The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-12
AWYER FOR GUNMEN TRIES
TO TRIP UP WITNESS.

mo gunInens attorney pegged away
at the witness with what sounded like
multitude OF tweedledum and tweedie-
dee questions In a vain effort to trip
him up on some trivial phase OF his tes-
timony. Several times Justice Goff
called the lawyers attention to the fact
that his queries were unimpOrtant and
irrelevant When at last the former
Magistrate had concluded his long
drawn-out cross-examination, Mr.. Moss
took Kratise in hand.
Where have you been living since
you testified In the Becker trial7" no
asked.
II have lived with a process server"
responded Krausc.
O.. CBy Mr.. MosS Why have You been
living with process server For
protection.
Mr.. wahle bounced up and objected
lie asked that the reference TO the fact
that the witness was living with
process server for protection be stricken
out OF the record. Justice Con- sus-
tained tho defense's objection. Krause
then stepped down and eyewitness
Morris Luban was called.
LUeAN POINTS OUT THREE OF
THE oUNMEN.
There was another dramatic scene
when Luban stepped down from the
witness chair and Identified "Dago
Frank" Lefty Louie and 'Gyp the
Blood" as the three men he had seen
surround Herman Rosenthal and shoot
him down In front OF the Hotel Metro
pole.
Luban could not identify Whitley
Lewis" lie would not swear that he
had not seen Lewis, but he could not
swear that he was one OF the assa ssins.
As the bullet-headed and narrow
shouiiered Luban approached the four
prisoners they stood up at him. They
had no smiles or sneers for this witness,
who paused several moments In front
OF each one and then jerked up his arm
and lcvelled a shaking finger at each In
turn. When Luban went back to the
witness chair and continued his direct
testimony the gunner fairly sprawled
forward and leaned over the table.
cropping their hands behind their ears.
NO as to catch every word.
Luban had repeated the identihca-
ton he made at the Becker trial under
somewhat different circumstances. Then
the gunner were brOugh In and lined up
at the rail. To-day they were sitting,
sandwiched between deputy sheriffs
and lawyers. hunched down in their
chairs with their shoulders UP to
their ears.
Tnere Whb one new phSe III MS
testimony. when he admitted that he
was coming out of the Metropole with
a woman when ne saw the murder. He
refused to name his companion. say
ing only that no had met her At One
Hundred and Tenth street and Lenox
avenue and had taken her to Ham,
merstein's roof garden before going to
the Metropole
GOES OVER THE OLD GROUND
IN cRoss-ExAMiNATioN.
Lawyer wahle doubled over tho same
ground covered by the Becker defence in
CROSS examining Luban. He again
brought out that Luban Ia under charges
in Essex County. N. j.. and has been
loaned 10 District-Attorney Whitman by
Prosecutor Mott until the conclusion OF
the homicide trials growing out OF the
Rosenthal case. One new question Mr..
wahle asked was: "Were you ever CON-
victed OF crime in Dallas. Tex. p
NO" responded INiban, Il was not.
but lived there once"
q. (By Mr.. Wahle) When you were IN
Hammerstein's on the night OF July 10
did you see ladies DIN tights skating on
ice? A. (grinning) don't remember.
Here Lubon was excused and william
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