The evening world., 1894-02-06
.M'kANE WAS AFRAID.
That's Why He Ordered Out So
Many Police at Gravesend.
Gaynor's Men Were Arrested for
Being There at Midnight.
Says McGinniss Told Hin a Man
Was Going to Shoot Him.

with the assurance that this would he
his last day of torture in the witness
chair, John Y. Mckane resumed the
stand this morning, in the Brooklyn
Court of Oyer and Ternincr.
For Il day and a half he had suffered
under he keen dissecting knife of Gen.
Tracy's cross-cXamination. The dam
aging nature of his testimony needs no
comment. 1t was d comfort anyway
that he was in the hands of his own
counsel this morning, for a time at
least.
Lawyer Roderick resumed the redirect
examination, begun just before court adj
1ourned yesterday afternoon. by asking
Mckane II he was actuated by any per-
sonai fear when he gave the orders to
sergt. Murphy about the police arrange
ments on election day.
Yes, sir, in some measure. John i.
McGinnis had told me that IA man rame
to Republican headquarters and threat
ened to shoot me-"
why did you walk away from Col.
Bacon when he began to shout Here he
IT didn't know hut what 1t was a plot
to get me into trouble, and | thought it
better to get away
What was Col. Eacon's manner at
Every excited"
Did you believe Gardner when he told
you that the mon had come down to
tors?"
II did not"
You say you did not believe him."
asked Justice Bartlett, turning around
quickly.
INC, sir: I did not"
Il thought you told Gardner that the
men might get shot If they hung aroupd
private houses at midnight" continued
the Court.
Yes; / said that, but 1 didn't believe
him just he same"
This finished the redirect examination,
and once more the Car was in the
hands Of Gen. Tracy for re-cross-exam,
i%nation. He hitcbed uneasily in his chair
as the g~ray-hairtd lawyer arose to be-
gin his interrogations.
First Gen. Tracy asked If when Police
Sergt. Murphy got leave of absence
on election day McKane knew what he
s; %I Understood he was fixing up
What do you mean by fixing up
u think he was building a house"
Don't you know for a fact that he
was doing police duty that afternoon"
II don't remember"
Now, you have sworn that the copy
lists were all drunk, except two or
three. Who were the sober ones?'
"All were manifestly under the in
fiuence of liquor except Gardner. Cahill
and a man whose name, l think, Is
staggered or reeled."
Can you say now why they were ar
rested?"
They were arrested for being down
there at that time of night"
Here Justice Bartlett interrupted by
asking:
had no right to be in Gravesend at mid
well the poin. is here" answered ,n,d
tie witness nery9us,y we we we're is ,old
and couldn't give an account of them
selves. Then / heard one of the party
gay: Here is the Town Hail. let's get
Gen. Tracy was at the witness in an
b you ever make that statement
before In these proceedings"
why did you leave it out?" .
II wanted other witnesses to bring 1t
"You were sworn to tell the whole
truth. were you not?"
.Mckane wriggled, but would not eX-
ss iSs,n t Tsy cry ne of n aIef not get s't The h r@oHilss'""
Gen. Tracy then produced again the
affidavit made by McKane In the manda-
m .has p Ge sad EXAMINED IN %nien the ne 9 G%rav SSena
registry rolls. and which statement he
contradicted on the stand. After read,
ing mat part or the aihuaNlt ten' irac!
asked:
Did you read part of the affidavit be-
II never heard of that part OF VI unit
I heard II here in court
The witnesses attention was called &c
some interlineations made with pen and
Ink betweet the typewriter lines tEs,
over McKane's signature, and asked Il
they were there when he put his name
to the document.
McKane couldn't say. He explained
hIo a~a ~ nTNn hr GlNinD that his
only glanced over the affidavit,
Il don't suppose | read five lines OF
that AFFIDAVIT before | signed 1t"
Justice Bartlett Il 6ked at Mckane
over the top of his glasses and askeG
sharply:
Did anybody tell you what was Ii
mo, sir"
DO you mean to say" continued Gen
Tracy, that o signed an aflidav,
consisting of four typewrltten page
after reading only four or Ave line
IT mean to say that supposed 1t Wa
all right. and | signed It."
This admission on the part Of the wit
ness had IA visible effect :on the Jury; =,
McKane left the stand at 1875 O'Clock
and walked TO his seat with the air o
a school-boy who had just been severed!
whipped. There das q plainly audtbl
sigh OF relief from McKane's supporter
IN the gallery, when he escaped from hi
tormentors.
The defense then called Willlpm NJ
McKeon Of Sheepshead Bay. I.awye
James st. Glendenning took up the direc
examination of the witness.