“Mrs. Atkins? She went out in de mornin’ and come in in de ebenin’.”
“Did you notice anything unusual about her?”
“Well, ’peared to us she’d been crying.”
“Can you remember who went in or out of the building on Tuesday evening?” the Coroner asked.
“Well, sah, near’s I can say only two gem’men come in—Mr. Stuart, and a gem’man who called on Mrs. Atkins.”
“Does the corpse at all resemble that gentleman?”
“I couldn’t rightly say, sah.”
“Why not?”
“Well, sah, I was a-sittin’ in de office when he come, an’ I jus’ see a big man go past and heard him talkin’ loud in de elevator.”
“While Joe was upstairs what did you do?”