Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-09
BARBARA kU2'S CASE.
She Apparently Does Mot Fear Today's Ar
ra'gnment-Langerman Feels Better.

New York, Dec S.-Barbara Aub will
be arraignct before Recorder Goff, to-
morrow morning, in part OF the court
of general sessions She will he called
upon to plead to the Indictment charging
her with perjury in having accused Wal
ter L. s Laugerman of assault. 1t Is
not likely that the girl will plead, for she
has no counsel Since her aunts tried in
| vain to have her consult with a lawyer,
| Friday no other lawyer has seen her. The
lawyer retained by Barbara's aunts has
made no further effort to talk with her
Owing to the girls poverty it is quite
probable that Recorder Golf Will assign
some one to defend her. The fact that
counsel has not yet been assigned led to
| the circulation of rumor, yesterday,
that the district attorney will move for
the dismissal OF the Indictment and that
| it will lc granted.
| This seems entirely improbable, for it
| Is announced that the district attorney is
| in possession of ample evidence to convict
| the girl. The chances are that post
poncment of the pleading will be bad,
and that a motion will be made for the
appointment of commission to inquire
| into Barbara's sanity.
The story that she is preparing state
ment is pronounced to be entirely untrue
| by all the prison officials. A sensational
newspaper, yesterday, offered Barbara
| Aub $500 to write another confession,
which of course, should contradict every
| thing she has related up to date.
As matter of fact, Barbara Aub spent
most of yesterday in crocheting She is
| rn I'M haa God in
| two days to bring lace cap almost to
completion. She is cheerful and contented,
although she had been told frequently that
she will probably be sent to prison for il
| long time.
Whenever she is spoken to about the case
she smiles a placid, meaningless smile,
stares far off and repeats mechanically the
words, Il have nothing to say" Her
habit Of silence is 50 strongly fixed that
when visitor asked her about the at
tempt to bride her she ut once assumed
her fixed smile and stare ANA said, Il have
nothing to say.
Langerman looked much improved af-
ter long nights sleep. Some color has
returned to his cheeks. He said he in
tended to return to his business as law
| clerk Mt No. IA Nassau street in IA few
of some friends. His old air Of the blase
man is slowly returning. He declares
tn It he Is perfectly willing to appear as a
witness for the prosecution when Barbara
| Aith is put on trial for perjury.
Colonel H. j. Haire, Langcrman' : coun-
sci, when asked whether or not Langcr-
man would bring an action for false i'm
prs Dnment, replied that he would not.
L. II.
| Aub case was the fact that she was once
the ward of 81 former mayor of New York
W. Il. Grace, He said, yesterday, il
IVES so long ago he could not recall dates
or names. II was one of the incidents
Which most men in public life meet with,
Mr.. Grace thought Barbara's mother
ca ne to him with letter of introd uction
| FRI ~ some friend. Such things are com
mon. Ii WAS ia his first term
Il remember, however said the former
mayor, that Mrs. Aub was handsome
woman, and evidently of some education.
| She told me that her husband was
| Hebrew but thas she herself was a Chris
tian, and she had been brought up in Il
convent by impression is, that there
WAS "a divorce, or, ut least n separation.
| She said that she was very poor and she
| pl, AIDED hard for her two children. She
wanted to bring them up well and give
them af good education, and she begged
mo to assist her in getting one Of them
| into q convent
| II communicated with Mother Therese
of st. Joseph's Academy, Flushing l.. l.,
and Barbara was sent there. | paid for
her, as l subsequently did for another
child, so that there came to be what was
called the Grace scholarship. Mother
| Therese wrote me several times ahout
| Barbara saying that she was Il very bright
girl and doing exceedingly well, ard
asked me to go out and see her. l could
not do that in fact, | never saw the girl
but naturally / took an interest IN her
and would like to see her do Well. She
ought to be placed in goods hands and sent
| away from here to begin life anew under
/ har tor conditions -