That as she left the said building she had in her pocketbook, among
other small change, a five dollar bill, and that this affiant went from
the office to the store on State street known as Carson, Pirie, Scott
& Co., and went in there and bought a spool of thread for crocheting
purposes, and paid forty cents therefor and gave the five dollar bill
to be changed in making said payment; and this affiant says she is
ready to exhibit her purchase slip showing the purchase and the amount
of money offered in payment therefor; and this affiant says that the
hour of said purchase was almost five o'clock on the evening of the
sixteenth, and that as this affiant approached the door of said store a
cab was standing at the curb and Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette,
stepped out of said cab and started toward the store and left a man
sitting in the cab waiting, but that this affiant did not see where
Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, went, or did not see her make
subsequent purchases.
This affiant further says that after making said purchase she returned
home to her room at 474 La Salle avenue, Chicago, and there placed the
one key to the door of her room in a secret place where her sister
might find it, and which place was known to herself and her sister, and
the secret place was on the stairs under the stair carpet.
After concealing said key, and before the sister so returned, and after
entering her room and turning out the gas stove, she retraced her steps
and started back to room 545, Wellington hotel, to collect from a Miss
Arnold three dollars that said Miss Arnold owed this affiant; and that
on two separate occasions theretofore this affiant undertook to collect
said money; once while in company with Miss Mary E. Joyce and later
while in company with Mrs. Bagshaw and Miss Sarah Hopkins, but that she
was persuaded not to try to make such collections by both parties.
This affiant says she is familiar with the Wellington hotel and had
worked in said hotel for about a week, and while she worked there said
Miss Arnold did occupy said room, and that Agnes Barrett, alias Madame
Barette, lived on the second floor in said hotel, in room number 228;
and that this affiant, when she went to said hotel, did not know that
Miss Arnold had moved out of room 545, when in fact she had, and, as
your affiant is now informed, had left the hotel on the 12th of the
preceding month.
This affiant did not know that Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, had
left the second floor and had moved up into the identical room 545,
but your affiant is informed that such is the fact. And this affiant
did go to room 545, believing that she was approaching the room of
Miss Arnold and not knowing that she was approaching the room of Agnes
Barrett, alias Madame Barette, and knocked on the door, the exact time
of which this affiant does not know, but believes that it was in the
neighborhood of half past six o'clock in the evening.
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