New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-27
Got Together After Indictment
Lest There Be SIip-Up Re-
garding Happenings on
Night of Alleged Threat.
.ALIENISTS DISCUSS ROBIN
Opinions Cover Ground from
"True Paranoia" to Psychosls
of Some Kind - Morgan
Brought In as Nemesis
of Convicted Banker.

calling to the stahu t"o SV""e
both employed in Charles II. HYDE
law office, who remembered certain
things about the meeting between Hyde
and Cummins, Reichmann and Ropln
on the night Of August %, 1910.
They agreed with Hyde that he ar
rived at the office about 5:3O O'CLOCK
that afternoon and departed about y
o'clock, having talked with his visitors
about twenty minutes. Nothing Frank
Moss. Assistant District Attorney
could ask them-and he left little un-
asked-could weaken them on this point
that HYDE left the office before the
time at which Joseph G.. Robin has
testified the City Chamberlain threat
ened TO take every cent Of city money
ont of the Northern Bank II the latter
didn't lend the Carnegie Trust Com
pany $4,000.
Warren L. Neu, law clerk in Hyde's
office, took the stand, after a long day
devoted almost exclusively to character
witnesses, witnesses who swore TO the
excellent reputation Of Charles H.
HYDE and witnesses who swore to what
in their opinion constituted the insan-
ity Of Joseph @. Robin, his traducer
Neu said he was employed in Hyde's
Office. at No. 60 Wall street, on August
%, 1910, and that he was still law
clerk in Hyde's office, which is now at
No. 81 Chambers street
Recalls Strangers Brief Stay.
What was more to the point, he said
he was present on the evening Of Au-
gust 30 that Hyde entered at 5;3O
o'clock in the afternoon, and shortly
thereafter there arrived three men
whom he did not know and whom Hyde
received in the room assigned to Sam
uel X. KelTock. one of the lawyers as
ISOLATED with him. The door into the
outer Office was left open.
How long did these men remain
with Mr.. Hyde?" asked Max d. Steuer.
the former city Chamberlain's lawyer.
Il should say not over twenty min
utes at the outside" answered the wit
ness.
And when did Mr.. Hyde leave"
Some time around G-shortly after
G o'clock, to the best Of my recollection.
He got up and l heard him say he had
to go 70 Roslyn. Mr.. Campbell, who
was also in the office, went out with
Mr.. Hyde, and the other gentlemen left
about the same time"
Campbell, whose fun name is Charles
T. Campbell, a young lawyer in Hyde's
Office, was the other witness called.
Mr.. Moss spared neither Of them. He
began with Neu by asking him how
he could remember that these Incl
dents occurred on August %, 1910, and
Neu replied that Hydes return from
Europe two days before had fixed IL In
his mind
When was the first time your at
tention was called TO the meeting?"
"The first time this thing came out
in the press / discussed the details OF
the meeting with MIR. Campbell and
Mr.. Hyde
And how soon again.
Compared Notes After Indictment.
81 had a talk about it with Mr.. Camp
bell and Mr.. Hyde after the indictment
was found to compare our recollections
Of the meeting"
"Why did you have to go over II
again."
I'VE wanted TO make absolutely GER
tain about the details-to make abso-
lutely sure there was no slip-up."
ooh, no slip-up! Didn't your recol-
Iections agree exactly at the first con,
versation?"
Not as to the exact time of the meet
ing"
He couldn't remember what Hyde had
said In either conversation or what Mr.
Campbell had said, but to the best OF
his recollection he himself had said Il
was about 6 o'clock. He couldn't re-
member whether the others had placed
the time earlier or later, adding, how
ever:
1--WE all fixed it about 6 o'clock"
what time did you close the office?'
IL closed it a little after g."
WAS anybody left in it?"
Not to my knowledge"
The law clerk said although he hat
met and become acquainted with Cum
minis and Reichmann since that da!
he couldn't identify them as two of IN,
three men who called on Hyde tina
evening. Moss hammered him hare
on this point, but he would not yielc
an iota. He didn't even remembe
that one Of them Relchmann) wa
lame, though he saw all three enter tn
office.
Did you hear anything that wa
said" asked Mr.. Moss.
Yes, l heard Mr.. Hyde say some
thing about his trip abroad, and
heard a great deal of laughing anC
talking; that's ALL"
Campbell said he was busy at thu
time preparing a brief for an argumen
in an injunction proceeding, and h,
saw only one of the callers enter tn,
office. This man he later identified or
acquaintance as William j. Cummins
majority stakeholder and autocrat OF
the Carnegie Trust Company. Fl,