New-York tribune., 1883-12-11

S,semsns ss prS ooher with Il fhe ndns Of the
committee that the hand part Of the statue as AS
been on sae at tho Fouiteentbst Museum. This showed
the priest With tho hand and paeia ae.aenea @ ap
The only pont 10 be noted here is that the planIn
orinai charge VIZ repeated after having been once pc
dplaync the statue without the hand was mover on sne
That the hand on on Foureer t1-st Io lied
least seems TO be beyond doubt The hand was atcnet t
10 fe Side OF the statue bv dowe OF wood bat lns Ince
was not known 10 General al Cetoh OF 70 my & " fact
trustees The evidence will probably establish the Ise.
that The hand became detached In Fourteenth anu d
photograph was taken Of Il ne9re WS e eSarSe that
the trustees General M cesnola aud Mr. Prime s khS%
that the statue IN Fourteenth ST. on eNnliloh WIZ"
tle hand was detached Will fall 10 the grOurd'
TIE TORN LEAF.
Nearly year later came the iurther eharse ,. 'nae
proof which had been contained IN the album OF pIoo'
showing this priest with the hand detached had os"P
peared and that had been torn from the eouh ps "
erol di Cespola TO concF1 the evidence Of his own
forgery The album had been originally kept py mr'
Hutehipcs and contained proofs Of negatives of Museum
objects General di Cesnoa never knew anything OF IT,
nor saw it, until March H. 1881 After Mr.. Hutehnss
left the book was in charge OF Dixon Is. Ahey' MI
Henke says that Alley was the only one Who oi ac e 10
10 IT, General di Cesnola and Mr. Prime Do'h % H.
the Museum the morning OF MaIch H. tosi s er had
both made inquiries as 20 With one hand de
tacLed Mr.. Prime sent for the abnn hehhel % d ~ Mr.
the room at the uins Gen heen detached from the
statue, and he said The TACT Is lnh, a. onkcl's
O nd
nresene On discover II possible the photograph Iom
which the plaintiffs card had been copied ne ,ba h"oL
hy IiIey That faci was already known TO Henkel Mr
Savage testhes that only afew nonIhs aI s, Ta,,ar
dent until after he left the Museum said TO him hai ne
alarmed ct the prospect OF the appr1Snns Ne and
Mr. Feuarlent knew that he knew everything nc ~, -,
Iey had already communicated the fact Of the lear 70
Fenarden and this explains his uneasness anu ,h n The
niaI of any know ledge concerning the statue Hn ho
hand detached when questioned by General al Cesnolm
Now charge that General al Cesnola tore Ine leu The
.aofif le
evidence he would have locked the book up lie woe he
have distracted the eai irom te Oue ris Of The
leaf where Hcnke could lind them. Mr' n @ uai -
must have known of the leaf ana IN an hcS wonld
have BETRAYED his knowledge That sentence II % ~
record st n;ed H%kG im @G b5t AGy EyoWedse Med
Card No !" contained the charge agIlst wnas Ies "a
frandueut nauufacture, composed of unrelated fIag
ments That statue the subject OF one on lS %
charges Then he simply said that the carving had p S
yord over lie had been studying II for year ANA had
had If in London in his own rooms, and had been study
nov that The statue Was fraudueniy made he must have
known ht in the SUMNER OF lssO. IN anu ~ rd . ~
attacked No %, the Bearded Venus lie enarseo
that the IL did not belong To ~ ne gos ~
far TO identify particular ae,n IN or9 sitS The
which he says the style that corresponus@ VIII VIZ, ~ ~
body The statue OF the Bearded Venus was among te
wrote description of IT IN when he sara 'ha s, ' m Nv ~ @ @
was broken OF and one OF the fingers gone. ne ga,e m
plcte whole; 50 that when Mr.. Fcuardent made ihls
charge he alreEdy had in his hands evidence hat no
di-coy cred under the observation OF PROM
inent arche0logisf, man Who was above susPco , i
his knowledge above question Ana was lheh az i ts
as n now appears In the Central Park Museum. except
that IL not then repaired but now j. TSaIc.. a,
Feuardent does not give one word OF eNhcnSe 10 % slo
thai the statue il now IN any respect different from what
4; was in Ondon He never viii produce Int oi cyl cyl
dencc show that that statue was manuiacturr nnS
head which he intimates beong O ~ II head ~ nuch
smaller that II could have been connected WIN
THE CHARGES OF I1iR COOK PAMPHLET.
We come now 10 the charges in wha, is called the Cook
4.
pamphlet contains substantially three charges First,
the statue Of Aphroditc and Eros, known No 32 vas
made of mart. that never belonged 20 anocr sec
oudlv that the statue with the horned head il patch
work Of unrelated parts third that the eutire collection
Is Of modern manufacture and never was unearthed N
cyprus Statue No. 81 was Originally found In cyprus
y3rb its head broken from the hudy. II published
in that form IA General d Ce0as book. There never
t The paiutih admits that he has been allowed 20
20 with Ms hieuds to the Genital Park An-cnm and 10
Senuineness IIe was allowed 10 cut and examine
il by any method he ni except that ono Of putting
friends discovered by tho tests they permitted 10
use that the statues were other than solid piece oi
Mr Ward Mr.. Rogers. Mr.. Calvsriy, Mr.. Warner. and
Museum toTeiher and examined thess two statues
thoroughly, Nos. 30 and 80, aud found that each was
estsidish these fsols beyond doubt. Nr. feusI-
dent has made complaint mat he W'S not aIoWtd
In In,t that statue m bath, bu ,uch examination
cid r.vesl nothing that would moi have been disclosed
10 nm bv the methods that lac and other had employed
IN The 1,nnuatiOn Of thOse statues The trustees bd
GRANTED llu license enough; they bhd
no right 20 impchl their property. The
committee gave him fuu and hir opportunity IN
nud out whether his charges were true or false
linen comes the charge tbnt the entire collection
fo,g beginning 10 end l. Of modern manufacture. As to
that have already given you statement Of evidence
which will .sisfy your minds fuly that be never for one
IuO.Ient believed that charge trur
Throughout TRIAL there has been manifest effort on
tho par the piann 10 prevent any nquf- about tho
charges NE made which reflect mOst seriously on the
character of the defendant We have been met nlso by
the PRODUCTION Uf unony letters which the pBntH
aud MIR Savage tes1hed wcfr In the landwnung OF
General al Cesnoln General Oh CnOu will testify that
he never paW OIL read that letter until II WIS produced
I'm tibs TRIAL II Will shown that the letter contains
nothing but the yilcs ISLANDERS against General m Ces
uoll himself General III Ccsnula, OF a people IN the
world A. the who could possibly have crudted
a,h slauder, Iheu when thai letter s In evidence be
fore Won, when you know that II Is not In
his hapawTitinK and did not from him,
VOC will know very certainly nom what source II
dus come You viii conclude, perhaps that the party
who Iuauced hrTc before you the party who Is NC
cOuni able FOR il exsenre You VIII mud that these
charges were made solely for the purpose Of ung Gen
eral al Ce-nOla and without any intent OF benefit
ing the public. II You do come To this conclusion
Won III also come the conclusion that hr fctir
dent when he had the collection In London did not make
AN honest effort sell IT, II the plaintiff did not make IN
bcne,t effort u ee the collection In London tncn bls
ca-c n wtAOut foundation, and you will be compelled 70
In n III