Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-27
Doctor, Seeing Sisters Side by
Side, Insists He Exam-
ined Edith.
PROSECUTION CLAIMED
ALICE POSED FOR OTHER
Physicians Testimony intend
ed to Prove Impossibility of
Accused cIergyman's Guilt.
IFrom a stan correspondent.I

SISTER III COuTl lOudy Was the EllIfldA
of the amazing defense offered in the
trial of the Rev. Willis S. McRorie.
Outside of the pages of best sellers
or the scenes of Broadway plays, so
rarely been found
The defense hinged upon the pro-
duction of the twin sister of the pretty
choir singer McRorie is accused of
having wronged. for the simple rea-
son that without her presence in court
the most telling blow against the
States case would be worthless
Prosecutor Stein called DR.. Victor
Mravlag, mayor of Elizabeth, to re-
fute the expert testimony on anat-
omy DR.. Mravlag contradicted DR..
Bullman's statement that there could
have been no relation between the
his examination.
Harmon P. Tunison, a farmer. of
Mount Horeb, was next called by the
prosecutor, and he declared that he
saw the minister in Somerville at
o'clock on November 10, the day the
alleged crime is said to have taken
place. This breaks down McRorie's s
alibi. He had said he was in Somer-
vile, but not at that time. Former
Governor VOORHEES, tried for half an
hour to shake the farmers testimony,
but he stuck to his story.
The summing up was started, and
it is believed the jury will get the
case late today.
Dr yVilliox., L n,.f1~ o1x7
Seventh avenue, New York, who was
on the stand when court opened to-
day, had testified that he had ex-
amined Miss Nelson and from pro-
fessional knowledge knew that the
charge against McRorie, in so far as
it concerned her, was false
Prosecutor Stein had Immediately
come forward with the statement
that Edith had twin sister Alice.
He wanted to know If the physician
was certain that Alice had not been
palmed off on him as Edith DIR.
Bullman was certain he had made no
mistake.
The twin sister substitution in
sinuated by Prosecutor Stein would
have been bound to nullify to a large
extent, the physicians testimony in
the eyes of the bewildered and
amazed jurors Former Governor
Foster NJ VOORHEES, saw that and
promptly promised to produce Alice.
Colonel Robert L. Hare, who Is per-
sonal counsel for Edith. asked DR..
Bullman if he lad ever examined
Alice.
Judge Connolly directed the girl to
stand up.
NO" said DR.. Bullman, with the
utmost positiveness, 'T never ex-
amined Alice.''
But this did not satisfy Prosecutor
Stein. He asked both the girls to
stand up together. He requested them
to remove their hats.
''I ask you to notice, doctor" he
said, "how every little dissimilarity
has been accentuated in dress and
hair. Are you still absolutely posi-
tive you made no mistaken"
The physician persisted that he
could have made no mistake.
On direct examination by William
Gebhardt, former State senator and
clerk of the Supreme Court. she testi-
fled that Alice and Edith were her
daughters and that they were twins.
They were both 10 years old on No
vember 16 last, she said:
Not only did she assert that she
signed the complaint while under
great excitement, but she maintained
that she did not know what the pa
per set forth. She had been unable
to read it because she did not have
her glasses with her, She admitted
however, that 1t had been read to her
and she added that someone told her
to hurry up and sign it,"
She did not fare so well at the
hands of the prosecutor as had Or.
Bullman. He raked her over the
Goals thoroughly and drew out an
admission that she had known what
was in the complaint.
isn't 1t a fact that you recall
distinctly that the complaint imph-
Gated your daughter and your pastor
In a crime?" he demanded
The woman bowed her head while
a faint tinge of crimson flushed her
face.
yes" she said at length.
Asked if Edith had received a let
ter from McRorie with money in 1t,
Mrs. Mason said that she remem-
bered one occasion when he had sent
a dollar bill.
81 went to him and demonstrated,
she continued. ''I asked him not 20
do it, strangers might not think well
of it,"
Percy F. Alkner, juror No. 3, asked
her about a conversation she subse-
quently had with McRorie.
81 told him. she replied, that
was very sorry for the whole affair.
He said that he, too, was very, very
sorry, especially because my daugh-
ter was involved"
The next witness of Importance
was McRorie himself. Question ed by
Mr.. Gebhardt. he said that he vas
80 years old and Methodist Epis-
copal minister Before he had en-
tered the ministry he had been vet
Urinary for ten years.
He was asked If he had even been
guilty of undue intimacy with Miss
Nelson and said that he had not.
Although he was pale, the minis
ter spoke in a clear voice and re-
NAMED composed 1t was evident
that he was laboring under a great
strain.
Mr.. Gebhardt read the confession
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