New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-31

The first witness yesterday, Augustus W. B. Gar
y4son II piano-tuncr had had conversation with
DR.. Buchanan about the case Of Carlyle W. Harris.
Charles W. Brooke srenuousiy objected Ia the IN
PRODUCTION this testimony, II would nnjusty tend
to prejudice the defendants Recorder Smyth,
however, told the witness to 90 on He said that he
met Buchanan I'm X. W. Mac0mbe,s restaurant IN
February, 1902. In the of a conversation Dr.
buchanan said Harris fool, and didn't under
stand his business. nc had. he could have covered
ND his tracks 20 that he could not have been Vound
out" '>'-
Garrison went on 81 again met Buchanan the
Monday after his wife died. said that his house
keeper had died Suddenly. lie said she died from
cerebral hemoirhage or apoplexy. met him again
about May 20. referred TO the report Of his re-
marriage to his first wife. He said the report was
lot Of lies got mp by a Halifax editor who didn't
like him. lie said lie intended to SHE the Halifax
paper for 100000 and knock 1t ont of existence"
Cornelius Martin, nireteen years old. drives
milk wagon lie lives at No. SO Washington Place.
Just why he called witness did not appear
strongly, unless 1t was TO show that Buchanan was
drunk once upon time. buchanan tallod with
Martin about sending his little daughter 10 the
country.
- Albert Heise. barber Of No. 3s7 IL Bleccker-st.
repeated one OF Ruchanan's lies, to which he seems
to have given widespread currency. This was that
his second wife the daughter OF q PhiIadeiphla
banker named Brown buchanan lad also denied
barber shed light the domestic life Of Buchanan
e and the wife whom he Is charged with poisoning by
narrating that Buchanan hal told him. "When
have been out on a lark bring home FRY or
broi In box to my wife as peacemaker. lie
prisoner had told the witness that Mrs Buchanan
died from hemorrhage OF the brain. liesei visited
him In the Tombs, and remarked that morphine had
been discovered in the body. Then Buchanan said
that she had been morphine eater.
Peter S. Burnham Is postmaster at Windsor. n. S..
and Il also authorized TO Issue marriage liscenses
On May 16, 1902. he did issue one for DR.. buchanan
and Miss Helen Bryce Paterson. The paper vas
placed I'm evidence.
Next came forward another man into whose ears
buchanan, when IN his cups, Ind poured words OF
what might he termed sinister meaning. This was
George F. Dale, milk dealer ut No. 0o Eighth-avo
Buchanan had been his family physician. and had
overcharged him for treating his child. buchanan
had told him II going to get rid OF my house
keeper The old hag Is driving me crazy. am
going to let the bouse deed 1t to my child. and 60
TO Scctand.'
DIR. buchanan called In a clergyman when his wife
was diving This was the Rev. James A. Reed. pastor
OF the United Presbyterian Church In West Eleventh.
st. lie lived at No. 900 in that street. next door
TO the Buchanans. Mr.. Reed also Offciated at the
funeral. The husband told him that the dead wo-
man had been devoted Christian.
Buchanan had noised II abroad that his wife and
her father had both died from apoplexy. Her twin
sister. Emma willard. of Jamestown Penn, was
called to testify tina, their father died from GasrSne
twice In the last thirty years.
some rambling words Of buchanan were repeated
by Louis 5. H. Martin. Of Newton, n. j., retired
farmer. Gustav c. Roeder. reporter had an inter,
view with the prisoner on May 81. buchanan said
that he had not been remarked that his dead wife
had not been n wicked woman that he got $4,000
from her and not $40 600 that she died from cere'
brai hemorrhagc and that she was not Il morphine
eater. Most Of these statements are untrue: ~, ~
would vastly 10 Buchanan's advantage TO snow the
aI.ifV of th( st IN
Several other persons testified Il unimportant de-
tails George +. Bender had cmbalmed the BODY
He was employed by e. A. fcncdict. undertaken al
No 60 Carnline- st. When the body was exhumed he
identified II. IL, - -,
Monday at IL "a.