The evening world., 1894-01-10
"AlL THINGS TO ALL MEN."-THE WORLD ALMANAC for N-Al MWSStndS Is CT
QU|RK's MEMORY KEEN, TOO.
That Is, When the Austin Incl
dent Is in Question.
Sure He Saw tho Missing Man In
September, 1892.

TIL trial Of the insurance case of Aus
tin against the Mutual Reserve Fund
Life Association VAS resumed before
Justice Patterson. in Part III. of the
Supreme Court, this morning. with James
Quirk. of Bartlctt's carry. in the Adj
rondack wilderness, on the witness stand.
Quirk was the tenth woodsman called
by Col. L. c. James. counsel for the In
surance Company. to prove that a man
looking very much like the photograph of
John c. Austin was In the Saranac Lake
region in September, 1899, fourteen
months after the alleged drowning of
John c. Austin at Manhattan Beach.
: Quirk told substantially the same story
as the other guides. He saw "A man of
thirty-fve years, light hair, light mus
tache, corduroy hunting suit, broad
brimmed white cowboy hat, and high
topped laced shoes. On being shown the
photograph of John G. Austin, late of
Lord a. Austin. prosperous ship builders,
at Is Broadway, the witness said II was
a good likeness OF the man In the white
hat.
In agreements with the other witnesses
Quirk said this man had for a com
panion n short. thickset man, younger
and with a black mustache.
Quirk said he drew the men across
Bartlett's carry, a distance of lOi rods
between Little Topper and Upper Sara
nae Lakes.
! Under Decentralization by Mr.. Trull,
the witness declared doggedly that he
had never seen any other man In the
region wearing a SLOUGH hat, wood
shoes" or corduroy hunting suit.
1T IS rare, down our way, when we
see one of those Cranberry Lake boats,
like the one this party had 1t was what
We call a dark shellaced' boat" he
said.
The witness couldn't remember the
height. complexion or other characteris-
tics OF any other party he had carried
over BartIettt,s Carry.
you pretty quick how many | carried
any day, and all about them" said the
witness, hotly.
Ouirk was quite sure that he "drawed
the Cranberry Lake boat across some
time between Sept. s and 10. 1892. but he
was not very clear as to how he fixed
the date:
bald and severe. eyed every witness with
unrelenting gaze, waiting his turn to tell
what he knew from Fenton's. No. T.
Behind hin giggled hisp retty, bright
eyed daughter. Beside her was that
prim, devoted spinster, Nurse Mahar,
her red tresses combed back in Purltanlc
primness from her temples; The little ns
this trial, were not in court,
.Quirl; told how he met Smith in the
village in IN Eenrnary; 1871 io waT told about ut
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John c. A ustin. supposed to have
felgned drowning for the benefit OF his
children, who would get his life insur-
ance Of $4,000 In the Mutual Reserve
Fund Life Association, and $4,000 in the
United States Mutual Accident Associa-
ton; how he signed nm affidavit before
"the Squire" telling what he knew and
how he got the usual s. fee from the
Insurance Company's detective for his
services.
rho relation of all this brought smiles
from President Is. y. Harper, Detective
Smith and Col. James.
On redirect examination Col. James
drew out that Quirk bad been, engaged
four times In one week to draw the
Cranberry Lake boat for these two
mi across the land lying between
the littkc lakes of the nCighborhood, Siv'
ing him n particularly good opportunity
for observing them.
Thomas Haley came next. Haley Is
brother-in-law to two or three of the
preceding Witnesses. He lives at SaranaC
Lake village with his daughter, and has
been a guide more or less since 'bs."
He testified that the wilderness eX'
tended ninety to one hundred miles east
andw est. and about the same north and
south. The densest part of the forest
was toward Topper and Cranberry
Lakes, on the west.