really obliged to do so, since they would 
 thereby expose themselves to scandal, as well as the woman, what would be 
 more natural than they should give her doses of medicine, such as lauda- 
 num, and what would be more natural than that she should fall into a 
 sleep that would hst for a long time and end in death ? With a dead body 
 on their hands under such circumstances what would the Malley boys nat- 
 urally do ? The simple fact that two witnesses testify to a beach wagon 
 being seen on Friday night after midnight in the very locality where the 
 body was found on Saturday morning is a sufficient answer to this ques- 
 tion. Of course no proof of this theory has been elicited, but it seems 
 to be the only one that is not in any respect improbable and which is not in 
 some way contradicted either by the testimony of witnesses or of known 
 facts. To be sure, the testimony of Blanche Douglass contradicts it in a 
 few particulars, but her testimony, as she is said to give it now, is certainly 
 false in m^ny particulars. She is still trying to shield the Malleys from 
 something, in spite of her declarations to the contrary. She is kept closely 
 
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 by Sheriff Peck, and allowed to see nobody but her counsel, unless it is 
 true, as generally supposed, that the counsel for the Malley bo)s is also al- 
 lowed to see her and consult with her. Certainly she is jealously guarded 
 from the press for some reason, and no such questions as an intelligent re- 
 porter would put to her have been asked, so far as can be learned. It is 
 equally impossible to obtain any statement of the Malleys, who refuse to 
 talk to any journalist about the case. 
 
 New Haven, Conn., August 15, 1881. 
 
 It is now certain that the efforts of the press to arouse public officials to 
 some sense of their responsibility in the matter of investigating the causes 
 of Jennie Cramer's death have been at least partially successful. There 
 seems to be little doubt that the wealth and presumed social position of the 
 Malleys have to some extent operated to delay a move which was made 
 this morning, and which was called for by the newspapers and the public 
 three days ago. 
 
 The Malley boys were arrested early this morning. It is true that the 
 authorities have contended by their counsel for the last week that they had 
 neither the right nor any reason to make such an arrest. They had said that 
 it was not well to arrest them ; that such a move would be calculated to 
 prevent the Malleys from telling anything that they knew in the case ; that 
 even if it was desirable it was not possible under the law. In short, any 
 excuse that could be thought of for not arresting two rich young men has 
 been put forth. But public opinion was too strong, and yesterday the two 
 boys were arrested. 
 
 There is no doubt that there was ample ground for the issue of a war- 
 rant. Aside from the fact that they committed perjury, which is now be- 
 yond a doubt, the very facts regarding their association with the dead girl, 
 and the story of the last days of her life, so far as it was brought out in the 
 beginning of the inquest, were enough to direct public suspicion to them, 
 and at least in the tribunal of public opinion, throw the onus of explain- 
 ing the circumstances directly upon them. She was a girl devoted to pleas- 
 ure. Whether she had preserved the purity of her person or not is a 
 doubtful question in the minds of many who knew her well. Hawthorne 
 compares a woman's chastity to an onion, saying that layer after layer may 
 be removed without much apparent damage, but when the last is taken off 
 there is nothing left. Whether or not James Malley removed the last bar- 
 riers of her sell-respect on Wednesday night, it is sure that he induced her 
 to break over a rule she generally observed, and to stay with him at his 
 cousin's house overnight in company with a professional strumpet. The 
 next morning she went home, and, being severely upbraided by her mother, 
 left the house either in fear or in anger. That night she was again in com- 
 pany with the two Malley boys and the woman Blanche Douglass, and, so 
 far as is now definitely known, was never again seen alive, but on Saturday 
 morning she was found dead on the shore. 
 
 SCANDALOUS INACTIVITY. 
 
 It seems as if the first move of an energetic prosecutor would have been 
 to lock up her three companions until they had separately explained the 
 circumstances ; but, instead of that, they were allowed to plan a scheme of 
 perjury, by which they thought they would be able to hide the scandal. In 
 this they failed. It has been known for a number of days that they had 
 failed, but the same easy-going disposition that made it seem advisable to 
 
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 wait eight days before ordering a chemical analysis of the girl's internal 
 organs induced the authorities to put off arresting the Malleys until the > 
 ninth day following the discovery of the body. However, they were ar- 
 rested this morning. It was not by the motion of the coroner's jury or- 
 the Justice of the Peace, Metcalf, who acts as coroner, but an entirely inde- 
 pendent move made by Grand Juror Hull, of West Haven. The peculiar 
 machinery of the law in Connecticut towns has already been spoken of in 
 connection with this case, and it will bear a little explanation. 
 
 In West Haven, or rather Orange, for West Haven is a hamlet in the 
 town of Orange, there is a selectman, as in other towns. He is supposed 
 to be the chief official of the town, and he has gone to Saratoga. His 
 name is Kelsey. Then there are two grand jurors, who are not members ' 
 of the grand jury, but are elected by the people as prosecuting attorneys. 
 These are Messrs. Hull and Wood. Mr. Wood has taken no action in the 
 Cramer case, but Mr. Hull has employed Lawyer Bush as counsel, and it . 
 was on his complaint that the Malley boys were arrested. There is no such • 
 officer under Connecticut laws as coroner, but a justice of the peace em- 
 panels a jury of inquest in cases where death has occurred from unknown 
 causes. This jury is supposed to inquire into the cause of the death, and 
 write down in a verdict what they think about it. That is all they can do. 
 Neither justice nor jury has any authority to do anything else. Then there 
 is a deputy sheriff, one Peck, who acts as the police department of the 
 town, and is an influential adviser of everybody in general. Everybody 
 excepting Peck has retained counsel. There is the counsel of the coro- 
 ner's jury, counsel of each of the prisoners, and counsel of the grand juror. 
 The warrants for the arrest of the Malley boys were made by Justice 
 Booth, of West Haven, on complaint of Grand Juror Hull, are just alike 
 and read as follows : 
 
 " That they ' did at said town of Orange, on the jjth day of August, r88i, 
 with force of arms, wilfully and of malice aforethought, feloniously kill and 
 murder Jennie Cramer, of the town of New Haven, by drowning the said 
 Jennie Cramer, by reason of which drowning she immediately expired. 
 Against the peace, contrary to the statute in such case provided, and of 
 evil example.' " 
 
 The warrants also recite in similar language that they administered lauda- 
 num to said Jennie Cramer, by reason of which poison so administered she 
 immediately expired. These warrants were placed in the hands of Deputy 
 Sheriff Peck. He found James Malley in bed, having arrived at his house 
 before seven o'clock. James Malley, being told that he was under arrest 
 on a charge of murder, was greatly agitated and asked to see the warrant. 
 This was read to him, and he was allowed to eat his breakfast. He then 
 accompanied the officer to the house of his uncle Edward Malley, the father 
 of Walter. Walter was found in the barn, and asked to see the warrant, 
 and also inquired if James was under arrest. Neither man seemed sur- 
 prised, and Walter calling a hack the party drove to Judge Blydenburgh's 
 office, where he found his own counsel. Lawyer Fox, who went with his 
 clients to West Haven. 
 
 ARRAIGNED IN COURT. 
 
 After some delay court was opened by Justice Booth, and Lawyer Bush 
 as prosecuting attorney recited the contents of the warrants. " I ask for 
 a continuance for one week," said he, " and I do this for several reasons. 
 We believe we have evidence enough to warrant this arrest and we pro- 
 
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 pose to ascertain definitely who is connected with this murder. It may be 
 a hardship to lock these young men up, but the position they have talien 
 and their conduct in this matter have certainly occasioned grave suspicion 
 of their guilt." 
 
 Mr. Fox said his clients desired the fullest investigation, but he thought 
 that the State ought to go on in a day or two and not ask for a week. He 
 believed that it could be shown that his clients were innocent of these 
 charges and claimed to be as anxious as the officers of the State to find out 
 the manner of Jennie Cramer's death. In this connection he referred to 
 the reward of $1000 offered by Edward Malley for evidence that will con- 
 vict the guilty parties, and said that detectives had been employed by the 
 Malleys to aid the State authorities in their search. 
 
 Mr. Bush replied that he could not divulge the facts which he possessed, 
 consistently with his duty as prosecuting officer, but that he had important 
 evidence. It was necessary for him to have sufficient time to investigate 
 the case. 
 
 Mr. Fox said that he thought the public press had urged Mr. Bush to 
 the arrest, and Judge Blydenburgh asked Mr. Bush if he could say in good 
 faith that he had any evidence of a crime having been committed. 
 
 Mr. Bush said that he would not answer any further than he had 
 already done, and that while he did not wish to inflict any hardship upon 
 the young men, their conduct was very much against them, whether guilty 
 or innocent. Judge Blydenburgh argued that the accused had a right to 
 ask the State whether they had any evidence of crime. Unless the prose- 
 cution could show that a murder or homicide had been committed, the pris- 
 oners ought to be discharged. 
 
 Mr. Bush refused to say anything further, and Justice Booth postponed 
 the case for one week. No request was made that the prisoners should be 
 admitted to bail, as their counsel admitted that it was not a bailable case, 
 but it was asked that ihey should be placed in custody of officers and not 
 confined in jail. Judge Blydenburgh offered in their behalf to assume any 
 extra expense that would be incurred. Justice Booth said that the expense 
 was not considered and Mr. Bush opposed the granting of Judge Blyden- 
 burgh's request. After some further argument Justice Booth committed 
 the prisoners to jail until next Monday morning at nine o'clock. 
 
 They were then placed in Sheriff Peck's custody and taken in a hack to 
 New Haven, after they had had a private interview with Blanche Douglass' 
 counsel. 
 
 IN JAIL. 
 
 When the Malley boys were brought to the jail they were delivered at 
 once to the custody of Jailer Stevens, who took their " pedigree" in the 
 regulation manner. As they stood covered before the jailer, evidently un- 
 used to the etiquette of the place, an officer said, " Hats off," and they 
 doffed their headgear. Walter E. Malley said he was twenty-four years old, 
 born in Connecticut, could read and write, was unmarried, was never in 
 jail before and was a clerk. James Malley, Jr., said he was twenty-three 
 years old, and gave the same answers that Walter did to all the other ques- 
 tions. They were then searched carefully, but nothing of importance was 
 found on them, and they were taken at once to their cells. The bearing of 
 the two men from the time they were first arrested differed in a marked 
 degree. Walter Malley was cool and seemed unconcerned and even amused 
 at some things which happened ; but James was considerably agitated. 
 
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 The mortification of his position was evidently very painful. Even after he 
 was in his cell he refused to say anything to the reporters or to the jailer. 
 Walter Malley, however, talked a little to the reporters for the first time in 
 days. He said that he was satisfied, and that the arrest ought to have 
 been made long ago. 
 
 " I'm afraid it is too late now," he said enigmatically. 
 
 To a jail official he said : " I feel all right and I guess I can stand this. 
 I hope they will make a thorough investigation. 1 have nothing to fear. 
 I can account for all my time that Friday night. Neither of us has any 
 knowledge of how the girl met her death, and the more thorough the inves- 
 tigation the more plainly this will appear." 
 
 " But how do you know but that James" — 
 
 " I am convinced that he knows no more about the matter than I do." 
 
 " You know public opinion is strongly against you," said Mr. Stevens, 
 " and nothing but a complete investigation will satisfy the people." 
 
 " I know that," Walter answered, " and I am satisfied," adding with a 
 smile, " but after it is over some one will have to pay for this." 
 
 " I wouldn't talk that way till it is all over," the jailer said. 
 
 They asked if they could have better quarters than the ordinary cells, 
 and were told they could not, and that they could not smoke, but that they 
 could have what they liked to eat if they chose to buy it. They then set- 
 tled themselves in their cells, each with one of Scott's novels, which Wal- 
 ter had brought from home. 
 
 NEW EVIDENCE. 
 
 Mr. Bush, the prosecuting attorney in fact, said to the Jlerald corrt- 
 spondent that he certainly had newly discovered evidence, and that it had 
 been found in part from Blanche Douglass' talk with Sheriff Peck since her 
 imprisonment. What the nature of the evidence was he utterly and dis- 
 tinctly refused to tell, nor would he allow the correspondent to talk with 
 the girl. As the matter is now managed nobody has access to her excepting 
 her counsel, and through him the Malley boys and their counsel, who have 
 been constantly in consultation with Judge Blydenburgh for the past week. 
 This course of action on the part of the authorities has been keenly criti- 
 cised. No reason has been advanced, aside from the girl's own wish, why 
 she should not be locked up. It is certain that she perjured herself, and 
 equally certain that she still lies in her statements regarding the way in 
 which she spent the time on Thursday and Friday. There is certainly 
 nothing in her conduct which calls for any special indulgence, and it is 
 difficult to believe that she would be favored as she is if she were not young 
 and pretty. Mr. Bush says that he is restrained by professional courtesy 
 from talking with her, yet her counsel is also de facto of counsel for the 
 Malley boys. There seems to have been nothing done, excepting the bare 
 fact of the arrests, which has not been directly or indirectly an assistance 
 to the defence. 
 
 THE AUTOPSY. 
 
 In regard to the autopsy, the delay has been, to say the least, unfortu- 
 nate. While there is now no doubt that a thorough examination will be 
 made, there is no reason why it should not have been done a week sooner. 
 Dr. Painter says — and he is a member of the coroner's jury — that the delay 
 was because the jury did not feel like incurring the expense of an examina- 
 tion. To employ a single expert costs them $25 a day, and they believed 
 
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 that the State would only allow $30 for an autopsy. They did authorize 
 the expert tu go down to New York and work one day, knowing that he 
 could determine at least one point by looking for a certain fluid. This fluid 
 was not found and that, Dr. Painter says, is all that has been done. The 
 remains have been carefully preserved and will doubtless be in fair condi- 
 tion for the chemical examination that is now to be made by Professor 
 Chittenden of the Sheffield Scientific School. Mr. Bush says that the 
 authorities are satisfied that the girl's death did not result from drowning. 
 They are also satisfied that the trace of poisonous drugs will be found by 
 the chemical analysis. 1 send you the statement of Juryman Marsden, 
 upon which this conviction rests. Beyond these two facts nothing of im- 
 portance seems to have been found out by the coroner's jury. The con- 
 tradictions of the testimony given before that jury have been discovered by 
 outside workers. If the testimony that Mr. Bush says he now has shall 
 prove to be as important as some that the press has discovered, the case 
 against the two accused is likely to be a strong one. As to the many stories 
 that are extant about Jennie Cramer having been seen on the Thursday 
 and Friday immediately preceding her death, it is now likely that some of 
 them will be substantiated by reliable testimony before the coroner's jury. 
 
 It is almost impossible to learn things here that would easily be found 
 out in New York. There seems to be an official pride in reticence and a 
 system of legal machinery which gives every one the opportunity to plead 
 etiquette as a reason for not answering simple questions. It can be readily 
 understood why the Malleys, with the suspicion of murder resting upon 
 them, should refuse to talk, and even why Blanche Douglass, who is still 
 holding back facts that she unquestionably knows, should refuse to see re- 
 porters. There is no doubt that a clever reporter used to criminal work in 
 a great city could elicit facts in an informal talk with her that would be of 
 immense importance to the prosecution, even if he did not arrive at the 
 whole truth, but the officials of West Haven are too unused to handling 
 serious questions to accomplish tMs result themselves, and they refuse to 
 allow the privilege (o others. Common rumor and gossip have been relied 
 upon to develop testimony. Counsellor Bollman has said in so many words 
 that the jury relied upon this when they adjourned for a week. 
 
 It is somewhat singular that no more facts have been developed in this 
 way, seeing that the Malley boys and Jennie Cramer are so well known 
 about town, but enough has been proved to show that they were together on 
 Thursday night, and there is now no doubt, according to the statements of 
 those who have been working in the case, that witnesses will be ready to 
 prove that they were together on Friday night. If this is so, and the au- 
 thorities are confident about i(, there can belittle question that the Mal- 
 leys are able-to tell enough about the unfortunate girl's movements to rob 
 the case of all its mystery. If they knew her condition and whereabouts 
 on Friday evening, it will not be hard to construct a theory, at least, of the 
 girl's death which will leave no doubt in the minds of any as to its sound- 
 ness. The theory in the Herald \.\i\s morning is the first one advanced in 
 which all the circumstances are considered. It is copied in the papers 
 heie to-day and has attracted attention from all the officials, who, without 
 exception, declare it to be the most plausible of any theory advanced. 
 
 Hardly any one here believes that Jennie Cramer committed suicide ; still 
 less is it thought that the Malleys intentionally killed her. No motive for 
 such a crime has been suggested, neither does it seem possible that Blanche 
 Douglass could have had even a wish to put Jennie out of the way, and uo 
 
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 other person is supposed to have been with her. That hers was an acci- 
 dental death seems most probable, although it is also very probable that it 
 was produced by unlawful means. No one is willing to commit himself to 
 a real belief in any theory. The excitement in New Haven in regard to 
 the case increases daily. 
 
 New Haven, August 16, 1881. 
 
 The proceedings to-day in the Cramer mystery have been at once excit- 
 ing and unsatisfactory. The excitement in the town is fairly at red heat. 
 Out of town papers that have given attention to the case are sold almost 
 before the carriers can get them to the centre of the city, and the local 
 papers are Hterally unable to print enough copies to satisfy the demand for 
 them. The feeling of curiosity as to the details of the story that cannot yet 
 be told in full is stronger even than the interest in the president's condition. 
 The newsboys between their hours of selling the morning and evening 
 papers drive an excellent trade in selling the unhappy girl's pictures and 
 the details of the case. Even those which are unsavory in the extreme are 
 talked over with the utmost freedom everywhere. 
 
 No substantial advance in the case has been made to-day, the develop- 
 ments expected at the meeting of the jury of inquest having been de- 
 ferred, probably by agreement of counsel, in consequence of the arrests 
 made in the last three days. As has been explained, the proceedings of 
 this jury have no legal force whatever, and the prosecuting authorities do 
 not now depend upon them for developing facts. The arrests have been 
 made in consequence of evidence (it is claimed) which has been obtained 
 independently of the inquest. What this evidence is is very doubtful. 
 Prosecuting Attorney Bush claims that he has discovered important facts, 
 some of which have been learned from Blanche Douglass. Where any other 
 facts have come from he refuses to say. As a matter of fact it is believed 
 that little has been. learned excepting from the girl's self-contradictions and 
 the clews which she has given, wittingly or unwittingly, and the authorities 
 positively refuse to allow any reporters to talk with her. It is now a matter 
 of sworn testimony that on the night after Jennie Cramer was lost forever 
 to her home and her parents she was in Redcliff's restaurant with Walter 
 Malley and the abandoned woman he had visiting him at his father's house. 
 It is also asserted on every hand that she was at the West Shore on Friday 
 night (the night she died) in company with James Malley. Whether this 
 will be proved by competent testimony or not I am unable to say, as I have 
 investigated half a dozen stories to that effect without finding any positive 
 statement that seemed worthy of notice. It would be impossible to deny 
 it, however, without seeing everybody who was there that night, and, as it 
 is claimed by the authorities that they can prove it, it may be shown. On 
 Friday afternoon, however, she was in James Malley's company in New 
 Haven, beyond any reasonable doubt, as is shown by the evidence below. 
 
 THE JURY OF INQUEST. 
 
 The only ofificial proceedings of the day were those of the jury of in- 
 quest, which met in Thompson's Hall, in West Haven, this morning. The 
 hour for meeting had been fixed at nine a.m., but as only a week had 
 elapsed since the former session, nobody had determined, apparently, what 
 was to be done. So, although everybody who was likely to be present was 
 on hand promptly, an hour was consumed in consultations between counsel 
 held on the corners of the country roads, and the audience which filled the 
 
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 little hall to overflowing sat patiently talking over the tragedy and looking 
 at some pictures of the dead girl, which were handed from one to another. 
 L have already explained that the proceedings of the jury of inquest are not 
 regarded as of much importance. 
 
 This jury is the nearest approach to a coroner's jury that is known under 
 Connecticut law, but as it has no power to commit any one or to do any- 
 thing more than write down an opinion on paper and call it a verdict, it 
 only serves to give color to subsequent proceedings. As proceedings have 
 already been begun by the prosecuting authorities, by the arrest of Blanche 
 Douglass and the Malley boys, the object of any further action by the jury 
 of inquest does not appear. 
 
 The proceedings began at ten o'clock by the swearing of Charles Raw- 
 lings, the manager of Redcliff's restaurant, in New Haven. He testified 
 that he was in the restaurant on the morning and evening of August 4th, 
 tlie Thursday preceding Jennie Cramer's death ; he saw two young girls 
 
 REDCLIFFE S SALOON. 
 
 breakfast in the restaurant that morning ; they had been in the restaurant 
 frequently before, but knew them only by sight ; he thought they were 
 both in light dresses on that occasion ; they were waited on by John Henry, 
 a colored waiter, and had a double porterhouse steak, mushrooms, and 
 three glasses of milk. He identified the check paid, which was produced in 
 court, and testified that Blanche Douglass wrote the order for the breakfast 
 on the blank check ; he had given all the checks for the day's business to 
 Counsellor Bollman, who brought them to court ; he (witness) saw Blanche 
 Douglass again about half-past ten p.m. ; Walter Malley was with her, and a 
 lady who, he thought, was the same one who was with her in the morning ; 
 her dress was the same, and he was tolerably sure that it was the same lady ; 
 he did not scan her features, but he saw Walter Malley enter with two 
 ladies ; he believed they were the same two who were there in the morning ; 
 he would not swear positively to the second one (Jennie Cramer), but he 
 knew that one was Miss Douglass ; he did not see James Malley, Jr., that 
 evening ; he did not come in or go out with the party. 
 
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 SEEING THE WITNESSES PROMPTLY. 
 
 After he gave the checks to the counsel James and Walter Malley called 
 at the restaurant ; he could not say positively when it was, but after the 
 newspapers had published the fact that he remembered the party who came 
 in the evening Walter Malley called on him and tried to convince him that 
 he was mistaken in his recollection, and that he and James and Blanche 
 Douglass constituted the party. That evening James Malley called with 
 Walter and Mr. Fox (their lawyer), and another gentleman called, and 
 James tried to convince him that he was mistaken, but he could not be 
 convinced, being positive that he remembered aright ; in the evening the 
 party ate lamb chops, fried potatoes, and drank six glasses of milk ; they 
 were the last customers, and went out at thirteen minutes past eleven p.m.; 
 the witness had no doubt that the second lady was the one who was with, 
 Miss Douglass in the morning until he heard it contradicted, but as it had 
 been contradicted he could not swear positively to her identity. 
 
 John W. Henry, the waiter, was next sworn. He had been a waiter, 
 he testified, in Redcli£E's restaurant for about four weeks ; he waited on the 
 two girls in the morning ; he could not remember seeing them before that ; 
 he could not say positively that he saw the same two ladies together again ; 
 the last party that came in on Thursday, August 4th, consisted of two ladies 
 and one gentleman ; he was " not in the habit of gazing at ladies' apparel" 
 and could not say how these two were dressed ; he did not know any of the 
 parties personally, being comparatively a stranger in the town, but he iden- 
 tified the same order or check that Rawlings had identified ; he did not 
 notice the time, but the party was the last in the restaurant that evening ; 
 the taller of the two Malleys (Walter) had called since then and tried to re- 
 call to his mind that he (the witness) had stepped on his hat, it being on 
 the floor ; witness could not remember any such thing, as gentlemen were 
 in the habit often of throwing their hats on the floor, and he often stepped 
 on them accidentally, and then picked them up, and told the gentlemen 
 that there were plenty of chairs to put them on ; Malley said, " My God, 
 that point must be sustained or I am a ruined man !" Later, the other 
 Malley called on him, and tried to recall to his mind the circumstance of 
 the hat, but he could not remember any such circumstance ; witness said 
 probably he was mistaken, but he did not think he was ; was positive that 
 the party of the restaurant in the evening was composed of two ladies and 
 one gentleman. 
 
 JENNIE CRAMER SEEN ON THE STREET. 
 
 William Twining, of New Haven, testified that he stood at the comer of 
 Whitney Avenue and Trumbull Street, on Friday afternoon, August 5th, 
 early in the afternoon, he thought before three o'clock ; he knew Jennie 
 Cramer ; had known her, he thought, for eight years ; was in the habit of 
 buying stuff in her father's store and she had waited on him ; and she was 
 in the habit of calling on his " folks ;" he saw her near the end of Temple 
 Street, near where he stood ; a gentleman was with her ; he wore a white 
 straw hat, with a polka dot band ; the couple were walking toward Whitney- 
 ville ; he was thirty or forty yards away from them ; was positive the girl 
 was Jennie Cramer ; was certain of the day as it was the day that George 
 Audley was moving some trunks ; he did not know the Malleys ; Jennie 
 Cramer had a white dress on George T. Audley testified that he knew 
 James Malley, Jr.; had known him eight or nine years ; was a classmate of 
 his at school, and had seen him often since ; probably once a w^eek ; saw 
 
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 him on Friday, August 5th, in the afternoon, about three o'clock ; witness 
 was sitting in front of his father's livery stable, near where Twining was 
 sitting ; Malley was on Trumbull Street, near Whitney Avenue ; a young 
 lady was with him, but witness did not know her ; she had on a round hat 
 with a broad brim ; he could not describe her dress, but noticed that she 
 had four rings on ; the couple passed from five to eight feet from where he 
 sat on the wagon, having just driven up. 
 
 Mr. James Cramer, the father of the girl, was next sworn. He testified 
 that his daughter was twenty years old ; she always had lived at home ; he 
 had never had occasion to strike his daughter for five years past, or punish 
 her in any similar way ; he never severely punished her ; perhaps he had 
 slapped her for some trifling offence when she was a school girl ; never 
 threatened her with severe punishment ; never said anything that would 
 lead her to fear such punishment ; never knew her to be afraid of anything 
 more than a scolding ; she had always been treated very well, very kindly ; 
 she was not in good health and was rather spoiled on that account. Witness 
 had been ill for five years and had left the family management to his wife ; 
 he knew that notes came for her from the Malleys, but never knew Malley to 
 call at his house and knew nothing of the contents of the notes ; the last 
 time he ever saw her alive was on Wednesday afternoon, when she went to 
 the depot with her sister and another young girl ; he knew that Jennie was 
 out all Wednesday night, for his wife sat up all night looking for her ; he 
 made no threats ; his wife may have said that if Jennie carried on like that 
 she would have no home, and he may have said that was right, but he would 
 have received her, of course, if she had come back and never said anything 
 different ; she was always at home before that Wednesday night excepting 
 when she had been out of town on a visit ; she had been to New York on 
 visits ; on Thursday he went to the Elliott House to look for his daughter, 
 as his wife thought she might be there with Miss Douglass; the clerk told 
 him that a young girl was there with Miss Douglass, and he sent a porter 
 upstairs fur her ; the porter came down with word from Miss Douglass that 
 Jennie had gone out and had started for New York to see her brother. 
 
 THE mother's story. 
 
 Mrs. Cramer, Jennie's mother, then testified that she did not remember 
 that Mr. Cramer had ever touched his daughter or threatened to do so ; 
 certainly he never dragged her about by the hair or threatened ; the girl 
 was always humored and had her own way as she was not very healthy ; 
 neither the witness nor her husband ever made any threats ; on Thursday | 
 morning Mr. Cramer said when he learned that Jennie had been out over- 
 night, " Then she is lost for us ;" but she had no intention of refusing to 
 receive her and she thought her husband had none ; when Jennie came in 
 on Thursday morning witness said, " Why didn't you come home ?" She 
 replied, " I couldn't come home ; they wouldn't let me." Witness said, 
 " You could have come if you wanted to ; it is not the first time the 
 Malleys have tried to keep you out ;" a week before that, she added, they 
 tried to keep her out and she came back at four o'clock in the morning ; 
 she said again, " 1 couldn't come," and I said, " Don't you know that you 
 are disgracing yourself and disgracing your parents by staying out over- 
 night ? If the neighbors knew it you would lose your good name." She 
 said she did not think the neighbors knew it, and I told her I thought they 
 did know it. I was very much excited and I cried. I asked her why she 
 did not keep her promise. She had agreed not to go out again with that 
 
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 party, as they had tried a week before to keep her out overnight. She said 
 nothing to this. 
 
 Miss Douglass then said that she wanted to have Jennie stay with her 
 at the Elliott House ; I told her that she had no right to keep Jennie ; that 
 it did not look well for a respectable young girl to stay out overnight ; 
 Miss Douglass said that there were no gentlemen coming to the hotel ; I 
 told her that she needn't say that, for it was known all over the United 
 States that a gentleman can go to a hotel with a lady whenever he likes ; I 
 said to Jennie, " If you go on that way staying out overnight it will never 
 do for you to come home ; if you carry on like that we must find a place 
 for you to stay when your little sister comes home ; we can't have you 
 here;" I was crying and was very much excited ; I said, "James Malley 
 has no right to keep you out, and if he does he will hear from your father 
 and from me ;" she said nothing, and I left the room ; I did not mean really 
 that she must leave the house ; I could not get along without her nor she 
 without me, and she knew I didn't mean it. 
 
 I know that James Malley has been at my house, but I did not see 
 him when he came ; on Thursday I called at the Malleys' store between 
 five and six o'clock in the afternoon ; I told James Malley then that he 
 had got Jennie into bad company ; 1 meant Miss Douglass ; he said it was 
 good company ; Miss Douglass was a perfect lady ; I asked him to see her 
 home that evening, and he said he did not know about that, as they had 
 made an engagement to go to the shore that night ; I asked him why he 
 had kept her out overnight, and he said she had stopped with Miss Doug- 
 lass at the Elliott House. He said he thought she was all right at home 
 when I called on him. This was on Thursday afternoon. He promised 
 that he would either come himself or bring Jennie, or send a message. No 
 message came until Friday. (This message is supposed to have been a 
 verbal one — " All right" — which James Malley sent by a boy on Friday, 
 and which the parents then understood to mean that Jennie was all right.) 
 
 Jennie was very lively (continued the witness), and was always sing- 
 ing around the house. I do not believe she would commit suicide. She 
 had been under the doctor's care for two years, but for the last four years 
 she had not been doctoring at all. 
 
 At this point the jury took a recess for the purpose of consulting as to 
 whether they desired to continue their investigation or to adjourn. After 
 a little time Justice Metcalf returned to the hall and said that the jury had 
 adjourned subject to the call of the coroner, and that no further proceed- 
 ings would be taken to-day. 
 
 ORANGE OFFERS A REWARD. 
 
 The town meeting of the township of Orange, in which the borough of 
 West Haven is located, was held in the afternoon, pursuant to the call of 
 which I wrote some days ago. Only about twenty voters were present, and 
 the business to be transacted was fully understood beforehand. Accord- 
 ingly a motion was at once made that a reward be offered for the convic- 
 tion of the murderers of Jennie Cramer. Mr. Thompson moved that the 
 reward be of $1000, and a more thrifty voter moved as an amendment that 
 it be $500. After considerable discussion the following resolution was 
 passed : 
 
 " Voted^ That the freemen of the town of Orange do hereby authorize 
 the Selectmen of Orange to offer a reward of $1000 to be paid to the per- 
 
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 son or persons who furnish evidence that shall secure the conviction of the 
 party or persons who murdered Miss Jennie E. Cramer, whose body was 
 found on West Haven shore, on the morning of August 6, 1881. Said 
 reward to be paid upon the conviction of the guilty parties." 
 
 If it shall prove, as seems now most probable, that the killing of Jennie 
 Cramer was manslaughter and not murder, the town will by the wording of 
 this resolution be able to save its money ; and that this is a desideratum 
 with the Orange citizens they have already declared by their words and 
 their acts. 
 
 Lawyer Bush, who seems to be overpowered by the weight of the facts 
 he claims to know, says that he is not desirous of having any more facts 
 brought out before the jury of inquest, and that he is doubtful if he will 
 try to develop anything at the examination of Blanche Douglass for perjury 
 on Thursday. It is evident enough that he is not yet ready to proceed 
 with the case in the charge of murder, and he says he did not care to let 
 the defence know what his case is. He has forbidden the Deputy Sheriff 
 to allow anybody to see Blanche Douglass excepting her counsel and such 
 public officials as have a right to see her, and refuses to give any inkling of 
 the course he is likely to pursue. He advises against examining Dr. 
 Prudden, and from what has been shown concerning that expert's work it 
 is not thought that anything is lost to the world in that way. The exami- 
 nation of the girl's remains, however, is going on at last. Professor Rus- 
 sel H. Chittenden, of the Sheffield Scientific School, has received them, 
 and reported to-day that he had begun his work. He was reluctant to say 
 anything regarding it, but in reply to direct questions he said that it might 
 take several weeks for him to conclude his investigations. At present he 
 could give no definite idea of when he would be able to report to the jury. 
 He had been instructed to make a complete and exhaustive examination, 
 and would do so. If arsenic has been administered (it is said that traces 
 of arsenic were found by the microscope) it could be shown in three days, 
 but if chloroform or opium were administered it would take longer. At 
 the jail, where the Malley boys are confined, nothing of importance has 
 occurred. They have signified their wish to see no one excepting their 
 relations and no one else has been admitted to see them. 
 
 New Haven, Conn., August 17 — 12.30 a.m. 
 
 To-night a secret session of the jury of inquest is being held at Sheriff 
 Peck's house, in West Haven. It was deemed advisable to see what new 
 story could be elicited from Blanche Douglass, and for this purpose she 
 was again subjected to examination in the presence of the jury. With the 
 utmost readiness she obliged her investigators with a story entirely different 
 in every respect from her original one, and from the several confessions 
 which she had afterward made when she was protesting mightily she was 
 determined to tell the truth. 
 
 Her latest story, as told to-night, is one that certainly puts a blacker 
 look on the whole mystery than any previous explanation has done. She 
 says that on the Friday night, when Jennie Cramer died, she (the witness) 
 was with Walter Malley in a room over Redcliff' s restaurant. There are 
 furnished rooms in that building, which it is said are kept by some of the 
 Malleys and occupied occasionally, but the girl's previous story that she 
 was in the Malley mansion on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights 
 has been so corroborated by other witnesses of a less fanciful turn of mind 
 
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 that there is little doubt of its truth. However, this latest confession as it 
 filters out through the closed doors of the jury room, is to the effect that 
 while she was thus engaged on Friday night, James Malley, Jr., came up- 
 stairs from the street dragging Jennie Cramer with him. She was pleading 
 and crying, and making such shrieks and outcry that Walter Malley left 
 the room and went out to stop the disturbance. He was unable to do 
 this, and after making the effort, he called Blanche Douglass to his assist- 
 ance. She managed to quiet things somewhat, and Jennie retired with 
 James Malley, Jr. 
 
 The story thus melodramatically begun is left in this unfinished state for 
 to-night. The jurymen, one and all, refuse to say anything more, and the 
 girl cannot be seen. It is probable by to-morrow, when the jury have been 
 able to think about the story awhile and somebody else shall have extorted 
 still another story from the girl, they will see how worthless her testimony 
 is. At present they are as much excited about it as the whole town was a 
 few hours ago over a story that was circulated to the effect that James Mal- 
 ley, Jr., had shot himself in his cell. Of course he had not, but the story 
 was believed for a time by almost everybody who heard it, for the town is 
 growing wild with excitement over the affair. 
 
 New Haven, Conn., August 17, i88r. 
 
 The excitement in the Cramer case has been heightened to-day by the 
 prevalence of rumors. As a matter of fact, there have been rumors with- 
 out number ever since the discovery of the remains on the West Shore 
 beach, but there has been to-day a new occasion for the starting of stories 
 in the proceedings of the jury of inquest last night, of which a brief account 
 is in this morning's Herald. As we said in that account the session of the 
 jury was a secret one, held in Sheriff Peck's house, where Blanche Doug- 
 lass has been confined for some days. At this session the girl was exam- 
 ined at length, having signified her intention once more to tell the truth. 
 
 The arrival in New Haven yesterday of a New York bartender, who was 
 not ashamed to speak of his relations with the woman in the case whose 
 reputation has been so definitely fixed, has been made the subject of talk 
 ad nauseam, and the influence he is said to have been able to exert on the 
 woman has been defined with great nicety. Neither has it escaped com- 
 ment that she herself was discovered on her knees and overheard saying a 
 prayer — circumstance strange enough, doubtless, and laudable enough, but 
 hardly to be considered as of thrilling interest to the public. A letter 
 written to the woman by one of her associates in New York has also been 
 printed in full, and is supposed to have aided in the development of the 
 case by inducing Blanche Douglass to make one more effort to tell the 
 truth. Whether it was the power of prayer, the epistle from the inmate of 
 the disreputable house, the pleadings of the bartender, or the fear of the 
 penitentiary as a penalty for perjury that brought out the story, it is cer- 
 tain that one has come. 
 
 Undoubtedly the interest thus shown in all the details of the actions of 
 this woman springs from a genuine desire to arrive at a solution attending 
 Jennie Cramer's death, but it has grown into a strong appetite for facts 
 that seem unworthy of notice, considering the character and position in 
 the case of Blanche Douglass. That a story was told to the jury last night 
 is certain. The sitting continued until half-past one o'clock this morn- 
 ing, and the girl was questioned by the jury, by Justice Metcalf, by Law- 
 yer Bollroan, the counsel for the jury, and by Lawyer Bush, the real prose- 
 
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 cuting attorney, until she had satisfied them that she had told all she knew 
 about Jennie Cramer and a'bout the last few days of her life. Juryman 
 Painter, who has worked as hard as man could in the case, while he re- 
 fused point blank to tell anything about what she had said, declared that 
 he believed she had told the whole truth substantially. He argued that her 
 perjury when she was on the stand the first time was natural, as she said 
 herself she was in the employ of the Malleys, and she was obliged to do 
 what she could to shield them. She afterward, he continued, determined to 
 cut loose from the influence of the Malleys, had discharged her counsel. 
 Judge Blydenburgh, who is also counsel for the Malleys, and had thrown 
 „ herself on the State for protection — turning State's evidence. 
 
 New Haven, August i8, 1881. 
 The proceedings to-day of the authorities of West Haven in the investi- 
 gation of the cause of Jennie Cramer's death, or, as it is called locally, the 
 "Cramer Murder Case," were to have begun with the examination of 
 Blanche Douglass on the charge of perjury. This examination, for some 
 secret reason was postponed for one week. The next proceeding — and 
 this proved really important — was the adjourned session of the jury of in- 
 quest. The session was appointed for two p.m., and before that hour the 
 little hall in which the jury meets was filled with curious spectators. Sev- 
 eral of these were ladies, some of whom came from New Haven, and, singu- 
 larly enough, many were old men. Counsellor Bollman conducted the 
 investigation, which resulted in developing very important testimony. Jus- 
 tice Metcalf and the jury sat listening quietly, the justice saying nothing, 
 except for the purpose of quelling laughter or keeping order, and the jury 
 only asking an occasional question. The testimony, which was consider- 
 ably more in volume than had been expected, was also considerably more 
 interesting. 
 
 HEARING WITNESSES. 
 
 Frank Keenan, a hack driver of New Haven, was the first witness. He 
 testified that he knew Jennie Cramer, and had known her about a year. 
 Being asked to tell when he last saw her alive, he said it was about the 
 time the Boston train comes in. Explaining further, he said that it was 
 about twenty-five minutes past three p.m. on the day before she was found 
 (meaning August 5th) ; he was at the New Haven depot, on the sidewalk, 
 and having his attention drawn to a horse car that had just come from the 
 centre of the city and which was going toward West Haven, he looked at 
 it and saw Jennie Cramer sitting on the forward end of one of the seats ; 
 some driver near him asked who that girl with a light suit on was, and he 
 replied, "It is the Cramer girl down in Grand Street ;" he thought it 
 was Mr. Keefe he was talking to ; Keefe is a hack driver ; he fixed the day 
 _Jjy having heard of the finding of the body the next day ; he was standing 
 at the ladies' entrance to the depot and the car was in front of the depot, 
 and far away ; he could not say whether she was with anybody or not, or 
 whether a lady or gentleman sat next her, or whether she was talking or 
 laughing with any one ; all in the car seemed to be laughing, as the car 
 had just been jostled by a stone. 
 
 Joseph W. Brunt, a clerk in the wholesale department of Edward Mal- 
 ley's dry goods store, testified that he was Walter Malley's first cousin, and 
 that he was in the store on the afternoon of Friday, August 5th, and that 
 between half-past five and a quarter to six that afternoon James Malley, 
 
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 Jr., asked him to go out driving to the shore with him after the store 
 closed ; witness had been out driving with the Malleys some five weeks 
 before; he refused the invitation just spoken of, saying that he had an 
 engagement that he could not break ; James Malley asked him if he could 
 not put off his engagement, and he replied that he could not ; James' prop- 
 osition was that they should go to Buell's hotel ; after he declined James 
 turned away and went downstairs ; at his boarding house the next morning 
 witness had said that he was glad he had not gone with James, as if he had 
 gone he would have " got into this thing" himself ; James had said noth- 
 ing about going to Savin Rock ; witness was late at supper this evening at 
 his boarding house, but he said nothing about his invitation until the next 
 morning ; made the remark about being glad because he thought that if he 
 had gone his name would have been concerned in the case in some way ; 
 in the absence of Edward Malley, James Malley, Sr., had charge of the 
 store ; witness did not know whether James Malley took precedence in the 
 management over Walter Malley, but he knew that the latter had charge of 
 his father's real estate business ; he did not know that James Malley, Jr., 
 had any special privileges in the store ; witness was not at the West Shore 
 on Saturday last, and had heard Michael Malley say nothing about being 
 there ; he did not know Jennie Cramer, and did not know that he had ever 
 seen her ; when he first heard of the tragedy it was at about ten o'clock in 
 the morning, and he heard at the same time that the" Malley boys" were in 
 some way connected with the case. At this point the witness failed to ex- 
 actly understand a question that was put, and was subjected to a somewhat 
 roundabout course of questioning by Counsellor Bollman, and at length 
 explained his meaning as it is given above. He was clear and positive in 
 his statement and was not the least confused by his examination. James 
 Malley, he said, had not mentioned any other place as that to which they 
 should go, and had not mentioned that any one else would go on the ride, 
 but got the impression that James Malley meant that they two should go 
 alone. The reason the witness had said that he was glad that he did not go 
 driving was that he heard that James had been going with Jennie Cramer ; 
 he did not hear this until after he heard that the body had been found ; he 
 had known nothing about James going with Jennie Cramer until he had 
 heard the stories connected with the tragedy, and even then knew nothing 
 about Jennie Cramer excepting what he had learned from the stories of the 
 tragedy. 
 
 " Has there been any change in your salary lately ?" asked Mr. Bollman. 
 
 " No, indeed,'" said the witness, laughing, " I wish there had been." 
 
 " Was James very tired when you saw him ?" 
 
 "No." 
 
 ' ' Was there any reason why he should have been particularly tired ?' ' 
 
 " No, unless he went at extra work in the evening." 
 
 This was undoubtedly in reference to an interview with James Malley, 
 Sr., which was published in the New Haven Courier some time ago, in which 
 that gentleman is reported to have said that his son James was at home on 
 the Friday evening in question and was particularly tired ; that he spent the 
 early part of the evening with his family and took a bath and went to bed 
 at eight o'clock. 
 
 Brady's testimony. 
 
 Benjamin F. Brady, the next witness, claims to be a nephew of the New 
 York lawyer, James T. Brady, and who is employed by Charles Ball to attend 
 
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 a small tent in Railroad Grove, the little pleasure ground near where Jennie 
 Cramer's body was found. In the tent is carried on a £;ame similar to that 
 which has recently become popular on Coney Island and at walking watches. 
 It is a simple game, and consists of throwing base balls at a row of dolls at 
 the other end of a short alley. Mr. Brady has an enormous mustache, the 
 ends of which were carefully waxed. He has also a pronounced brogue. 
 He had previously to his appearance to-day denied that his name was 
 " Ben" or that he knew anything about Jennie Cramer being in Railroad 
 Grove on the night of Friday, August 5 th. 
 
 He testified to-day that he saw the body of Jennie Cramer on the morn- 
 ing of Saturday, August 6th, and identified it at once as that of a young girl 
 who had stopped in front of the tent in which he was employed. She was 
 with another " lady," and stopped and asked, " What is this ?" 
 
 " She came," said the witness, " as many ladies do, and asked about the 
 game, and I explained it to her." 
 
 " Which girl was it that did the talking ?" 
 
 " The girl I saw drowned on the shore. After I explained that we 
 allowed three balls to be thrown for five cents, they asked about the coon's 
 head on the chimney." 
 
 " What's that ?" asked a juryman. 
 
 " It's a coon's head. We allow balls to be thrown at that." 
 
 When the laughter that was caused by this had somewhat subsided Jus- 
 tice Metcalf solemnly requested that it cease, and it did. 
 
 " I soon saw that I couldn't make anything out of her," continued the 
 witness, " and I turned away." Then there was more laughter, and the wit- 
 ness started into a further explanation of the kind of balls that were used 
 in his employer's game. He was cut short in this, and the audience thnt 
 was beginning to enjoy itself greatly was brought to order by the grave jus- 
 tice who rose to his feet (he is over six feet high) and said, " Gentlemen must 
 not smoke in the court-room. Those who wish to smoke can go out doors." 
 About one half the audience took cigars out of their mouths and busi- 
 ness proceeded. 
 
 "I couldn't say exactly what time it was," said the witness, " but it 
 was about fifteen or twenty minutes before eight o'clock. The girls stood 
 in front of the tent about five minutes." 
 
 " How did you identify the girl who talked with you as the one whose 
 body you saw ?" asked Lawyer Bollman. 
 
 "I knowed her by her dress, " said the witness ; "she had on alight 
 dress, cut short at the top, and she had glass beads on her neck and in her 
 hair ; then she had on some mittens that didn't come down far enough to 
 cover her rings.'' 
 
 " What kind of mittens ? 
 
 '* They were knit mittens ; I noticed her hand because she pointed 
 around a good deal with it when she was talking ; when they left my place 
 they went on toward the flying horses and then toward the swings ; that is 
 the last I saw of them till the next morning." 
 
 " Have you any doubt about the giil you saw being the same one whose 
 body you saw next morning ?" 
 
 " No," said the witness decidedly. ' The next person that came along, 
 about fifteen minutes later, was a gentleman ; he stood in front of the tent 
 and leaned back on his cane, and I explained the game to him. (Then the 
 witness explained the game again to the patient jury.) He didn't speak till 
 I g')t all through, and then he walked away toward the flying horses ; he 
 
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 was a kind of round-featured, good-looking sort of man, with a little mus- 
 tache, about twenty-three to twenty- five years old ; I would know him 
 again." 
 
 " Can't you describe him better ?" asked a juryman. 
 
 " He was a kind of thick-set, close-built man." 
 
 " What did he say to you ?" 
 
 " He never said nothing. That's what made me mad. He went in the 
 same direction the girls did." 
 
 " Did you ever see him again ?" 
 
 " Yes, he came to the tent about two days afterward alone ; there was a 
 number of men there ; Lawyer Hayes was there and Keefe, the constable, 
 and others ; Keefe asked me if I knew that New York drummer, and I look- 
 ed and saw the man ; I says, ' How do you do ? come over here,' and put 
 out my hand, and he came over and put out his hand, and we shook ; then 
 I turned to Charley Ball, and says, ' Why, that's the m^n that came next 
 after these two girls ;' Charley asked me if I didn't know who it was, and 
 I said no, and he said, ' Why, that's Malley.' " 
 
 " Do you know the Malleys ?" asked Mr, Bollmann. 
 
 " No." 
 
 " Have you seen them since ?" 
 
 "No." 
 
 " What time was it ?" 
 
 " About eight o'clock." 
 
 " Then how did you see the girls ?" 
 
 " I have eight torches burning around the tent, so there was no difficulty 
 in seeing features." 
 
 " How came you to notice the girls ?" 
 
 " Well, I like to look at pretty women better than I do homely ones." 
 The witness then said he had never been asked to tell any different story. 
 
 CORROBORATING BRADY. 
 
 Harry Dorsey, a boy who tends the same game with Brady, testified that 
 he saw the same two girls that Brady saw. Jennie Cramer, he said, wore a 
 very light dress and mittens — (the witness meant lace mitts). " I remember 
 particularly the rings she wore," he continued ; " one of them had some- 
 thing dangling that was hitched to it ; I saw the girls afterward riding the 
 flying horses, and I thought 1 recognized them by their dress ; then after- 
 ward I saw the two coming from the swings, and again I thought I recog- 
 nized them by their dress as the same who had come to our tent ; next 
 morning I saw the body ; I didn't recognize it at first ; I looked closely 
 and thought the face looked familiar, but I couldn't place it ; afterward I 
 saw her hand with the rings on it, and then I remembered the face ; I saw 
 no gentleman with the two girls ; I couldn't swear positively that the girls 
 I saw at the flying horses and the swings were the same two that came down 
 to our tent, but I thought so." 
 
 Charles Maltby, a New Haven clerk, testified that he knew Jennie Cra- 
 mer ; he was on the West Shore on Friday evening, August 5th, and met her 
 there, on the path between the Sea View House and the grove ; she was 
 walking from the grove ; it was about eight or half-past eight o'clock ; 
 there was a gentleman on one side of her and a lady on the other ; I didn't 
 know either of them ; I do not remember how any of them were dressed : 
 I was within four or five feet of them as they passed, and I know it was 
 
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 Jennie Cramer that I saw ; it was dusk but there was light enough to see 
 them plainly and distinguish her features." 
 
 " Did anything special serve to fix the occurrence in your mind ?" asked 
 Mr. Bollmann. 
 
 "Well, ] expected a bow from her; I have known her for about two 
 years, for she was round the centre of the town the most of the time and I 
 saw her a great deal, but I hadn't known her to speak to her but a very 
 short time ; I thought she would bow, but she only looked at me and after 
 one glance looked away ; she did not turn her head away, only her eyes." 
 
 Joseph Marvin, who works on the flying horses, testified that he knew 
 Jennie Cramer : he saw her body on Saturday morning, August 6th, and 
 ■was positive that she rode on the flying horses in Railroad Grove the night 
 before about eight o'clock ; perhaps it was a little later. Being asked how 
 she was dressed he said she had on an " open lightish dress ;" another girl 
 was with her, sitting on a horse behind her, and a gentleman, also with her, 
 sat on a horse beside her ; he did not know the man, but described him as 
 being of medium size ; after riding on the horses the party walked over 
 toward the swing, where there was another party of two women and one 
 man, and the witness thought they joined this party. 
 
 " Describe the man you saw," said a juror. 
 
 " Well, he was a slimish man of medium size, with a light mustache, 
 and he wore a white straw hat ; I don't remember what kind of a band 
 there was on the hat." 
 
 This is in reference to the fact that the Malley boys both wear white 
 straw hats with blue bands, the bands with white polka dots ; and a great 
 deal has been said about such hats in the rumors with which the air has 
 been laden for two weeks. 
 
 " I heard nothing of any conversation between the parties on the flying 
 horses," continued the witness. " Since then the two Malleys have been 
 pointed out to me, and I thought one of them looked like the man in that 
 party, but I couldn't say he was the one." 
 
 Mr. Bollman then put several questions to the witness of a kind that 
 would be termed leading in a New York court room, trying to extort from 
 the witness the statement that he thought one of the Malleys was the man 
 in the party of three, but the witness would say no more than that he 
 looked like the man. He saw no peculiar actions on the part of any of 
 the three, and no indication that any of them had been drinking. 
 
 Howard C. Payne, who keeps a bowling alley and a beer saloon near the 
 West Shore, testified that he knew Jennie Cramer by sight, but that he did 
 not know her name particularly well until after she died ; he also knew 
 one of the Malleys by sight and knew the other to speak to, but did not 
 know which one that was. It turned out that the one he knew by sight 
 was Edward Malley, the father of Walter ; the one he knew by sight was in 
 his place on the eventful Friday night and drank a glass of beer and took 
 one out to a friend. Witness thought the friend was a gentleman, but was 
 not sure. 
 
 Charles Ball, Brady's employer, denied that he had said that the man 
 referred to by Constable Keefe as the New York drummer was one of the 
 Malleys ; he had said, " Why, it must be one of the Malleys," and he had 
 said this on account of what had been said in connection with the case, 
 not because he knew Malley ; he did not know as a matter of fact whether 
 it was Malley or not. 
 
 James 1. Haye^ a New Haven lawyer, testified next that he was not 
 
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 present at any such scene as Brady had described ; it was true that he had 
 spoken of the correspondent of the New York Sun as a New York drum- 
 mer, but that was to assist him in getting the news, and was not intended 
 as a reflection on that gentleman. 
 
 This left Brady's testimony in a badly damaged and mixed condition, 
 but on private inquiry outside the court room it was proved that the drum- 
 mer incident did occur, but on a different occasion from the one when 
 Mr. Hayes was present. 
 
 HIGHLY IMPORTANT STATEMENTS. 
 
 The next witness proved to be the most interesting one of the day, and 
 his testimony was beyond a question a surprise to most of those who heard 
 it. For although it had been generally supposed for two or three days or 
 longer that it would be proved that Jennie Cramer and James Malley were 
 at the West Shore together on the Friday night of the story, yet the testi- 
 mony that had been obtained, although some of it was positive enough, 
 was hardly convincing. John J. Gilchrist, who keeps a livery stable on 
 the West Shore, was, however positive enough and clear enough to satisfy 
 everybody that unless his testimony shall be impeached there is no longer 
 room for doubt that the whole quartet were together on the Friday night 
 near where Jennie Cramer's body was found next morning. He testified 
 that he had known Jennie Cramer well for a long time, having lived in the 
 same street with her, and having often spoken to her ; he also knew James 
 Malley, Jr., having worked for his uncle, Edward Malley, at the time 
 when James was still a schoolboy, and used to run into the store on his 
 way home from school ; since he left the Malley store he had kept up his 
 acquaintance with James Malley and with Walter. 
 
 " When did you last see Jennie Cramer alive ?" asked Mr. Bollman. 
 
 " I saw her on Friday night, August 5th," said the witness ; and being 
 desired to tell the circumstances, he said that he went on that evening from 
 his barn to the Railroad Grove, and then down a private road toward 
 Payne's place. On this road he met her, with another lady, walking to- 
 ward the grove ; she was a little in advance of the other and the two were 
 laughing and joking ; just after them came three men who seemed to be 
 "kind o' quarrelling," the one in the middle had a black mustache and 
 the witness did not know him ; the one on his right was James Malley, 
 Jr. ; witness passed nearest to him in going by ; the one on the other side 
 he thought was Walter Malley ; just as the witness passed them in the path 
 the man in the middle said : 
 
 " I'll have it or else somebody '11 die." 
 
 Witness was about five feet from the three men when this was said ; he 
 could not say whether the girls heard the remark or not, but should sup- 
 pose they did ; he heard no more of the conversation, although he stopped 
 for a second and looked back ; he thought the remark was made in ear- 
 nest, not in jest ; he was sure he would know the man with a black mus- 
 tache if he should see him again ; this meeting was at about a quarter past 
 eight o'clock ; about half or three quarters of an hour later he saw the 
 same party again coming down off the platform at one of the bathing 
 houses ; the two girls were again in the lead and the men were following ; 
 of the men James Malley came first, and the second was the one [he 
 thought was Walter ; the man with the black mustache was the next ; as 
 the party came down Jennie Cramer said, " Good evening" to this witness 
 and bowed, and he returned the salutation ; at this meeting he heard noth- 
 
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 ing said excepting those words of greeting, but he did not think the party 
 was sober ; they walked straight enough, and when he was asked why he 
 thought they had been drinking the only thing the witness specified was 
 thaj; one of the men ran into James, when the latter stopped and they 
 dodged from one side to the other of one another. The man with the 
 black mustache was dressed, the witness thought, in a short cutaway coat, 
 straw hat, a black tie and had a big stud in his shirt bosom ; James Mal- 
 ley had on a straw hat. Witness was positive that he was not mistaken as 
 to having seen Jennie Cramer both times ; he knew, also, that he saw 
 James Malley, as he recognized his face, but did not hear him say any- 
 thing ; he fixed the time in the evening by its having been soon after he 
 heard the whistle of the Newport boat. 
 
 Reinhart Muentzner, who owns the flying horses, testified that he knew 
 Jennie Cramer by sight, and that when he saw her body on the morning 
 that it was found he said right off that it was the girl that rode on his fly- 
 ing horses the night before ; he saw her a little after eight o'clock ; a man 
 sat near her on the machine, and the man paid for her ride ; he did not 
 know the man and could not describe his dress. 
 
 The jury then went into secret session for the purpose of deciding on 
 their verdict, announcing that they would in all probability listen to no 
 more testimony. After half an hour, however, they adjourned at the re- 
 quest of City Attorney Pickett, and are to hold their next session at the 
 call of the coroner. 
 
 New Haven, August 19, 1881. 
 
 The talk of New Haven to-day, failing the probability of any develop- 
 ments in the Cramer case, consists mainly of discussions about the way 
 that it has been worked at by the authorities. 
 
 " Have you any clew that leads you to think that the man with a black 
 mustache who figured in the testimony yesterday was young Duff, of New 
 York?" I asked Mr. Bush. 
 
 " No, we do not think it was he," he replied. 
 
 " Do you think it was Higgins ?" I asked. 
 
 " Higgins" was formerly a clerk in New Haven, and has since, it is said, 
 gone to New York and engaged in some business there. When he lived in 
 New Haven he was one of many who paid attention to Jennie Cramer, and 
 is said to have been a favored admirer of hers. Since the man with the 
 black mustache has been talked of in connection with the Cramer case 
 many persons have surmised that he was that shadowy individual, but so 
 far as I can learn there is no foundation for any such opinion. Mr. Bush, 
 however, was rather non-committal, and only said that no steps had been 
 taken toward Higgins' arrest.* 
 
 JENNIE CRAMER AND HER MOTHER. 
 
 Gossip continues to run wildly on in regard to Jennie Cramer and her 
 mother. A prominent city official here told me that he was surprised some 
 time ago by a visit from a very pretty married lady, who asked him ab- 
 ruptly if he knew her very well. He said, in some confusion, that he did 
 not, and asked why he should be honored with such a question. " Well," 
 said the lady, " Mrs. Cramer has been making remarks about us, and I 
 wish you would let her know from me that if I hear any more of it she 
 will hear from me." My informant adds that he was obliged to go and 
 see Mrs. Cramer and tell her to stop talking, and that he believed that 
 
 • As Jennie is dead, and her people poor, there will be no lack of " gossip " about the 
 poor girl. 
 
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 others had had similar experience. Jennie herself was fairly to be called 
 a " hoodlum." She was remarkably pretty, as is known, and dressed as 
 handsomely as almost any one in New Haven, but she was fond of what 
 might fairly be called low society, and fraternized readily with strangers in 
 strange places. Not seldom she had adventures in consequence that were 
 by no means of a kind that a modest young woman would be likely to 
 have, but which it is proper to say never were known to have any disas- 
 trous end for her. Nothing worse is said of her here than that she was a 
 hoodlum, although naturally enough many persons refuse to believe that 
 she was a virtuous girl, even up to the time she made James Malley's 
 acquaintance by flirting with him on the Green, which is the Mall of New 
 Haven. 
 
 Edward Malley, the father of Walter and the uncle of James, is a thin, 
 well-barbered man, with a sandy mustache and shrewd face. He is hail- 
 fellow-well-met, and talks right along. He said in his store to-day that he 
 had no fears for Walter and James. He goes to see them twice a day at 
 the jail. " Boys will be boys," said Mr. Malley, " and that is the whole 
 of the story. As for Walter, he was at Branford Point on Friday night, 
 August 5th. He went over with my coach and came back in it. He was 
 at home by ten or eleven o'clock. He had a woman with him— I don't 
 know who. He was met by a milkman on the way out, and the milkman 
 laughed to see the boy with a woman. The truth is that Walter has always 
 been a wondei fully quiet boy. He plays on the piano, and at home he 
 has always hung about the house. He was too solemn and quiet to suit 
 me. I often urged him to get out of the house and drive the horses, or 
 do something. Often when I have been away he has managed all my busi- 
 ness, signing checks, and all that, and he did it faithfully. James, his 
 cousin, is a lively boy ; but he is a nice boy. I don't know where he was 
 that Friday night. I haven't read a word of the testimony in the case. 
 When I read a newspaper and come to that, I fling the newspaper away. 
 That is all moonshine about Walter going down to New York frequently 
 on Saturday night and staying over Sunday. The fact will be clearly es- 
 tablished that neither of the boys had anything to do with the Cramer girl's 
 death, you may depend upon it. That is all moonshine, too, about my 
 putting money into this case. I haven't spent a cent except in the em- 
 ployment of counsel, and if any man will prove to the contrary I will give 
 him a deed of all the property I own. No detective has been employed by 
 me. I was in New York when I heard of the trouble that the boys had 
 got into, and when I came back, I found that Walter had a detective in his 
 employ. I asked the boy what in the world he wanted of a detective, and 
 why he threw away five dollars a day for nothing. He said that he would 
 spend all he had in the world, and would work for a dollar a week for a 
 hundred years, to get at the facts in this case. Of course I had nothing 
 to say to that, and he keeps his detective still." 
 
 JOHN DUFF JR.'S ACCOUNT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MALLEYG AND 
 
 THEIR COUNSEL. 
 
 John Duff, Jr., said to a reporter of the New York Sun, at the residence 
 of his father, ^t, West Tenth Street : " I first knew Walter Malley at Seton 
 College. We were in the same grade, and became warm friends. I often 
 visited him at his father's house in New Haven. 
 
 " On July 2d, I went to visit him for the first time this summer. I re- 
 mained until July 8th, when I returned to this city in company with Walter 
 Malley. On landing Walter went at once to the house in West Thirty-first 
 
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 Street to see Blanche Douglass. At half-past four o'clock on the following 
 afternoon I received a letter from him asking me to meet him that night on 
 Starin's New Haven boat at the foot of Cortlandt Street. I got there a 
 few minutes before nine o'clock. He was sitting on the deck. Blanche 
 Douglass was with him. He introduced me to her. It was the first time I 
 had ever met her. Walter and his companion occupied the stateroom next 
 to mine. We arrived in New Haven on the following morning. Walter 
 told me that he was so well known that he did not care to be seen with 
 Blanche Douglass. We left her on board the boat which stopped at New 
 Haven until evening, and drove to the house of Edward Malley, Walter's 
 father. After breakfast we then went to the store. Walter here left me, 
 and going to the boat, took Blanche for a drive. Previously he had asked 
 me to meet them at half-past ten o'clock that morning on the east side of 
 the College Green. I did so. Walter left Blanche with me and drove off. 
 At his request I took her to the Tremont House, where I engaged for her 
 a room, and registered her as Miss Douglass. I then returned to the store 
 and told both Walter and James Malley what I had done. They at once 
 ■went to the hotel. James Malley was at this time well acquainted with 
 Blanche Douglass, having met her in New York, and visited Coney Island 
 in her company. 
 
 "On the next day, Tuesday, July nth, Edward Malley went to New 
 York, to be gone several days. Walter and James then proposed that we 
 should go for a drive with some ladies. It was decided that we should 
 visit Buell's, on the East Haven shore. At seven o'clock on Wednesday 
 evening Walter took Blanche in his buggy and started for that place. James 
 and I engaged a four-seated beach wagon. My companion was a lady liv- 
 ing in New Haven. James's friend at the last moment disappointed him. 
 He then sent a letter by a messenger to Miss Jennie Cramer, asking her to 
 be one of the party. The boy brought a reply that she would be pleased to 
 go. At half-past eight o'clock we drove up to her house. James went in- 
 side, and soon returned w'ith Miss Cramer. It was the first time I had ever 
 seen her. She struck me as being remarkably pretty. She appeared to be 
 a very lively girl, but nothing worse. When we reached Buell's Miss Cra- 
 mer was introduced to Blanche Douglass, who in manner and appearance 
 is very quiet and ladylike. Walter and Blanche, who, when we arrived, 
 were partaking of refreshment, soon after left in the buggy. After supper 
 our party also started for home. We drove slowly and reached New Haven 
 at midnight. 
 
 " We dropped my companion at her residence, and James took Miss Cra- 
 mer home. I went to my room in Foote's Hotel, opposite Malley's store, 
 and James soon after found me. He said that he was not very intimately 
 acquainted with Miss Cramer. The next time I saw Miss Cramer was on 
 Thursday evening. She carae into the store after six o'clock to buy some 
 lace. The clerks were gone, and she said that she would come again on 
 Friday. I did not go to the store on Friday and never again saw Jennie 
 Cramer. On Friday evening Walter told me that Blanche Douglass had 
 left New Haven. On Saturday night I came to New York. On the fol- 
 lowing Wednesday I met Walter in this city. He told me that his father 
 had gone to the White Mountains and that he would probably follow him 
 the next day. 
 
 " I had no further communication with or from Walter until Sunday, 
 August 7th, when I read in the papers of the finding of the body of Miss 
 Cramer, and that the Malleys were mixed up in the matter. I at once sent 
 Walter the following telegram : 
 
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 " ■ Can I help you in this trouble ?' 
 
 " A few hours later I received an answer. It read as follows : 
 " ' Thanks for yours to hand. Come up in tonight's boat.' 
 " I went to New Haven on the ] p.m. train on Monday. 1 saw Walter, 
 and with him called on Blanche Douglass, who was stopping at the Austin 
 House. In my presence they rehearsed the story that Blanche was to tell. 
 In effect it was that she was the sister of an agent for a patent car coupler, 
 whose name was J. J. Douglass ; that he travelled all over the United 
 States ; and that he had sent her to New Haven for her health, while he 
 went off on a business trip. She was to say that the last time she heard 
 from him was through a letter written from Scranton, Pa. I was to have 
 known the brother for three years, and to vouch for the truth of the story. 
 Walter told me that his sole object was to shield Blanche Douglass, for 
 whom he had a great infatuation. I said that I thought the story was very 
 weak and did not think that it would be believed. I suggested that I should 
 tell it that night to Walter's lawyer and see what he thought of it. That 
 evening I told the story in the office of ex-Judge Blydenburg, and in the 
 presence of the judge, Lasvyer Fox, and James and Walter Malley. 
 James, Mr. Blydenburg, and I then left the room, leaving Walter with Mr. 
 Fox, who was his counsel. Mr. Fox also told him that he did not believe 
 the story. It was weak and would not be credited. He said that my tes- 
 timony would do more for the prosecution than the defence if that story 
 was told at the inquest. He said that as I knew the true facts about 
 Blanche Douglass, I had beter leave New Haven at once. Walter told me 
 this as he drove me down to the midnight boat, on which I left for this 
 city. He told me at the same time that he had not seen Jennie Cramer 
 after the Thursday morning on which she left his father's house in com- 
 pany with Blanche Douglass. He said that Blanche and Jennie Cramer 
 had slept together in one room on the Wednesday night, and that he and 
 James had occupied another." 
 
 WHAT NEXT ? 
 
 The reader is now as well able as we are to deliver a verdict upon the 
 question, " Who killed Jennie E. Cramer?" For that killed she was is 
 only too certain. Everything goes to show that it was no suicide. Even 
 those persons who are trying to prove that the unfortunate girl was of a 
 light and frivolous disposition, by that very allegation do away with the 
 supposition that she was so frightened at her parents' chiding that she took 
 her own life. Much has been said about the supineness of the people of 
 West Haven and its vicinage — and, indeed, their apathy has been remarka- 
 ble ; especially if we contrast their behavior with that of another New 
 England community, when Squire White, of Salem — a rich old gentleman 
 — was cruelly murdered. On that occasion Boston and Salem joined in a 
 vast vigilance committee, large rewards were offered, pardon was assured 
 to any accomplice who would give testimony, and Daniel Webster was 
 employed to bring the guilty to the scaffold. Although the hand of sus- 
 picion is pointed unerringly at the Malleys — it may be that they are inno- 
 cent, if so, may God give them a good deliverance ! One thing is certain, 
 the crime, or crimes, have been committed at places too much frequented 
 for a veil to be drawn over the hideous tragedy and its precedent events — 
 unless money is poured out like water to buy silence or perjury. Every 
 father and brother in Connecticut should make it their own cause to hunt 
 the criminals to the death — be the criminals either tramps or millionaires. 
 Don't let this be another Mary Rogers and Mary Stannard case. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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 JAMES MALLEY, JR, 
 
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 New Haven, August 22. 
 
 The Malleys were again brought before Justice Booth, in Thompson's 
 Hall, West Haven, this morning at nine o'clock. Walter and James, Jr., 
 were quiet in demeanor, and listened quietly to the arguments of counsel. 
 Both wore red roses in their button-holes. James was the paler of the two. 
 Counsellor Bush requested a continuance of the hearing for two weeks, and . 
 read a letter from Professor R. H. Chittenden, stating that the chemical ^ 
 analysis of Jennie Cramer's remains would not be completed before Sep- 
 tember 5th, two weeks from to-day. 
 
 Justice Booth granted a continuance on the ground that he believed the 
 State was honest in its statement, and that circumstances warranted it. 
 Mr. Fox then moved that his clients be released on bail, but after a recess to 
 3 P.M. for consideration, the Justice denied the motion for bail. 
 
 The inquest upon the death of Jennie Cramer was resumed to-day. The 
 Malley boys occupied raised seats facing the spectators, and bore their scru^ 
 tiny with composure. 
 
 Their appearance had greatly improved since their arraignment a week 
 before ; they listened closely to the testimony and smiled occasionally at 
 laughable incidents in the proceeding. James still continues the more 
 reserved of the two, and follows the testimony more closely. The testi- 
 mony was upon the whereabouts of James Malley, Jr., during business 
 hours on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and especially on Thursday 
 and Friday nights. The testimony of his sister and father was to the effect 
 that he was at home all Friday evening and night. 
 
 The first witness, John V. Hallenbeck, who resides at Savin Rock, testi- 
 fied that he saw the girl whose body was found on the beach, on Friday, 
 August sth, about half .past 5 p.m., as she was passing his premises in 
 Grove Street, with another lady. He noticed them as they were hand- 
 somely dressed. 
 
 Edward H. Smith, who keeps a bowling alley and bar next door to John 
 V. Hallenbeck, testified that he was strolling on the beach about midnight 
 on Friday, August 5th, he heard voices apparently coming from the beach ; 
 he was in doubt as to the exact locality they came from. He heard a girl's 
 and a man's voice, the girl talked most and loudest ; it was a quarrel. It 
 was then about 12.15 Saturday morning. 
 
 James Bohn, Edward Malley's coachman, testified that Walter Malley had 
 the new-topped buggy that night and a dark bay mare. Walter came home 
 about II P.M., as far as witness could remember. Witness then went to 
 bed. The counsel questioned witness closely concerning his having been 
 at Lutz's Saturday morning about 11 o'clock to get a drink, and having 
 stated to Charles Wilson there that he had been up until 3 or 4 o'clock that 
 morning waiting for the horses. The witness denied having said so ; he 
 remembered having been there. Joseph H. Marvin, the man at the flying- 
 horses, who testified Thursday last to having seen Jennie Cramer. driving 
 on Friday evening, August 5 th, was called on to state whether he saw in the 
 room the man who was riding by the side of Jennie Cramer. He pointed 
 out James Malley and said his general appearance corresponded with that 
 of the man with Jennie, but he was not certain that the two were identical. 
 James Mallay showed perfect composure during this incident. Benjamin 
 F. Brady, who testified also on Thursday last, pointed out James Malley as 
 being the one in his opinion who came to his tent on the Friday evening in 
 question.' The next witness was Miss Theresa A. Kennedy, who is em- 
 ployed in the Malley store, and keeps the time-book there. She examined 
 
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 the book and gave the following results from James Malley's time record on 
 Friday : Came, 7.45 ; left ii.20 ; returned, 2.15. Saturday : 7.45 ; i ; 2.10. 
 
 A recess was then taken for one hour. The inquest was resumed at 2 
 o'clock. Patrick F. Carroll, who is employed in Edward Malley's store, 
 testified that he worked at the same counter with James Malley, Jr. He 
 saw him come into the store Friday morning. James requested witness 
 about 6 o'clock to get a saddle-horse for him. James Malley had ordered 
 the saddle-horse on Friday for himself ; witness had never seen James ride 
 a horse ; he fixed the date by the finding of the body next day. He saw 
 James Malley last that night outside at the Temple Street entrance. James 
 then said he would see about the saddle-horse himself. Witness next saw 
 James Saturday morning outside the door at about 10 minutes to 8. Wit- 
 ness heard of the death of Jennie Cramer while in the store on Saturday 
 morning ; he went to James and told him of it ; James heard it then for 
 the first time, and appeared very much surprised 
 
 William C. Mountain, employed as clerk in Edward Malley's store, cor- 
 roborated the statements of others that James Malley, Jr., had no unusual 
 privileges in the store. A lady came into the store, about 4 o'clock on 
 Thursday and talked with James Malley ; witness thought he heard James 
 say he (James) had not seen her that day, but that if he did he would say 
 that her mother wanted her. He saw James covering the goods at 6 
 o'clock. Witness saw James in front of the store Friday at a little after 5 
 P.M. with his hat on ; he saw him next at 6 o'clock. 
 
 Robert Taylor testified that he had a touch of cholera morbus, and so 
 proposed the purchase of liquor. James Malley did not drink a drop of it. 
 Witness had told Counsellor BoUman before that he could not remember 
 whether James was in the store on Friday afternoon or not. Witness went 
 yesterday with James Malley,' Sr., to see James at the jail, and make sure 
 about whether James was in the store on Friday afternoon or not. He had 
 not mentioned the liquor question at the jail. Mrs. Katie C.Mains, who is 
 employed at Edward Malley's store, said she first saw James Malley, Jr., 
 Saturday morning between 7.45 and 8 o'clock. She had never told anyone 
 James looked strange that morning. 
 
 Miss Louisa C. Malley, sister of James Malley, Jr., testified that while she 
 was watering the flowers in the yard, her brother James was in the dining- 
 room sitting with "his shoes off ; he came home at 7 o'clock ; supper was 
 served between 7 and 8 o'clock ; she was in the yard when James came 
 home. James took a bath immediately, after supper. Witness went into 
 the yard to pick up apples while James was bathing. She saw James when he 
 came home from the bath-room ; she was then in her bedroom. Her father 
 was in his room writing. James Ihen shaved in the witness's room and 
 went to bed about 9 o'clock. The witness then went to the sitting-room 
 and stayed for about half an hour ; she then went upstairs and saw James 
 in bed, as his door was open. The witness retired at 11 p.m. After she 
 had been in bed a short time she rose to get a pillow, as the three, herself 
 and two sisters, occupied one room. She went to James's room and got a 
 pillow from James. He was in bed. She rose at half-past 6 the next 
 morning and saw James in bed then. The witness first heard of Jennie 
 Cramer's death Saturday noon. James did not come home for dinner. 
 The witness was not certain where she was when James canie home Saturday 
 ni^ht ; she was not positive about his being in. for supper. 
 
 "" How is it that you know all about James' whereabouts on Friday 
 night and do not on the other nights ?" Counsellor Bollman asked. , 
 
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 The witness did not say ; she had made her first statement to Messrs. 
 Fox and Blydenburgh last week ; she had had no doubts as to whether 
 James stayed at home on Thursday or Friday night. 
 
 James Malley, Sr., was then sworn. He testified he was superintendent 
 at his brother's store, and gave a detailed account of what took place Fri- 
 day night ; he asked Louisa why she did not have James water the plants ; 
 James had his shoes off when he came in and he gave this as the reason. 
 Louisa had generally watered the plants ; James had done it occasionally. 
 Later in the night he heard the girls talking about the pillow, and said they 
 might have one of his, but they took it from James's room ; later in the ■ 
 night the dogs were barking, somewhere from 12 to 2 o'clock, and he heard 
 James get up and stop them ; the witness retired at about 10 o'clock ; 
 James was in his room, and the witness was in bed, when James said to one 
 of his sisters, who was asking for a pillow, ' ' You can have my pillow. 
 
 The witness, James Malley, Sr., gave a minute account of the transac- 
 tions at his house Friday night, and corroborated the story told by his 
 daughter. To account for his being awake, he said his daughters were 
 quarrelling in their, room over a towel, and this awakened him, and had 
 afterward come for a pillow. He had asked his son on Thursday morning, 
 " Where were you last night ?" The expression, " It was lucky you were 
 home last night, ' ' referred to Friday night, and was used on Saturday even- 
 ing, when James said a Union reporter had connected his name with Jen- 
 nie's death. He could not tell whether James had Walter's horse on 
 Wednesday or Thursday night. After this testimony the jury held a short 
 consultation and adjourned until Friday at 9 a.m. 
 
 New Haven, August 23. 
 
 While the people are discussing the legal aspects of the case, the father 
 and mother of the dead girl are patiently waiting for some light upon the 
 cause of her mysterious death. Jacob Cramer's house is united with his 
 cigar-store, the whole being a plain brick dwelling of two stories. The lower 
 story front is a cigar-store and shoe-shop combined ; the rear of this story 
 is used as kitchen and dining-room ; above are the -parlor and the bed- 
 rooms. The parlor, where Jennie Cramer was last seen by her mother in 
 the company of Blanche Douglass, is a small room tastily furnished ; its 
 walls are hung with many pictures in pretty frames. There is a piano and 
 books aiid numerous parlor ornaments, all indicating good taste and a love 
 of the beautiful. Mrs. Cramer sat to-day where she stood when she last 
 saw Jennie, and talked about her daughter. She spoke in a low tone of 
 voice. Mrs. Cramer said of Jennie : 
 
 " She was always a good, kind girl, and confided everything to me. §he 
 used to go to Sunday-school and church at the old North Church until she 
 was fifteen. Then she gave it up when [ went to Europe. She was sickly 
 and in poor health until within a few years ; yet she was even then deli- 
 cate, and her peculiar white complexion was mainly the result of her weak 
 physical state. She made a confident of me in everything ; it had become 
 a custom with her. If she had had any trouble or had done anything 
 wrong I should have known it; She told me all about her relatix)ns to 
 George Higgins, a former clerk in the Malley store, and said that he was 
 always gentlemanly toward her. He came here last fall and remained some 
 three evenings in all, remaining until about 10 o'clock. Jennie said she 
 could not say the same of JameS Malley, Jr., and that she did not know 
 what to do ; she wished to get away from him. She deceived him often in 
 order to avoid going with him. The note she wrote to him saying she was 
 
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 going to Bristol when he asked her to go with Walter and Blanche and him- 
 self was untrue. Yet she said to me once, ' I won't deceive him, mother, 
 for he cross-examines me until he finds out the truth. ' " 
 
 Mrs. Cramer said, in concluding, that she did not believe Jennie Cramer 
 left the house alone on Thursday, August 4th. " I c;annot but believe she 
 went with Blanche Douglass," she said earnestly. One statement was 
 made by Mr;,^. Cramer which points to the implication of James Malley. In 
 the meshes of the trimming of Jennie's hat she had found a peculiar pin 
 which did not belong to Jennie. It will be rernembered that Mrs. Cramer 
 had called on James Malley Thursday afternoon, at the store, to make in- 
 quiries about Jennie. Mrs. Cramer said : " I am positive I saw that same 
 pin on James Malley's tie that afternoon." She described it minutely, and 
 the tie that James wore. Counsellor Bollman had taken the pin in charge. 
 A cloak was also found on the beach Saturday morning near the body. 
 This is supposed to belong to Blanche Douglass, as she gave her cloak to 
 Jennie before at the beach, and Jennie had no heavy covering for Friday 
 evening. , 
 
 Thursday morning about 10 o clock George Morris, of No. 328 Grand 
 Street, of this city, was riding in a horse-car with William P. Keegan, clerk 
 of C. R. Converse's drug-store at the corner of Grand and Franklin Streets. 
 Morris said : " At the corner of State and Chapel Streets two girls got on 
 the car on Thursday morning. One of them was Jennie Cramer. I have 
 known her for five or six years. I bowed to her, and she recognized me. 
 Mr. Morris and J. talked together about the two girls, and commented on 
 Jennie when she rose to pull the strap to stop the car. The girls came as if 
 from the Elliott House, which is a short distance south of the corner of 
 State and Chapel Streets. They got out at Hugo's grocery store, just at 
 the comer a few doors north of the Cramer cigar-store and walked down 
 toward Jennie's home. The other one must have been Miss Douglass, as it 
 is agreed the two went to Jennie's home at this time. As near as I can cal- 
 culate it was about half-past ten. 
 
 " I was sitting in front of the drug-store, which is at the next corner 
 south of Hugo's and a few doors south of the Cramer store, about i 
 o'clock, reading, when I saw Jennie get on a Fairhaven and Westville car 
 going up toward the centre of the town. It must have been about i, as 
 Mr. Converse had been gone to dinner some time; In fact he came back in 
 a short time afterward, and I spoke to him about seeing Jennie. I know it 
 was Jennie, for this is the drug-store she patronized, and where it was 
 claimed she got the arsenic that made her fair complexion." 
 
 " Where was she when you first saw her the last time ?" 
 
 " Just stepping on the car. She cut across the corner of the road on the 
 side of the lamp-post toward her house, as if she had just come from that 
 direction. ' ' 
 
 "Was she alone?" 
 
 " No ; at least it appeared so. Another girl got on at the same time just 
 before her, and was standing on the platform apparently waiting for her. I 
 did not see her face. I thought it was the same pprson I saw come down 
 with Jennie and go home with her. She had on apparently the same dress, 
 and was of the same form. This was nearly, if not quite i o'clock, I am 
 
 positive." , . 
 
 Mr. C. R. Converse, the proprietor, corroborated this story so far as he 
 was concerned. He said he never went to dinner before 1 2 and returned 
 about I. The account, as thus given, shows that Blanche's statement is 
 
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 not correct that Jennie was on the Savin Rock car between n and 12 
 o'clock. From the corner of Grand and Chapel, where Jennie Cramer got 
 on the car about i o'clock, to Church and Chapel, where the Savin Jlock 
 cars start, is three quarters of a mile. The questiori then naturally arises 
 whether Jennie did not accompany Blanche after leaving home that Thurs- 
 day morning. 
 
 New Haven, August 24. 
 
 The statement regarding the pin found on Jennie Cramer's hat by her. 
 mother has produced considerable commotion here to-day. The article as 
 described by Mrs. Cramer is a jet pin set in gold, a horseshoe inform, with 
 a bell-shaped or tulip-shaped attachment. This pin, Mrs. Cramer said, she 
 was sure she saw on James Malley's tie when she called on him at the store 
 on Thursday, August 7th. Attention was called to the pin at the undertak- 
 ing e'stablishment of Stahl & Hegel, where the body of Jennie was taken. 
 The pin fell to the floor from the hat, and no special notice was taken of it. 
 Co,roner Bollman and Dr. Painter learned from Mrs. Cramer that the pin 
 did not belong to Jennie. James Malley, Jr', denies ever having worn 
 such a pin. He said to-day the only pin he had had for years was the one 
 he now wears at the jail — a mosaic stone mounted in yellow gold attached 
 to a long pin. 
 
 The authorities are also investigating certain carriage or wagon tracks 
 found on Savin Rock Beach a day or two after the discovery of the body. 
 They are still partially visible and lie near the Malley bathing and boat- 
 house. Edward Malley has a cottage on Beach Street, which skirts the 
 shore ; this season it is rented to William K. Townsend, a lawyer of New 
 Haven ; it lies some forty rods east of the spot where Jennie's body was 
 found. 
 
 New Haven, August 25. 
 
 The hearing of the charge against Blanche Douglass was postponed 
 to-day. 
 
 Mr. Cramer and his son, who lives in New York, have recently received 
 letters denouncing them for not wreaking vengeance on the Malleys. 
 Sheriff Peck has also received letters and postal cards on the subject. 
 
 The stories concerning those who saw Jennie at Savin Rock on Friday, 
 August 5th, still keep coming in. The last one is that of a Mr. Weisner 
 and wife, of Meriden, who noticed a beautiful girl in a white dress with 
 beads around her neck, about 6 o'clock that afternoon. 
 
 There are many reports to-day as to what Mr. Bollman, Detective Reilley, 
 and the locksmith found in the Malley bathing-houses night before last. 
 An evening paper says a small phial, such as druggists use, was one thing 
 found ; that there was nothing in it, but that a pungent odor came from it ; 
 the cork was new. A juryman said to-day he thought this to be a mislead- 
 ing clew. 
 
 New Haven, August 26. 
 
 While the hearing was in progress. Lawyer Fox rose to make a request. 
 He said that in fairness the two accused young men should be allowed to 
 come down from New Haven jail and hear what was going on, The county 
 sheriff has explained that this strict seclusion of his prisoners is made neces- 
 sary by the niggardly provision for the employment of keepers, there being 
 only two to attend to the nearly 200 persons in confinement. 
 
 An intelligent and lady-like witness, by name Mrs. Charles H. Miller, 
 told the jury to-day that she had known Jenjiie Cramer 14 years, and had 
 been intimate with her. She saw her pass the city market in Chapel Street 
 
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 just before 3 o'clock the Thursday afternoon before the Saturday when her 
 body was taken from the water. There was a lady with her whose face she 
 did not see. They were talking and- walking fast in the direction of the 
 Elliott House. The dress of Jennie's companion was minutely described 
 by Mrs. Miller — a dark skirt with a gold-brocaded basque, white hat with 
 a blue feather. This gold-brocaded basque has been a principal object in 
 the minds of the detectives who have worked on the case. It was an un- 
 usually pretentious and gorgeous article of attire, and the identification of 
 the basque was tantamount to an identification of the woman as nobody else 
 than Blanche Douglass. 
 
 Now Blanche in all her stories has insisted that the last she saw of Jennie 
 Cramer was about 11 o'clock Thursday forenoon, when she saw her on a 
 West Haven car. The witness further fixes the fact that Jennie and 
 Blanche were together Thursday by testifying that the woman with the 
 remarkable basque was the same with whom she had sat at the Austin House 
 table, and who then called herself Miss Clements. Said Mrs. Miller : 
 ■" While at the Austin House"myself and a friend were talking of the Cramer 
 case, and she (Blanche Douglass) seemed deeply interested. She looked 
 at me with those terrible big eyes of hers." The same witness told how she 
 had met the two girls Wednesday evening, when the Douglass girl was wear- 
 ing that bg^sque and Jennie Cramer was dressed in white. These things the 
 witness had voluntarily told to Jennie's mother. The witness knew she had 
 seen the two together Thursday, as stated, because she had not risen from 
 bed until 12 o'clock, her usual bed-time being 2 o'clock in the morning. 
 Mrs. Miller's husband keeps a saloon and billiard-room at Chapel and 
 Union Streets, and the family lives in the building, which accounts for Mrs. 
 Miller's unseasonable hours for retiring. 
 
 An important witness, named Samuel J. Mattoon, testified in proof that 
 the Douglass girl lied when she said she had not seen Jennie Cramer since 
 II o'clock Thursday forenoon. He said that he was a clerk in the drug- 
 store under the Elliott House, and had known Jennie for years. He saw 
 her alive Thursday evening, August 4th, with a lady who had been since 
 shown to him as Miss Douglass. Mr, Mattoon was positive that one of the 
 girls was Jennie, for he saw a mole on her neck, her dress being cut low. 
 
 Miss Bertha Williamson testified that she did chamber-work for Mr. Neu: 
 man, the janitor of the Foote Building, at No. 400-^ Chapel Street. The 
 building was the home of the late Admiral Alexander H. Foote, and was 
 purchased years ago by Edward Malley and remodelled, the lower story be- 
 ing converted into stores, and the upper part into lodging-rooms, of which 
 there are many. It is at Temple and Chapel Streets, being the building 
 next north of Malley's store. Across Chapel Street is Trinity Church. On 
 the first floor is Redcliffe's restaurant, which has been frequently mentioned 
 in the case. The chambermaid said that Walter Malley carried the key to 
 Room No. 26, and she had known him to stay over night, but, as far as she 
 knew, without company. On Thursday morning, two days before the find- 
 ing of Jennie Cramer's body in the water, Walter Malley came to Miss Wil- 
 liamson and told her to fix up No. 29 and put in water and towels. 'She 
 followed his directions, putting in bed sheets and pillow-cases, as well as 
 water and towels. Walter took the key of the room with him. The next 
 morning the chambermaid tried the door of the room and found it locked. 
 Looking through the keyhole she saw the forms of two persons beneath 
 the bed-clothing. One of them was a man. The back of. his head was 
 turned toward her. The hair was dark. " From what you saw there that 
 
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 morning, and what you know of James Malley, what would you say ?' 
 asked Coroner BoUman. " I should say it was James Malley' s head," was 
 the emphatic reply. Between 8 and 9 o'clock the witness saw Walter and 
 James Malley come out of the room, and soon after she wenfinto it, and 
 also into No. 26. The beds in both rooms were mussed and soiled — that 
 in No. 29 the most so. The witness said that when she told Mr. and Mrs. 
 Neuman of what she had seen they told her to say nothing about it. Re- 
 porters of the local papers say they have questioned Mr. Neuman about the 
 matter and he has denied that the Malley boys occupied rooms there just 
 previous to the tragedy. The jurors and detectives regard this testimony 
 as of much importance. The theory is that Walter and Blanche Douglass 
 slept that night at the Malley house. This is in accordance with the so- 
 called confession of the Douglass woman, that James Malley, Jr., and Jen- 
 nie Cramer slept in Room No. 29, Foote's Building, and that the bed in 
 room No. 26 was tumbled some time Thursday afternoon. 
 
 William E. Hunter, of Southington, was at Savin Rock at the time of the 
 death of Jennie Cramer, and saw the body soon after it was taken from the 
 water. He told the jury of inquest that the evening previous he was in Rail- 
 road Grove, and about 9 o'clock he saw the same girl riding with another 
 .young woman and two young men on the flying-horses. A young man, evi- 
 dently under the influence of drink, dressed in a blue suit and having a 
 black mustache, got on to the horse by the side of Jennie. The girl ap- 
 peared to be sick and dizzy, and begged them to stop the horses. This was 
 done, and the party moved off in the direction of the swings. The young 
 man who had rode beside Jennie got off also and followed them. He spoke 
 with a strong Irish brogue, and appeared to have ' ' roped ' ' himself into the 
 party. Near Hale's' restaurant the witness saw the young man speak to an 
 older man, with a full beard, who appeared to belong about the grounds. 
 The man spoken to seemed to wish to avoid an encounter and moved away. 
 Mr. Hunter's wife testified to the same effect. She saw that Jennie was 
 overcome with dizziness, and she saw her head fall upon the black-mus- 
 tached man's shoulder, but she did not think he was one of her party. 
 
 Jennie Kendrick, of Auburn, N. Y., was with Mr. and Mrs. Hunter, and 
 saw the incident at the grove. She thought Jennie was intoxicated and 
 feared she would fall off. As she alighted from the horses Miss Kendrick 
 heard her say, " My God, I'm paralyzed." • 
 
 Much of the time of the jury to-day was taken up by a discussion of the 
 right of the jury to compel W. A. Harris, manager of the Western Union 
 Telegraph Company, to produce all the telegrams which are believed (but 
 not certainly known) to have passed between the Malleys, Mr. Duff, and 
 the Douglass girl between the 4th and 9th of August, inclusive. Mr. Harris 
 was threatened with a capias unless he should produce them during the 
 afternoon. His counsel, Mr. H. A. Newton, denied the right of the cor- 
 oner's jury to have them, and Harris positively refused to produce them. 
 
 New Haven, August 28. 
 
 The New Haven Union, a paper that has taken great pains to ferret out , 
 and publish all the facts in this dreadful case, gives the following, and 
 there is the best reason for believing that it is accurately what it purports to 
 be, the theory of the jury in the Cramer case : 
 
 " In the first place, the jury are known to be satisfied that the girl died a 
 violent death. The shallow water in which the body was found, the ab- 
 sence of water in the stomach and lungs, show that death did not come to 
 her through drowning. They are also satisfied that there was no suicide. 
 
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 Then arises the consideration of who was with Jennie Cramer last, who was 
 familiar with her, and who had a motive to get rid of her. The Malleys 
 have told stories which the jury consider demonstrably false on the strength 
 of what testimony has been received. They learn first that Jennie Cramer 
 had talked with her mother on several occasions about marrying James Mal- 
 ley, Jr. Then they come to the Wednesday night at the Malley house, and 
 they have more than an intimation that James Malley, Jr., then accomplished 
 his purpose of seducing her under the promise of marriage. The next 
 morning they find Jennie Cramer at her home. She talks with her mother 
 and then goes away. Now comes an inference. She had purposely for- 
 saken her home, thinking that now she had the best possible plea to make 
 James Malley, Jr., marry her. She is known to have been seen opposite 
 the Malley store. Then she is known to have got on a car for Savin Rock 
 and looked about to see if some one was not coming.. Then she got off the 
 car and got on again, the car having been stopped at her request. The in- 
 ference or supposition oft this point is this : She had sent word to James 
 Malley, Jr., that she would go to Savin Rock, and had named the time. 
 James Malley, Jr., had no desire to marry her, and was trying to avoid her. 
 It was therefore, not reasonable to suppose that he would meet her on this car, 
 and he didn't. The testimony is to the effect that James Malley, Jr., was 
 away from the store only a short time on the afternoon of the fatal Friday. 
 He is known in this time to have taken a walk up in Trumbull Street with 
 Jennie Cramer. The jury think that then she was urging him to marry her, 
 and that he then put her off until later, saying in substance, ' It will not do 
 for me to be away from the store long now.' Then Jennie Cramer is seen 
 on the car by Frank Keenan in the afternoon going down to Savin Rock. 
 James Malley, Jr., and family testify that when James came home on Friday 
 evening his feet troubled him and pained him, yet at 6 o'clock he was pro- 
 posing to Brunt to go and take a carriage ride. Then he talked about a 
 horseback ride. Then he is seen at 7.40 or 7.50 stroking the neck of a 
 horse in Temple Street, near Redcliffe's. Then he is recognized positively 
 by Gilchrist at Savin Rock, where Jennie had gone previously. About the 
 identification of James and Jennie Cramer Gilchrist is certain. He had 
 lived opposite Jennie Cramer's home for a long time, and he had worked in 
 Malley's store. Now the jury think that the conference concerning James 
 Malley, Jr., marrying Jennie Cramer was at Savin Rock on Friday evening, 
 after being broken off in the afternoon. They think that the girl had by 
 this time become importunate, and had realized that this was the only 
 chance to extract further pledges from James Malley, Jr." 
 
 , MR. Allen's testimony. 
 
 New Haven, August 29. 
 " I have resided in New Haven since May i, 1881 ; lived in Northford 
 town for about nine 3'ears previous to my coming to New' Haven, and was 
 born in Brooklyn, New York. I have known Jennie Cramer by sight for 
 some time ; she used to visit in Northford and was spoken of to me as 
 ' Miss Crimer, ' of New Haven. I was told her father had a cigar-store in 
 Grand Street, New Haven ; she was visiting a family in Northford ; I saw 
 her at Northford a number of times in the village store and on the street •, 
 her complexion attracted particular attention ; I don't remember having 
 seen her in New Haven biit once, and that was the Friday before the finding 
 of her body ; I was then riding up Chapel Street on a horse car, standing 
 on the left hand side of the rear platform ; as the car passed the Redcliffe 
 
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 restaurant, at Chapel and Temple Streets, ;a earriage, I think a buggy, with 
 red running gear, came down Chapel Street and passed between the car and 
 the restaurant ; I can't say whether the buggy had a top or not ; it wasa 
 one-horse team, with a dark-colored horse, I think, but I am not sure ; I did 
 not notice the team so much, my attention being particularly attracted by 
 the lady in the buggy ; it was Jennie Cramer, the same girl I had seen sev- 
 eral times in Northford, according to my best belief ; this large picture (a 
 cabinet photograph of Jennie Cramer was here shown to the witness) is the 
 photograph of Jennie Cramer, the girl I saw in Northford and Chapel Street 
 that Friday night ; after I first saw her in the buggy I turned and looked at 
 her again and was then sure and am now sure she was Jennie Cramer ; as 
 to her dress I think she had on a light dress and a light hat with a broad 
 brim, but am not sure ; with her in the same buggy was a young man appar- 
 ently about twenty-two years of age, with a small white straw hat on, whom I 
 had met in Chapel Street a good many times and also in Malley's store, 
 where I had bought a necktie of him — I think the day before — and he put 
 the necktie on my collar. 
 
 POSITIVE RECOGNITION OF JAMES MALLEY. 
 
 " Since that Friday I have seen that young man only once, and that was 
 in the barber-shop of the New Haven County Jail. He was in the barber's 
 chair ; the only man beside him in that room was the barber ; I stood in 
 the doorway, and an official of the jail was with me ; he was not pointed 
 out to me in any way ; before going to the barber-shop I went down the 
 whole length of the jail and looked at all the-men I had a chance to look 
 at ; I am sure the man who was then in the barber's chair and turned 
 around and looked me square' in the face was the same man whom I saw in 
 the buggy with Jennie Cramer near the corner of Chapel and Temple 
 Streets on the Friday night previous to the finding of Jennie Cramer's body. 
 The time I saw them in the buggy was between 6 and 8 o'clock in the even- 
 ing, and my opinion is that it was a little after 7 o'clock, judging from 
 the fact that I was on my way home the second time that evening. My 
 impression is I saw them turn around the Redcliffe corner into Temple 
 Street, but I am not sure as to that. When they were passing me I think 
 they walked their horse and the car was also going slow ; I know it was that 
 Friday because when I heard of Jennie Cramer's death for the first time the 
 next day, Saturday, I said at once in the presence of my wife and brother 
 that I had seen Jennie ' Cramer the night before ; I have no doubt the 
 couple in that buggy were Jennie Cramer and the young man I saw at the 
 jail to-day in the barber's chair, and am positive the young man I saw in 
 the barber's chair at the jail to-day is the same young man who sold me a 
 necktie and put it on my collar at Malley's store ; the counter at which he 
 sold me the tie was on the right hand as you enter and near the Chapel 
 Street door in Edward Malley's store." 
 
 THE LADY IN LIMBO. 
 
 The popular clamor for the imprisonment of Blanche Douglass has to-day 
 resulted in the incarceration of the woman in the county jail. Mr. Peck 
 left West Haven with the woman just after the session of the jury spoken 
 of above, and drove at once to the county jail, arriving there at about 8 
 o'clock. She was very plainly clad in a dress of some light texture and 
 dark color, and wore a hat with a veil coming half way down her face. 
 Her face when she arrived at the jail showed traces of weeping, and Sheriff 
 Peck said afterward that she cried bitterly during the ride, but she was ap' 
 
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 parently calm as the buggy was driven up to the jail door. She sprang out 
 and walked up the steps into the office of the jail unassisted and sat down 
 in a chair, while her custodian handed to Jailer Stevens the mittimus which 
 ■was his warrant for transferring her from his own charge to that of another. 
 Very few words were spoken, and the woman was presently taken into a 
 private room and searched, but nothing of importance was found on her 
 person. Her baggage, consisting of a single valise, was given into the 
 charge of the jailer, and she was at once taken to the women's quarter of 
 ' the jail and locked in a cell. 
 
 New Haven, August 30. 
 
 John H. Dillon Keeps a grocery store at No. 333 Congress Avenue. In 
 his employment is a boy about 17 years old named Patrick Lynch. He is a 
 bright, clever young fellow. He told Mr. Dillon, very soon after the trag- 
 ^edy occurred, that he saw James Malley and Jennie Cramer on Friday ride 
 past the store in a buggy, proceeding in the direction of the city. He 
 thought they turned the corner of Howard Avenue, which would be the 
 way that they would take if going toward Savin Rock. There is good rea- 
 son to believe that this young man knows James Malley, and there is no 
 question that he knew Jennie Cramer sufficiently well for a full identifica- 
 tion. Two of the sisters of the Lynch boy are clerks in Edward Malley's 
 store. One of them keeps the time-book which was made use of to prove 
 that James was at the store during business hours. Miss Lynch is not the 
 regular time-keeper, but acts as substitute for Mrs. Theresa Kennedy on 
 occasions when that lady is otherwise engaged. It is natural that the boy 
 should now be chary of saying anything to jeopardize his sister's welfare. 
 
 Michael Malley was known to have been to the beach, on the Friday 
 ■ evening preceding the finding of the body. He did not appear to-day — 
 although his testimony was needed. He was seen, it is said, on the above 
 occasion with a very white-faced lady — not his wife. 
 
 Harry Ford's deposition was taken. He is not supposed to have any 
 guilty knowledge of the fatal event. He gave a fair explanation of his 
 whereabouts. 
 
 New Haven, August 31. 
 
 To-day has furnished no exception to the rule that has been exemplified 
 every day since the investigation began. For example, James Malley ex- 
 plicitly denied yesterday that he had ever driven in Walter Malley's red- 
 wheeled buggy, although Mr. Allen had testified that he saw James Malley 
 and Jennie Cramer in such a buggy on the fatal Friday evening. James 
 said that he had ridden in the buggy with Walter, but had never driven in 
 it and had never hired such a vehicle in his life. Yet James Malley, Sr., 
 has testified in court that his son brought Walter Malley's buggy home and 
 afterward went out with Walter Malley. The Douglass woman says that 
 her maiden name was Annie Kearns, not Annie Hines. She refused to say 
 whether she married a Zimmerman or a Fitzpatrick, or to go into any 
 further particulars of her personal history, excepting to declare that the 
 house in Thirty-first Street, where she was arrested, is the first and only 
 one of the kind of which she has ever been an inmate. In this particular 
 she is contradicted by those who knew her in New York. She says that 
 when she heard of Jennie Cramer's death she felt so badly that she thought 
 she would go crazy. She at once went up to the Malley store and sent in 
 for Walter and he and James came out, and the three walked and talked 
 together on the streets. The two Malleys told her, when she inquired if 
 Jennie was dead, that they had heard it in the store. She says that she 
 was much excited and told Walter that she wanted to go back to New York 
 
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 at once, as she did not want to stay and be mixed up in the affair, but the 
 two men advised her to stay, saying that it would only be worse for her to 
 run away then, and she yielded. Neither of them, she declares, said a 
 word then or at any other time which would give her any idea of how Jen- 
 nie Cramer came to her death. Nor had she ever heard anything from any- 
 body which gave her any such idea. 
 
 BLANCHE Douglass's complaint. 
 
 The woman complains bitterly that she has not been treated as she was 
 promised since she voluntarily came back to New Haven, without waiting 
 for a requisition. 
 
 Being questioned about the testimony th#t had been given in reference 
 to her being seen with Jennie Cramer on Thursday afternoon, she said she 
 believed that the witnesses»were mistaken (they positively identified her last 
 week before the jury), and added, " I am pretty certain I can explain the 
 whole thing and show just where I was that afternoon, but I won't do it 
 now ; not now. I am not going to tell anything more till the right time 
 comes in court. Then I will tell it, and will prove that I did not see Jen- 
 nie that Thursday afternoon. It must remain a secret now, and no one 
 can get it out of me." ^ 
 
 " And you told all the lies you did in the beginning on account of Wal- 
 ter Malley ?" 
 
 " Yes. He said on no account must the Bundy name come out. He 
 told them all in the store, he said, that I was a respectable girl, who lived 
 in New York, and who was supported by my brother." 
 
 James Riley, the alleged New York bartender, who has claimed to be the 
 Douglass woman's lover, is now said to be a detective. He figures in the 
 case almost as mysteriously as ' ' the man with the black mustache. ' ' ' 
 
 New Haven, September 3. 
 
 The proceedings of the coroner's jury of inquest to-day have been of the 
 greatest moment to the young men, James and Walter Malley, wTio on 
 Monday are to be brought before Justice Booth on the charge of murder. 
 Since their incarceration both the prisoners havei somewhat failed in per- 
 sonal appearance. Walter has lost flesh, and James is suffering from a 
 severe attack of nervous disease, which has taken the form of neuralgia. 
 This morning, so great were his sufferings that the keeper of the jail, Mr. 
 Isbell, was obliged to assist him to arise from bed. 
 
 The jury assembled at about ten o'clock this forenoon in Thompson's 
 Hall. James W. Brunt, an employ? at E. Malley's store, told the jury 
 that he had refused an invitation from James Malley to ride to West Haven 
 Friday evening, the night before the finding of the body. He met James 
 at 6.30, and afterward went to his boarding-house, where he stayed until 
 eight o'clock, and did not hire any carriage or saddle-horse for James. He 
 said that the store was lively with rats. There was a livery stable near, 
 and he thought the rats came from the stable. 
 
 Michael J. Kelley testified that he was an employe at Deibel's restaurant, 
 in Chapel Street, where he attended to tables on the evening of Thursday, 
 August 4th. He remembered a party of three coming in the place that 
 Thursday night, and asking for a chicken salad and lamb chops. They 
 did not get waited on and went away. Since then he had been called upon 
 by a person who told him that the party who called that night were the 
 Malley boys and Blanche Douglass. This witness gave some details of the 
 matter, and said he thought he could now point out the three persons. 
 
 Mrs. Minnie Klippstein, wife of Charles Klippstein, the barber, residing 
 
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 ^l ^°i ^^^ Chapel Street, third Mot, opposite the Elliott House, testified 
 that she had known Jennie Cramer from girlhood to nearly the time of her 
 death. She did not know James Malley or Blanche Douglass. The Fri- 
 day evening before the Saturday that the body of Jennie Cramer was 
 found, this witness saw a buggy in front of the Elliott House. A lady and 
 gentleman entered the carriage. Mrs. Crofut, who also lives opposite the 
 hotel and saw the same occurrence, told her that the persons in the buggy 
 were Walter Malley and Blanche Douglass. There was ancther.young man 
 with them, and she told her friend Mrs. Crofut that she thought him no 
 gentleman, because he allowed the lady to get into the carriage without as- 
 sistance. At this time the other young man was pointed out to her as 
 James Malley. Walter and Blanche drove down Chapel Street and the 
 gentleman went up the street. This was about seven o'clock, the witness 
 being positive that it was Friday evening. The day before the witness had 
 seen Miss Cramer. and Miss Douglass in company in front of the Elliott 
 House. One of them rang the bell at the ladies' entrance. Jennie Cramer 
 was dressed in white, and Miss Douglass in dark clothing. The witness saw 
 Jennie's face, and thought they had just got off a horse-car. It was three 
 o'clock in the afternoon. In the evening the witness saw Miss Cramer in 
 her room ; she was standing ; the room was over the hotel office. It should 
 be explained- that the window of Mrs. Klippstein's apartment overlooks the 
 window of the room tjien occupied by Blanche Douglass. Miss Cramer was 
 fixing her dress, and there was a lady with her, the same lady the witness 
 saw with Walter Malley Friday, as related. About seven o'clock two gen- 
 tlemen and a lady passed out of the hotel and up the street. She saw the 
 same lady with Miss Cramer the Wednesday before this Thursday. Miss 
 Douglass was near the window and Jennie was watching the people passing 
 in the street. It was after six o'clock in the evening. Half of the blind 
 of the room was open and the slats of the other were turned. The lace 
 curtains were not covering the windows. Jennie, who was behind the blind, 
 at one time dodged backward as though to avoid being seen. A little later 
 the witness saw a gentleman in the room. Jenilie was preparing to go away. 
 
 Mrs. William S. Crofut was questioned, and her statements were in cor- 
 roboration of those of Mrs. Klippstein. She knew Jennie by sight. Saw her 
 Wednesday. Saw the two women Thursday in front of the hotel about seven 
 o'clock, and never saw Miss Cramer again. She saw Miss Douglass get into 
 the buggy Friday evening and drive away with a gentleman. At this stage of 
 the examination Walter and James Malley, who had been brought down from 
 the jail, were sitting in front of the witness. She looked at Walter, and, 
 without any hesitation, said, ' ' That is the man there. ' ' 
 
 John B. Hubbellj living at Brewery and Chapel Streets, saw Jennie alive 
 Thursday evening, August 4th, She was dressed in white, and the lady with 
 her wore an old-gold basque. They were on the east side of Academy 
 Street, by the lower Greene or Wooster Square, between Chapel Street and 
 Home Place. The witness went to the drug-store of H. J. Sperry, at 
 Chapel and Olive Streets, where Samuel JVIattoon is a clerk, and while talk- 
 ing with a gentleman at the door saw Jennie and the other woman enter the 
 store and have soda-water. The witness saw them go out and down Chapel 
 Street. They turned and looked back, and then went on again. This was 
 August 4th, before 6.30 or seven o'clock in the evening. The witness sup- 
 posed, from descriptions, that the woman with Jennie was Miss Douglass. 
 
 The testimony of Patrick Lynch is of special importance, as it is con- 
 firmatory of the evidence given by Sanford and H. C, Allen heretofore 
 given. This Lynch lives at No. 17 York Street and is a clerk for John H. 
 
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 Dillon, a grocer at'Vernon Street and Congress Avenue. On Friday, August 
 5th, he was in Dillon's store until nine P.ii. He knew Jennie by sight, and 
 was sure he saw her between three and six o'clock that Friday afternoon 
 in a carriage with a man. He could not see much of the man except his 
 hat, for he was on the off side ; the hat was a flat straw hat, with a blue 
 ribbon. The witness caught a glimpse of the face of the man, but did not 
 remember whether he had side whiskers. The witness said he had told that' 
 he had seen* Jennie Cramer, and that he supposed James Malley was with 
 her. He could not tell whether the man was old or young ; the carriage 
 had red wheels. [This matter about the color of the wheels is interesting, 
 because it is claimed that the buggy which Walter had was one with red 
 running gear.] The horse was dark and medium-sized. They were driv- 
 ing up Congress Avenue and turned into Howard Avenue, in the direction 
 of the shore. The witness had only seen James Malley once and was not 
 on speaking terms with Jennie Cramer, but saw her several times last win- 
 ter. The witness was asked if, since he had first told what he had seen, he 
 had received a postal card. He said he had, and produced it from his 
 pocket. It was immediately captured by Coroner Bollman, and is believed 
 to have written on it threats or other arguments' to prevent the witness from 
 telling a straight story. The coroner had not seen this postal card before, 
 and appeared to think he had secured a prize. The witness was asked if 
 the Malley clerks had a picnic at his house on this Friday night, and the 
 witness said that if they did he did not know it. He had one or two sisters 
 employed in the Malley's store. " This," said Mr. Bollman, " may ex- 
 plain the card." The witness now identified the hat worn by the prisoner, 
 James Malley, as being like the one worn by the man he had seen in the 
 carriage. 
 
 David Evans, Jr., a printer, residing at No. 34 Kensington Street, said 
 he knew James Malley by sight, but did not know Jennie Cramer. This 
 witness was at the shore. West Haven, the Friday night before the body 
 was found, He was there, also, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On 
 Friday night he was in the grove near the flying-horses. He saw a man 
 whose face he thought he recognized, but was not sure until afterward, and 
 thought it was Walter Malley. He wore a white straw hat and a polka dot 
 band, and was standing near the flying-horses. The witness did not see 
 him or any one he knew on the horses. The man had on a dark suit. The 
 witness, after he had read about the finding of the body in the papers, was 
 positive about the man. No one had ever pointed out Walter to him. Said 
 the witness : " I suppose this one to be James [pointing to Walter] ; don't 
 think I know that man [pointing to Jan^es] ; that is the man pointed out 
 to me as James [indicating Walter]. I may be mistaken as to names." 
 The witness ,said he had seen that man [James] up-stairs in the store be- 
 hind a counter, but was not positive. In the grove a lady was near the 
 man ; several ladies were there dressed in white. The witness did not 
 know Michael W. Malley. The time of seeing the lady and man at the 
 flying-horses was 8 or 8.30 o'clock in the evening. The witness would 
 not positively say that this man [Walter] was the one at the flying-horses. 
 
 Coroner Bollman called the name of Walter Malley and he took the stand 
 with a composed air. 
 
 ' ' Do you wish to say anything further or to correct any previous state- 
 ments ?" asked Mr. Bollman. 
 
 " I don't wish to say anything at present— no," was the deliberate answer. 
 
 " What ?" said Mr. Bollman. 
 
 The reply was the same as before. 
 
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 " Mr. James Malley, Jr.," said Mr. Bollman. 
 
 James took the stand without manifesting any signs (jf nervousness. 
 
 " Do you desire to add anything to your testimony already given at this 
 hearing on the Tuesday after the finding of the body, or to malie any 
 changes !" 
 
 " Don't know as I do at present." 
 
 "That's all." ' 
 
 John Hauser, the driver of a lager-beer wagon, told the jury that he had 
 known James Malley a long time. Friday, August 5th, about 12:15 o'clock 
 he was driving down Chapel Street ; his cousin, Charles Fleck, of New 
 York, was with him on the front seat of the wagon. Coming through Tem- 
 ple Street, across the green, he saw James Malley and a young lady dressed 
 in white. He remarked to his cousin that there was James Malley, whose 
 uncle was the proprietor of the store on the corner. The young lady he 
 did not know, but he noticed the sickly look upon her face ; there was no 
 " blush" on it — no red on the cheeks. Hauser positively identified James 
 Malley as the man he saw, and described his clothing as other witnesses 
 have described it before. His description of the attire of the young lady 
 also corresponded with that given by others who have told what Jennie 
 Cramer wore while with the Malley boys and the Douglass woman the week 
 of her death. He admitted he had once refused to' answer Coroner Boll- 
 man's questions about what he saw on that Friday. The reason was that 
 he was busy and bothered. 
 
 " There is nothing more now," said the coroner, " but the reports of the 
 experts. Shall I read them ?" 
 
 The jury was prepared to hear the written statements of Prof. Chitten- 
 den and Dr. Prudden, and Mr. Bollman read them as follows : 
 
 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, ) 
 New Haven, September i, 1881. f 
 
 To the Coroner's Jury, West Haven : 
 
 I have made a careful chemical examination of various organs from the 
 body of Jennie Cramer, and find, as the subjoined summary shows, consid- 
 erable quantities of arsenic : 
 
 Grains Arsenic. 
 
 Stomach and esophagus 1580 
 
 Liver logo 
 
 Kidneys 0290 
 
 Grains Arsenic. 
 
 Heart 0280 
 
 Lungs 1146 
 
 Intestines 3140 
 
 Brain 0250 
 
 Total 7776 
 
 It is evident from these results that arsenic is contained in all parts of 
 the body, and in such quantities as, under ordinary circumstances, would 
 indicate a probably fatal dose. Respectfully yours, 
 
 R. H. CHITTENDEN. 
 Dr. Prudden's statement was as follows : 
 
 At the post-mortem examination of the body of Jennie Cramer, August 
 8th, 1881, the following facts were discovered : There were no marks of 
 violence over the general surface of the body. There were numerous small 
 abrasions and scratches over the face and two- irregular wounds on the 
 ^ lower lip, all of them probably made after or about the time of death. 
 There was considerable congestion of the membranes of the brain ; brain 
 otherwise normal. The lungs were healthy, contained no water, and were 
 fairly well filled with air. . Heart healthy and contained but little blood. 
 Small quantity of reddish fluid in both pleural cavities. The stomach was 
 
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 healthy and contained a small quantity of partially digested food (huckle- 
 berries, lean and fat meat, and mushrooms). The intestines were healthy. 
 The uterus was bent forward and to one side. There was a small cystic 
 tumor of the right ovary. The kidneys and spleen were healthy. There 
 was at the time of the autopsy no marks of violence about the generative 
 organs Concerning which definite conclusions could be drawn, owing to the 
 advanced stage of decomposition in these parts. The blood was dark 
 colored and but little clotted. . . . The post-mortem examination 
 did not reveal the cause or manner of death. The appearance of the food 
 in' the stomach would indicate that it had been taken within about eight hours 
 of the time of death. T. MITCHELL PRUDDEN. 
 
 The jury then went into executive session, and ^fter a deliberation of 
 three hours and a half, decided upon the following verdict : 
 
 The undersigned jurors, being duly impanelled and sworn to inquire of 
 the cause and manner of the death of Jennie E. Cramer, late of New 
 Haven, Conn., whose deaj:h was sudden and untimely, and the cause and 
 manner of which was unknown, having viewed the body of said deceased 
 and considered the evidence given us, do on our oaths say : 
 
 That said Jennie E. Cramer came to her death by poison and violence 
 and that James Malley,- Jr., of New Haven, Conn., is criminally responsible 
 for her death. We also find that Walter E. Malley, of New Haven, Conn., 
 and Blanche Douglass, of New York City, are morally responsible for the 
 same. 
 
 Whereof we subscribe our names. 
 
 DURELL SHEPARD, M.D., Foreman. 
 GEORGE R. KELSEY. 
 HENRY W. PAINTER, M.D. 
 ASAHEL CURTISS. 
 S'. L. MARSDEN. 
 JAMES H. PECK. 
 
 The jury has held ten sessions and examined fifty witnesses. 
 
 Prof. Chittenden declines to make any statement to the press. Other 
 physicians say his report of finding nearly eight tenths of a grain dissemi- 
 nated through the girl's system indicates that one, two, or more grains 
 were swallowed. From one to four grains will cause death, according to 
 the person taking the dose ; two or three grains is regarded as a very heavy, 
 and almost invariably a fatal, dose. The large amount found in the intes- 
 tines shows that the drug was taken not more than three or four hours pre- 
 vious to death. Dr. Prudden's report shows the girl had recently eaten, 
 and detectives for the State are trying to find out where the meal was had, 
 but fruitlessly so far. 
 
 The idea that the death of Jennie Cramer might have been due to a habit 
 of eating arsenic is discredited by the authorities, who say that, in the first 
 place, there was nothing but street rumor to indicate that she used the ar- 
 ticle, while her family physician emphatically declares that she never had 
 the habit ; and, in the second place, even if she used arsenic, with the be- 
 lief it wotild improve her complexion, she would never have taken so large 
 a dose as indicated by the report of the chemist of her own will. Said one 
 of the officers engaged in the investigation : " The finding of eight tenths 
 of a grain of arsenic in the organs examined means that there were two 
 grains in her system absorbed by the tissues, etc. Suppose the boys knew 
 of these rumors. One of them had been a scientific school student. Is it 
 not possible that this particular poison was given to conceal a great crime ?" 
 
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