The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-03

pOtntment and you. Know when o me-
.RpAfer and Martineau on Friday morning
Where Gerdron was to meet Berthe?'
why. did you meet Berthe on the morning
Of the shooting?"
81 wasn't so sure that she would make a
complaint against Gerdron."
But" persisted Mr.. Ely, why we're you
so ~interested?"
Because Gerdron had committed an
assault, " said Morton, and | did not think
he was the kind of a man that should be
around"
Mr.. ely worked himself up to a great
pitch in asking why Morton had brought
Berthe along when Morton considered
Gerdron a dangerous man. Mr.. Ely
tramped up and dow before the witness
and swung his arms until finally Mr.. Levy
said:
"The actions Of the District Attorney are
abusive, insulting and improper and l
Sustained" said Justice Davis, "as to
everything except insulting. / see nothing
insulting, 1t may be overzealousness.'
On his direct examination Morton swore
that he met Billafer on the night of the
shooting at Twenty-eighth street and
Seventh avenue. In the Coroner's Court
he said it was Twenty-third street and
Seventh avenue, Mr.. Ely then brought
Marcelle Meunier into the court and asked
Morton il he had ever asked them to be
witnesses for Berthe. Morton said he had
not. .'.n..
Didn't you say to Billafer and Martineau
that you had found two good witnesses
and that Berthe would beat it?
Il did not" replik4M Morton.
Didn't you say to Bnlafer and Martineau
We will all have to testify the same way
and the girl can beat 1t, as no jury will con-
vict her for killing a man like Gerdon,y" .
II never said that tothem or to anybody
sin the early spring OF 1905 weren't
you present when Policeman Brueck told
Berthe and some other women who were
lettering to move on, and you said leave
them alope2"
THAT'S not exactly what I said replied
Morton.
He never ate or slept in Berthe's rooms,
he said; but once he too some fruit there.
He went there with Billafer and Martineau
a number of times and sometimes when
he went to the fiat Of Lulu Becker, Berthe
wasn't there, but she came in later with
her mother.
Questioned by Mr.. Levy, Morton ex-
planned that he told Berthe to tell her sister
to make an appointment with Gerdron.
turn around and face the jury and tell
those twelve men if you were aver the
lover of this defendant"
"l-was-not," said Morton, shifting in
his chair and looking straight at the jury.
Did you ever procure witnesses for this
defendant"
II did not" said Morton.
Justice Davis then asked a few questions.
He wanted to know If Morton knew that
Berthe had a revolver the night she went to
meet Gerdron. Morton said he didn't.
Justice Davis also brought out clearly that
Morton's back was turned to Berthe and
that at no time did the policemen lose their
grip on Gerdron up to the time OF the shoot
ing. Then Mr.. Fly showed that at the Coro-
ner's inquest Morton said that when he,
NJ 4 a-l porthn AZ rtaI onrnoI tho
street lust before Gerdron was killed Berthe
was in the lead. j.,
Morton was on the stand from 1890 until
4 o'clock. At no time did he lose his nerve.
While he was a little nervous at the start,
he was self-possessed at the finish.
Irma Deon, Berthe's sister, was called
next. She remembered the night Gerdron
was killed, and through an interpreter she
said that on the Thursday before the shoot
ing she said she met Gerdron in Seventh
avenue while she was on an GRAND; He told
her he wanted to meet her sister on Saturday
night, and said: Don't forget to tell her
son Saturday morning" she said, I
met Gerdron at Twenty-seventh street and
Seventh avenue. He said. You have not
forgotten said No Then he put his $
pistol. That's what she's going, to get If
she don't come to the rendezvous he said. +"
DO you love your sister," asked Mr..
Ely,
Were you a witness at the Coroner's in
quest?"
Il was not"
That's all, shouted Mr.. Ely.
A Greek policeman named Edward Keno
dochius testified that on June 18, the night
eye and tried to choke her, he went to the
fiat with her, broke in the door but didn't
find Gerdron. 1t was about 2:30 o'clock in
the morning.