Q. What name did you register under at Augusta?
A. Walter Ross.
Q. What name at Atlanta?
A. All the way except Charleston I give my real name; the only time I give the right name is in Charleston where I left my grip; I saw it was a respectable house and I didn"t have to stay away more than a week and now I have been away more than three weeks.
Q. Have you a check for it?
A. No, sir; I have no check; it is not a hotel, it is a boarding-house.
Q. What street is it on?
A. It is I believe on Meading street near Main.
Q. What place did you stop at since you have been in this city?
A. In this city I stopped here, let me see, what do they call that hotel again, right here on Wabash, small hotel.
Q. Blatz?
A. No, sir.
Q. St. Charles?
A. No, sir; small place, Argyle, that"s on Third street.
Q. Did you have any baggage when you came here?
A. No, sir; I left all the baggage at Charleston.
Q. When you registered did they ask you whether you had any baggage?
A. No, sir; n.o.body asked me.
Q. Did you pay in advance?
A. I generally never stayed any longer than one or two nights and for every night I pay a dollar for my room; n.o.body asked me about baggage.
Q. You paid that after you registered at the Argyle?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What room did you occupy?
A. In the Argyle I guess it was number one, right toward the Wabash River.
Q. Why do you call it the Wabash River?
A. Because the man told me it was; he said, "the only room I have left is the one facing the Wabash River."
Q. What is the name of this city?
A. This city, it"s supposed to be Milwaukee; I feel very sorry that the trouble has happened in this city; I suppose I have made considerable trouble for you people and for the citizens of the town.
Q. Have you any relatives living in this country?
A. No, sir.
Q. Any in Germany?
A. Yes, sir; I think I have, I haven"t been in correspondence for quite a while, I don"t know if they are well.
Q. What relatives have you?
A. I have a mother living there.
Q. Mother?
A. Yes, brother and sister.
Q. At Erding?
A. No, they are at Tyrol.
Q. Switzerland?
A. Tyrol that is not Switzerland, that is Bavarian Tyrol.
Q. Have you ever been in trouble before?
A. No, sir; not that I remember.
Q. Ever been arrested for anything?
A. Not in my life.
Q. Have you ever been committed to an inst.i.tution of any kind?
A. No, sir; never, I have always stayed out of trouble, I have never been in any trouble whatever, and this trouble I committed myself, now I am contented I did.
Q. You are not a bit sorry?
A. No, sir. You may look up the records of all New York police headquarters, because I have never been there, I have never been arrested there.
Q. What did you say your name was?
A. John Schrank.