The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-31

seat at Freehold to-day was due entirely
to mistake made by Daniel H. Apple
gate of Red Bank who has been retained
to defend this case and who took 1t for
granted that the case would be heard at
Long Branch before Judge Heisley. Mr..
Apologize has already taken the necessary
legal steps to reopen the Judgment and
have the case reinstated. Mr.. Lamar feels
that the hasty conclusion which has been
arrived at by the people absolutely ignorant
of the facts surrounding the assault COM
mitted upon McMahon have done gross
injustice. At the hearing which occurred
in Long Branch on the day succeeding the
assault he declared through counsel that
he shared with every other law-abiding
citizen the adherence for deeds OF this
character and was willing to go as far as
any. other citizen In ascertaining the names
of the assailants."
Whatever Lamar's object was in cul-
tivating Monk Eastman, Joe Brown
and the prize fighter friend Of the pair
whose picture has been picked out OF the
rogues' gallery and for whom the New
York police are searching, he was at little
pains to conceal his connection with the
gang during their sojourn in this neighbor-
The men left a broad trail from Red
Bank to Long Branch and the detectives
who have been following their movements
during the five days preceding the muir
derous assault on Mcmahon have con-
nected them at their various stopping
places with Lamar or his men.
The most positive evidence to connect
Lamar with the movements Of the three
New Workers. in Long Branch is that OF
Harry Mc(iill the bartender in the Ameri-
can Hotel who identified Eastman and
Brown In New York as two OF the men
who spent the afternoon OF the Tuesday
preceding the assault hanging around his
botal up6ar tho surveillance Of OF
Lamars stable hands.
Lamar introduced them to the place,
having driven up with them from the al
rection OF Pleasure Bay. The bartender
did not know him then. but heard a stable
man from the Brighton Hotel address him
as Mr.. Lamar and tell him that his coach
man was waiting for him there, McGill
has since identified him from photographs.
At the Brighton Hotel Lamar spent
two hours and half in the barroom playing
pinochle with a man whose description
corresponds with that of Benjamin Smith:
While they were at their game guest OF
the hotel recognized Lamar and pointed
him out to the bartender as Wall Street
millionaire" Two Of Lamar's New York
friends called him outside and talked with
him for some minutes. Shortly before
he and his companions drove of In the
Lamar carriage.
1t was just a moment after that Lamar
appeared again at the American Hotel
and paid the score Of Eastman's gang,
taking them Off with him.
Mctiill might not have been able to iden-
tify the Eastman crowd but for little
incident woman who belonged In the
Eastman crowd was made the subject OF a
slurring remark by tipsy carpenter who
happened by.
Instead OF appealing TO her friends, who
were in the bar, she got hold OF the bar
tender and told him to get the man away.
For Gods sake, don't let my friends hear
him." she said. They'd kill him In
minute. One of them is a prizefghter.
The tipsy man was hustled away.
II wanted to see what the prizefighter
looked like McGill said yesterday. And
that's why looked at the three so closely
One of them who looked like jew and had
black curly hair was the man l decided
on and the girl told me was right
when I told the New York detectives
about the prizefghter they were able 10
get at the right bunch Of pictures right
away
Where Lamar and the crowd spent the
time after 8 o'clock is not known but he
and his companions Of the afternoon ap-
peared again at the Brighton Hotel about
1880 that night and played another game OF
pinochle.