The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-22
CHAMPE S. ANDREWS ACCUSED
And ,Ia STAYS -Wlfc Or Sw ndlcr Stro'
.u,drr says the Lawyer Got Her 10
pend Property over on Agreement
iuoi I,r'd Not Prosecute Her husband.

.,,,-.,vl ur. staving IN this country Chanpe
,,.rrw- counsel for the County Medical
s..,.. .r,iicd las, nigh, no, to sail for
.,.. mn. morning on The steamer Albert
kur.t
,...,.w. cane 90 this conclusion after
...s.,,r,e wi'h District Attorney Jerome at
;.....I,. Conn. Yesterday When he re-
,.,,.i from Lakeville last night d detective
,.- .,.u,lug for him at the Grand Central
station. hut On his promise 10 Acting Dis
ala attorney Cans that Ire would post pone
l.,,i, he was not arrested pending fur
,,,, .,n-tigation which will bs made by
Instinct Attorney Jerome when he returns
TO hl.,l.y next week.
-, Charge ug cNtortion has been made
erl,Y-, Andrews by Mrs. John A. Strosli-
der D,. wife Of hunco stcefer who was
.,rp-.ri ou June ~ On the complaint OF
f., John \ Harris. who alleged that he
lid ne.u >w!ndled by Strosnider and his
r.i. tio, rye Mckee. out Of 81? 500.
>ru.u.!er and Mckee were arrested In
pr uari-'S apartments, NJ H. Riverside
Ir,lye, hy Detectives Reardon and Plat of
ipr District Attorneys Office. The Dis
rrrt A,torney's Office had cooperated with
the County Medical Society in making
,.umbcr If arrests and when Andrews asked
for assistance it was presumed that the
,ase had something to do with the medical
society.
According to the story which has since
leen told 10 Mr.. Cans by Strosnider and
Mckee Strosnider, who Is also known
a. SNYDER had met Harris in Europe. When
ne returned to this country he introduced
Mckee to Harris as Il gambler who was
ready to throw down gambling syndicate
on the last card in a faro game.
ctrosnider says he took Harris to a sup
rcsed gambling house in the Tenderloin,
one prepared for the purpose, and there
Harris los $40, 900. After that II was pro-
rosed that Harris, Mckee and Srosnider
form a partnership. and they met at Harris's
house on the night Of June 20 ostensbly for
that purpose.
According to the story which has been
told to Mr.. Cans by Andrews Harris on
the LAWYERS advice, lost q, 500 more in the
hope that Strosnider and Mckee could be
caught by private detectives who were
watching them. This fell through but
Mckee and Strosnider were finally arrested.
After Strosnider and Mckee were arrested
Andrews told the newspaper men that
they had swindled Harris by getting loan
on forged. stock Of bona fde company.
For some reason, not yet explained, Stro-
snder gave to Harris two notes for $l2, 500.
When Strosnider was arrested he had
$500, and on his way to Police Headquar-
tiers he AVS that Andrews and Harris tried
to get the money from him, promising to
return the notes, but that Strosnider re-
fused to give UP. Andrews admits that
there was some talk about the $500 and
the notes, but says that it was simply to
get some admissions from Strosnider.
The next day Strosnider was held In So.
900 bail and Mckee was released in
$500 bail Then Strosnider's $500 and
jewelry which he had pawned for $ 800
we're attached by Harris. On the night OF
July 4. Mrs. Strosnider says; Harris called
her UP at her home In Flatbush. Harris
says she telephoned to him.
As result Of the telephone talk Mrs.
Strosnider went to Harris's house. She
SAYS Harris told her that Andrews had ar
ranged 70 put the case against her husband
before the Grand Jury the next day and
that Jerome had been looking for her
husband for a long time and wanted to
railroad him.
Andrews was there, too, she said, and he
told her that unless her husband made
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he Andrews, had great influence In the
District Attorneys Office and Mr.. Jerome
would do anything he asked.
She says she asked him what she could
do, and he told her to decd over 8 house
in which she had an equity OF 5000. An
drews warned her. she says. that the case
was going before the Grand Jury the next
morning and she couldn't delay.
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lawyer. Milton c. Gray, and it was arranged
that Mrs. Strosnider, Gray, Harris and
Andrews should meet at the Manhattan
Hotel at o o'clock the next morning. 1t
was after o'clock before Mrs. Strosnider
left the Harris house.
The appointment was kept at the Man
haitian, and Mrs. Strosnider decided over
the house to John S. Cooper a clerk In
Andrews's Office. At the same time she
says she signed a statement dictated by
Andrews in which she was made TO say
that restitution was made voluntarily on
her part in the hope Of clemency for her
husband. 1t is true that the property was
transferred to Cooper, and Mrs Strosnider
has started a suit to recover 1t.
Andrewss version of the midnight meet
ing at Harris's house is that Mrs. Stro-
.hider went there to ask Harris not to prose-
cute her husband because it would dis
grace her young son. He says that Harris
sent for him after that proposition had been
made
Mrs. Strosnider says that Andrews told
her that if the property was decided over
'herc could be no prosecution IL Harris
"'t the country. which he could do She
also says that Andrews wanted her to sign
some iapers and it was then that she sug-
f'-ted that she ought to see her lawyer
first.
II Is fact that Strosnider's case was on
Vie Grand Jury calendar for the day after
'he midnight meeting. Andrews had also
lIomIsed Mr.. jerome that he and Harris
would appear before the Grand Jury that
cay They didn't show up. The same
afternoon Harris failed to appear before
Magistrate McAvoy in the Tombs police
court where StIo5nider and Mckee's case
ha0 been set down for hearing,
Andrews has told Mr. Cans that he ex-