New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-27
THE COURTS.
Is"BIJD KIRBY A GAMBLERf
RgrrsiNGTo SAY THAT HE is NoT-MANf ANs"H"S


THAT MIGHT CgIMINATE HIM.
.,ort b,nevolentIookng man with red face and
n tplI flowing gray beard followed Andrew JacksUn
Rogers INTO Referee Thomass ofhce YESTERDAY. n
was dressed in suit of gray clothing and looked 10.
mike good aud prosperous deacon. But he WASH =
n deacon. lie Albert, better known as DuJ
Kirby, and he there to bear witness t9a' W.T.
Truman had no business interests at NO. Wese
Twenty -eighth-st, testified to by Mrs. Truman
said on his direct examination that no business WHAT
ever was done there that he had nYed there Win MS
family since last December, when he leased the
property. that Truman had no connection WIN tne
house. and that it not, in fact gambling nonse
He also testified that December last he took $loo Id
money TO Mrs Truman from her husband on one occa-
sion, and afterward he took to ner some dia"onus
and $50 in money.
BENJAMIN Steinhardt examined him and tore on
the bene VIOLENT mask. Kirby said he had known
Truman for seventeen years, but never baa the re-
hottest idea what business be was engaged IN sod
questions then turned upon his own business lie SAID
that he had had business for twenty three years
Q.-How did you accumulate your money Was IL
not by gamblingf Al don't consider gamoins
legitimate business.
Q.-Have you any connection with No. S1S Broad
way, No. Ann-st, houses in Philadelphia and Chi-
cago, and not all these gambling houses, and are
YOU not a partner in the profits OF the games carried on
In them Al decline TO answer on the ground that
the answer might incrmInate me.
He then pressed 10 the use to which the mouse
No. West Twenty -eig hth-st. il pnt and admitted
that only the two upper floors are occupied by MS
family.
o. For what are the two lower floors used Al
decline to answer the ground that might crmlnate
myself .
Q-Havent you made arrangement with truman
a. to the lease that house by which you are to carry
on the business and Truman Is to deal and play there
and you are to share the profits with him Al de
cline answer the ground that 1t might eliminate
Truman and myself.
He gave the same for declining to answer
questions as 10 how often Truman had been at the
house, if he had not been there nearly every day Tor
months if his mail not all delivered there, ana II
Truman did not gamble there either as dealer or
PLAYER. He admitted that Mrs. Truman had called
there to get money from Truman one day III Deem
ber and that be- Kirby. had come down to the recep-
ton room to see her. lie asked:
Did you not say her that you were dealing bank
upstairs aud that she must come some other time
He declined to answer this question. but admitted
that he had called in policeman to put her out When
he was released he ammed his hat upon his h, ad ana
bolted out OF the door saying " Goodbye I've had
enough of this"
James f. Mlliken swore that he passenger
from Liverpool &C. New-iork on the City of Rome IN
1882; that he saw Truman on board aud that there
was no gambling on the ship. lie was asked II Charles
Croker Robert =. Porter, I. w Lonsdale and D.
Beresford Hollis didn't play cards with Truman on tie
CITY of Rome and lose money. and answered Nc"
Otis Anderson, n jeweller. said IL he lad known
Truman intimately for twenty years that he believed
him to he man of honor and would give him credit Tor
any amount