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James E.Mahoney's sister Dolores, known for years to everybody as Dolly Johnson, blames all the trouble to the dead sister-in-law.

She has been saying, and said only yesterday with sarcasm, quote,

The aged and wealthy woman, aged, yes, but wealthy, poo.

She was only an old thing who actually kidnapped Jim, winning him by

promises of making his life easy, and goodness knows he needed help just about that time,

just after he got out of Walla Walla. Mother and I were giving him the right sort of help and

encouragement, and he didn't have to listen to Kate, but that was the way of one

like Kate. Why they weren't married but a few days when she came to me and borrowed $300, and she never

paid back a dollar of it. She actually kidnapped Jim into that marriage. We were all out driving

in her automobile one day, Kate and Jim and another gentleman and myself, when she finally stopped the car at the county city building, and she never let on what she was going to do when she invited us all to go along with her.

We went along, and the first thing I knew she was telling me she was going to be my sister-in-law. What could I do? I didn't

want Jim to marry her, but it was too late to make any scene and stop it now. And what did she do

but borrow my wedding ring to be married with right there in the courthouse? Unquote. The purported

wealth of the dead woman is scouted by Mrs. Johnson.

She tells of Kate Moore's Mahoney buying a new Baker house for $900 at a tax sale,

a building which Mrs. Johnson leased for two years, and where she, quote, expected any moment

to hear the roof drop in or the bottom drop out, unquote,

and of having inherited a half interest from her sister, Mrs. Nieson,

and the property on Denny Way where the murder was done.

Beyond this, the purported wealth and jewels and oil paintings bring a laugh to Dolly

Johnson when they are mentioned.

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