The evening world., 1908-12-24

cabman. doggedly. He told me when
| got on the stand to look around sharp
ly and identify the defendant"
Did you talk to any man about THIS
case from last Wednesday, when You
were first on the stand, until SUNDAY?
No. said the boy, after long hesita-
ton.
An. inch at a time it was drawn from
. the boy that he met Walter Skely, a
laundrymar of Bay Ridge. and Edwin
Andrews. sr. witness FOR the STATE AMI
a member of the club, at Murray Hin.
two miles from Flushing, last Sunday,
before the automobile ride. There they
were joined by Special Prosecutor Day
ton and walked in to Flushing together.
Mr. Mc1ntyre's line of questioning in
dicated pretty clearly that his secret
service stan had been keeping close tabs
on everybody connected with the other
side.
Thought Them Reporters.
Taking the lad once more in hand.
MIR; Darrin caused him to say that he
they came to see him at his home last
September. They hadn't told him they
were notaries public before to-day
Il knew | was swearing to paper"
Numbered on the dense looking witness.
blindly, but they didn't tell me they
was Judges"
Did you tell them the TRUTH" Some
appeared to ' be- in men da ze 4S Yes thai
part was true. said the ignorant, he
wiidered lad: When ! saw Linn he. was
standing with his head down and his
arms behind him. He didn't pay no at
tention, The rest of il Na,i't true.
told them lies because ! Thought they
the truth they'd put it in a paper and
you'd see IT, Mr.. Darrin, and jump on
me hard. cause you told me not TO talk
told them the brothers didn't talk
4
talk to one another all the way over I
didn eaten what they said, only
heard hstsnI this one hs[e:" Indicating tbe
R E,s. say w We got him now
Has anybody connected with my Of
flee ever asked you. OF suggested to
, Ho ' bat t H"u snGp5a 'eIfy to my
only said to tell the truth II is like /
tell YOU. l thought them two fellows
that come TO me was news reporters F"
said YOU only waited two minutes at
the club and that YOU Went away With
out collecting Your fare Is that true?"
In this statement, at least, there is
already corropuratiOn in the testimony
of several members OF the Bayside
Yacht, club, who haye sworn that the
boy did lnger around the club grounds
until after the shooting. and that he
did send down word to the float for the
money which the brothers owed him
W men YOU came 10 my room last
sunday did yOu tell me the reason why
you didn't identify Thornton Hams the
first time you We're on the stand"'
pressed DaIrin
Yes IN. reason vas ;nat was 4
little scared and ! didn't know whore
he was sitting and ! looked around
three or four times and | dldu't SEQ
| him. But Just as | started out 1 looked
around again, and then | seen him and
, knew him"
Where was he sitting" Right
| where he is now"
Al this point court took a recess with
/ the boy S,ill on the stand.
You lave said that man named
Stafford came to see you" recon-
menced Darrln, after recess. Yes,
said the witness, who seemed somewhat
more composed. He came TO see me
last month, on Nov. a, ! think He
didn't tell me then what his name was
. lie came down and said the lawvrr-
for Hams had lost the first statement
made, Then he asked me what / knew
about the case and ! told him Just what
. told Won lclt. tO-daN.H