The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-15
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a oase which has hccn whlsf~rrd alnu,
In Brcohlyn ~ a scanial Affecting = euod
many p-oris vas ,rie,i IN Jula~ Asplnalis
cuuft In that borough yesterday ono
~ thoss who listened 10 Tho testimony
trough, out vas District Attorney C1arhe,
who animated that he waa not through
with n.
The defendant was Mary iieddenI o
nineteen.yeaT.oid hayward girl, Win haa
been put ~ a servant IN the housp % ~
Mrs. 0usaie Heyfnan AZ 1eO Arlington aveni,s
by Mrs. Ida NJ. Tietjen. tho probation
oficer Of Magistrate Furlong'a court. She
was accused by Mrs. Heyman Of stsal-
ing clothing valued az $40. Tho jury 40.
Quilted her after she had told O story Of
an assault committed upon her In tho house
by Frank .Grossbard. n friend Of Mrs. Hey.
man. Grossbard IL president Of the Gross.
bard Realty Company. wns tho Bon Ton
Theatre and Ia o political friend Of Magis.
trate Furlong. According TO tho .testi.
mony, the larceny charge was brought
against the girl after che had Drawn tup
an AFFIDAVIT making tho assault charge.
Grossbard denied the charge In court yess
terdsy after there had been some testl.
mony M to efforts made by persons To- get.
the girl to withdraw IT. such effortsttbat
Judge Asphalt said that the girl seemed TO
have been sought aft es ~by twossetssof
men,
The Hedden girl was defended byTawyer
John Mcclure, O member Of the Board Of
Elections and Magistrate Furlong's politi-
cal antagonist In the old Twenty-frst dis.
trict In BrooklynM&
Mrs. Gussie Heyman; the complainant,
testified that the girl had beer brought
to her house by Mrs. Tietjenj the proba-
ton officer, remained three months as a
servant and was then discharged as the
result Of complaints made by Mrs. Hey
mans mother. After the girls discharge
she found the girl had taken clothing from
the house and she went to Magistrate Fur
long and swore out q warrant for her.
Lawyer MCCLURE in his cross-examina-
ton asked Mrs. Heyman IL she wasn't
known as Mrs. Grossbard. Certainly not"
said Mrs. Heyman.
Are you not known at the Bon Ton
Theatre as Mrs. G~rossbard?"
'No, sir; Lam known there as Mrs. Hey
man." answered the witness.
She was asked IL Grossbard lived with
her. She said that he was a boarder at
her house. 1t was then brought out by
Mr.. Mcclure that Grossbard has a wife
blocks from the house of Mrs. Heyman.
ant1-tk ~. lri,n1 tht, 1ha .v1 atN
girl because Of the charge against Mr..
Grossbard2' Mrs. Heyman was asked.
Il did not. l brought it because my
things were stolen" answered Mrs. Hey
man, who asserted then that the girl hadn't
brought the assault charge until after
her arrest on the larceny charge.
Mrs. Tietjen, the probation officer, testi-
fed that she saw the prisoner in Raymond
street Jail, and asked why she had pleaded
guilty to the larceny charge. The girl said:
Because the stolen skirt was on me-
Didn't you threaten her with ten years
In prison on the larceny charge If she did
not withdraw the charge against Cross
bard?' asked Mr.. MCGUIRE. =
Il did not" said Mrs. Tietjen. Mr..
MCGUIRE then wanted to know II she had
gone to the Jail with a lawyer named
and obtained from the girl a state
ment that the assault charge was untrue.
This Mrs. Tietjen also denied. She testified
that when the girl was arraigned before
Magistrate Furlong originally on the charge
of being hayward the Magistrate had
put her in charge Of the girl. Mrs. Heyman
previously asked her for a servant and
,he o the girl to Mrs. Heyman's house.
Are you sure that Judge Furlong didn't
ell you to take her to Mrs, Heyman's house''
"Yes, sir, I am SURF of that"
How did you know Mrs. Heyman2"
@She had one to Judge Furlong and
lsked him to send her a servant, and the
had turned the matter over to me.
he turned the girl over to me I thought
hrs. Heyman's would be a good place to
AXE her."
Didn't you know that Mrs. Heyman
md Mr.. Grossbard were living together?'
mo, sir, / don't know it now"
1t was then brought out that the day
lfter the girl had beer looked UP in Ray
nond street Jail on the larceny charge
irossbard had gone to the jail and bailed
Ter out.
How did you happen to be there at
hat timer" asked the girls lawyer.
We'll, | was there to take care Of the
.irl, answered Mrs. Tietjen. That ended
he prosecutions side, and Commissioner
doGuire opened the case for the girl. She
at beside him, dressed in a white waist
nd a black skirt.
Mr.. Mcclure said hat the case was with
'ut a parallel in criminal practice.
This girl Of eighteen, motherless, the
ward of the Court, is charged here with
larceny. She had been sent by a
,olioe magistrate, who knew the character
u the house, to a house where a certain
lived with a nan whose family
ived only three blocks away. While in her
'wn room in tina house she was assaulted
ne night by Frank Grossbard, who was
living with the complaining witness. After
his she left the place, She told her en-
to a lawyer and made affidavit
o her treatment. Then the conspiracy
,egan TO work. This woman, who was on
stand. advises with her friends and
wears out a warrant. The charge was a
ubterfuge, a device on the part of the con-
to get Mary Hedden out of the
way, and to hush W a scandal"
Mr.. Mcclure said that he would convince
he jury that the girl got the clothes as =
from the. woman who made the