The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-17
The Season Was Formally Opened Yesterday.

publican leader, Jake Hess, objected in
a dignitied way to the admission OF
He claimed there was no evidence
that Capt, Cross knew anything Of
The objections were overruled. and
Mrs SANFORD y, went on eHEasnT saa
only Vas 80 S1 oa hs"
and so for Smith.
II remember / thanked Smith and told
to Sgy e bottles sou OF see
wrote. Cash, $50 That meant $50 for
the Captain. l didn't like to write Cap
Mr.. Hess objected again that these
items In the book OF money paid to
Smith and Mrs. Sanford's story of con-
versations with the ward man could not
bind Capt. Cross. who was not present;
present" snapped Mrs. Sanford. "If he'd
self"
Mr.. Wellman urged that the item and
the talk were strongly corroborative, and
OF course as the rejection OF this testi-
| mony would have ruined the case
against Cross, so far as Mrs. Sanford
was concerned, the Commissioners
| Mrs. Sanford again reiterated that the
| other houses in the block were wide open
| all during the administration of Capt.
Cross and that there was no suggestion
| OF privacy or secrecy in this block OF
| lawbreakers.
Il continued to pay the $50 a month
from July down to April. 1888. when
East Fifth street station" said Mrs.
Sanford. But would never have been
a witness against him or any other Cap
| tain II that Parkhurst detective hadn't
been a daylight robber and stolen my
account book when he called to see me
and talked about going into partnership
Mrs. Sanford was cross-examined
carefully negatively by Mr.. Hess. She
said again that wnen she was sworn
before the Lexow Committee she siyiy
kissed her thumb instead of the Bible.
because she dian't mean to tell the
truth. She dion't think an oath taken
| that way without kissing the book was
binding. She tried to protect the cap
/ tains.
Until they flashed that lost account
book ON me-" broke In Mrs. Sanford.
Then ! said to the Committee: Yes.
that's my book; and there's the thief
| who stole It
| Mrs. Sanford pointed dramatically at
| a Kodak ffend. who had taken stand
In the corner. behind Commissioner MUIR
ray.
| thief!" exclaimed one of the lawyers.
"Oh, dear me, no. laughed Mrs. San
ford. her fat sides shaking.
| Il meant that 1 pointed In that way
at the parkhurst detective who stole
Again Mrs. Sanford admitted that she
had lied" to the Lexow Committee
but she avoided the , terms or psr
jured yourself" as a cat would cold
| water.
Reading from her testimony before
the texow Committee MT Hess ASKED
When You told the Lexow COMMITTEES
that you never gave a dollar OF money
to Capt. Devery' or Capt: Mclaughlin
false
1T was true. gave it to their ware
men,"
OF the motion was stricken out.
| The lawyer succeeded in obtaining
from Mrs. sanford, after a long discus
sion OF her reilgiUus beliefs ana her AN
t.cipation OF future reward or punish
ment, that the only true thing she SAT-
before the LeXow Committee was tina
the entries against ,s &c In ner r 6 boo,
meant paymenIs 10 the Captain IN com
mand at those dates.
Item by item Mrs. Sanford repudiate'
her testimony gwen before the LeNo'
Committee in explanation OF the entrie
She said she lied to the Committe
when she told them she had paid 81
| TO political organization because sh
had received an anonymous note saytn
the writer would call and see about he
house.
Il did get such a note signed 'Aneny
nous but the rest is false" she said.
For hour Mr.. Hess labored with Mrs
Sanford Identifying the handwriting II
| the tell-ta.e account book
"TAese entries, cheese. rum 'dres
goods and 'whiskey,' ] wro.e; Rice,
thats the ice-man; mix 'sundries, m.
laughter wrote. Bessie, 'sundries,
| rum mix were written by my maj
Jim" said Mrs. Sanfori.
Then Mr.. Hess had Mrs. Sanford writ
cheese" &C." carpets ana otne
we're some variations In the "c's'' an
| 'C's" obtained from those In the book
and Mrs. Sanford thought that perhap