The Archive · 1937

Inquired at Skating Rink

She added that she would be back for dinner sbout 70 and asked him to prepare some meat balls and rice fof her dinner. When he got back she hiad already left the house. Up to 1030 pam. she had not returned, hig master told him to go to the French skating rink in the Legation Quarter and make enquiries. When got there he found the cooties sweeping the ice, but nobody else was there, "A man wearing a blue Hown anda hat told him. in reply to his questions that he did not know whether Mise Werner had been at the tink that evening or not, as there had been more than 200 skaters, ut that everybody had gone. Witness went back and told Mtr. Werner who! told him to go home, which he did.

reply to questions by the Court:—The last time he saw Miss Werner was at'3_pm. when he went out.

had not done any errands for her or posted any lotters that atter-noon, He did not know by which route Miss Werner usually came home, Mr. Werner had not told him to go to the rink by the road under the wall, Ho went by some of the hhutungs to the north and. returned by the same route, He did not go by the street along the wall because was not lit up. He would not bbe. able to recognize the man at the skating-rink again. He had prepared the meat balls and rice, as Ordered; they" had. not been eaten by anyone.

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