New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-24
C|EDEL UNDER ORDEAL
LIKE THE THIRD DEGREE
Sits Unmoved When Bloody Gar
mentS of Murdered Man Are
Passed Around in Court.
STATE PILES UP EVIDENCE
Brother of Victim Consoles
Mother of Accused Youth as
Prosecutor FORCES Long
Chain of Testimony.

For three hours yesterday afternoon
Paul GiedeL who is on trial in General
Sessions. charged with the murder OF
W. III. Jackson i'm the Hotel lroquois'
was subjected to all of the mental tort
ure popularity supposed 10 accompany
the so-carled third degree" During
that time the bloodstained paJaT
worn by the broker when he was killed
as we'll as the washcloth found by the
Coroner's physician stuffed into the dead
mans mouth TO strangle him, we're
Haunted before the young prisoner ana
PASSED back and forth from prosecuting
attorney to witness and stenographer to
he identified and marked in evidence.
4 blood stained handkerchief which
according TO Detective J. j.. Barber
Giedel said he used to wipe his hands
after tn tragedy. and the bottle in
which had been the chloroform that
Gied"l i'm his confession, it is alleged
said he brought with him to the hotel TO
make his aged victim helpless, were also
conspiuously displayed during the eX-
animation Of witnesses.
The bottle was handed To Detective
Barber. VINO found it in Jackson's room
the day after he was killed. and passed
around among the jurors, that th>y
might test the presence still Of traces of
tho choroform.
The CHASTITY atmosphere thrown around
the afternoons proceedings in this Wy
had a prelude in the testimony of Dep
uty Coroner Leblanc, who performed the
autopsy. DR.. Leblanc described in detail
tie three wounds on Jackson's face, the
fracture of the jaw and the scratches on
his throat. made, according to the prose-
cution. by his aSsailant IN an attempt TO
s,rang]e the broker with the hands be-
fore gagging him with the WashCloth.
GedeI ln1passive During Ordeal.
Throughout the ordeal Giedel did not
betray his feelings. whatever they may
have been. He sat impassively. gazing
FIRST al the jury and then at the OK
hbits. not even moving his head when
the Chloroform bottle was passed under
his nose TO his counsel before it was
placed in evidence.
Mrs. Giedel. the prisoners mother, did
not sit beside him during the day, the
necessity for her presence there having
apparently ended with the completion Of
the jury. She sat IN an anteroom al
joining the court. During the noon re-
cess when passing into the courtroom
10 catch 2 glimpse Of her son she came
face 70 face with DR. Frank ". Jackson.
Of No. $50 Madison avenue, brother of
the murdered man.
Mrs Giedel. ! am sorry for You, YOU
have my deepest sympathy" said Dr..
jackson. courtcously. Tears came to
the woman's eyes. and she made no re-
ply as she continued on her way.
BY order Of Judge Grain the court at
tcndants refused admittance to the
courtroom Of women and boys to save
them from the disclosures expected
When court adjourned for the day
enough evidence had been adduccd TO
bring the prosecutions case up to the
point i'm the narrative of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Mott in his opening ad-
dress where he alleged that Giedel was
seen 10y employees of the hotel on the
night of the murder skuking around
the basement and street floor. Previ-
ously members of the police force told Of
tracing Giedel to his furnished room by
means of the chlorCform bottle
AS a preliminary to the unfolding of
the prosecutions story, photographs Of
the interior and exterior of the hotel and
O diagram OF the apartment in which
evidence.