The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-04

d summer.
The witness went into long de.
scription of his life in Russia, his hav.
ing been accused of having been q
Socialist, and his exile to Siberia. Chair
man Patterson again and again urged
him TO come on down to the point lie
said he wanted to do probation work,
having been employed in that capacity
\ in Utah Mr. Buchanan said he was
not ready as yet. and set him at some
i copying, which seems to have proved
4 irksorne, as he soon quit it.
Tells Of Ersie Lane.
II was during his employment last
August that the girl. "Ersie" Lane,
attemptedto commit suicide by drink
ing cartoiic acid. Mr.. Buchanan, he
/ said told him he had induced the news
paper men to give another street and
number so it would not appear that
| the attempt at suicide had been made
in the building. and so injure the work
of the Associated Charities. The wit
ness criticized the action of his chief
and went on to tell that the next
morning the same girl took a knife
and threatened to take her life. He
was called in and by ruse secured
the knife. He told of talking and
praying with the girl. and said that
later he heard that Mr.. Buchanan had
reprimanded Mrs Neville for allowing
him to go upstairs
On the following Sunday. the witness
testified. he asked leave to take the
fourteen boys and girls in the institu-
ton to church. and Mr.. Buchanan said
1t was against the rules and would
not allow the witness to preach to
them.
The witness said he was SO shocked
| that he saw then that he could never
become the righthand man of such q
man as Mr.. Buchanan. He gave the
| present address Of the Lane girl as
| 535 Mosby Street. and said that was
all he knew from personal knowledge.
but that he believed it an unfortunate
| thing for one person to hold two po
| sitions.
ss-auestioned, he said he had
| never been a detective, but had served
as deputy sheriff. and on one occasion
drew a banana on counterfeitcr,
making him think 1t was a pistol He
considered such subterfuge justifa-
BILE. and admitted that officers of char
liable institutions had to use certain
discretion in handling cases.
Lochwitzky Under Fire.
DO You know Pearl Atkins?" he
was asked suddenly, The witness said
he did, but protested against the I'M
putation, saying that he was not on
trial, He admitted having made an
engagement TO meet her at the post
office at o'clock at night, but claimed
that he had been her benefactor when
she came here stranded from Danyille
that he had bought her clothes and
had secured her employment at u fac
tory He was closely questioned as to
the provisions for separating boys and
girls at the Associated Charities
Building, and as to his having given
presents to some OF the larger girls
who cleaned his room. until Mr.. Buch-
anan asked him to stop.
Mr. Lecky explained for the benefit
of the committee that the Associated
Charities employs Mr.. Buchanan at a
salary of $500 a month; that when the
Juvenile Protective Society was or
ganized, the board had consented for
him to guide that work. the organiza-
ton to pay $40 month to the Asso-
ciated CHARITIES as contribution toll
tho work, not an addition to Mr.. Buch-
anan's salary. Mrs. Buchanan, he'll
said, had never received any coinpen-
sation, but it had been arranged that
she was to act for the present az ma
tron of the Girls Industrial Home,
which was TO open Saturday, the pay
for which would be $50 per month, f,
the arrangement only to continue UNI
III the institution could secure a suit
able matron. Mr. Lochwitzky was
closely questioned by Chairman Pat
terson as to his connection with the ,
russian army. He had never been ar :
tached TO regiment, he said, but had
Deem with the military Inspectors de- :
paftlnent, and had always gone under