THE CRIME

The statement Engle attributed to Earnest said Mrs. Atkins removed her clothes "as soon as we got in" the farmhouse. There was a party in a second floor bedroom, the police captain said Earnest told him, and then a fierce quarrel.

"I cursed and lost my head," Engle quoted the cook. "She grabbed a curtain red and tried to strike me with it, and I grabbed it from her and hit her over the head.

"Then I went home and I was dog-tired." Boston Evening American.