With regard to the late Miss Bamberger the witness thought that Mr.Van Torp had killed her to get rid of her, because she was in possession of facts that would ruin him if they were known and because she had threatened to reveal them to her father.

If she had done so, Van Torp would have been completely in his partner's power.

Mr.Bamberger could have made a beggar of him as the only alternative to penal servitude.

Questioned as to the nature of this information, witness said that it concerned the explosion, which had been planned by Van Torp for his own purposes.

Either in a moment of expansion, under the influence of the drug he was in the habit of taking, or else in real anxiety for her safety, he had told Miss Bamberger that the explosion would take place, warning her to remain in her home, which was situated on the Riverside Drive, very far from the scene of the disaster.