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when you said my people. whom did

When you said my people. whom did
you mean?"
'sMr. Rappleye."
did you mean to conweysto Mr.. Noonan
the idea that you We're trying to get the
Pidgeon fencd, avoided the qustion,
but counsel persisted and thundered at
him.
Answer my question and don't fence
Il made no such remark replied Pid-
geon, turning very red.
Again counsel put the question and the
witness admitted INIT that he did not say
You didn't know the Pole?" continued
the lawyer.
Never saw him."
mo friends of his had consulted you
about the case?''
NO
'At a meeting which you have de-
Beck said to me ssPidgeon, 81 900 is a big
sum of money; Bosczowski's friends are
poor and haven't got It..
THAT was true
did you represent to Mr.. Noonan that
you were in communication with Boscz-
kowski's friends?" .
II still believe it. but l don't know any
thing about it, was the lucid reply.
Didn't you so represent yourself?"
Pidgeon did little more fencing and
tried little bad French by describing
the statement he had made about the
friends as a ssdouble entender.'
Judge Hoffman. read many passages
from Pigeons testimony yesterday IN
which the witness had told Noonan that
the Pole. When asked this morning II he
meant to convey that idea he replied
Il meant Mr.. Rappleye as friend OF
the Pole, Mr.. Dear as another.
DO you mean, really, that these were
the Poles friends?"
Yes, in a way.
"Weil. who were the friends of the
Pole?' asked counsel mailing witness to
the question, but the witness held on to
his previous reply that Mr.. Rappleye and
Mr Dear were the friends ne ne j in!enoeo'
What did you mean by calling the man
as a star crook 2?
Il suppose he is star?'
"Oh, theatrical person., said the
Judge and a ripple of laughter went over
the crowd, because Pidgeon said yester-
day he had been in the profession.
the Term star crook because he had
studied Superintendent Byrnes' book on
And you are familiar with criminals
then?" said counsel.
mot exactly"
Pidgeon was then led over another part
of his testimony where he bad spoken ,oi5 81 !
Weber & Fields, the Hotel Renard ana
the Star Hotel The Hotel Renard, he
said, was a saloon, an ordinary Ienoer-
loin resort
"A
me again; what's that?' innecentiy asked
aWell. that is the name they are known
by
"You drank there?''
wen. the rounds consisted largely OF
beer" replied Pidgeon;,,
Amy women there!
Did you know them?'
Casually
Didn't they go in there at your sug-
gestion?"
"Didn't one of the girls come up to yous, 81,
and say, All, there's my Eddle
fa from ne Justice JUS Lippincott that he would
clear the room if it were repeatedly =.
While Judge Hoffman was huntlng 10, doa
some papers the State called clerK reon
the office of the Clerk of the Supreme
Court. who produced the roll OF attorGneys 81 e
of the Supreme Court and the S.ass az;
proved that the names of NoohaH x any
Simnson were inscribed on 1t.
.I1dge Garretson read the oath taken
by attorneys and also the oath taken ken " ~
Mr.. Noonan when appointed Asslssans
Frosectter. .sat the hotel that night" continued
Judge Hoffman resuming the plucking o. q
sPidgeon after the clerk had le1t II .he
stand. stand didn't girl say that to your
..bidn't dpil a % girl named Lottie come UP
to you and didn't you tell Mr. Noonal NJ
that Lottie had $1,000 worth OF ana
monds'??' =.
Aren't you lyinsY
"Did You drink with her?"
yes certainly all of the crowd"
! Didn't she talk to you?"
| .She talked to all of US.
II didn't ask you thatg" said Judge
| Hoffman.
| .sWell yes. no,,
| mo. she called me Mr. Pidgeon.'
How did she know your name was
well I am well known in the Tender De
loin circles, and higher circles too
'Ja @oh You You belong to the 400 then of New
York;; Renewed merriment)
mo, but l am as good as they are
\ returned Pidgeon, doggedly:
| Judge Hoffman dived into Flageon1
connection with the Evening Journal.
and he admitted that all that he had evel
connection with the, case and his manu-
script had ben read by others.
| s'Do you remember going to the Hote
| Washington after you had been before
Of the bookkeeper saying, If this castt
goes on I'll own the whole, damned
''JournaP?"
mo, sir, I never made such ~,
ridiculous statement" SAID Pidgeon turn
! tender?"
mo" stammered Pidgeom :
"Were you at the Union Square Hote
/ last Sunday night at eleven O'Clock, VIII
| a man?"
/ "Yes."
| "Who was it?'
| "Mr Rappleye''
| Did you see a woman there?"
| yes"
she was in bed, was she?"
| Mo-
What was her name?"
"lmogene Coma"
you and Rappleye went there to tall
about the case. Didn't you tell her ina a,
Mr.. Armstrong had asked you to tel Ia
| you come to mention Mr.. Armstrong
because one night Beck and met hin
1 IN barroom, and Armstrong talke'
| about Noonan, and i wanted to talk
her about Simpson, but as her HUSBAND
| was there didn't mention it.
''And that's one Of the things you nav a,t
side of reporters work."
Yes
i s.Do you remember the night you an
| Mr.. Rappleye were at the Hoffman Pal
ace on Third avenue? The night
! rained?"
And you, Beck and Rappleye wer
'nszss 's1ss. ana colshel sheflaeld Phelps wa
There was a promiscuous gatherin
there?"
4 YES"
with your editors? 2"
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