The evening world., 1894-01-09
He SAW AUSTIN, TOO.
Guide Hayes, Of Saranao Lake,
Recognizes the Photograph,
Declares He Mel the original at
hatch's Sept. !, 1892.
PIiuC Up Evidence that the Broker
Did Not Drown.

The detention over the question
whether John G. Austin, insured for
$1,000 in the Mutual N9scrvc Fund Life
Association, was rOwncd at Mluhat-
tan Beach July /, lS9l. and his body car
ricd our to sea, or simply abscnted him
self to cheat the insurance corrppny,
and has been alternating In the Adirou-
dack wilderness these two and II half
years. was continued this morning.
The defense. having shown that OF
July 1 and D, 1891, the wiris and tides
were such as would naturally he cH-
nocted to carry Austin's body towards
shore at Coney Island, continued to-day
the production of testimony by guides.
carriers. hotel porters and others from
the North Woods to show that the sup
posed crowned ship-brokcr had been seen
at various times during 1881 and 1892 in
the Adirondack regions, sometimes alone
ana sometimes with a companions, Il
Younger man with darker features and
greater girth and shorter stature.
MI. Trull, of CUunsel for Joseph r..
Austin, brother and executor of John G..
I Austin. CrOss-eXamiued &. q. bartlett,
the guide from Big Topper Lake, this
morning. Bartlett had identified an ne
EnuWled"ed photograph of join G. Aus
tin as the likeness of IA man he saw o..
ilatct's Hotel, Topper Lake. in Septeln-
bcr. 1892.
Under Cross-eXamination Bartlett told
how he had guided Morton Mcrriman,
a Greene street merchant, in 1890, 1891
and 1882. He said h" lirst met Mr.. Mcr-
riman in 1882, on sept. 2, at RACQUET
Pond. when he ulightcd from the train
AT y or . in the morning.
They went on to IIatch's and there the
witness DECLARES he saw the original OF
the PHOTOGRAPH of Austin ana his com
nanion, that evenins and next morning.
The two strangers were noted because
they did not register ut the hotel, and
had their curiosity aroused as to
whether the mysterious strangers were
SaIne constabies or YER" hun,tSr! feetnE
anxious 70 have their "Cranber Lake
boat carried, over inc horseshoe carry
ana immediat9ly; although night was
the lake early neNt morning,
THEY Went down 20 Mnody'9. at the
Iake: 81 5aiG the witness; - Went d"%a
passed them. and when they arrived /
had another talE With them"
rL 69rtlett IT, s@i4 tI@t he iir9' say the
when Kennedy, u local carpenter "h1Wed
1t 70 him and asked him II he Icrog-
niz"d T. He Gid and told Kennedy Al
In respon9 to a telegram, Hnrt!ett went
to Allen's Hotel, Lake Placid, whore ne
met netectiye smith, Of III" insurancc
and signed und gwOre to an affidavit
before Justice Reuben Clifford at Sara
mac THIN smith gave him a Sio bin.
Edwin W. Raye9, another guide from
Sa,anac Lake, VINO is n carpenter In tho
Winter season, was the next witness.
lie testified tha he had been a guide in
Hayes was -uiilng Gardner Hubbard.
90, Boston, IN ArEl,t and Sentem6rr
10 the, west Of Biz rupner Lake. lie
recognized the photograph Of John G.
Austin IS a likeness Of a man he, saw
scrlbel the corning of the two ms
in u boat, recognized by the woodsmen
as having cor q from Cranberry Lake.
Tn" guide not!c"1 the hIgh-iaced shoes,
reaching nearly TO the knees, Ike those
which Jay Ramsay has sworn John G.
Austin wore when he saw him at Low
II yeat before and six or elght weeks
after his supposed drowning. He noticed
his broad-brimme white felt hat. too, an
unusual hat in that region-a cowboy
~ took rotice because l was Just
through with Mr.. Hubbard. ana | didn't
know but he might nave FOnethiuE for
a poor teller !ihc me - d. said the
ri next raw him at the Ampersaud
Hotel, opposite Millcr's, on the lai".
lie went across to MiIler's and / saw him
thrrc afterwards. He stood on tho top
step Of Il coach receiver, a sort Of
/ stunl built up FOR folks to get onto I"
tally-ho from. l never saw him after
Under crosa-osarlnntion, HAYES said
that Tholnns Halcy. another guido. h.et
showed him the photograph In March.
lSGI. at SarRnac village.
Mr., Trul! dr"W out that IN" witness
only E!lnc"d at IN" mysst"riouH stranger
occasions he had soon him. He, t"',
mrlc an affidavit, ~ the request of Tom
Haley. ,
IIlfIm Trnrnm, another guide, showed
auoUa"" COPY Of The photograph II wn"H
"r two lhtcr.c IN short ccRiss @, ~"
! hive been scattered an through N
greet north wood q year @Ro, aud iH"
guides Of that w~ild.rnasH uui ".nrlg'
mont for their tdlr, season searching for
Hny"a told how h" and II dozen oth""
mountainous, witnesses In IN" cage, were"
treated To a view Of the hir-Ni%%I c"H|
s~onIcbuGv's ufiC" IN this Clty, ian
"Ncii," exclaimed NJ, TRAIL. "him.l-
coliy. "was that your i..-t r"h'lr1Hi'" j.,
Cnl. InurH iudi"uautiy objected, uvd
IN" question was ruloi uui. but th"
jurors smiled w.ih c~ol"y1n'nt jr|t the
I;,Lort Ein~. ano'hnr ,r1iG.. Ling at
S]Irlnac Was. thr,n il'rlrrp .'"rrr, t'e-
/ lii.I ia currnJnratiu8 ~ lave. Rui''r,
NOTARY ard Nrrtlrt, -. was ru,
/ ~ D NHth'. ~. y '' ~ O HN' .
fnmilv. of pn.lalriphi.. with h,'dIHtr-
tors nrtr the AmrrrS"ud Hotel. iu l,2
aud recalled readily the N'.it uf TIA" ligl'-
complexiourd man n % l,Ai,r S.mhr,.u,
higi-lacrl boots ana a Cranberry Lake
basket boat.
KIM was sure the min ,-fopt boat was
painted 81 lead color, whl," the others
remembered II AZ Imprinted Nut shul-
lacked. He remembered that IL was a
stormy day. and th' Stranger, wi'p HIi
in the bow. was cutie wet.
King referred 10 Tn" shorter man dutt"
naturally as 1.-THE guide The strau-
gers stayed over night and lgt, about ) on
o o'clock next mOrni1E. King noticed
that the men had n camping outfit, and
q repeating gun that was either a Win
chester or a Ballard.
Paul Smiths said King. That's
about forty miles by water. They left,
Being shown the photograph. witness
King aid with apparent sincerity:
This u the same suit OF clothes. the