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LEO M. PRANE. 233

on a detective, preferably a Pinkerton detective, to work with and
assist the city detectives in ferreting out the crime, Then I wont
down town to the pencil factory, and on going into the office, I saw
the following men there: Mr. Herbert Schiff, Mr, Wade Campbell,
Mr. Darley—Mr. Holloway was out in his place in the hall, and
Mr. Stelker and Mr, Quinn and Mr. Ziganke, these foremen were
sitting around there because we had shut down there, as they told
me, due to the fact that the plant was wholly demoralized, the girls
were running into hysterics, they couldn’t stick at their work, they
were erying and going on over what had happened there. Mr.
Quinn said he sould like to take me back to the metal department
on the office floor where the newspapers had said that Mr. Barrett
of the metal department had claimed he had found blood spols,
and where he had found some hair. They then took me over to the
place in front of the dressing room where it was elaimed the blood
spots were found. I examined those spots; took a strong elestric
fissh Jamp that he had around there and Jooked at them and exam-
ined them carefully, With reference to those spots that are claimed
to be blood that Mr, Barrett found, I don’t elaim they ere not blood,
they may have been, they are right close to the ladies’ dressing
room, and we have had accidents there. Where people just cat their
fingers and they go back to work, we don’t make any record of
and we have people there eutting their fingers there very offen, an
when they eut their fingers, their line of travel is right by that
lace where Mr. Barrett found those spots, right to the office,
While I don’t say that this is not blood, it may be, but it could also
have been paint. When I got down and looked at it, you could
have scratched away from the top of those dark tains an accumuls-
tion of dirt that was the accumulation of at east three months, from
off the top of these spots, without tonching the spot itedlf. That
white stuff, in my opinion, was haskoline compound.

I _returned after making this examination to my office and gath-
ered up what papers I had to take over to Montag Brothers, and
I took the financial report which I had made out the Saturday
afternoon previous, and I talked it over with Mr, Sig Montag.

TE returned from Montag Brothers to the pencil factory, being ae-
companied by one of the traveling men, Mr, Sol Hein, and on my
arrival I went up into the offies and distributed the various papers
all over the factory to be acted on the next day. In a few minutes
Mr, Harry Scott of the Pinkerton detectives came in and I took
him aside into my office, my private office, and spoke to him in the
presence of Mr. N. V. Darley and Hr. Herbert Schiff. I told him
that I expected that he had seen what had ‘happend at the pencil
factory by reading the newspapers aud knew all the details. Ho
said he didn’t read the newpapers and didn’t know the details, so I
sat down and gave him all the details that I eould; took him around
the building, took him first back to the metal room and showed him
the place where the hair had been found; showed him the spot in
front of the dressing room and took him to the fourth floor; took
him down into the basement and made a thorough search, and that
ineluded au examination of the elevator well which was at bottom

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