The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-30
BUNCO MEN AND DOCTOR NAN.
nINCO AHEAD, so FAR, AND EX.
TREMELY FRANK ABOCT IT.
(n,mpe Andrews Tells Of HIS Arrest. and
Dr. Harris says ITS Wife's Nervousness
Made Him Anxious 10 settle-Nirs.
, .,rosnlder's Lawyer Ceatradicts Her.

MaU0 III" AuAbVuS W SCttAC-NsHS'
.,rosnlder's Lawyer Coatradicts Her.
After an all day session the examination
o. thampe S. Andrews. counsel for the
County Medical Society, on the charge Of
e1tortion. was adjourned at . O'Clock last
niuh, by Justice Olmsted In Special Sessions
until Monday morning. Mr.. Andrews.
who was represented by Austen q. Fox
and George Gordon Rattle, made general
denial OF the charge that he compelled
Mrs, John H. Strosnider, the wife Of bunco
man. to deed over a house on hvprotnise
that her husband would not be prosecuted.
He was corroborated by Milton c. Gray. .
lawyer, who acted for Mrs. Strosnider.
and by DR.. John A. Harris, Andrews's
client, who was trimmed Of 81, 100 BY Stro-
snider and his accomplice. William Mckee.
The cross examination Of Harris will be-
gin on Monday morning.
How we skinned q sucker was the text
Of the frank testimony Of Stroshider and
Mckee. They are both big men, over
feet each. and they were dressed in the
style that BELTS an industrious chevalier
OF bunco. Strosnidcr was the first witness.
He said he was gambler and bad been
arrested in the District OF Columbia. 4
ran crooked foot raoe--the people bit easy
but was burned" he said. Then he adj
mi,ted that he had served Ave years in the
Trenton prison.
AT hard labor?' he was asked.
i didn't call it hard labor" he replied.
1T was a inch
Il first met Harris in Paris" he said;
We did the cafes and white places together.
You see wasn't averse to separating some
of my acquaintances / met In Paris from
some OF their money. I had my valet and
chauffeur with mo and was hitting II up
pretty hot When I mot Harris I know
was up against pretty slick one. Harris
and had dinners together and We went
automobiling together.
when We came back from Paris to this
country met Harris again. He called mo
up on the phone and asked me II was
investing in good things In Wall Street.
went up to SEQ him. He said something
about starting subway bank. He wanted
me to put up Sc, 900 against the go, 900 he'd
put up. He even took me down TO Twenty
third street and showed me hole In the
ground, where he said the bank would be.
was to be the president. He showed a
spot In the hole where my desk -ss going
to he. He talked SO slick that for day
thought l was bank president. Yes.
did.
We'll, I told him I'd thiAk the thing
over. was next to his game It was
UP to me to mako a proposition to him or
he'd get in ahead Of mo. He got in ahead
Of me again He raised the stock sub
scription in the bank game to $780, 900.
didn't like to do Il. but I signed my name.
Then called In my pal, Mckee. told the
doctor that Mckee had a good scheme
to beat q faro game, and arranged for
Mckee to meet the doctor at the doctors
house. We had a couple Of rehearsals. OF
this faro game. and the doctor bit. told
him we could sit in about three times a
week and make about $4,000. He thought
it was pretty good.
Strosnider told Of the night he and DR..
Harris went to the gambling house. 1t
was a gambling house rugged up for the
occasion, with a real policeman on the door.
Mckee was the dealer Of the faro game.
and Strosnider said Harris bought $4,000
worth of chips.
Il bought $4,000 worth. too said Stro-
snider. "Our code didn't seem to work.
The doctor lost the $40 ,00o-and 30 did /. '
Harris went back to the gambling house
The same night, according to Strosnider,
and asked if he could get in again. "Oh,
cert; you're member now, said Mckee.
strosnider told how, they got $500 out
Of Harris after that at tho same game.
On the night Of Strosnider's arrest he had
1850, $500 Of which he had borrowed.
and he went to H&rris's house, where there
was to be another rehearsal Of the faro
game. Harris wanted to count the money,
but Strosnider wouldn't let him. Then
Harris pretendedto pay couple OF painters.
who were really Detectives Reardon and
PA,t OF the District Attorneys ofiioe. and
S,rosnider's arrest followed after fight.
MKee, who was the next witness, was as
breezy az Strosnider. and told practically
tho same story.
Mrs. Strosnider told OF visiting DR..
Harris's house tho night before tho COM
plant against Strosnider and Mckee was
dismissed by Magistrate McAvoy because
DR.. Harris failed to appear. She said
that Harris telephoned for her and that
SITTER few minutes Andrews walked into
the house.
Andrews told me- she swore; that
unless transferred my property to him
by Q o'clock tho next morning he would
nave my nuBD6uQ uOlCtcu tAuo OoAAs W
Sing Sing. Is sure a. there ~. God In
heaven. Iasked Mr.. Andrews II he thought
1t was fair to treat woman 80, and he said
he thought Il was. DR.. Harris told me
that Andrews was 70 get $4,000. and the
more liberal ! was TIE moro Andrews would
get and the more disposed he would be to
let my husband or
1t was Justice McAvoy's first day on the
Special Sessions bench He was called a.
witness He said that Lawyer Andrews
told him in the Magistrate's court that DR..
Harris would not press the charge; that
strosnider had given two notes, and that
civil means had been employed by Harris
to recover the money Strosnider had bun
coed him out o. Justice McAvoy said he
couldn't remember that Andrews said that
Harris had fed the jurisdiction.
Then the prosecution rested. Mr.. Fox
announced that Mr.. Andrews would not
make the formal motion for . disrnissal
Of the case, but demanded an examination.
i don't intend to make any argument,
.aid NJ. Foz. 81 mis-. &c perfectly .r-
parent that the position Of my client II