Agnes Barrett then told the man to be there and awaken them when he
came at five o'clock, and not to sleep late, because she said he was to
have a cab with him to take this affiant to Louisville with him.
The affiant then declared that she would not go to Louisville with the
man.
Affiant then says Agnes Barrett put the neck of the bottle in her mouth
and made her drink the rest of the contents, and also gave her some
more of the supposed candy, and then tied up affiant's mouth again.
Agnes Barrett told the man to leave the light on so that the people
would think there was somebody in the bathroom, and they then left
affiant lying drugged on the floor of the room.
Affiant further says that the man then climbed up over the transom;
that she saw him get up; that she saw that he had one leg over, and
that she then could keep awake no longer; that she was sleepy and did
not know what happened after that.
Affiant further says that at the time the liquid was poured from the
little bottle into the big one, as above narrated, that the man told
said Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, to scrape the label off the
bottle and she took the knife that the corkscrew was attached to and
scraped at the label of the wine bottle.
Affiant further says that after the man had attacked this affiant the
first time, as hereinbefore narrated, that the said Agnes Barrett,
alias Madame Barette, said to him, "Fifty dollars is not enough for
this girl," and he then said, "That is all I paid for the last one,"
and added, "Look at the bother you gave me with the last one," and she
said, "Yes, but you won't have any bother with this one."
This affiant further says there are many incidents and things that
happened from the time she was first seized in the bathroom until the
man climbed up out over the transom that she has not narrated in this
affidavit, but that she has told most of the occurrences; and also says
that the clothes she wore that night were later returned to her by the
police.
ELLA J. GINGLES.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of March, 1909.
MARY E. JOYCE, _Notary Public_.
[SEAL.]
CHAPTER XI.
ELLA GINGLES ON TRIAL.
BY HAL M'LEOD LYTLE.
Was Ella Gingles, the little blonde Irish lace-maker, on trial for
stealing $50 worth of lace from Agnes Barrett?
Or was the city of Chicago on trial for permitting an unsophisticated
girl to be made the victim of a criminal corporation with its
headquarters in another state, as Miss Gingles has sworn?
No more remarkable case was ever tried in the criminal court of Cook
county, wherein some of the most amazing cases of which the world has
record have been heard and decided.
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