Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-14
Waterbury Denies Charge of
Making Misrepresentation.
GOES ON STAND IN TRIAL
Says He Didn't Claim to Be an As
sociated Press Man.
ONE COUNT IS DROPPED
Senator Burrows Fails to Identify
Accused as Man to Whom
he Paid Money.

he Paid Money.
Jules NJ. Waterbury. charged with Oh.
tanning money from several lawmakers
and public men by representing himself
as connected with the Associated Press
took the stand In his own behalf this
morning. when his trial was resumed in
Criminal Court No. 1 before Justice Could
Cnequivocal denial of the alleged misrsp
reservations was the keynote OF his testi-
mony. He declared emphatically that he
never was connected with the Associated
Press and had never represented himself
10 be. He said he was conducting a bu.
reau known as the Associated BiograS
phies. and used only that name in solicitS
ing business.
The wife of the defendant, who had
remained in an anteroom through the
trial yesterday. came quietly into court
this morning. and sat. unidentified bN tho
spectators. in the last row OF seats in
the courtroom.
The Government Scores.
After showing by J. r.. Youatt OF New
York. trea surer OF the Associated Press:
Charles A. Cotterill. day manager. at
Washington, and Jackson s. Elliott OF
the Associated Press that Waterbury was
not connected with that organization and
that the Associated Press had not such
a department as IT is claimed Waterbury
was exploiting. the government this
morning closed its case
Attorney Henry F. Davis renewed the
motion made yesterday to strike out IT,.
testimony of Senator Burrows, who failed
to identify the defendant as the man IL
whom he had paid the money. Emitted
States Attorney Baker abandoned the
count of the indictment charging the
false pretenses to Senator Burrows. and
Justice Gould granted the motion Tie
case will go to the jury on the three
other counts of the indictment
Opening for the Defense
Attorney Davis then made the open
ing statement for the defense to :he
jury. He assured the jury that IL
would prove that Waterbury never
represented himself as connected with
the Associated Press, but with a press
bureau which was distributing Illus
trated biographical sketches OF promf-
nent men. much after the manner ia
which the Associated Press distributes
news. He said he expected TO show
that in the haste of the interviews tha
government witnesses received wrona
Impressions. and Ii is not by such inn
pressions. but by the actual represent
tations made by the defendant. that
Is to be determined.
Defendant Denies Charge.
The defendant then took the stand m
his own defense. He said he was thirtys
SIX years old. a native of Enfield Ceus
ter. y. Y, and had been I'm the newspas
per and advertising business for ninA
years. When he called on Representative
Hull, he said, he explained that he de.
sired to obtain a steel plate OF the repre-
sentative to send TO the papers who had
subscribed to the service of the Asso-
ciated Biographies. an organization
formed to distribute biographies in
manner similar to that in which the AS
ISOLATED Press handled general news He
denied positively that at any time he rep
resented the biographical scheme as
part or the Associated Press. or as i'm
any way connected with that organiza-
ton. He declared he used the name AS
ISOLATED Press only in describing the ma
ture of the work in which the Associated
Biographies Bureau was engaged
Mr.. Hull gave me his check to have
the plate made" said Waterbury,. and
sent the order to New York. 1t takes
from four to six weeks to get such an
order through. and before the plate was
delivered / was arrested.
Oen1eS misrepresentation.
Il never represented myself as an As
ISOLATED Press man." he asserted. 'and
simply cited Associated Press methods "a
illustrate the scope of the Associated
Biographies. the Associated Press send
ing out news and the organization I rep
resented sending out biographies ~ par
allel ways"
He told OF exhibiting a press badge 10
~ NIL
badge issued by the local police depart
ment to members of the press. He de-
clared his assistant had the badge, and
that he also used 1t. being the only one
i'm his bureau.
Thrilling Story Of Capture.
Shortly before adjournment yesterday
Pasuuale Pigniulo, special agent %
the Department OF Justice. told a thrill
ing story to the jury of the capture -
Waterbury, upon the latter's return 10
New York from Europe. whittier Water
bury had gone in May, 1905 The Wit
ness stated that he had been detailed 10
watch incoming steamers with view 70
apprehending the defendant.
In June he saw Waterbury leave n
steamer and followed him to a hotel In
New York. where ne placed MN UNDER
arrest.
AS Pigniulo was about to tele-
phone TO the district attorneys office.
the defendant. he stated. taking advan-
tage of the situation. jumped 10 the lower
story Of the hotel and. overturning tables
and chairs. fed into the crowded street.
The witness. in pursuit of the defendant.
attracted large crowd. which Joined IN
the chase Pigniuo stated that he fired
several shots in the air. attracting The
attention of two policemen on a street
corner. Waterbury in his flight. declare
the witness. ran into the ousiretcAed
arms of the two policemen.
Pgniulo declared that on the WA %
this city the defendant told him lrri
while In Europe he had swindled scNe"il
members of the house of lords out ~
$4,000 and that he had effected hs -
cape by bribing some of the Sc AL
Yards detectives with 1.00o.
On cross-examination. the governmc i !,
special agent was asked by Attorney -
Wis if Waterbury had any OF the 'iofs
money" on him when apprehended y"
ness answered VERY little
ROOSEVELT STILL SHOOTIEI.