Her name was Catherine Lyon, and she had been some blocks north on a stretch of Greenwich Street that cold and snowy night. “Being in Greenwich Street, at the pump near the door of the new Furnace, I saw Gulielma Sands a little after eight o’clock,” she testified. Lyon had been helping up “a lame woman who was laying in the street”—for, as another witness had recalled, “the going was very rough that night.” The sidewalks were treacherous for anyone without sure footing, and the handles of the public water pumps were particularly notorious for catching and tripping the unwary on the city’s poorly lit streets. “Elma came up to me alone, and asked who it was,” she continued, though who had sprawled on the ground was of less import now than who might have been walking with Elma that night. “There was a good many people passing, and I could not say if they was with her or not,” Catherine admitted. She had, though, heard the briefest snatch of conversation. “I heard someone say, ‘Let’s go,’ and the deceased bid me good night and went on.”
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