The evening world., 1894-08-17
MRS. SANFORD
ON the RACK.
Continued from First Page

H' ss sRsN Mr.. %i san %aa' sT ' Is aend
He made the entries as directed when
charles SRa'it A. Hess. Brether Of the Re-
publican leader. Jake Hess. objected in
iignfed way to the admission OF
this testimony so far as Capt Cross
lie claimed there was no evidence
that Capt, Cross knew anything of
The objections were overruled. and
Mrs. Sanford went on explaining that
several $50 items against wv S." meant
monthly paymnts to Ward Man Smith,
and one ON OF, OF ss9 , vas $50 for the Captain
Il remember thanked Smith and told
him to buy couple of bottles of wine
for himself. Sometimes, as you see,
wrote, Cash, SO. That meant $50 for
the Captain. ] didn't like to write Cap
tain
Mr.. Hess objected again that these
items in the book of money paid to
Smith and Mrs. Sanford's story of con-
Nersations with the ward man could not
bind Capt. Cross, who was not present.
Why, of course, Capt. Cross wasn't
present. snapped Mrs. Sanford. "If he'd
self ''NN "''''
MIR. 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
was concerned. the Commissioners
once more over-ruled the objection.
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 month
capt. Cross was transferred to the
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 IL 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 when she was sworn
before the Lexow Committee she slyly
kissed her, thumb instead of the Bible,
because she didn't mean to tell the
truth. She didn't think an oatn taken
that way without kissing the book was
binding. She tried to protect the cap
tains.
Until they. flashed that lost account
Then said to the Committee: Yes.
, tha,s my my book; and there's the thief
Mrs. Sanford pointed dramatically at
a Kodak mend, who had taken a stand
in the corner. behind Commissioner Muir
You don't mean to call that artist
''Oh, dear me. nor laughed Mrs. San
ford. her fat sides shaking.
II 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,
out she ayoia sors the terms destined
jured yourself" as cat would cold
water.
Reading from her testimony before
the Lexow Committee, Mr.. Hess asked
When YOU told the Lexow Committee
that you never gave dollar Of money
20 Capt. Devery. or Capt. Mclaughlin.
ialse?"
1T was true. saveit to their ward
men
of her reply. was stricken out.
the lawyer succeeded in obtaining
IRON Mrs. Sanford. after a long discus
sion of her religious beliefs and her an
i fsp that ths only true thing she said
before the Lexow Committee was that
the entries against &C." In her book
meant payments to the Captain in COM
mand at those dates.
Item by item Mrs. Sanford repudiated
her testimony given before the LeXow
: ommlttee in explanation of the entries
she said she lied to the Committee
when she told them she had paid $500
10 a political organization because she
had received an anonymous note saying
ho.se.
Il did get such note signed 'Anony-
NOUS but the rest is false" she said.
OF an hour MIR. Hess labored with Mrs.
Sanford identifying the handwriting In
the tell-taie account book
These entries, cheese, rum dress
sosts ,S and %hlskey s s,nd,e: Rice
daughter wrote. 'Bessie,', 'sundries.'
rum. run 'mlllS y were written by my man
r Then Mr.. Hess had Mrs; Sanford write
words two or three times each. There
were some variations in the "c's" and
"Cs" obtained from those In the book.
Captain" in the book April 20. 1893.
This was encouraging, but when Mr..
Hess Hess sought to follow It up with cues
"h i.H,n Mr.; Wellman interposed.
come here and testify before this Board
s ssd 'h Mr W TeaS Pr0t sSd h a
though Mrs Sanford had testified that
Aer daughter was now In this State, the
commissioners refused to permit Mr..
found.
Mr.. Hess passed the book to Mrs. San
lofd and asked her to find the entry
which indicated that $50 had been paid
70 smith in November, 1892.
MRS. Sanford put on her glasses over
her veil and hunted for the item. Now
and then Mr.. Hess would ask ques-
tion in soft, gentle voice and manner.
Have you found 1t. ma'am?"
you can read, can't you. madam"
Look again and see II II Is there"
At last Mrs. Sanford was ir a wash
81 Precipitation. and her hands shook as
she thrust the book at Mr.. Wellman and
bnrted OUT
=. Il won't. can't; I'm too nervous. AS
Ior reading. Mr. Hess ought to know
l can read Mebbe l have been a dis
orderly house keeper for ten years. but
. amt ignorant. I'll bet that was the
month l had all could do to pay the
Trent, and that there is an entry in
Mr.. Wellman found one. Dec. 7. Mr..
Hess said soothingly:
NOW, ma'am; you have won your
wager; tell me who wrote this"
Mrs. Sanford saidit was not her hand
TTrltlng nor her daughters, So II must be
nm Biglin's, adding, as usual, because
couldn't find my glasses"
,edt read: wv 3. Ward Man SMITH.
Suppose were to tell YOU that Smith
MAS out OF town from Dec. | to Dec.
lo began Mr.. Hess.
~ n" woman was plainly getting I'M
commissioners have sometimes sus-
tshed the motions and objections of the