When their watches were compared, it was found that one’s was two minutes ahead of the other’s.
The testimony of several other persons was taken on this matter, and it was agreed that twenty-five or twenty-six minutes of four was the time when Mr. Judson met his death.
A bell boy was quietly questioned, also.
He remembered seeing Hank Low leave the hotel office.[{11}]
“’Twas just after he had gone up alone,” the boy said. “I remember, ’cause the clerk was going to send me up with him, and he saved me a trip upstairs by going alone.”
This was important, and Kerr asked a number of other questions as to how it happened that Low went up alone, and so forth.
Next he found a man who remembered seeing Low drive rapidly away.
This man did not know, when he was being questioned, that Low was suspected of murder.
“I says, ‘Hello, Hank,’ says I,” he told the detective, “and he said, ‘Hello,’ and got into his wagon.
“‘How’s things at the farm?’ says I.”