The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-20
BROCKVAY THS7IFIES.
Nothing Ruffled His Tenn
per or Spoiled the
Smoothness of
His Tale.
PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATIONS
According to Him He is Just a
Nice, Clean, Innocent
Old Man.
PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATIONS
Speciai to The Jersey citu Netrs.

call Secretary OF the Treasury Carlisle
upon his appearance in court. The defense
was at once opened by the placing of
Brockway on the stand. Judge Hoffman
called him. Colonel w. E. Spencer"
and said take the stand Brockway
slowly walked to the witness chair. He
testified that his correct name was Will
lam E. Spencer, and that he was seventy
four years of age. His mother died when
he was an infant and when he was ten
months old a family named Brockway
adopted him. That is how he came to be
2slown by that name. Being asked if he
had ever been convicted of a crime he
answered that in 1S47 or 1S4S he pleaded
guilty to a charge and was sent TO Sing
Sing, where he remained year or So
About ten OF eleven years ago he was
again sent to Sing Sing for counterfeit
ing a railroad bond. He was never other
wise convicted and never pleaded to any
other charge
He was never arraigned for crime
against the Government. He became ac-
ouainted with DR.. Bradford at Sing Sing
in 1886 or 1887. Bradford was dentist
by profession and he (the witness) work
ed for him afterward, at cleaning and
polishing teeth. Bradford had several
the early part of the month of July last
he spent at Boonton with his grand
daughter. He visited the West Hoboken
house for the first time in February,
1885. He was taken there by DIR. Brad
ford. The latter said that it was his
COUSINS birthday and he wanted to cele-
brate it. Mrs. Smith was his cousin.
He stayed there with DR.. Bradford until
eight or nine O'Clock in the evening, hav-
ing gone there In the afternoon.
While at the house he went IN and
out Of It several timeg & for beer. bee ,sneg Ineg
whist He went to the house again in
the latter part. of May last, He was
In company win pr. t Sraadore, sa3,lo oo+nas Mno
There was no one there but Mrs. Smith
and they stayed only. about ten min
a1a a6e MrE hs smiths EI 'e son Henry we're ere
He never had any knowledge OF the
manufacture or attempted manufactqre
never had any conversation on the sub
met there.
cerning the things which the detectives
found in his room.
They were pieces of wax oil cloth
red red six. The wax, he said, belonged to
DR. Bradford and was used IN ms pnsl,
ness Of dentistry. The 9 pieces Of, Of steef eel
of which artificial teeth are made me
silk he had bought for his little grand
daughter who Used tS get It It tor tbsss woak- ax
ticles We're in his possession for any
criminal purpose. They had no connec-
ton Wt aaghing at or zee 2ssurpIng proner er
sion Of the $500 bill and the other money
Se Sgna oee e mis- TRe so b Wits hs e heas
of Lincoln cut off, was the one ne was
most closely examined about. He got
which he sold DR.. Bradford He did
not notice when he took the bill that it
was mutilated or altered. He, wanted
for 1t and Dr. Bradford promised to do
SO, but he never did. The witness put
the bill in a bureau drawer, where it
that he ever used it for counterfeiting
purposes. The other money came to
him in business transactions.
purposes and declared that he could not.
He was not an engraver. He had never
engraved a line in his life, and was neither
q chemist nor a photographer.
Under cross-examinatio the witness
told of his terms in Sing Sing.
s. 1875 & rfaa me reeora ol nls
to FIVE years Imprisonment for forging
Morris, and Essex Railroad bonds. This
he being sentenced by Re
corder Smyth. He served over three
years of that term, getting the remainder
The prisoner was forced to admit that
in 1880 an Indictment was found against
him in the Eastern District Of New York
for forging and counterfeiting a 81, 1000 |
United States bond issued by John Bron- |
SON
case showing that the prisoner pleaded
guilty. but was not sentenced to inlpris- |
cnmert owing to, important information
given by him to the government, On his
direct examination the prisoner had made |
no mention of this affair was close |
y. y examined p regarding his visits to the
his story that he had been there only |
twice. He admitted that the detectives /
vest pocket He did not see them mark I
The bill and could not say that the bill /
axeinitsed n eonr5 s IVA was the sane , one
money found on him was purchased by |
him from a New York broker. He was
wanted the eanadian money for ''e exchaage
purposes. He was going to the interior
Of the country and said by exchanging
of the discount His contemplated trim |
was after his first visit to tbs West /
house, hut il n-6 no connection |
with that visit. He. however, did not go /
to Canada.
BrocKway was next asked about his I
worthless Canadian bill which was taken
from him. He said that while he was T
running the Heiland Hotel at Rockaway
b stranger paid it oShim for board. He I
afterwards discovered thss i was the
10 be added to a collection OF such things /
which he kept His idea IN accepting I
I he bin in the first place vas TO earn the
sta naps and bills in a scrap book.
They're nice to look at, observed
questioning. could not rufae the old mars
temper or cause a ripple in the smooth I
On the redirect examination Brockway I
aid he contemplated a trip to Canada I
He was to go fishing and cunning.
What part Of Canada n inquired