The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-02-20

District Attorney Abel |. Smith denied
yesterday that Decker's connection with
the Rice case was of such a nature, but
he would not deny that Decker was con-
cerned in the case. Mr.. Smith said tha.
there had been no attempt to bribe juror
2 that he knew of.
Lawyer Lord not only got out the new
affidavit yesterday charging ex-Senato or
Gardner with felony in obtaining Has
let's signature to documents under false
pretences but he also gave out a statement
in which he Gays that the signature to
Hasletts latest will is forgery az we'll
as the signature to Gardner's power of
attorney. In the statement also he says
that the Samuels are not related to old
MIR. Haslett and in the next sentence says
that Mrs. Samuel IL a second cousin OF
Haslett. When asked to explain this
Mr.. Lord said that "the law could not take
recognition of the relationship
Max Steuer. who was represented in
the brief court proceeding yesterday by
Lawyer j L. Podell Of MIR Steuer Office
to look after the interests of ex-senator
Gardner. was reported later to have i'd
that If he found there was a good reason
TO believe the truth Of certain acctisatio ions
made in the newspapers he would not
handle Mr.. Gardner's case. But late in
the afternoon MIR. Steuer gave out from
his Office a typewriter statement in which
he says among other things that If his
Gardner 81 version of the transact ion
is true not only is Senator Gardner not
guilty Of crime but the fact is that he has
prevented the consummati ion OF what
seems to be a very diabolical plot"
= Mr. Gardner would not be interviewed
Mr.. Steuer would not go into details about
the statement he issued. The various
assertions attributed TO Mr.. Lord denying
the existence Of filth and the lack of heat
in the Hasett house are denied by Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel in their petition before Judge
Fawoett, and the Samuels instance one
visit to the old man made recently by Mrs
Samuel and two made by Mr.. Samuel in
which they ran across much dirt. no heat
and no fires for cooking.
DR.. j. T. Deyo of 3O3O Ocean Parkway,
who last week was called in to attend
Haslett and also figures as a witness to
the Gardner wills had his attention
called in the afternoon to the story that
just before Magistrate kempner and the
police insisted upon gaining admittance
urday a messenger from a drug store had
left at the house package containing
strychnine and other medicines
DR.. Deyo talked frankly about the
strychnine He had been called up by
Decker. he says, last Tuesday night and
Decker asked him to meet Senator Gard
ner at the Clarendon Hotel between 1880
and II O'Clock last night Decker the
physician says, told him that Gardner
wanted DR.. Deyo to act as subscribing z
witness TO a will.
-Iwent to the hotel and Senator Gard
ner WINS pointed out TO me. Mr.. Gardner
intr oiuced me to man whose name
sounded like. Yerbee. We went to the
Haststt home. and Eever saw such filth
IN my life. as ] ran across there. Every
thing was SO horribly filthy that couldn I
sit in any Of the chairs"
The physician says that Decker called
him again two days later TO say that the
principal legstee of the will had been
dead two years and that another will
would have TO be made. DR.. Deyo there
fore got an old frieno. Dr. turner. and
they Witnss the second will DR. Deyo
says. he was again summoned to the house
on saturday morning last by Senator
Gardner and upon the assurance of Gard
ner that he had a new power of attorney
DR.. Deyo says he consented 10 take charge
Of Hssiett's case. He found that Haslett
had had bad night and that his heart
action was weak
His sheart action was so bad" said DR.
Deyo, that l prescribed l. Tooth of a grain
strychnine tablets four times day and
meat juice tonic. The prescription
were sent 10 neighboring drug store"
DE. Deyo tolC them ABOUT &C mitting
on that day Magistrate kempner ana
the police a short time before boy ar
rived from the drug store with the meoi-
cine. ,,As the physician was about to take
the package from the boy a detective
iC pSlSt eldtCHtu tfls package ana re-
marked, III hold this as evidence" The
Brooklyn police said yesterday that they
knownothing Of such q package.
Ihe,petili5n submitted 10 Judge FaE-
cett by Lawyer Menken of Philbin, Beck
man. Menken and Griscom OF 81 William
street, Manhattan, for Mrs. Samuel pray
ing for a commission to take charge of
Haslett and his property runs in part!
A petition OF Ellen Haslett Samuel
kot ka ,r -, ~. 4. -
relatives of samuel f. Haslett are Maria
sullivan Gibbs and Ellen Haslett Samuel
and Richard Van Wyck Thorne. sister and
brother OF the petitioner. the children Of
Quintin Maynard Thorne. deceased: Ellen
Coke Nashhourne and Maria johnson
Thorne. children of Richard Van Wyck
Thorne. deceased, and Jennie Murphy,
Louise Rhinelander Ditmas and a son and
daughter of a Mrs. Badeau whose names at
present are unknown TO your petitioners,
who together with Elizabeth Thorne, who
married Samuel L. Haslett. were children
of John Sullivan Thorne. deceased That
the said John sullivan Thorne Richard Van
Wyck 1horne and Ouintin Maynard Thorne
we're the childreo of Richard Van Wyck
Thorne and Maria sullivan. That the said
Richnrd Van Wyck Thorne and Maria Suli-
van had other children who died without
issue then surviving.
nat sdlu MARIA SullNan is sister OF
Jane Sullivan. who married John Haslett.
the father OF Samuel T.. Haslett: that said
Samuel T.. Haslett married his cousin,
Elizabeth Thorne. that your petitioner.
Ellen Haslett Samuel. was named after said
Samuel T.. Haslett and his youngest sister
Ellen Haslett that your petitioners hroth her.
Richard Van Wyck Thorne. lived for upwa rd
of one and one half years with Ellen IIa slett
and the said Samuel r.. Haslett and that he
is well and intimately acquainted with the
said Samuel +. Haslett. and that your pc
ttioner is well acquainted with the relat ion
ship and family of the said Samuel r.. Has
lett. That the said Samuel Il. Haslett has
no wife. children brothers. sisters or issue
or any descendants OF any children broth
ers or 81 sters and has no adopted child OF
children and has no parents him surviving
That the above named Murphy, Ditmas
Washbourne. Thorne. Gibbs and your pc
: H6slett.
Some of the addresses given are Louise
| Rhinelander Ditmas, l04 Pierrepont street
Brooklyn; Ellen Haslett Samuel, Maple
avenue. New Dorp Richard Van Wyck
Thorne, Mount Vernon: Ellen Coke Wash
'burne, 1888 West Ninety fifth street; Maria
)yohnson Thorne at st. Mary's Hospital
BROOKLYN, and that the addresses Of the
son and daughter Of Mrs. Badeau arc
unknown to Mrs Samuel
Mrs Samuel, who believes that Has
mentioned by Lawyer Lord-Mr. Menk er
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