Show YSTEIOUiiiBS THERE Keeper of the Lodging House Tells j of Her Visitors The Jenkins block In which Mr Law confesses he prepared a trap for Mr McCune to walk Into is on the southwest south-west corner of State and Second South streets and the lower floor is occupied I I by Ories Bros drug store The rooming room-Ing house upstairs has had a some what unsavory reputation for sonic j years Mrs Martin the proprietress is a shrewd and buxom little German i woman and she was very reluctant to I I say anything whatever about her Jodg ers or her lodgings She finally admitted I ad-mitted however that Friday afternoon a gentleman had come to her house and engaged the corner room on the I first floor She did not know the gen j tlemans name and she could not describe I de-scribe him even to the extent of telling j whether he was tall or short young or old bearded or smoothshaven She i I said however that he only engaged the room for one night and that he gave up the room yesterday shortly before I noon She was also most discreetly l ignorant ig-norant as to whether he ha > had any visits either during the night or morning morn-ing and she had not even the faintest I recollection as to the time when he > came in or went out i i But she was more free in her admls I elena as to the occupant of room No 5 the little room which I adjoins and opens into the corner room She stated that a rather short gentleman with I dark hair and moustache came to her in the afternoon and rented the room for a week paying for it In advance I He looked somewhat like a Jew she said but was not a Jew She did not know his name but she saw him frequently I fre-quently on the streets and she believed I he was a business man But when i came to questionc about the hours and h Wsto of eG darkhaired a x I I moustached gentleman of Jewish pity I I siotriiomv Mrs Martin closed UP tight I retired into her shell and had nothing I further to say I The only Individual who Is sufficiently sufficient-ly near to Chief Pratt to act as messenger mes-senger for him and who answers the description of the man who rented room I No r is O P Pratt his brother The latter talked very freely of the Law charges among some of his friends last evening and he Intimated that he had 1 a pretty accurate knowledge of the facts In the case Incidentally he let I drop the statement that there vere five or six witnesses to the meeting between I Law and McCune on the corner of State and fecond South streets At that hour or the day i was suggested I there might easily have been five or six score i Martins statement that the room occ red by Pratt and his policemen police-men was hlred during the afternoon I is not entirely believable if Chief Pratts part In the perfprmance began + T + T Tt + t TTTT I when he states it did I he knew nothing of the affair until 1130 at night a room could not have been hired for his use in the afternoon The I man occupied the room Friday night but up to a late hour last night he had I not come in He appears to be missing I miss-ing |