The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-01-30
Collier Would Put Town Top
les Editor In Sing Sing.
10 TRY EVERY MEANS
II Perjury charge Fails VIII Press
Matchmaking Plan TO Remove
Judge Deuel. by District
Attorney Jerome.

New York, Jan. SOL Unless District
Attorney Jerome changes his mind, he
win apply TO the appellate division Of
the supreme court for the removal Of
Justice Joseph NJ Deuel. from the bench
81 the court Of special sessions. Mr..
Jerome has made known this intention
To saveral associated with him In the
investigation of Town Topics, the 10
ciety Journal, edited hy Col William
ID Alton Mann and censored by JUS
tice Deuel..
There will he no criminal action
against Deuel., unless, again, the dis
trict attorney sees a new light. The
present plan OF the prosecutor is to do
ell he can toward the conviction Of Col.
Mann on the perjury complaint made By
Robert j. Collier, editor Of Golfers
Weekly. The colonel was arrested SAT-
urday night. The intention OF Mr. Col
lier il to confne his attention toward
Mr.. Mann, without making q special
effort to enlist Mr.. Jerome's aid ia
taking steps against deuel.. In case the
perjury charge does not bring convic-
ton, the publisher Is ready to make
further complaints against the colonel.
Ii was stated authoritatiyey yesterday
by one Of his friends that be would be
prepared, in the event OF an acquittal,
to havs Col. Mann arrested for black
mailing; and that, If the second accusaa-
tion should prove fruitless, he would
swear out warrants against the editor on
still other grounds.
In short, the proprietors Of Golfers
Weekly it can be stated on authority,
will not leave stone untuIned to put
Col. Mann in prison, and while they are
irving to do this, although they have.
expressed themselves as regarding JUS
tice Deuel. in the light Of an equally
guilty party 10 the operations oil Town
Topics. they are willing to cease their
attacks upon the latter and to be con-
tent with the district attorneys ef
fort to Gust him from the bench.
In the district attorneys office, yes
to-day morning James w. Osborne anil
Mr.. Collier met Assistant District At
torneg Hart, whom MIR. Jerome had dele.
gated to lock- after the matter in his
absenrA They were Joined by A. T..
Oslafne of Rochester and Col. Hay Of
Washington, handwriting experts, who
were called to New York to give their
opinions upon the handwriting on which
tic perjury charge is based. The letters
20. X, w. D. NJ appearing on a let
ter written by Count Reginald Ward to
~ Ellis Wooster, the "Fads and Fam
clos" solicitor, caused the complains Col.
Mann testified during The Hapgood trial
IaAt week that he did not write the in
doraement. Wooster testified that he
saw tho colonel write it. Charles S.
Wayne, ex-msnaging editor of Town
Topics, said that the handwriting was
that Of Col. Mann.
When the conference was over neither
Ny Osborne, Mr.. Collier nof Mr.. Hart
would SAP what they he'd been talking
ahont, but 1t was Learned that their con-
veFsRtion had related to the perjury ac-
tion against Mann.
The appearance of young man from
Mr.. Osborne's Law Office before Magis.
trate Walsh, in the Tombs police court,
earlier in the day, requesting a dozen
blank subpoenas for use in serving wit
nessos for John Doe proceeding,
caused rumor that such s proceeding
was about to be instituted against Col.
Menn This, however, was denied.
The next step in the perjury case, it
was said, would be Thursday afternoons
hearing before Magistrate McAyuy. The
magistrate probably will turn the COM
plant over 10 the grand fury.