The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-20

to show me his hand, and he did,
but his fingers showed no 'erimp.' so I
knew he didn't wear a ring. I asked him
what he wanted for it, and he said any
where from $40 TO so. He appeared to DO
ready to accept $50. and told him to
cali again the next morning"
The witness told how Wilson had failed
to keep his promise 10 call the next day,
and the part he took in his subsequent
Identification and arrest.
Crane created a laugh when Mr.. Doug
LAS asked him whether he did not push
the matter against Wilson because he
was anxious to get the reward.
We'll, / won't object 10 IT," he said
with a broad grin.
Then the Prosecutor brought out the
fact that Crane had taken a live interest
In the matter long before he ever heard
OF a reward offered. He ws sure that he
did not hear of any reward at the time he
tipped the police.
John Woodson. another negro and dia-
mond broker in Philadelphia, the man to
whom Wilson apple in Green's Hotel
with a request for a loan of $3.50 on the
ring, was then called.
This man." he said, came to me and
asked for the money on the plea that his
mother died In Florida and he wanted to
go there. lie offere a telegram to prove
his story"
1t was further testified by this witness
that when he asked Wilson how he got
the diamond ring the latter said:
II was in a crap game and beat a fell
low out of a lot of money. l beat him
out OF the ring, and l finally bought it
from him.
After saying that Wilson told such an
affecting story about his mother that he
was moved to lend him $3.50. Woodson
elucidated by saying that Wilson appear
ed to be almost crying.
When / read in the newspapers" he
added, h a man was murdered In Or
ange, N. j., of the name of Romer and
that a diamond ring was missing, and 1t
popped into my head that this was the
ring and that Wilson was the man I told
the captain of detectives Of Philadelphia .
! This witness, like his immediate pre-
decessor. was also sure that it was not
the hope of a reward that spurred him on
to activity, as the reward was offered
afterwards.
He denied emphatically that he Civ
Wilson only S67 for the ring, as Wilson
stated in a confession. and that suisse
quently he, Wilson, lost his money gam
bling with the witness.
did you play monte with him?"
me, sir"
'Shoot craps?"
me. sir
Henry Waters. another Philadelphia
negro. a laborer, identified the prisoner
as having seen him in Green's Hotel or
the Sunday before his arrest. He had
seen him before, as he was acquainted
with him, and Wilson told him that ht
was a bellboy in a hotel.
He said he had n ring" Walters testi.
fed, land that he was In a closet"
This was as far as he was allowed tc
go for the present, as Mr.. Douglas OBJ
jected that the statement about to be
made about the closet was not made vol.
UNFAIRLY.
The defendant himself was called or
this point and asked whether he knew
Waters.
Yes. SIR" was the answer.
did you have a talk with him."
Yes, sir"
What did he say?''
Il didn't Suggest anything about I
closet" came from the prisoner.
WAS anything said by you to him,
asked Lawyer Douglas, that caused hin
to say anything about a closet?"
mo, sir" shouted the prisoner.
Then he went on to say that their prin
cipal topic OF conversation was an at
tempt on the part of Wilson to borrow s
from Waters.
NhSn TINS WilnesS was fechlieuk aIte
this intern.ezzo, which was somewhat en-
livened by half-subdued EXPLANATIONS o
oh" oh" from Wilson, he said that VIII
son said:
"A man came into the room in the hote
and unlocked the door. He got his nigh
shirt and this defndaut locked himself u
inside. The defendant had a button hoo
in his pocket and picked the closet doc
open, Then he said he asked him to com
out ard he flew upon the man, chloro
formed him and got tire ring"