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"Your wife did not take an onyx clock away with her?"
Mr. Ladley smiled. "No."
The defense called Mr. Howell next. He looked rested, and the happier
for having seen Lida, but he was still pale and showed the strain of
some hidden anxiety. What that anxiety was, the next two days were to
tell us all.
"Mr. Howell," Mr. Llewellyn asked, "you know the prisoner?"
"Slightly."
"State when you met him."
"On Sunday morning, March the fourth. I went to see him."
"Will you tell us the nature of that visit?"
"My paper had heard he was writing a play for himself. I was to get an
interview, with photographs, if possible."
"You saw his wife at that time?"
"Yes."
"When did you see her again?"
"The following morning, at six o'clock, or a little later. I walked
across the Sixth Street bridge with her, and put her on a train for
Horner, Pennsylvania."
"You are positive it was Jennie Brice?"
"Yes. I watched her get out of the boat, while her husband steadied
it."
"If you knew this, why did you not come forward sooner?"
"I have been out of the city.
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