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“Do you know how the storv started?”“I think I know, but I’m afraid I’ll be wrong if I state it. and jret I think I am right.”At thfs Mr. Barrett, who was present, said that lie could volunteer some information explaining Mr. Cox’s remark. It was to this effect: A man name Omer Day was boarding with the Barretts, and one day some comment was made about Mrs. Cox’s neat appearance. It is . alleged thatBay made a slighting remark about her. (’ox heard of it and struck him. Cox says that the next day Bay told a conductor about the alleged confession. Barrett directed that Ray should leave his house, which he did. Both Barrett and Cox think that Ray was, in a measure, at least, to blame for the circulation of the story that has stirred up the neighborhood. Bay was a communicant of the little church when the vision was seen that served as the kernele of the commotion. Bay was subsequently arrested for indecent ex-, posure of person and sent to jail for a long term, which he is now serving.“Is it not possible that your wife was suffering from mental excitement due to feverwhen she made the statement attributed to her by Sirs. Pois-el?” a reporter asked Mr. Cox.“She has had fever, but it never affected her mind,” -was the answer.“She’s not a woman that loses her head.”“Then there ia no foundation for thereport about the murder?”“None whatever. I never was on the Ludlow-st. or the Cincinnati Southern bridge in my life. I never wentinto that part of Cincinnati.”Mr, Cox said, in conclusion, that Mrs. Henneberger went so far In her
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Indianapolis Sun
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Mon, Apr 18, 1892
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