New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-28
BRUTAL FRANK ELLISON.
HE ATTACKED HELPLESS WOMEN AS WELL
AS AGED MEN
". II. HENR1oUEs TELLS TIE STORY OF THE
PRISONERS OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT on HIM
-CROsS-EXAMINED by MR. BROOKE

CROsS-EXAMINED by MR.. BROOKE
The jury In the trial OF Frank Ellison for hi
assault on William II. Henriques was completed
Yesterday. The opening speech for the prosecution
was made by Assistant District-Attorney Osborne
In the course of his remarks he frequently in
terrupted by Charles w. Brooke. who took excep
ton TO what he said. Everything 10 Mr. BROOKE
was incompetent, irrelevant and immateria Mr.
osborne and the Recorder were both much annoyed
BY Mr. Brooke's frequent Interruptions and Mr.
Osborne finally said that never in his whole
perience had he been treated In ungentlemanly
n fashion by a member Of the bar This helped e
quiet Mr. Brooke, and the Judge and jury witnesses
and counsel were able to get down to work.
From the remarks made by Mr.. Osborne the line
OF prosecution easily learned He gave in tbs
simplest language possible recital of facts. He
tried to impress upon the minds of the jury that
the assault premeditated. The counsel for the
defence tried TO show that there assault,
but a fight in which Eli son had been compelled to
iniure Henriques in sef-defence, and that Hen
rques carried revolver for the express purpose Of
shooting Ellison.
COUNSEL BICKERING CONTINUALLY.
The proceedings yesterday were marked by a con-
tinual war of words between the counsel fer the
prosecution and defence. by long and uncaed-for
delays on the part of the counsel for the defence
and by frequent grumblings from Recorder Smyth
on account Of the tactics pursued by Mr.. Brooke
and DR. OSullivan. All the time Ellison sat and
curled his mustache and sneered at Mr..
Henriques in particular and every one else
in general. Frequently he seemed to have
a passing thought of some kind for he would throw
his big head over toward Mr.. Chanler one Of his
counsel and whisper 10 him. The jury was tired
before court opened, and toward the close of the
dav appeared 10 take interest in the proceedings,
and it was only when the Recorders voice began
TO tell them how to act when not in the jury-box
that they awakened
Mr.. Osborne said in his opening address that
this was not the first time that Ellison had inquired
IN a criminal court. and that he had been indicted
for assault In the first and second degrees MIR.
Osborne explained to the jury the difference between
assault In the first and second degrees. and then
he went into the causes that led to the crime The
case Mr. Osborne said. attracting more than
ordinary interest account Of the high plane OF
life In which both Mr.. Henrques and Ellison moved
and also on account of the difference in the mems
ages The defendant. he said was bachelor and
a man about town, who had had no business for
a year or more The complainant was a married
man and lived with his family at No. 81 Park
ave. He was sixty years old and of slender physique
THE INTERRUPTIONS BEGIN.
Ellison he continued was introduced by Mr..
Henrques into his family in 1887, Henriques
having met him in the Stock Exchange.
He became frequent visitor at the
daughter went to Europe and there married
to Douglas j. Neame. In the year Ellison
met Mr. Ncame. Mr. Osborne had got as far as
this in his speech when Mr. Brooke made an
objection.
This man is on trial for assault" said Mr..
Brooke "and all this is immateral and has
bearing the case"
Mr. Osborne said that in order to show the cause
for assault IL would be necessary so into de-
tails Mr. Brooke overruled
Mr. Osborne then said that after Mr.. and Mrs.
Neame had come to New-York Mr.. Neame was
forced TO go back TO Europe. and that he had con-
fded his wife the care Of Ellison and that
Ellison at once became her constant companion,
even eating three meals day at the Henriques
house. In March 1893, Mrs. Neame secured a
divorce from her husband and Neame began a
counter suit. naming Ellison the correspondent.
He lost his suit The attentions Of Ellison to Mrs.
Neame then became more marked and positively
offensive Mr.. Henriques Mr.. Henrques had a
conversation with Ellison, telling him that his
attentions his daughter must be stopped. Ellison
told him that If he not allowed to come TO
the house he would go on the witness stand in
Neame's behalf.
BRUTALITY TO A WOMAN.
In February 1922 Ellison had a conversation with
Mrs. Neame. He asked her to marry him. She re-
fused He then told her that he was a desperate
man and would Kill her father for having infu-
enced her against him. Mrs. Neame ordered him
to leave the house and Ellison threw her down
and spat in her face before he went.
Henriques. beeveng that Ellison would carry
out his threats. applied to Superintendent Byrnes
for protection. Ellison then wanted Henriques to
withdraw the charges. and threatened him II he
did not. Mr.. Heariques would rot Ellison
prowled around the streets watching for him every
night. On June he met him in Thrty-ninth-st,
near Madison-ave., and brutally assaulted him. Mr.
Henriques was so badly injured that he in bed
for seven weeks from the effects OF the beating In
the encounter Henriques fired pistol TO attract
help This the story told by Mr.. Osborne.
Mr.. OSullivan laughed when Mr. Osborne said
that Mr.. Henrques had fired pistol merely to
attract attention. The Recorder was not pleased
at Mr.. OSullivans noise and when NJ. Brooke and
Dr. O'Sullivan objected in unison TO remark
Of the D!strict-Attorney the Recorder overrulcd
than promptly
Douglas Smith architect. was the first witness
called. He merely asked about diagram he
had made Of Thirty -ninth-st. from Madison-ave. to
Fifth-ave.
MIR. HENMQUEs's STORY.
Mr. Henriques was called as the next witness.
He had difficulty in walking unaided to the
stand. and all through the long examination by the
prosecuting and defending counsel he maintained
erect position in the wtness-chair and showed
signs OF fatigue He was pale but otherwise
eeened to be in good health.
He said his William IL. Henriquos.
that he was married and lived at No 81 Park-ave.
In 1887" said Mr. Henrques, II met Frank
Ellison. and subsequently introduced him into my
house. He called at the house several times be-
ieve and then he did not my daughter until
1891. when she returned from Europe. the wife OF
Douglas j. Neame. In September Of that year l
found that Eson's attentions to my daughter
whose husband had returned 10 England were too
marked, and had conversation with him in his
room at No. 3zj Fifth-ave. ! told him his atten-
lions would inture my daughter in the eyes OF the
world. He told me that / too particular about
public opinion. and that. she a married
woman. he would continue his attentions until
che told him TO stop"
Was Mr.. Ellison your house at midnight
on January 90 1882 asked Mr.. Wellman.
"He was"
what happened at that timer