The evening world., 1894-04-12
ADLER ON The STAND.
Denies that He Forged Notes or
that He Knows Who Did.
His Father Gave Them to Him and
He Took Them 10 kraus.
Handwriting Experts Flatly Contra
dict Each Other.

Chiroyraphy experts have been pitted
against each other in the trial OF young
Oscar Adler for forgery, in the Court
Of oyer and Terminer, and they have
differed materially.
Til experts for the prosecution, David
y. Carvalho and Daniel 7. Ames, say
with emphasis that the forged names 10
he notes which Maurice ]. kraus, OF
Bloomlnr!aia Bros. discounted for
Samuel Adler. oscars father, were writ
ten by ono and the same hand that in
dorsed Samuel Adler's name to checks
given to Oscar by Bloomingdale Bros.
II the jury believe that they will convict
oscar Adler.
Counsellor Houses experts in behalf OF
the defendant are quite sure that the
different specimens Of signatures, In
iorsements and writing may have been
written by as many different persons
as there are specimens. The
defendants experts in C~hirography
though, are not as eminent as the famed
Carvdlho and Ames.
not at all from the testimony of the
defendants experts. and Lawyer House
to-day, with the object OF making an
uncommonly strong attack on the bull
warks of the prosecution, intimated he
would put the young defendant himself
on the stand.
Lawyer House first called John Nc.
Clean and George orr, Of Richmond
Hi, l.. l., to OFFER their evidence, as
supplementary to that of Editor Solo,
mon yesterday in establishing the good
character of the accused.
Then oscar Adler was called. He said.
in answer to questions by Mr..
House, that be was nineteen years old,
| had worked for his father. lmuC Tor
two years. Before that he attended the
public school in Sixty-third street, be-
duties at his fathers consisted Of keep
bills.
He was never employed as a regular
bookkeeper for his father. he said. both
his two brothers, Abraham and Harry,
and his, father and himself all wrote in
| the books.
The witness was led to speak OF the
suicide Of his father while Mr.. kraus
was in the house to secure a settlement
upon the notes involved in this prose
Cution. Speaking of his first meeting
with Kraue, the prisoner said:
My father took me up to blooming
dale's, and ne went over to a window to
talk to Mr.. Kraus about some notes.: he
kraUs: This is my son Oscar. When
ne comes up with a note give him a
check for it, and in the future give him
checks for all the notes he may bring.
My father did not say to kraus that
| was his b]ookkeper. / took. as far as
| remember, eight or ten notes for dis
teen or eighteen, why his knowledge is
better than mine. | did not know where
any of the notes given to me to take to
kraus came from. | did not know who
wrote them or how long they had been
in my fathers possession, before he di-
reCted me to take them to kraus.''
Il hand you fifteen notes. which you
took from time to time to Kraus. Are
any OF them in your handwriting or
not?" asked Mr.. House.
NO. sir. they are not
II dii not"
notes.
NJ sir; I believed they We're genuine
notes at the time
Lawyer House then handed the de-
PENDANT the 100 note of l.. +. Robertson,
dictment against him. and asked him:
Did you write that note"'
II did not"
Did you write any part OF it?"
Not a pen mark on the face or back
of that note was made by my hand"
Mr.. House then developed the fact
and Forty-ninth street on Oct. II last
and has ever since been confined to the
Tqmbs awaiting trial
ming his cross-examination, handed Adj
Ter a check drawn on April 3, 1893. by
Maurice J. kraus, for 1865. TO the order
OF samuel Adler,
Is that your signature on the back
asked Mr.. Osborne, indicating the In
dorsement,. Samuel A. Adler, O., A"
Yes. SIR"
Was II your habit to indorse your
fathers signature on backs Of checks?'
Yes: at his request ! Endorsed checks
frequently"
Mr.. Osborne endeavored to induce the
witness to explain just how much he
knew OF his fathers transactions with
l." +. Robertson Il Co, Bleier Bros. and
other firms, Adler admitted to a slight
sonal relations with these firms:
Mr.. Osborne called upon Adler for a
sample OF his handwriting. Attorney
House and Judge Steckler We're on their
feet in a jiryi directing, vehemently.
The Cour sustained the objection.
Mr.. Osborne said there was but one
legal privilege that permitted a refusal
to write. and that was on the ground
that an answer might incriminate him.
Judge o'Brien ordered the Assistant
matters, and Mr.. Osborne asked:
DO you know a girl name May En-
mett?"
II do not" answered Adler.
Lives on West Twenty-third street,
doesn't She"
II don't know her"
Did you ever play the races?"
An objection by Mr.. House was sus-
tanned, and the witness did not answer,
The defense rested at this point, and
to show that the elder Adler said to
MIR. Marks. in the presence of the de-
PENDANT. that Oscar was his bookkeeper,
Mr.. Hous objected, but was overruled.
The Court. after Marks's testimony, or
dered it entirely stricken out.
Mr.. House then summed up the
case for the defendant.