The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-06
BARBARA AUB'S CASE.

Goff Gives His Opinions in an Inter
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New York. Dec. 5.-Surprises continue
to be the rule in the case Of Barbara
Aub and w. L. 8. Langerman. It was
confidently expected, and the district
attorney had so stated, that Miss Aub
would be arraigned in court today to
plead to the Indictment for perjury
found against her by the grand jury
on her confession that she had lied on
the witness stand in saying that Lam
german had forcibly assaulted her.
The corridors Of the criminal court
building were janimed with the expect
ant curious. who wanted to see what
the young woman looks like now that
she has become the central figure in
this most sensational case.
For en hour barbara stood in the
prisoners pen at the emu of the bridge
connecting the Tombs and the court
building. waiting to be brought to ,Ae
bar. With her was Mrs. Foster, the
"Tombs Angel" who Is ministering to
her comfort.
Assistant District Attorney Towns
end who had charge OF the prosecution
OF Langerman. said that the, girl would
be arraigned as soon as the Indictment
was filed. The grand jury entered
Part I. of General Sessions at II O'Clock
and filed the Indictment with Judge
Cowing. 1t recites In the usual form
the fact Of the girls confession. and
charges her with perjury A few min
utes before this Colonel Fellows, the
district attorney. who is directing the
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Tamsen in Part H.. openly announced
that Barbara Aub would not be ar
raigned today.
Lawyer Levy, who had been engaged
by Miss Aub's aunt, went to the Tombs
to see her today. There ne met with
repulsc that staggered him. When
he Informed the girl that her aunts had
engaged him as her lawyer, she calmly
replied:
II am very much obliged to my aunts
for getting me counsel, but do not need
any lawyer"
She insisted that she did not want any
lawyer. ana Mr.. Levy went away to see
the women who had employed him.
When all this was going on LANCER.
mans counsel was busy in another di-
rectlon. Lawyer Haire applied for n
Writ or habeas corpus and writ Of cer-
tlorari before Justice Andrews of the
supreme court, ordering the production
OF Langerman and all the papers in the
case. The writs are returnable to-mor-
row at 1880 o'clock.
Recorder Goff in an interview has re.
piled to some of the questions that are
being asked by the press and the public
about his conduct in this case. He de-
clares that the reason Ne did not COM
NIT Langerman on the evidence in his
posisession, that he had been guilty on
several occasions Of the offense with
which he was charged in the Aub case,
was that the evidence was not Of such a
nature that he can compel complaint.
He could not, he said. overcome or over
rule the modesty Of the women who
were his informants, and besides. Lam
german had not succeeded in his evil
purpose in any of these cases In one
case he had instructed the district at
torney to investigate but ne had been
unable to secure any legal proof.
The recorder said he was not Of
opinion that his remarks to Langerman
were unjustified or had a tendency to
blight the character of an innocent
NAV. Fe denied that he had charged
Langerman with crimes, but merely
to.u AIM that were II not for the dis
inclination of modest women to sub
ject themselves to the ordeal Of inquiry,
he might have been called upon to an
swer for other cases.
He said that he had not the slightest
evidence one way or the other as to
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Barbara Aub. Her confession, he said,
was made after she had been repeated
ly cautioned to reflect well. 1t was
made In the Office Of his law partner in
Broadway, and in the presence of four
women.
Her statement" he said, was made
very slowly. Each sentence Of 1t was
taken down in shorthand and read over
to her by the stenograplHsr. Then each
sentence was Transcribed by him on tn
typewriter and again read to her When
the statement was completed 1t was
read to her once again as a whole by
the stenographer. Then directed that
1t should be given into her own hands
and that she should read it herself, tax
ing all the time she wanted In doing SO.
This she did. She read 1t carefully.
Then she was sworn again. After the
oath she signed her name to It,"
The Recorder adde that he did not
put one question to her in the nature
Of cross.examination, and that her con-
fessioh was absolutely voluntary.
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