The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-18
LAWYERS AT SLEUTA JACOBS.
EA-JUDGE FURSMAN AND En-
GOV. BLACK CROSS-EXAMINE.
Didn't Get Much Change Out Of the
Ex.Car Conductor. Who Goes Over In
Detail His Alleged Play NJ Canfield's
and BurbridEe's-Case Goes On To-day.

70 take q mack at Sleuth Jacobs, who says
he gambled in Canfields place and In the
house at SO West Thirty-third street, in
which Frank Farrell says he has no earthly
or unearthly interest. When Judge Furs-
man and Gov. Black got through cross
examining Jacobs, their respective clients
fastened to remark that the witness had
shown that he was a lovely romancer.
To persons with ears having unprejudiced
drums, it appeared that Jacobs, on the
whole, made very fair witness for the
prosecution. But the cross-examinat ion
is not over.
The cases In which Jacobs testified were
those of David ". Bucklin, charged with
being tho manager Of Canfield's gambling
house at East Forty-fourth street, and Of
Samuel I. Smith. colored. charged with
being the doorkeeper of the Thirty-third
street place. Both cases came up on adj
iournment before Justice Wyatt Of the
Court of Special Sessions in the library Of
the Criminal Courts Building at 1890
o'clock yesterday morning The Buck
in case was called first. Buckln was
Is worn and questioned with the following
results:
O. What is your name? A. David W.
@ What Is your age? A. Forty-fve years
d Where were you born? 4, In Massa-
chllsetts.
q, Where do you live? A. At s East Forty
q How long have YOU lived there? A l
decline to answer. lBy direction Of Judge
Q What is your business or occupation?
\. decline to answer. lSame direction
@ Give any explanation YOU think proper
OF the circumstances appearing in the testi-
m2ny against YOU and state any facts W len
VIII tend to your eNCulpation. A. ] decline
TO answer Same direction from COUNSEL
Thereupon Jacobs was sworn. He said
that he was special patrolman Tor the
Citizens Union. that he first saw Buckling
on the night of Nov rs, at East Forty
first street, somewhat after Ii o'clock.
.. Did YOU go to the house alone? A. !
did not. / went there with a man named
Willard We went through the outer door,
which was open and pushed the bell Willard
spoke to the doorkeeper and We passed In.
We went upstairs and saw Bucklin. who
q. What Was saids A. Willard said This
Is a friend of mine. Bucklin replied How
dy' do? Make yourself at home" Bncklin
about five feet from the head of the stairs.
bow or, Is that an ro0m a, Quito saous
vide as. tbs room, THE library Is about
twenty feet wide
q What do you mean by an alcoye room?
=. II has an alcove railing. With kind of an
/. There was room back there with a
long table IN it, used for food, think 1t
had a cloth on it. Willard led me to the
q. How many tables were there? 4,
think three, two roulette tables and one faro
| bought $50 worth of chips at s? 50 each.
Jacobs then described the layout of the
faro table at which he played, told how
the game was played and said that he lost
the fifty. Then he played roulette.
q. How many chips did you buy' 4.
Twenty or s?5 worth. think the chips were
q Did you see Buckn asain' A. saw
him 60 to the tahlns and look at them
ma drplseuy \
evening suit also saw him speak to three
other parties, frs, two and then one, -.
introduced to Bucklin by any name? A.
smith, believe the name vas
Mr.. Smith" A. think it was something
like that.
After few more questions the Assistant
District Attorney turned the winess over
with Jaco b shortly after he was born in
Boston and got him to give an account of
himself from the time he left there at the
age Of IA, as a sailor on the Pacific. as a
miner, waiter. ranchman, deputy shei lii
and mar shall in the West and back again TO
New York, where he said he came TO live
about nine years ago. In questioning him
about his experiences as deputy sheriff I,
Judge Fursman asked:
did you ever shoot anybody
Il can't remember" was the answer.
o. How many men did you shoot' A.
Can't remember.
9. Eyer kill ANYBODY? A. No.
you do first? A. Worked as conductor and
transfer assn, for the Third avenue railroad,
Beaver, an officer OF the road.
q. Why did you ieave' \, was dis
q. bid you know why you were dischar ged?
4 Yes. | know. ! knew too nlnch about
the crooked work Of Nanghton 4 c.
fares? l. They said was but wasn't.
q. You testified in the Downs case before
Col Iertridge. did yon not A. | did.
The Buoklin case was here adjourned
until this afternoon at O'Clock. The
Smith case was called and Jacobs was
sworn again. He told of going to 80 Wes'
Thirty-third street on the evening Of Nov, 20
in company with his friend Willard, who,
Rossmore Hotel. Smith let them in and
told them to go up stairs. At this point
Gov. Black said:
III there are any other witnesses here
TO corrobo~ate this man ! ask that they be
excluded from the room"
Two men were ordered out Jacobs then
went on to say that he found another alcove
room on the second floor Of this house,
where there were also two roulette wheels
and faro table. He played roulette
lost $50 and quit.
o. What happened, then? \. We went
downstairs and Smith let us out saying
Good nisat. call again" | called or Dec
By Gov, Black You say you're a patrol
man for the Citi2cns' Union We're YOU that
on Dec. |? A, ! was
O. Then if. in your complaint, YOU swore
YOU were a clerk. 1t WASH SO. was it' a, No,
Q. DID you so swear? A. suppose did,
O. What's your business as foorwalker
for the Citizens Union? a. THE witness
looked puzzled amt no foorwaker,
Q. DO You know anything about the Cti-
zens' L. ion? \ No
Q. Isn't il mission of some kind? A.
don't think so.
O. We'll. you know what its prctences are?
A. | know its pretcn cos are good, Governor
O, OF course. else YOU wouldn't bc con-
nected witt it. Did you ever detect any
other gambling? 4, Oh yes.
y, I'D the cases ever come up in court?
A. tproudlyl Yes. indeed ! appeared many
times In court.
O, so that you were pretty well known?
A. | guess was.
o. And yet, after YOU had appeared many
times in court and were pretty well known,
YOU had no difficulty in getting into this
house? A. | got In.
o. Who sent you to that house, A. MIR
I.ippert
secretary of the Citizens Union.
O. Who made complaint OF this house
to this mission A ! don't know.
O. Did the District Attorney give you any
money for this business? A. No.
Gov. Black got the witness to admit
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