“And so you ran away?”
“We didn’t start out with the idea of running away.”
“But you did run from the Nancy Jane when you found she was following and pursuing you?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“I really can’t tell you,” said George Warren. “I realize now it was a foolish thing to do. But it was not because we were guilty.”
“But you were all in the basement of the hotel a few moments before the fire started?”
“Yes, we were.”
“That is all,” said the prosecuting attorney, and George left the stand.
Henry Burns, called next, did the best he could for his comrades.