Show COL STORY Tells What He Knows About Benbrook Case ease CaseI I AT MERCHANTS C FE E wENT THERE BRE TO SEE SZE ALBERT Declares He Send Nan NaD Nana Witbeck Witbeck Wit Witbeck beck and Emma nm Out of ot Town To But Furnished Money M to Miss Mis on Which They Went Away I I In I n spite te of or all that has bas h been written C dW of Burton conce c the Morris by J H Benbrook last laM la t July n none nO nOone the one of o rh fhe case except at attention attention h itself tf has Ira tra attracted more or cut a more sensational fig fi fiUre Tire vre than the dinner party in the up the scene cene of the tair room adjoining ute cafe It has h tragedy trl edy at the were m in inthe fl four been n known that persons before the It has bae h been the room it that three were e when known TheO The TheOd There occurred but the n of Co l d re Bruback has baa not before been men toned as die t e fourth person perSO the vf of Colonel Bruback K Ut bt in Iii view has baa been en ent or of the fHt that a issued hued t and served m n him by the that At Attorney At Attorney and aDd J in the case ca him has charged L R Rogers Roger torney lorney with inducing Nan Nat Witbeck to leave the ity and Emma statement re regarding wade made a full and complete te the case connection with garding arding his Denies Denim the Charge Colonel Bruback denies the charge while he loaned loaDed John J hn and nd says that Witbeck eck father of the WitbeCk girl their being Bent money He e opposed further that Witbeck away Th The send them away Jie be would wouW not colonel admits that he was in the room roam with Albert Morris Morria during dur ng on busin s tho th afternoon and that the girls were went there and that some same s beer for was wee drunk His lIts statement in full follows Morri Morria During las lasi eummer nur Albert engaged in selling brown stone atone was of the tragedy h he fur for me On the day about son Tom Porn went to see S O for far the tine cathedral or the orphan orphanage St ne I 1 remember r which and 1 I dont age ge naturally interested in the outcome i j of their interview Albert told me he was vas going to ta dine with th som SOrl friends friem at atthe atthe atthe the Merchants cafe about 4 0 and that I could euld find him there the at that hour I went fut there to see Bee him at and aDd it i is i ithe the only tim time in my n life that I ever was in the Merchants cafe I left before 6 clock going home to dine with ith my family nily fa and was enter entertaining taming Judge Goodwin and two tU jady ad ady Visitors when hen the tragedy occurred I knew nothing of the murder till tilt I 1 read lead of it the next morning I do not Dot n t know k W Benbrook I do not know Steve Keene I dw do k not know Leda Ledal ft nor did I know B l C Mor M Morvia r via ris so that I haVE absolutely no and grievous wrong in fl the case cast a notoriety has been done me for such euch i unenviable Not Met Dining and aud Wining I va wa not DOt dining aw and aDd wining in that room I was not Dot one of a dinner party I merely was 88 there to see Albert Mor Mar Morrie Marrie rie jia on business All the be be lawyers in the case ease as well as the police knew I aaa as asin in that room during the afternoon but Bot 71 t at the time of the murder The statement that I 1 wee was there at the din dinner nor ner party is Ia an absolute falsehood d When asked ked a if jf he wished it to be un an understood and d that he partook of no i refresh refreshments refreshments ments tItle atile in the room Colonel Bru Bruback Bruback Em Emback back replied No no n J It was wee a warm day and we drank some beer beerI I 1 wish to deny sending the girls out of town he continued I have seen neither of them simce 9 Ce that unfortunate afternoon Ill tell you what part I had in that tat Some time ago aKO Mr Witbeck Who has hao ha been nv m friend for fifteen rears vears borrowed money from me I ask aak asked ed 01 him If he be was wan tv t in to send the girls away He that he be was thinking of doing eo so and aDd I ed him not DOt to Of course urie it was natural for him to desire datre to keep her out of the Aandal andal especially as she knew 90 ao little of af the tragedy But I 1 opposed ed their leaving the city and he be promised premised Tae fae e ehe he would not send them Evidently he has not taken my advice nor kept his hig promise e and has simply made matters worse voise as 8 I told him he be would Will Produce Girls I 1 saw gaw Witbeck teat bat night and he said aid he fee wee was sorry he taken my ny In Ined advice ed e and he promised me that ne he would see nee Mr Putnam today md and tell hm h m he would bring them back if the theother th theother other ot her side aide was making such sueh a fuse about it it in taking advantage of at the absence of the girls girla Whether or not note nott he t e did so If 3 I 1 do not know I 1 desire it stated emphatically ly that 1 I have no interest In ITI the ca ca case e e and if I w anything about it It Albert Morris i w ull uld have made that fact known for tor being related to the murdered man mane man he hO certainly is interested t in Benbrooks Benbrook conviction con |