Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-10
THE BUNCO CASE.
Prank Emmanuel Rose Testlffes I'm
His own Behalf.

Z. Rose for robbing ]. B.. Hasklns, py
means of bunco layout, occupied all
day in Judge Cheney's court yesterday
That made four or five days spent IN
irving this case. The morning was
spent in submitting the telegram and the
ledger to experts to prove that Rose
wrote the telegram. The testimony was
to the effect that be did
In the afternoon the defense got the
stand, and put on several witnesses.
J.J. Hedges, an attorney, who is him
self under indictment for trying to get a
witness in rape case to leave the
county, was put on as an expert. he
did not succeed in settling much In rela-
tion to the writer OF the telegram. He
rather thought the writing was in Hoods
handwriting. Hedges knew Hood before
either of them came to Los Angeles.
Albert Levy, who keeps restau-
rant. gave some testimony, but not
much to the point. J. A. Hammer, who
keeps the Moro Castle, testified that he
had known Rose since last February.
He saw him almost daily along through
the month OF March last. He saw him at
Levy's restaurant nearly every day. He
saw him there on the morning of the day
Rose was arrested for defrauding Has
kins. He was with a young man named
Sparks. They were eating together and
talking about an "office" Rose had in
the Crystal Palace building, and about
some furniture Rose had in it which he
wished to sell to Sparks for $25. The
object of all this was to show that Rose
had given I'D his room and sold the fur
uiture to Sparks on the morning, before
the robbery, and thus to create the I'M
preston that he was not likely to be in
played. Hammers testimony was clear
ON the point that the trade was made in
his presence.
Rose was then put on the stand in his
own behalf. He told of leasing the room
in the Crystal Palace building, and that
he had sold the furniture to Sparks in
the morning of the day the game was
played. He claimed that he had given
up the key to Sparks, and denied being
in the room after that morning. He
stated that he sold the furniture to
Sparks in Levy's restaurant, took $5 on
account of the rent, gave up the keys,
went to the room, paid s. to the land
Lady on account of the rent for Sparks.
and went away. Rose told all this with
much circumstance as to the time, what
the landlady was doing and SO forth.
As to his knowledge of Haskins, Rose
stated that on this very morning he
came down Main street to the corner of
First. Here he was accosted by Has
kins, who asked him what street car to
take to reach some point in the city.
The stranger introduced himself. as he
made the inquiry, and Rose did the same
thing and told him what car to take.
Some desultory conversation took place
during the half minute they were wait
ing for the car to come along. Rose
could not recall the tenor of this talk.
Rose had never seen Hawkins before
this. 1t was about II o'clock in the
morning. The next time she saw Has
kins was at about O'Clock in the even
ing, when he came up with Officer Glass
and arrested him.
Rose stated that he knew Hood, but
had not seen him the day of the arrest
until Just at the moment the arrest was
made. He had not seen Hood for three
or four days. He did not mention Has
kins' name to any person from the mo-
ment he put him on the cars until he
was arrested,
Rose told q story as to how he spant
the day between the time when he met
Haskins and the time he was arrested.
He had some friends here named Lee
and Martin. He devoted the day to
showing them the city. He said that at
the time of the arrest he did not speak to
Hood nor Hood to him. 1t all happened
very quickly.
Rose stated that he had made the
Nsdeau his headquarters for two years.
He had published the Los Angeles Hotel
Reporter, and had been a real estate
agent.
The famous telegram was shown Rose.
He said he always had "pad" of these
in his room or office. He examined the
writing on this one, and admitted the
top of it, the address, and one or two
words were probably in his handwriting.
The latter part of the message, he said
positively, was not his writing, and that
he had never eeen it prior to its being
pu. before him in the lower court at the
time of his examination.
On cross-examination, the defendant
said his full and correct name is Frank
Emmanuel Rose. The prosecuting -.
tsrney asked him if his name was not
Keefers. Rose stated that it was not.
He was asked il he knew Joseph Keefers,
of Newark, New Jersey. He said he did
not-had never heard the name before.
He was asked if he had ever gone under
any other name than Rose, and he said
he never had. The attorney asked if he
knew DIR. McChesney, of Chicago. Rose
said he had never heard of such man.
The attorney then asked if he knew
George M. Hubbard, Chief of Police, OF
that city. Rose said he did not. The
prosecution here stopped this break as
abruptly as it was begun, and the conun-
drum is, what does it mean?
The telegram was then taken up, but
Rose would not say whether the first part
was in his writing or not. The end he
said was not, and that he had never seen
it, SO far as he could remember, until il
was introduced in this trial. AS to not
speaking to Hood at the time of the
arrest, the parallel statements made by
him in the lower court were read, in
which he stated that Hood exclaimed,
Excuse mew and then ran away. He
said that now his attention was called tc
it, he believed Hood had said something
of this kind.
The defense stated that it had one
more witness, W. A. Curtis, to put on
but that he could not be found at thu
moment. The trial was then continued
to this morning. 1t will probably b,
finished and given to the jury by noon.