New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-13
Wendell EVIDENCE IN.
LIQUOR SOLD IN ARMORY.
Defence Calls No Witne&ses-TO
ReriezU Case IN albany.


Of his command. was resumed yesterday. After
a large number Of witnesses. some of whom had
been formerly. connected with the battery, either
zs Il borers or members. and some Of whom were
still connected with II, had testified TO the sale
OF liquor IN the armory, TO the stabling OF out
side horses there and TO the payment OF per-
eentage Of wages 70 the captain, the prosecution
rested. No witnesses were called by the de-
fence and after Colonel Alexander Bacon, coun-
sci for Captain Wendell. had delivered speech
a. which he said the present inquiry was the re-
suit Of an Infamous conspiracy the case was al
4ourned. subject TO the call Of General LLOYD
president of the court. General Lloyd SAID thll
the evidence presented would be considered IN
Albany
Second Lieutenant Nickel of the battery who
was the FIRST witness called. said he had seen
liouor sold IN the arnory IN what was known as
the kitchen, upstairs. He said that the last lle
he had talked to Captain Wendell the latter hao
told him that Edward Martini. the former as
distant engineer at the arnory, who testheo
yesterday against the captain, would never get
s fob If he could help It. on cross-eXaInlha'loh
Nickel said that he had heard ruInors that he
was TO succeed Captain Wendell but hao .r1eu u
silence them. and had even at one time handed
in his resignation, which Captain Wendell hau
refused to accept As for the so-called indigna-
.ion meetings which he said had been held at
his house In Paiisade, y. J., st which affairs OF
she battery had been discussed, Nickel said they
were informal gatherings and were unprennedl-
9ated.
Mr.. Bacon asked the witness why he lleu-
tenant had invited to his house laborers ana
army employees Il It had not been for the purpose
OF hostile action against Captain Nehoel' anu
Nickel replied: 'T invited ell tbs boys. Lieu
tenant Louis Wendell. jr., came over once.
sssT that he had
been approached by one, Ringleman. who had
offered him a brIbe to leave the city. He also
said that Martins mother had asked him to
fake her son over to his home In New Jersey. as
she was afraid he would be kidnapped
SAYS wendell GOT RECEIPTS.
Sergeant George Maschke. the next witness.
said he had served liquor at entertainments in
the armory IN the capacity Of commissary ser
geant, acting as cashier on several occasions.
Twice he said, he had handed the receipts TO
Sergeant Jansen, and on two other occasions
had given the money personally 10 Captain
Wendell. He didn't know what the money was
used for nor who had bought the liquor. One
of the walters whom he had seen serving the
members OF the battery, he said. was named
Cohen and came from Wendels hotel
AIaschke thought that the hostlers in the ar
rnory and not Martini had started the trouble for
en- offer Of Wendell tc get Martini a position
after the latter had been discharged from the
hattery In continuing, he said that on the day
he went down TO the District Attorneys office
policeman told him that he could get any
ernount OF money If he would get out Of the city.
Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Blunt Thurston
inspector Of small arms practice, n. G. n. 7"
v-as called to the stand and said that Richard
Zimmerman, iaritor Of the armory, had called
on him two years ago. complaining that he had
been paying over TO Captain Wendell part Of his
salary. and had been discharged when he re-
fused TO do so longer. Colonel Thurston de-
clared that Zimmerman also told him that ne
had been collecting from Anton Trail and Jacob
Johannes, the latter a saloonkeeper, and had
been turning over the cash TO Captain Wendell.
Trail and Johannes denied TO me that they
had ever paid any money to Zi1nrneTn1an' SAD
further, and asked him II he had delivered the
last months money he had collected to Captain
Wendell He replied that he had kept that
money himself I thereupon reported the mat
Ter TO headquarters I afteI#ard learned that
Captain Wendell had discharged Zimmerman for
his apparent dishonesty"
When Captain Wendell was told Of this
Colonel Thurston said that he told him that
when he received money from the city for the
payment Of employees in the armory he sent
man to the bank with the money. and did not
handle the cash himself
WOMAN GAVE TIP.
Colonel Thurston said he received an anony-
NOUS letter last fall, in feminine hand writing.
telling him that employees !n the armory were
being obliged 10 rent houses from Captain Wen
del at $50 a month If they wanted 10 hold their
positions. He wrote 10 Captain Wendell but re-
ceived no reply. Later Major General Roe re-
ceiEed similar anonymous letter.
Before retiring, Colonel ThUTston asked per-
mission 10 explain the report that he had kept
his horse in the arnaory. He said he kept his
horse be used for battery purposes; that he
paid for shoes for his horse and expenses Of its
transportation when taken out for military duty
other than battery work.
The next witness was Sergeant Jansen who
told how a partition in the armory had been
removed to Captain Wendel's hotel and used
there q lunch counter. He said that the
partition was brought back to the arTnory last
II was further learned from the witness that
the city had been losing for some time, AT the
rate Of 20 cents day, every horse stabbed in
the arnnory. and that while there were exhibit
tons at Durland's Riding Academy, across the
street from the srnory, as many as thirty or
forty horses Of exhibitors were stabbed in the
srnlory at the rate OF 81 a day each. The Wit
ness denied that there had been horse sales In
William Ftnkeistein, a diamond merchant and
Captain Martin GTimscart testified that each
had stalled horses in the ernory at the rate of
30 cents day.
the aImoTy. said that from January 1899 until
MAY. 1903, he paid over TO Captain Wendell out
Of his wages Of $50 month, $40 a month In
that period he said, he had paid over to Cap
tsin Wendell S3.440. After he had been dis
charged he wrote 10 Major General Roe telling
him what had happened in the previous years
and received In reply a letter from Lieutenant
Colonel Wingate saying that nothing could be
done by headquarters at that time
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