The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-20
PLOT OF BLACKMAiLERS.
8. w BRLDsHAM TEsTIFIEs FUR
TIER AGAINST BIG HAWIEX.

Prisoner Ampiy Nldentinea ne the Mas Whe
Had "Mrn. V,nrd- Under His WinE-one
LAWYER Founds That tho suit Against
BridEhnm was u e7Srnnii and Dropped Out
Detective Sergeant Robert Mcknight was
again q witness yesterday at the trial OF BIZ
Hawley, otherwise known as William Z. Wood
ward. the notorious crook, who is charged with
attempting to blackmnil Samuel w. Brigham.
Detective Mcknight said he was in the Office
of MIR. Bridgham's counsel, Franklin Bartlett,
when Lawyer James L. Brown called and asked
.or $4,000 to settle the trumpcd.up suit ngainst
Mr.. BRIGHAM for alternating the affections OF
the wife of a mythical James Ward. The law
yer represented tho matchmaking gang, tho de-
tcctivo said, and before leaving Mr.. Bartlett's
office offered to settle for $4,000.
At this point in the proceedings Big Hawley's
counsel said that no knew the man who had
sent tho Matchmaking letter to Mr.. Bridgham
and that he would produce the writer of the
letter in court IL the District Attorney would
agree not 70 prosecute him.
said Assistant District Attorney Carpenter,
and we will never agree not to prosecute him.
Lawyer John J. Hallignn was then called as a
witness by the prosecution. He said that he
had defended nig Hawley in police court pro-
ceedings in February. when Hawiey was ar,
Philadelphia jcwellcr.
Il next saw the defendant two months later
said the witness; "he came to my Office In April,
bringing q woman with him whom he intro
duccd as Mrs. Ward. He said that her hus-
and that she wanted to have tho default opened
80 that she might defend the case
ward nri'lE Won sa,d ta ahs5 h 1o t come 'h bae case Then InS ' he
to blackmail Mr.; brigham, AGAINST whom z
being the foundation for tho matchmaking
scheme. Haliigan, when he made the discovery,
DIV. mariner of Hlllignn, COrrObOrated Hall1-
. Lawyer Hugh Coleman testified that Big
Hawiey had brought the Ward woman to his
office and asked him to defend Mrs. Ward in a
Mr.. brigham was recalled to tho stand.
! He said he hud been served with papers in a
suit for 100000 brought. by. James Ward for
alternating the affections OF Wards wife, Euge-
MIA Ward. He had also been mentioned as CO.
Tespondent in In tn the won SomplalIq9 Int IA r. a nn SUIT nbd for E a..
Ward until lie was served with tho papers by
Lawyer, Brown. who disappeared after being
Big Hawley's lawyer cross-examincd Mr..
Brigham as follows:
9.SbiS SoS eyer lose q PRo Q, ,o.9 6 s s9', al n.
do, YOU know the house at le7 West
Odd you ever have any relations with
any women II" a. that itd house, ALL never did i'd;
| Q.-On Jan. ~, 1887, at D o CLOCK IN the arter-
noon, were you at Twenty-seventh street and
Broadway Al don't know.
,Q.,,Did you meet a woman at that time and
placcl
The question was objected to, and tho OBJ
lection was sustained.
Odd you meet Mrs. Eugenia Ward at that
time and placef Al did not.
,Q;m1sn't it true that you lost 2 pocEetnook
third street, Alt is not.
O. Were you ever in that housei Al was
not; never.
Q.-Well you wore willing to spend ten.
or twenty. or fifty thousand dollars to convict
man.
Justice Fursman finally interfered to stop this
style of cross organization. The trial will be
continued on Monday.