The evening world., 1894-01-09
He SAW AUSTIN, TOO.
Guide Hayes, of saranao Lake,
Recognizes the Photograph.
Declares He Met the Original at
Hatch's Sept. I, 1892.
Piling Up Evidence that the Broker
Did Not Drown.

The contention over the question
whether John e. Austin. insured for
SJ.C0 in the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Association, was drowned at Manhat-
tan Beach July 4, 1891. and his body car
ried out to sea, or simply absentcd him
self to cheat the insurance company,
and has been alternating in the Adiron-
dack wilderness these two and n half
years. was continued his morning.
h defense, having shown that on
July 4 and 8, 1891, the winds and tides
were such as would naturally be en-
pected 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 rowne ship-broker had been seen
at various times during 1891 and 1892 in
the Adirondack regions, sometimes alone
ana sometimes with a companion, a
younger man with darker features and
greater girth and shorter stature.
Mr.. Trull, OF counsel for Joseph f..
Austin, brother and executor OF John c..
Austin, cross-eXamined G. O. Bartlett,
the guide from Big Topper Lake. his
morning. Bartlett had identified an ac-
knowledged photograph of John c. Aus
tin as the likeness OF a man he saw at
iiatch's Hotel, Topper Lake, In Septem-
Der. 1892.
Under cross-examination Bartlett told
now he had guided Morton Merriman,
a Greene street merchant. in 1880, 1881
and 1892. He said he first met Mr.. Mer-
riman IN 1892, on Sept; 3, at Racquet
Pond, when he allghted from the train
at . or y In the morning.
They went on to Hatch's and there the
Witness declares he saw the original of
the photograph of Austin and his com
hanion. that evening and next morning.
The two strangers were noted because
they, did not register at the hotel, and
Guides Moriarty, Butler and Bartlett
whether the mysterious strangers we're
game c~onstables or were hunters fleeing
from game c%onstables; They We're
boat carried over the horseshoe carry
and Immediately, although night was
bearing on, and they hurried away down
the lake early next morning.
They went down TO Moody's. tat the
AXE said the witness. Il went down
later on the steamer; We overlook and
mad another talk with them"
Bartlett said that he first saw the
photograph Of Austin last November;
It to him and asked him II he recog-
nized It,, He did and told Kennedy all
the Incidents related. Two weeks later,
met Detective Smith. OF the insurance
company, He told smith all he knew
b befors s'F 'qnsi,c ana Rs s : c1 to an afiidayit
mac, Then Smith gave him a SO bill.
Edwin w; Hayes, another guide. from
Saranac Lake. who Is a carpenter in the
He testified that he had been a guide in
the forest for twenty-odd years, living at
Saranac and Placid Lake.
Hayes was "uiding Gardner Hubbard,
OF Boston, in August and September,
1892. in camp on Little Upper Lake,
rocd the west Of BIZ TnpIer takei lie
at ,Hatch's about Sept. /, 1892, and de
ssTi 4 sos ,he r% SSminff Of S sHe t iwO w ]strssssrs
as having. core from Cranberry Lake.
The. guide noticed the high-laced shoes.
reaching nearly to the knees, like those
which Jay Ramsay has sworn John G.
Austin wore when he saw him at Low
VILE on the further edge of the woods
a year before and SIX or eight weeks
his broad-brimmed white felt hat, too, an
unusual hat in that region-a cowboy
hat"
through with Mr.. Hubbard. and / didn't
know but he might have something for
a poor Teller like me to do" said the
II next saw him at the Ampersand
Hotel. opposite Miller's, on the lake.
He went across to Miller's and ] saw him
lltIt dllVtW hiuFs L wv VII Nv wy
step OF a coach receiver, a sort OF
stand built up for folks to get onto a
tally;,ho from. / never saw him after
that"
Under cross-examination. Hayes said
that Thomas Haley, another guide. first
showed him the photograph In March.
Mr.. Trull drew out that the witness
only glanced at the mysterious stranger
In passing on each or the only Two
made an nf11nyit at the request or rom
Haley.
Hiram Benham. another guide. showed
a an ma copy OF the sb %pm9'os e1pias a %e the
photograph OF John c. Austin seem to
have been scattered all through the
guides OF that wilderness had employ
ment for their idle season searching for
the missing John G. Austin.
mountaineers. witnesses in the case, were
treated TO u view OF the life-sized copy
OF the Photograph as i was exhibited at
so @WWeeiIAy ex oifGf iH MS Ms. '! Tyal Ia% w,hSimsi.
caiIy, was that your first rehearsal?"
Col. James Indignantly objected. and
Jurors smiled with enjoyment just the
Robert King. another guide, living at
Saranac Village these thirteen years, tes-
Morlarty and Bartlett. He was eng
pioyed as guide by Alfred Tucker and
family, of Philadelphia WIN
ters near the Ampersand Hotel, In 1892,
and recalled readily the visit of the light
compleXioned man IN n white sombrero.
high-laced boots and a Cranberry Lake
basket BOAT,
King was sure the nine-foot boat was
painted a lead color, while the others
remembered II as implanted but smell
lacked. He remembered that II was "A
stormy day, and the stranger, who sat
in the bow, was quite wet.
King referred to the shorter man quite
go. L. 40 - shA plIlln' ThA GtTnn.
gers stayed over night and left about s or
3 o'clock next morning. King noticed
that the men had 4 camping outht, and
chester or a Ballard.
THE guide said they were going to
Paul Smiths" said King. That's
about forty miles by water. They left,
going up the lake"
BelnE shown the photograph. witness