Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-01-24
Tells HOW HE
COT THE MONEY
COL. MANN TESTIFIES IN THE
HAPeooD TRIAL
interesting Facts Brought Out Re-
aarding Method Of Doing 5usi-
ness With MiIIlonaires
OF New York

paragraphs written about E. c. Jones?"
the lawyer asked.
IT do not"
After you got the $4,000 did you
not write pleasant paragraphs%
Possibly then, and possibly before;
why should / not?"
"Why, of course, after you got the
money" said Mr.. Osborne.
Colonel Mann left the witness stand
at this point.
Edwin J. Workman, a reporter, was
the next witness. He said Justice Deuel.
told him that he ODeueD was the censor
Of Town Topics. The witness said that
the Justice also said that when Colonel
Mann was away he (DeueD was the
editor in chief and that at all times
he was consulted by Colonel Mann.
Judge Deuel." continued the wit
ness, gave me to understand that he
passed upon the legal aspect Of things
appearing in Town Topics. He gave
me to understand that his connection
with the Smart Set was even closer
than that to Town Topics.
"New Workers." Editor Testifies
The next witness was Robert Irving,
editor of the New Yorker, who is un-
der arrest on charge of libel brought
against him in connection with story
in his own paper. He was questioned
tense. Mr.. Irving said that he had
been a solicitor for "Fads and
Fancies." He received Is per cent on
all orders secured by him. He gave a
list of persons who ref .sed to sub
scribe, among them Andrew Carnegie,
Senator Russell A. Alger, William
Rockefeller, Mrs. Potter Palmer and
Cornelius Vanderbilt. He visited Mr..
Alger at Detroit and called on Grover
Cleveland at Princeton. At the time
he saw Mr.. Vanderbilt he thought that
there was some one near by concealed
behind a curtain, although he did not
see any one.
Irving, in response to questions by
District Attorney Jerome, said that he
had been told he would not be prose-
cuted on the charge pending against
him If he told the truth in this case
Ibid you ever threaten to roast peo-
ple?" asked Mr.. Jerome.
at had no occasion. to-" replied Mr..
Irving. at was all flattery."
Moses Ellis Wooster, who solicited
for "Fads and Fancies,'' was the next
witness. He said he gave up the work
because he found the interviews dis
agreeable"
The witness said the printer of "Fads
and Fancies" was to charge $4,000 for
turning out 200 copies. He said that
Harry Lehr subscribed to "Fads and
Fancies" and paid $500 on his subscrip
ton. This money was later returned
with the contract
"Lehr told me- said Wooster, that
he had been badly treated in Town
Topics.
Lehr, the witness said, called on Col
onel Mann, who afterward told the
witness that Lehr should not have beer
treated so badly and told the witness
to see Lehr and get him to pay the
e1,Iccriptioo Tn HEada and FanciaS -
Lehr Would Not Pay
Lehr, however, refused. Witness said
to Lehr that he (Wooster) was in
terested in Lehr's subscription to the
extent of 5000 and Lehr gave him a
check for that amount. The witness
said that pleasant stories were then
printed about Lehr for time, but later
the unpleasant ones reappeared.
Wooster continued his testimony
after recess. stating that Col. Mann
told him he was not to exploit the
columns of Town Topics for the pur-
pose of getting subscriptions to "Fads
and Fancies,"
The witness said he had asked Bishop
Potter to subscribe to "Fads and
Fancies," meeting him in Washington,
District Attorney Jerome then began
questioning Mr.. Wooster about "Ameri-
cas- Shart Set" a publication similar
to ''Fads and Fancies," which was pub
lished by the Society Editors associa-
ton.
"Was Americas Smart Set con-
nected with Town Topics?" asked Mr.
Jerome.
mot as publication"
The witness said that the price for Z
small paragraph in Americas Smar
Set" was $3.50 and for an extensive
write-up $500.
Among sixty persons who, he said
paid for being written up in this pub
LEGATION Mr.. Wooster named Col. JOIN
Jacob Aston and Reginald and ALFRED
Vanderbilt.
Mr.. Wooster denied, in answer to Mr.
Jerome's questions, that he ever sale
If a person refused to subscribe t
''Fads and Fancies" unpleasant thing
would be printed about him in Tow
Topics.
I'm your experience as a canvasse
you found the alleged society LEADER
to be easy marks? asked Mr.. Jerome
1T cannot say that, but society pub