"What is his business?"
"I don't know. He used to be connected with the school at Greencastle. Saw him last about January 6."
Chief Deitsch here read the dispatch under which the arrest was made.
"What have you to say to that?"
"The charge is entirely false. I don't know anything about that."
"That's what everybody says who is arrested," said Chief Deitsch, "but the identification of the clothes and other facts point to you as the man who took Pearl Bryan or her body to Ft. Thomas. Where were you last Friday evening?"
"I must have been in my room."
"What time did you go to your room?"
"I think I had supper about 7 o'clock and went home about 7:30."
"What did you do?"