The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-10
ANGRY ROW AT ADAMS INQUEST
HAMBURGER ACCUSES STOKES or
MURDER, But RACKS down.
You're IsppSFtedr' shouts AnsOnIs Hotel
Man Win Wh1se HOt AdditlOns-In-
~-i1tahle Names Called on both Sides
SINerdIct suicide -HandShake Finish.

OON INV - O~
running Jump into the limelight y~ester-
day morning at the inquest into the death
oRsAl" Adams, the policy king, by accus-
eng W. T.. ID. Stokes of numbering him.
VI his subsequent charge to the jury the
Coroner practically directed the jury to
ilnder a verdict Of suicide. They did so
without delay.
Then W. NJ. K. Olcott, WHO appeared
at the inquest in answer to a hastily tele-
pSousd request from Mr.. Stokes. arose
and insisted upon Coroner Hamburger re-
tracting thai part of his opening address
to the jury in which he had charged Mr..
Stokes with the murder of Adams. The
Coroner made the retraction.
sWe are not concerned with Coroner
H~arburger's private opinions said Mr..
Olcott. when asked after the smoke cleared
away whether Mr.. Stokes would take any
action against Hamburger. The Coroner
has taken hack his ridiculous charge against
my client, and that ends the matter 80 far
~ Mr.. Stokes Ia concerned. l shan't dis
cuss the matter any further
The charges mad against Mr.. Stokes
by Coroner Hamburger, to prove which
he did not at any time bring forward any
evidence. made the liVeliest sensation
that the Criminal Courts Building has had
IN q long time. They were made in a wordy
scrap in the main room of the Coroners'
Offices. While the verbal sparks were
flying, Coroner Acritelli, Assistant District
Attorney Marley, Al Adams, Jr., Police
Captain BurfeAd of the West Sixty-eighth
street station house. Chief Clerk Bausch
and a number of clerks and reporters en-
joyed the proceedings. They held their
breath in ACCOMPLISHMENT when Hamburger.
shaking with IA ge, made his accusation.
Hamburger was opening his mail In his
private Office when Mr.. Stokes, in whose
hotel, he nsonia. Adams killed himself
last week, entered the NCoreneT's Office in
answer to a Subpoena TO appear as a witness
at the inquest. Mr.. Stokes has asserted
ever since the suicide that Hamburger called
mp a news agency on the morning that the
body was discovered to say that there had
been a murder in the AnsOnia and to send
reporter there. There was much unneces-
sary notoricty about the case, Mr.. Stokes
complained. and his hotel, he said Nufered
In consequence.
Harburger swIunR abound in his chair and
said Good morning" abruptly az he saw
Stokes glaring at him from a corner Of the
0th&tH NbhN w q III hlIQ k4NI
Coroner Hamburger, ! want TO give you
The name. Of. an important witness, a bellboy
at the Ansonia, who hasn't been subpnnaed.
] gave his name to the police some time ago.
Why has nothing been done about il? /
want all tins thing cleared up.
Harbufxer glanced toward the reporters
before he Strengthened up to his full height
and walked up stage toward the main room.
You're handing in this name pretty
late, Mr., StokeS." he roarod with extreme
severity Of aspect. .,,..
Il gave IL TO the police" answered Stokes
shortly, while the sidelincs began to close
in. MY hotel has been suffering from
.notoriety, he continued with rising anger.
sWe've lost about s2O,OOO all because Of
statements hat have come from some
source I'd like to get at. III bring suit
against whoeve called mp the Associated
Press the morning OF Ada ms death and said
there was a murder in my hotel. Did you
do it,"
Hamburger. who had been advancing,
began to. hem and faw with signs Of indie
cision.
-This-this is public Office" he finally
answered ITS the most important office
Of the people"
Il know it's important, answered Stokes.
advancing toward the coroner. "and
like to see il occupied by foreign bred
political shysters. I'm an American. with
American ancestors. and ] should like to
seethis Office conducted in a dignifei Amer
lean manner.
Coroner Hamburger shook his finger in
Stokes's fushed face.
Stokes. you can't terrify me-" screamed
The Coroner: Il believe you had a hand
In this ao-called suicide. You want ed, too,
to suppress a possible murder"
You're a lar you foreign little II
His growing an ger was evident when Har-
burger, just before this, had also used an
epithet that may not be published.
WELL answered Hamburger with a
xneer, Il think | have the man needed in
this case, and I'll put you, you millionaire
Sonsl"
Stokes; now white with passion. pushed
back his coat and reached toward a back
He may have been reaching for a
handkerchief to wipe his dripping brow.
Hamburger cho6e to interpret the act differ
"A-a-a-ah!" cried Julius dramatically.
and with no evidence Of fear. He turned
and faced the reporters a. he yelled, pre-
Sumably to Stokes. -A-ah. You millionaire
you would draw a pistol on me, would
no: Ifdona have 10 draw a pistol On
people like You, was the retort. You
are not worth It,
you Puritan" the Coroner resnm ed.
you iliberal millionaire land a whole con-
Of asterisks, cannon crackers
and thingsl. Why, you most Irepeat /
above and M iBl on earth. if | lost my !
temper I'D spit in yOur face"
Why, you dirty little imported foreign
lust a plain lash herel If you did I'd knock
you down and stamp on you"
just at this point it looked bad for the
part Of. Julius. Stokes was adj
vancing on the Coroner. Hamburger simply
sputtered- This Was the point at which
Coroner Acritelli, 40 he aid later, was en-
thev verge OF putting mp his dukes to uphold
the dignity Of the CoroneT's office. But
rkokea didn't hit hamburger. and conse-
hently Acritelli didn't mix in.
You ought to be ~ncaroeratedl" shrieked
Il think you had n hand in
the death Of another man. You are the
man / suspect
Frank O'ConnOr. who IL Harhurger's
secretary, grasped his chief at this interest,"
ing moment and hustled Julius into his
Office and closed the door. Al
Adams, Jr., and Capt. Burfeind button
holed Stokes and too him aside. Then
everybody over to the other end Of
the building for the inquest.
The inquest, which Hamburger opened by
repeating to the jury his charges against
began a few minutes later. Acri-
Tell sat beside Hamburger and seemed 10
try to ouipt him. Stokes NOW white NTH