The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-17
HOBBY SALE
THIS WEEK
What is your name?" asked District At
torney Hawkins

What is your name?" asked District At
torney Hawkins.
Frederick Stuart Brown"
And where do you liver
London, England"
Then Frederick Stewart Brown In re-
Spouse to a question rose in the box and
pointing his finger at Dr. Howard Identified
him as Felix Howard, alias William Lord
Moore.
How did you know him?" was asked.
Il was his clerk for several months. 1
wrote his letters for him / knew he was
passing under these names In 1892. o L
This evidence created a great commotion
IN the court room, which was packed.
deeply interested In the case.
SOME SECRETS LET OUT.
Browns evidence was in the main clear
and convincing. He told in detail how he
met the defendant early in the spring Of
1892, in response TO an advertisement for
clerk. and entered his employ. His business
was the writing Of letters about claims to
English estates after draft furnished him
from time to time by the defendant. They
were mailed to addresses in the United
States, using a postoffice directory, which
the defendant gave him. This employment
continued for some time. At first he wrote
the letters at his leisure but after time
witness and his fathers family, at defend
ants request moved to No. niger
soil road, where the business was
continued. He told all about the defendant
getting out printed stationery, envelopes,
letter-heads, and THE ''billion-and-a- half
dollar hand BILL" which was sent to the
American postmasters. He said the defend
ant told him when he went 20 No 5 In
gersoll road to answer no questions and
pay no attention to the door bell" He was
requested to keep out Of certain rooms In
the house and to send all letters for Felix
Howard and William Lord Moore TO an
other address in London. This witness did.
During his employment he received 10 shiIl-
Ia w
came in great numbers TO No. Ingersoll
road. Seven shillings he kept himself and
three shilingS he gave weekly to an assist
| ant Witness testified that he had occasion
once to go to the address defendant had
given him.
Where was it located?" asked the dis
ut was on the other side of London. four
What Kind of a neghborhood was it?"
Rather SUNNY. laboring man lived
there and no one seemed to know Moore or
Witness explained in detail the character
of his work for Howard or Moore. He iden-
titled great number of letters which were
shown him as his own work Many OF these
had already been offered In evidence by
those who had received them in America
suddenly defendant told him the last time
he saw him TO destroy lot OF the billion
and-a-half dollar hand-bils'' which were in
| letters TO America himself. In all about
three thousand letters were sent and the
witness wrote the greater number or them
| himself.
He told about Inspector Froest coming 10
| No. Ingersoll road and seiZing all the pa
pers and documents in the place These pa
| pers were taken TO Scotland Yard and the
| witness identified them again to-day. Later
| in the examination he was shown and iden-
| titled a part of the correspondence at No.
! Ingersoll road, a great mass OF papers and
pamphlets all relating directly to the bust
ness of Felix Howard or William Lord
Moore. Among them was a number OF re-
| ceipts from American newspapers for print
ing advertisements for William Lord Moore.
Several contracts and documents signed T..
Ross were found in the Office at No. In
gerSoll road.
STUCK TO HIS STORY.
Dr. Howard cross-examined Brown in per-
son, and he did so in an artistic way. lie
| did his best to confuse the witness. but
Brown stood the ordeal remarkably well
! for a novice. The Doctor succeeded in
demonstrating TO the jury that the witness
WAS not expert in handwriting. He
| knew his own work. but he made mistakes
| In attempting to select letters written by
| Moore Howard from mass OF CORE
spondence furnished him.
where did you find these papers?" once
| Queried DR.. Howard.
II found them in the room yov used as n
| Office, No. Ingersoll road"