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+. sons store in North Hudson, testified that
he sold a trunk to J. B. Wills, No. 55
Park avenue. wills on this occasion was
Wilson.
Detective Prescott testified that he and
| Detective Larkins arrested Mahaney and
Edwards in a house in Broad street, New
| ark. They found Wilson'S tools in one OF
| the trunks found there. Part of the plum
der was found in Wilson'S house on Sum
/ ner avenue, Newark. when he was ar
rested.
Detective Larkins followed Prescott and
gave a brief story of the arrest. He and
! Prescott tracked Mrs. Edwards and Mrs.
| Wilson to Newark. When the women en-
| tered the rooms in Broad street the de-
| tectives pushed their way in. Mcintyre
| gave Larkins a fight but was soon over
! powered.
Lawyer Rowe made a brief opening for
| the defence and called Henry ]. Berry as
the first witness. Berry keeps a clothing
store in Newark. which was robbed. He
| found his property afterward at the EN-
pire Loan office. Some of the property he
claimed and took away. He afterward
| gave some to Muscone. Muscome said thai
a man named Hunter and a Detective
Kerrigan of Hoboken instructed him to
| claim everything in sight.
Berry, who has been, subpoenaed as a
|! witness for the State, was asked by Mr..
Van Wrinkle if he knew why he wasn't
called.
Yes replied the witness, .sbecause I
was seen talking to Mr.. Rowe during re-
cess
The witness admitted that he had not
paid the reward he had offered for the re-
| covery Of his goods because all the goods
! had not been recovered.
| John Rub, who lives in Minetta lane,
New York, and played the banjo In Nc
Aleerss saloon. No. 81 Thompson street,
which Mr.. Van Wrinkle characterized as
a thieves resort, testified that he intro
duced Wilson to Mahaney in McAleer's
place on February 3D.
isn't McAleer's place a notorious resort
for ~thieves?s asked Mr.. Van Wrinkle.
"Weil, 1 don't know, sir" replied the
witness, hesitatingly.
Under what name did you know Ma
haney?"
Jack Sheppard. I never knew him by
any other name
Mrs. Madeline Edwards, the reputed
wife of one of the defendants, testified
| that she IS a nurse and now lives in
Greenwich. Conn. She knows Edwards,
Wilson and Mahaney. She met Mahaney
when she was a patient in the hospital
on Blackwelps Island. Edwards, to whom
she was engaged to be married, was with
him.
The important testimony given by the
witness was that when she and Edwards
were boarding with Wilson, in Hoboken,
two men whom she did not know, called
occasionally on Wilson and he went out
with them. She identified the trunk in
court as one that Wilson had given to
her. She saw Wilson drive to the house
with a wagon on two occasions On cross
examination the witness admitted that
she was not married to Edwards and
that she was the widow of a man named
Smith.
Mrs. Minnie Ponkoski, of No. 5s3 Baltic
street, Brooklyn, was an important WIT
ness for the defence if her testimony is
believed by the jury. If she told the
truth she proved an alibi for Mahaney-
The witness testified that she had a BIRTH
day party at her house on Easter Sunday
and Mahaney was there from five O'Clock
on Sunday afternoon until six o'clock on
Sunday morning.
Mabaney was the next witness. He tes-
tilted that he lived in this city for twenty
years and that only the thieves in Null
berry street, New York, meaning the
police. called him Jack Sheppard" He
knows Wilson. The first time he met him
was on February 10 in McAleer's saloon
on Thompson street. The witness had a
room there. Wilson brought a message
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see Cohen the next day. The witness de-
MED Wilson'S story in detail. He denied
everything except that he knew Wilson
and went to board with him in Hoboken
/ because Wilson asked him to.
oWhat was Wilson'S business?" asked
Mr.. Rowe.
but he seemed to be a burglar at
night
The witness admitted that he had a suit
Of clothes made a Mascone's, but denied
that he was at Mrs. Carrolps house the
morning after the robbery or at any other
time. He said tina when ne was ar
rested he was on his way 0 Philadelphia
and had stopped in Newark to visit
4 Edwards. On cross-examination Mr.. Van
4 Wrinkle asked him how many names he
had and he replied that he could not re-
member.
aWhy didyou have to use SO many
names in the oplishing business in which
you say you were engaged?" asked Mr..
Van Wrinkle.
II didn't nave to use them in the pol
ishing business
what did you use them for?"
Suppose you had a good mother
Never mind supposing anything" in
terrupted Mr.. Van Wrinkle; what did
you use them for?"
II didn't want to bring disgrace on
my family"
How many times nave you been in
trouble?'
THE Lord only knows
Mr.. Van Wrinkle then produced Ma
haney's prison record and the defendant
admitted that it was correct.
According to the record he was sem
tenced to five years in Suffolk eount
Mass, 1866; four years in Kendall county,
ILL.,; five years in Philadelphia, five years
more in Suffolk county,, and five years IN
Concord, and five years more in Phila-
delphia; two years In the House of Cor
rection in MASSACHUSETTS and five years in
New York.
The State rested with Mahoney's cross
examination and Court adjourned at a
quarter before six O'Clock.
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Yesterday that he had ever beeTS IN Philip
Muldoonfs cigar store xWillfafk Muldoon
testified that he had seen Nahaney in the
Mrs. SOPHIE Genado, Of No. 400 Bfoad
street, Newark, where the defendants
were arrested. was called to refute
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