This affiant says that a man stepped out of said room and asked this
affiant what she wanted, and this affiant said she wanted to see
Miss Arnold. The man said, "Is it about anything in particular?" and
this affiant said, "It is about lace," and the man said that she was
expecting this affiant, and to wait a minute. He talked to somebody in
the room and then came out and said Miss Arnold was in the bathroom,
and this affiant said she would wait until she came back.
The man said she was only brushing her clothes, and this affiant went
around to the bathroom and he followed her around, and this affiant
knocked at the door, which was a little ajar, and he pushed open the
door and pushed this affiant in the bathroom and put a wet handkerchief
in her mouth, on which handkerchief, this affiant says, there was some
burning stuff that was sweet, and it was "cold, but burning," after
which affiant says she did not know any more.
Affiant says that this was not the bathroom she was subsequently found
in, but was the bathroom around by Miss Barrett's room, that affiant
then thought was Miss Arnold's room.
Affiant further says she does not remember subsequent events until this
affiant woke up lying on a bed entirely undressed with the exception of
her stockings, and was being guarded by a man.
This affiant asked, "What is the matter with my head; what is the
matter here, and what is wrong?"
The man answered this affiant and said, "You are in Miss Barrett's
room; you told something that Miss Barrett did not want you to tell and
she is going to kill you, and if you scream we will kill you." At that
time this affiant saw nobody except the man himself.
He said he was going after Miss Barrett, who was in the hall, and he
went to the hall and locked the door after him, and then this affiant
looked for her clothes and could not find any, but found a pocketbook
belonging to her on the bureau, and there was a lead pencil in it, and
this affiant wrote on an envelope:
"I am at the Wellington hotel; come quick."
But did not sign her name in full, merely signing her first name,
"Ella," and then put it in an envelope, and after affixing two stamps
wrote on the outside, "Bellboy please mail this," and then got up on a
chair and threw it over the transom towards the next door, room number
547.
Affiant says that the reason she did not call on the telephone was
because she did not remember Mr. O'Donnell's telephone number and she
did not see any telephone, and that she could not have called on the
telephone anyway if this man was still outside, and she did not want to
alarm him or notify him, because he said she was not to move or get up,
and said that he would kill her if she got up from the bed.
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