Affiant says that at this time she had nothing on except her stockings,
and that when she got down from the chair she put Miss Barrett's spread
around her, and that man above referred to then came back in and asked
her what she had been doing and she replied that she had not been
doing anything. Affiant says that the man then attacked her. When she
screamed the man hit her on the head with his fist at the root of the
hair over the right eye, and the resultant wound was the wound found on
her by the doctors later.
Affiant further says that the man referred to then offered her ten
dollars after striking her, and tried to tear the spread off of her,
but that this affiant screamed for help, and that the man then got
a towel or some cloth and bound her mouth with a gag, and that this
affiant could not prevent said binding. Miss Barrett came in, and he
then sat down and wrote several letters or papers and watched this
affiant for several hours. Late in the night he presented some paper to
this affiant to sign and told her he would kill her if she did not, but
this affiant does not know what the paper was and has never heard of it
since.
This affiant further says that on the second occasion that the man
attacked her this affiant pulled the gag off her mouth and screamed for
help again, but the man bound her mouth, and she so sat with her mouth
bound until about two o'clock in the morning. Affiant says that there
was a knock at the door and the man put out the light and went to the
door, and that Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, and another woman
came in, and that the man asked the said Barrett what kept her.
Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, then asked the man if this affiant
was there yet, to which he replied yes, and that then the aforesaid
Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, said that she could not help
staying, saying something about a game of cards.
The man then asked the said Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, if
she brought the wine with her, to which she replied that she had, but
that she did not have a corkscrew, and asked the man if he went out to
straighten up the bathroom, to which he replied that he did, and said
Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, then said that she went into the
bathroom as she was leaving the hotel and found a hatpin in it, and
that was all.
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