New-York tribune., 1902-04-17

DECLARES HE HELPED PUT
"SICK NAN" IN CAB.
WOMAN TESTIFIES IN MAULIFFE IN
vESTIGATION. AND CORROBORATES
STORIES OF COHEN AND LENNON.

New and important testimony. not only in
itself but in its corroborativeness of that pre-
xiousIy given by other persons. was related at
tho night session Yesterday in the Criminal
Courts Building before Justice Mayer Of Special
Sessions of the secret investigation into the
death of James McAuliffe, whom the police nave
been accused of putting out OF the way oe-
cause he was witness against Giennoh' the
convicted wardman. The witness was Wo'hah'
Mrs Joseph Lngs. the wife of a Hoboken long
shoreman. and her testimony corroborated tfat
of Aaron Cohen and John Lennon in the cnlel
points.
Mrs Luigs lived in Manhattan up 10 seven
,.aors AGO Most of her childhood spent in
Tho naiehborhood of the West Forty-seventh-st
station. and she attended school in the scnooi
building just east Of II.
According to a report Of her testimony given
before Justice Mayer and District Attorney
Jerome last evening she came to this city from
Hohoken on the Saturday before the Sunday
NcAuliffe died 10 spend the night with friends
living In Twenty-seventh-st. The next morning
Sunday she walked from the home OF her
friends to her fathers home, in Fifty-third-s'-
Her route was up Eighth-ave
A. Forty-seventh-st she decided to cut
through TO Ninth-ave. past the schoolhouse she
had attended as child.
While approaching the station, she testined'
che COW, = cab standing in front of it and two
men assisting a third down the station
stems and pushing him into the cab. The man
ba;,r assisted she described being a sick
man" from his apparent Weakness
.fter receiving its occupants. the cab. she
said turned around and proceeded toward SlNth-
ove Another point of her testimony was tnilt
she saw a man standing near the foot OF the
station steps A policeman ordered him away
Al this point Aaron Cohen was called INTO lhe
Chambers 1t is said that Mrs. Luigs identhed
him as the man she saw ordered away from tnS
steps
John I.annon, the other witness. VINO mas tes'i-
fed 10 seeing the incidents. was callea
into the Chambers Mrs. Luigs was asked II ne
,,.as one az the men who assisted the sick man
dow, tho steps She answered that he was not
one Of those two men. but was the one who she
rarnembered followed the cab through Forty
seventh-st. toward Sixth-ave
IDENTIFIED SERGEANT KIERNAN.
Then Detective Sergeant James Herman was
ca1,ad in Mrs Luigs identified him positively
az one of the two men she said she saw carrying
tho "sick man" down the station house steps 10
the cab.
On this point District Attorney Jerome gave
ont the first authoritative statement OF Wnat
has occurred in the CHAM bers since the lhqusl-
ton began.
Mrs. Luigs positively identified Herman" he
said ~ reporters. when the session was over at
IL 20 o'clock she very positive"
-r,v no added that she said she knew him be-
oa,,s. che used to see him coming in and out or
the station seventeen years ago, when she was
nIaving therea bouts and he was IN UNIFORM OH
nost dntv District Attorney Jerome smiled as
he said this and added that Herman had never
b.sn on duty in that precinct until two years
ago VI,
later in the conversation he said that kier-
na,, had said IN the Chambers that he had not
been in the precinct until two years ago. but
that he was not under oath when he made that
statement.
"Jf this woman is positive in her testi-
monv does that offer grounds for the issuance
of a warrant" District Attorney jerome was
asked.
At the end of the hearing kiernan. VINO had
haen in and out of the Chambers several times
durine, the evening called in for a last IN
terview with Mr.. Jerome and Mr. Lord No
other witnesses were present Ineh ne caihs
ONT of the room and went away
oII He 20 eavs no testimony except 10 answer the
cnaS+,on about his service in the station and
that was not under oatn
lanes Herman. the detective sergeant was
cauad before Lennon and he identified him on
oath as one of the men he saw putting the man
in the cab at the West Forty-seventh-st. sta
ton. , . -, .
conferance with District Attorney Jerome and
Police Commissioner Partridge IN this city on
Saturday regarding a request to have the Attor-
ra,, General of the State conduct investiga-
tion of the McAuliffe case before the grand
Jury The request was MADE py persons VINO
a arnarently are not satisfied with the investiga-
tion now being conducted by Justice Mayer.
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