New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-10
ALL SAY THEY SAW AUSTIN
TESTIMONY by OTHER ADIRONDACK
GUIDES.

THEY AGREE THAT THEY COULD NOT BE MIS-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. HIM BY HIS PORTRAIT.
The defence in the suit against the Mutual Re-
serve Fund Life Association for $4,000. the 'hsur
ance on the life OF John c. Austin. piled up
mass OF corroboratIye testimony yesterday In sup
port OF its contention that the man Is still awe.
The trial Is before Judge Patterson and a jury
IN the Supreme Court. On Monday Coone II. u
James for the insurance company, introduced iour
witnesses who were positive that they saw AUSTIN
in the AdIrondacks after the date OF his alleged
drowning at Manhattan Beach, July 4. 1891. Yes
terday other men from the woods also declared
that they had seen Austin in the Adirondacks IN
1882
After the cross-examinatIon of Charles o. Bart
lett who had testified on Monday was iinished py
Mr. Trul Edwin W. Hayes, OF Saranac Village
was called In summer he Is guide: In winter
carpenter. He declared that in August, lss2' ne
saw at Hatchs Hotel, on Big Upper Lake. man
whom he identified the original OF the portrait
OF John c. Austin exhibited by Colonel James. The
man had on corduroy trousers. high lace SHOES anu
a broad brimmed hat He also saw the man AT
| the Hotel Ampersand and at Millers Hotel. Hayes
| at that time had been guiding Gardner Huopard'
| of Roston He noticed the stranger particularly
because he thought he might get a Job from MIN.
| The witness admitted that photograph OF Austih
! had been shown to him in March, 1893. by guide
| named Thomas Haley. He saw other photographs
later and last week In this city saw the life-size
portrait which was offered In evidence by the de-
| fence. .
WAS that your first rehearsa"' Mr. Truli
asked significantly
| Colonel James was highly indignant at the In
situation and demanded that the question be ruled
out was stricken from ,he vin9 at
Village testified in corroboraon OF Hayes re MAS
eq as guide With by the
persand Hotel. in 1892 and recalled reaoy une ea,,
the kline man .r e the
boat painted lead color while the 1tn s, re-
He. remembered that 1t was ,h stormy hny d wss
and the stranger who sat In the ,srn pow ~ ans
left about or o'clock next morning. King no =
ced that the men had camping oH ,nr a gona
to Paul Smiths" said King. That's about forty
miles by water. They left going up the lake
Lake LAX he rs saw in the bard.rOom in September
tache and gray or light blue eyes The man was was
a5 s Sc Sounds eE FL aSed
defeating his companion short e. sn fS
same man al Mlllers Hotel, wearing a broad;
bmmed nat and ggngs The witness ,1a ide mt te
man noe Whom Whom he saw at the algonquin Hotel:
BY the ouse o Lake. deed
Austin as whom ne saw at the h tSe sbo9
thickset man described by the other witnesses for
Walter B. Martin. guide, living at the foot Of
persand and Algonquin hotels 80. and at Upper M s.a
nnE sept a0 1872 he was guiding John L. Lock
tSSoug Of iniS w Ss saw the in white
hat and his companion In the cranberry :, L @s
so light that 1t could be easily carried from lake
to lake The in the white hat however was ,a
cranky, and would not talk The trial goes on To-