The evening world., 1893-09-25

pfc" ELLISON AT BAR.
Mr.. Henripues. who has been III and
confined to his home most of the time
since the encounter with Ellison. came
down to the brown-stone court house
In a carriage. He was supported up the
stairs to the Observation-Disclosures office
h. his daughter, the charming Mrs.
Leila Olyve Henriques Neame.
The feeble father and beautiful
daughter found their way to the pri-
vJ,a room of Deputy Assistant District
Attorney James w. Osborne, who had
prepared an eloquent speech with which
/ open the trial of Ellison. 49,
Mrs. Seame was pale, and her Dig
eos wore an anxious expression, like
t,osa OF n startled fswn. She was clad
all in black, which heightened her pal
,Tr. FIenrlaues, it has been said by AS
%sistaut District-Attorney Francis l..
Wellman, will never be well again. He
tie. opinion Of his physicians.
Frank Ellison also came to court by
carriage. He rode on the front seat be
tween Driver Cassidy, of the Black
Maria, and Deputy-Sheriff Dalrymple,
to whom he was Joined by glittering
steel handouts.
Ellison was dressed in black, with a
sack coat and low cut vest. He wore a
white four-in-hand tie and was freshly
shaved and brushed. His face bore cyl
dence of his long imprisonment In the
Tombs in swollen eyes and a yellow pal
He was not accorded any extra privi-
leges. but was placed In the pen with a
dozen dirty and haggard malefactors
of the cheapest type. He was, how
ever, permitted to emerge for a minute
and shake hands and talk with Mrs;
Bertha Lewis. a petite beauty. who will
be a witness in his behalf, and who re-
fused to say anything about herself.
Arrayed in the defense Of Ellison
nous; Charles Lex Brooke, his son; DR..
w. ]. O'Sullivan, the scientific meteor
of the Buchanan trial, and Lewis Stuy y
a lawyer for pleasure.
Assistant District-Attorncy Wellman
conducts the prosecution.
The assault for which Ellison is on
trial was committed near the corner OF
Fifth avenue and Thirty-ninth street on
the night of June 8 last. 1t was the cul-
Douglas j. Neame, a London stool,
broker. and Miss Leila Olyve HenriquHs
were married Sept. 80, 1889; BIT" EN-:
s satber vas home a V! q Park a. avenue Mtn; and says
Mrs. Neame became infatuated with
him. He assisted her in getting evi'
Adam, Of the Superior Court. on May !.
last granted Mrs. Neame an absolute
divorce. Neame was ordered to pay
$1,000 a year alimony;
lHtl l u = - ~" =.
Ellison. But Broker Henriques, and his
daughter apparently took a sudden as,
like to the big clubman, for presently ne
was forbidden the house.
Mr.. HenriqueS next applied to Supt
Byrnes for protection from the unwel'
come suitor. Ellison told al the news,
the old gentlemen to a duel. He alsc
threatened to lick several newspaper
editors and reporters.
He claims that on the night Of June
6. when he met Mr.. Henriques in Thirty,
ninth street and pounded him into q
three months illness he did Il In self
defense, He says that ae rny6iwsr 9 fo,
the expressed purpose of using it or
him, He claims that the old gentlemaI
Sid dr aT y. the Pistol sn t d 1IFieS sh9 o. hama a. a. a ann
that he had either to disable Mr.. Hen
Nques or he shot.
shopldEllison be convicted he must b p
punished as a second offender. III
pleaded guilty and paid $3.50 fine las
December for a brutal assault upot
saloSpncKSeptsbr ,i Hugh ,,ms s hS ,hs R He %a.
because Slevin asked it.
Ellison,s Indictment contains tw
counts. The hrst count charges hir
an assault with intent to kill. The sec
ond count charges him with assault !
the second degree; second onenst
count he may be sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment. on the second count h
might get five years.
Sitting or standing, the big head q
Frank Ellison lowered far above tina
az every other person In the cour
chamber and his cold blue-gray eye
scanned the face Of each in turn; -.
The trial opened at 100 o'clock wit
the examination of julius G., Grouse,
button manufacturer at 90 Union square
a. TO his qualifications as an unbiase
Mr.. Grouse knew absolutely nothint
about the case, and passed a creditabl
examination, so that Mr.. Brooke had I
challenge him peremptorily to get RI
'Richard A. Turner, for ten years book
keeper for c, Bruno 4 Son, the Broad
way dealers in musical instruments wa
Of the jury. Mr.. Turner |
iiyes at $50 East one Hundred and Sew
Henry schwartz, a retired Pike stree