Show n v ECKSTEIN MAY BE RELEASED Story of Lillic Palmer Strongly in His Favor and Officials Believe Prosecution May EndTh Girls Story That the light thrown on the Edt steinJennings tragedy at Fallchilds roadhouse by fifteenyearold Jennie Palmer may result In Barney Eck steins acquittal of the charge of murder mur-der Is I now regarded as probable by the olllclals According to the Palmer girls story I which Is given entire credence by the officers the shot was fired by Ecklcln In selfdefense Further investigation in-vestigation by the officials yesterday only tended to confirm the girls story To tile proverbial womans curiosity the Palmer girl attributes the fact that she was able to witness every detail of the shooting Her curiosity she says was stronger than tins feeling of fear when loud words and revolvers were bandied In the barroom at the notorious notori-ous resort at the time of the killing I was standing in u i dark hall out of danger the girl said last evening and I would rather have taken a beat ing than miss seeing the trouble T was held spellbound by the sight and didnt think of turning away until I saw the poor man lying on the floor with the blood coming out of his mouth That was more than I could stand I ran out through the barroom and Joined my friends Ruth Stevens Ted HendrIcks and another boy who were waiting for me In a buggy outside out-side sideThe The girl Who Is largefor her age and decidedly pretty gave the details last evening of bar experience at the road house the night of the murder Ihave been telling the officers different kinds of stories and keeping as much from them as possible she said because they think they arc BO smart and I hate them all so much They threatened threat-ened to put me in a sweatbox and do all tort of things to me If I didnt loll all I knew I hadnt thought whether I would get Into trouble or not so I only told them part But my mother has lold mo lo keep nothing back and I dont In lend to who asserted When I wont into the roadhouse the girl Continued I ordered drinks for myhvlf I and my three friends who were out in the buggy I had their drinks tent out to them while I stood at the bar to drinkIt was sweet soda In my glass Jennings the man who got killed wia In the room talking boisterous at tho time and when he saw me he came over to mo and nslcod me In a Joking way to elope with him He said Will you go to Missouri with me little girl Ive lots of money in Missouri Mis-souri und we wont have to work He tried to catch hold of me and I was afraid he would hit me He was be teen me and the door so as I couldnt get out that way I ran back to a dark hallway and hid IT didnt fol low me but vent Into a parlor where a man was playing a piano and ordered the man to play another tune When tho man Hald ho wouldnt do It Jennings Jen-nings picked up a stool and threw it at him Then the girl continued he vent back Into the barroom staggered up to the bar and said he wanted four cocktails cock-tails and wanted them quick I got farther back Into the hull then because ho drew 0t1tlll revolver and I was afraid he was going to shoot He leveled the gun across the bar at Eckstein and I heard Eckstein soy to him Put that I gun down or Ill kill you ut the same I moment pulling Ills own gun from un der the bur I heard Jennings reply How could you kill me If I blewyour brains out At this Eckstein who was standing with his eyes staring and trembling all over made a grab for the gun and at the same time pointed his own revolver at Jennings and shot twice I saw Jen nings slugger up agafnat a cigar case near the door and then fall Tie fell to the Moor so hard it made the floor shake I remember that there were eight men In the place at the time and they all ruahed around the man who was lying on the floor They were a mighty excited lot I went nearer and saw the body on the floor and the blood lying there Then I ran out the door The three who were with me got out of the buggy loo and they lold me af terwards that they saw the shooting through the door We didnt lose any time in drhlng aay from the place Mrs Palmer the girls mother was on the verge nf prostration last night because her daughters presence In the place had gained publicity She said the girls death would have been great ly preferable She believes the girt went Into the place for drlnkn without being aware of its notorious reputa I tion |