The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-30
Queeuan Says Detective
Sergeant Told Him Not
To Rad the MetrOpOle.
MASON AGAIN ON STAND
Divekeepers Persist in Stories,
Under Cross.examinatiOn, That
They Gave Up MOney..Cor-
baIIy Said to Have Ad-
yised Suing Serbia.

With the cross-examination of Her
man Wagner. the former divekeeper,
who also testified yesterday that he
gave Detective Sergeant Thomas J.
CORDIALLY protection money, the trial of
that official for non-feasance and NAL
feasance was resumed in the Court of
Quarter Sessions before Judge Ten
Eyck and struck jury today.
Samuel Kalisch, who, together with
Frank NJ McDermit, IL defending the
detective sergeant. put Wagner on the
griddle and succeeded in getting sew
eraI II don't remembers" from him on
certain points to which he had testified
during the Grand Jury Investigations
of the police scandal.
He insisted, however, as he did yes
terday, that he "gave up to CORDIALLY.
Wagner, in his way. answered the
questions put to him by Mr.. Kalisch'
and some of them were asked for the
apparent purpose of showing that
Wagner had been coerced into telling
what he knew by threats of indictment
on the part OF Under-sheriff Charles WI,
Mason, who did most OF the work in
this direction.
Didn't Mason threaten to indict you
for keeping a disorderly house unless
you gave testimony against the police
or against Corbally?" demanded Mr..
Kalisch.
mo, sir"
Were you indicted for keeping dis
yTg .
mo, sir" repeated Wagner.
weren't you told that unless you
gave such testimony you would be in
dicted and sent to State Prison?'
There was another reply in the mega
tive and then he was asked
Didn't Mason tell you that the pa
troll wagon was standing downstairs
and you would be taken to jail?''
Wagner admitted that that Was so,
and appeared to bo surprised that Mr..
Kalsch knew 1t.
after that you told about the po-
lice?"
Wagner admitted the correctness of
the assumption and then he was asked:
"Didn't you say to Mr. McDermit
that you never gave CORDIALLY penny
in your life?"
To this Wagner almost shouted:
"No!"
"Didn't a constable tell you that In
your home while you were sick that
you should stick to your story to the
effect that you gave CORDIALLY money!
pursued Mr.. Kalisch,
"No. SIR"
"Dldn't you say that if you didn't
do that you would be indicted for
keeping a disorderly house?"
There was another answer in the
negative and Mr.. Kalsch grew sar-
castle. He wanted to know whether
the constable in question, whose name
was not mentioned, called upon WaE-
ner to nurse him. Wagner denied this
Indignantly.
There was a laugh when Wagner.
being asked whether he knew Mr.. Nc
Derlnit, opened his big eyes wide and
said:
"oh. yes. was formerly captain
Of the McDernit Light Guards"
"Wel. that was twenty years ago."
was Mr.. McDermit's comment.
Wagner then repeated what he had
eaid yesterday about CORDIALLY telling
him to say that 1t was Serbia and not
olly, that received the protec-
tion money.
He denied vigorously that he was
trying ito get even" with CORDIALLY be-
cause his place was ralded by the
police, and stuck to his story that he
first told yesterday.
His wife, Freda Wagner, also Of big
and heavy build, was the next wit
ness, and gave her answers in a solemn
manner. Her testimony was unim-
portant, and did not connect CORDIALLY
with any wrongdoing.
Asked whether she knew CORDIALLY.
she said that she had seen him three
times, first, when be called at her
house in Livingston street, and on an
other occasion when he called at her
house in Evergreen avenue and asked
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