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Yes"
..Did you understand him?'

Yes"
Did you understand him?"
Eyes, how i easy"
the A Attorney TORI ey General, beckondng to the
lawyer referred to.
"Yes. he was my lawyer"
Didn't the witness, Mr.. lnterprelSr,
saw. NV lawyer also'?" interrupted Mr..
Speer, and the interpreter answered NUM-
Yes"
"Then why don't you say all that he
says?" asked the lawyer sharply, ana the
Court admonished the interpreter to give
every word the Pole said, no mabter
what it was 1t became so difhcuIt 10
know what was really said by Boscz-
kowski that the Court said
"I'l have to stop this Interpreter, he
doesn't understand evidently Whal the
ASK him continued the Attorney Cen
eral to the Interpreter, II ne Sne wrn,e
came to see him?"
Yes replied the interpreter, "he wrote
down all right in his book
"Oh, confound it, that's ALL muttered
the Attorney General, as he figuratiyely
threw up his hands.
Mr.. Tony Szcymanski looked on his
rivals disgrace with glee and explained
it by confidently telling the lawyers that
the States interpreter didn't speak nigh
toned Polish.
The defence refuseds to examine any
further and Bosczkowski left the stand.
His keeper took possession of the famous
book and a few minutes afterwards left
the room and took his charge back to the
prison cell in Trenton.
His Highness Tony Sczymanski, of No.
Is Forrest street, Interpreter Extraordi-
nary to the Court of Hudson, next took
the stand He speaks Russian, Polish,
Slavish, Yiddish, German and any old
language, as he is fond of saying to Illus
trate hs fluency in ''high-toned" English.
when did you see Bosczkowski first?"
asked Judge T. F. Noonan.
81 remember it by the fact that the
jail
What did Mr.. Simpson say to you?"
'He sent for me and said, Tony, |
want you to go over to the jail with me.
Bosczkowsh wants to see me and l don't
know what he says.
What next?v asked counsel.
"I went over and Mr.. Simpson shook
hands with Bosczkowski and gave him
his card and said, If you want me to de-
fend you it will cost you $1,000, and
BosczkowsM said, I haven't the money
money from friends in the old country,
and | will send you some"
What did Mr.. Simpson say?"
HE said, .all right !"
Now, Mr.. Sczymanski, didn't you make
statement before Judge Garretson, MT
Rappleye and myself about the transac-
tion in the jail"
And did you say in their presence that
Simpson asked Bosczkowski if he had
money!"
..I did,
.And did you say in that interview that
you did not remember just what was
said after that, but you thought Simpson
Bosczkowski said: Come back again in
a few days?
mo, sir
..Did you in that interview before Judge
| Cor mr.
over with him to the Jail and read the
affidavit to the Pole and he stopped me
saying he didn't want his plea changed
because he had taken the money'?'
That's correct
did you say, after coming from the
jail, to Mr. Manning: Its very funny ~,
asked the Attorney General
Il didn't say it that way
Answer the question:.
Il didn't say 1t that way, repeat"
Attorney General.
Il said to Mr.. Manning that Mr. simp-.
son was very much interested
Did you say, before Judge Garretson
and Mr.. Rappleye, that you said to Mr..
Manning: I was surprised to see Mr..
Simpson in,' and Mr.. Manning said he
didn't know that Simpson was in, and
the next thing I saw was the story in
the Journal Did you say that?"
81 did,
I'm that interview before Judge Garrett
son ana MT. Nappieye, QlQ you say any
thing about LOCO or any amount of fee
which Mr. Simpson asked?''
Il can't exactly say
DO you not remember that you did not
say one word in reference to Mr.. Simp-
sons asking a thousand dollars?''
THAT question wasn't put to me and
didn't answer"
please answer my question: said the
Attorney General, "Yes. or no?'
Il didn't mention anything about it for
the reason that it was not asked"
Ernest ]. Hudson, of Jersey City, news
with the World said he knew Louis
J. Beck having been associated with him
for three years on the '.World' as a re-
porter.
DO you know his reputation for truth
and honestly,
veracity.'
character"
.It is''
"Cross-examine,' said Judge Hoffman;
but no questions were asked.
When this witness left the stand the
defendants counsel offered in evidence
Mr. Joseph M. Noonan's check received
from Surrogate Lillis on the occasion re-
ferred to by Mr.. Noonan; the card of the
fake Bohemia Publishing Company, run
by the Journals precious creatures,
Beck and Pidgeon, and the sign of the
by the highly moral gentleman, Louis
r. Beck, with the assistance of his equally
notorious associate. The affidavit of
Simon Buttner, made in Silver Dollar
|. Smiths place, was also offered and when
these were put in, but not without vigor-
Gus objections from the States counsel,
Judge Hoffman said:--
1.-THE defense rests.
A few minutes before the midday re-
cess the State called Max Ensen City
Editor of the New York Journal who
said he knew Beck and Pidgeon, and, so
far as he knew, their regulations for
truth and veraeity were good
It's simply your personal Judgment
then?" asked Mr.. Speer
Yes
eDid you ever hear anything said
against their reputations?"
Never"
John H. Neiden. Of Jersey City,
said that Beck and Pidgeons regulations
for truth and veracity were good; but on
cross-examination' by Mr.. Speer, witness
said he only knew it from discussion
in a newspaper office among a few men
Samuel Fontaine also New York
ssWorld. reporter, said he knew Beck
and Pidgeon and he thought their repu-
tations were good, SO far as he knew He
admitted, like the preceding witness, that
he simply heard the matter discussed in
a newspaper office and that's all he knew
He didn't know where Beck lived and
didn't know Beck's reputation among the
neighborhood in which he lived.
Frederick Shipman, of the Brooklyn