New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-26
GETS LETTER IN COURT
Expert Thinks Bessie Green Her.
self Wrote EpiStIe.
HER COUNSEL MAKES DENIAL
Mysterious Missive Sixth in
Series in Case of the Arnold
Negro Prisoner.

Just before Bessie Green. the young negro
woman VINO is charged with Matchmaking
Francis Il. Arnold. took her seat in Judge
SWANS part Of General Sessions yesterday
afternoon postman entered the court with
special delivery letter for her. The let
ter was signed M. Friend" and e. assured
her, IKE others which she has received ia
the Tombs. that she was innocent.
The letter was dated April o, was post
marked 1870 a. m. and contained q clip
ping from an early edition OF an evening
paper. The clipping was Enclosed, M.
Friend wrote, 70 show that BESSIE h"r-
self had not mailed the letter To some
friend from the Tombs TO he mailed again
to her a tho court. Part az tho clipping
was quoted by the writer
That letter, with others which Ressie re
oeiyed in the TombS. was shown 10 William
]. Kinsley. the handwriting expert. who
was on the stand yesterday. by Alexander
Karlin, Bossies counsel. and Mr. Kinsley
took IL home with him 10 examine A let
Ter which she received on Wednesday from
~ Friend he examined during the noon
recess He had previously examined and
, compared the earlier letters with specimens
OF Bessie's handwriting He was inclined
10 think after a perfunctory cxamina ton
that yesterdays letter was written by Bes-
sic. The others, 30 which he had devoted
more time. he said were in her handwriting.
Before Judge Swami adjourned court Mr.
I Karlin asked the District Attorney 30 500
that the defendant had special qua rds a.
her cell to make sure that she wrote no
/ letters
/ Th.p - IL ii.
| have detectives keep watch Of me and OF
| oil my office force and will guarantee that
! tomorrow there will be another letter from
| NJ Friend inclosing another clipping
| showing that It must have been written
while We were all under close surveillance"
! His offer was refused.
| T. Channon Press the Assistant District
! Attorney, IL Of the opinion that M
| Friend whose name was signed 10 the
| letters sent to Mr.. Arnold. is a creature OF
! Bessie's Imagination. He believes that the
continuation Of the correspondence Is mere
| ly an elaboration OF the first complicated
story told by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. that
che knew nothing Of the author Of the
Matchmaking letters. but that she called
for the decoy letter and paid the boy who
| received il 81 for his services at the re-
quest Of strange woman. who called her
on the telephone and asked her to get the
| letter
| In all Bessie has received six letters since
her arrest. One has been sent 20 Mr.
Arnold during the same period. Another
was sent to Magistrate Barlow while Bes-
sic was In the West Side prison awaiting
his disposition of the case. Another went
to her lawyer. All Of them averred that
Bessie was innocent, that she was the tool
OF the writer Most OF them are incoherent
and almost meaningless. Mr.. Karin thinks
that they may have been written by an
insane person. he says. but he believes that
Bessie did not write them, and that the
person who did should be in her place
The writer intmates that she knows
something of the disappearance of Dorothy
Arnold, but the references she makes 10
Dorothy Arnold are such as any one might
who had read the newspapers and sought
to appear mysterious
81 want TO expose the Arnolds," she
writes. Again. I'm letter TO Bessie's coun-
sci. she says:
The woman is innocent and tho Arnolds
ought to be arrested. II you will demand a
, reward for the discovery OF Dorothy Ar
mold l will put you on trail and YOU Will
make yourself famous In November, 1910.
and party of eight others did some work
for the Arnolds. . . ] asked who the
woman was that we were seeking and they
refused TO tell | said that ! would tell the
police that ] thought IT was Dorothy Ar
ncld and | was told that II was not her.
hut | must keep my mouth shut and |
would be paid for II later.
In another letter M. Friend" tells Bessie
Az. chm has no chanca because she IL "A
"cooness." Remember Brandt" says M.
Friend" "He was white and see what they
did to him" Then she tells Bessie to cheer
I'D, 'for j have a couple Of Judges under
my arm"