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Q

Now what kind of a looking man was this traveling man?

A

Why I think he was a man about your size.

Q

And about how old a man was he?

A

Well I should judge he was about forty or forty-five.

Q

And what kind of clothes did he have on?

A

I think he had a gray overcoat on if I am not mistaken.

Q

What kind of a hat?

A

A stiff hat.

Q

A derby hat?

A

I think so.

Q

And what color was it?

A

Black.

Q

Did he haves a necktie on?

A

Well they generally wear neckties.  I couldn’t tell you all what he had on.

Q

Did anybody ask you particularly about the traveling man there?

A

They did not.

Q

He was dressed better than Bill was, wasn’t he?

A

He was.

Q

And he was in there about an hour, wasn’t he?

A

No, sir, he was not.

Q

Well how long was he in there?

A

About fifteen or twenty minutes.

Q

And nobody asked you who the traveling man was?

A

They didn’t have no occasion to ask me.

Q

He was a stranger there wasn’t he?

A

He was a stranger there, yes, sir.

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Q

He was just as much of a stranger or more so than Bill was because you didn’t know him?

A

Yes, sir.

Q

What is the reason they didn’t ask you who he was?

A

When he came in there he came in there with Ed and Ed introduced him to his brother and introduced him to me and the boys were standing there.

Q

No questions were asked?

A

No questions were asked, no, sir, while they were in there.  The boys did not come in out of the other room.

MR. TURNER:  That is all.

MR. COBURN:  That is all.

The foregoing testimony was read over to the witness by me and by him subscribed and sworn to in my presence this first day of July 1907.

Mr. A. Sheeler

Daniel C. Wachs

Justice of the Peace