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COMMITTEDMrs. Strlpp Sent up for Trial fox Carrying Files and Laudanum to Hilda Blake.Mrs. Emma J. Stripp was this morn nig commit to I to stand her trial at thlt; next competent court of juriudietioi for having carried to Emily B ids Blake f lea and a bottle of laudanum Mns. Str.pp teemed to take the mattei keenly, and several times was seen tlt; pnaak down.Governor Noxon was the first witness, and told of finding the bars ir Hilda Blakes coil filed in two places one being almost through. Th« accused when spoken to regarding it. sait t-haV Hilda Hlako iinii (loot* said she had ti ken the file in tot he jal purely out of sympathy, and to gait the confidence of the girl. She alsc said that she had got the file out ol her son s tool chest. She did not intend to let the woman escape, as she was sure that the chief of poiicc wat aware of the casq. •The chief of police, James Kirkcaldy was next plated on the stand. He said that Hilda Blake had given him a note as produced in court as exhibit No. 1. *iiv® to Mrs- Stripp. The note muoi -urs- stripp need not feel uneasy over her discharge from the juii as the files, etc.. had boon placed in a sare place. When Mrs. Stripp had -•ecu given her discharge, another woman was given the place of night watch over Hilda Blake.1 e K 1*» i ,1 n a -.-a* —4. ■* • » ■If } wiW ^ o t*?U UlitHilda Bl ike had given him two files arm a bottle of laudanum which be stated lmd tieen given her by Mrs. Stripp. After the chief iearned of this he accused Mrs. Stripp when she was in h /s office one day, and after being shown the letter 'exhibit one) she admitted lier guilt,, and stated that she laid done it to pacify her. (Hilda Blase). lie had before that time gone to Mrs. Stripp s residence in company with the jailor in order to learn if laul, u'^a.taking letters into the j la;., .»o 3rtr jt.iu gwi, an inkling of some thing of the sort which was also produce! m court.Mrs .Stripp when spoken to in reference to the laudanum said that she nad put some water in it. The magistrate then committed her to stand her hr la i.
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Brandon Western Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Dec 14, 1899
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Kenneth J.
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