New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-19

Young Widow Calm on Stand.
The girl was very calm as she began
her testimony, which opened with the
statement Of her age, the fact that
she. had attended a public school when
in Haverstraw, and that, after NOV
inc to New York in June, 1911, she
studied music at the Damrosch school.
you were acquainted with Eugene
Newman asked Mr.. Comesky. A
Yes.
O.-Became acquainted with him in
Haverstraw? Ayes.
Q.-And your association with him
was not approved by your parents,
was it? A.-No.
Q.-You knew it wasn't approved by
your parents? A.-Yes.
Odd Eugene Newman call at your
home when you moved to New York?
Ayes, but only once during the first
summer.
Did you ever go to Haverstraw
after that? A.-Yes, occasionally. !
used to visit my grandmother there.
Q.-And his grandmother? A.-fes.
Eugene, she said, would call on her
when she went to her grandmother's'
and she would call on him at ms
grandmother's at other times.
BY this time the change IN the girl
had become complete. She had come
into the courtroom white faced and
disappointment to those who had heard
of her beauty. But now, with rosy
cheeks. lively eyes and a full showing
of fine teeth, she came up easily 10 the
descriptions previously given. Plainly
il was 10 be seen why so much had
been figured on her appearance IN
court.
In 10 this stage the questions asked
Of her had been easy for her TO an
swer. because they didn't bear on the
circumstance the defence contends pro-
voked the murder. Then Comesky said;
eve come now to the eighteenth OF
July. Was it on this day that you pc
came ill?"
EYES," she replied.
During the day there had been testi-
mony from Mrs. Cleary and others lnat
DIR. David p. Schultz, of COL West l9oth
St. attending the girl for several days
after she became ill, became suspicious
of the cause and, on July y, the day
prior to the murder. she confessed that
responsibility lay with Gene Newman.
The question Of whether she had ad-
mitted this was put TO her. she
paused. Yes. told the doctor that
she said. Mrs. Cleary bowed her
head. 49,,
O.-You concealed your condition
from your parents? Ayes.
O.-When were you married! A
Eugene and | were married on July Is.
Q.-When you told DR.. Schultz that
Eugene was to blame for your illness
you didn't tell that YOU had been mar
ried? A.-No, sir.
Q.-Why?
Mrs. Newman started crying:
think ] was too sick to realize that !
had been married; too sick to realize
scarcely anything" she said.
Ex-Representative Henry Bacon took
I'D the ross-examination, District At
torney Gagan leaving this and the
discrimination Of Cleary and ms !
wife TO Mr.. Bacon
"You and Eugene we're school chums,
weren't you?" Bacon began. We'll I
she said, "he and went to the same
school for a number Of years,
Q.-You never met your father while .
you and Eugene were together! A
No.
She again broke down. !
Q.-Were you and Eugene engaged
before you became i'll? A-Yes.
Q.-When? A.-For three months
before it.
Q.-You were very fond of him? A.
Yes, sir.
Q.-And you continued to meet him
even after your parents had expressed
their disapproval? A.-Yes, sir.
Staggers from Witness Stand.
That was the final question. When
Al. AL ha e.
of the chair, and Ambrose Cleary ran
to her. and on his arm she walked by
the Jury; as she approached Cleary he
thrust out his hand She touched his
fingers and hurried by. When she
got to the end of the aisle and beyond [
the door she collapsed. physician
attended her, and she was taken TO
the home Of her grandmother, who
doesn't know that Cleary is on trial.
She thinks he is in Hot Springs, Va.
The slayer's attorneys asked an ad-
journmont then, saying that they
wanted to put Cleary on the stand,
hut that he was too much affected to
testify then. SO the court granted an
adjournment until o'clock.
When Cleary was taken back to the
iail for supper he crumpled up. The .
iail physician attended him. When ne
was brought back into court at I
o'clock he was the same dull-eyed man /.
of Yesterday and this morning. There 7
were more women than men IN the
damned room then.
Cleary, at the start Of has testimony /
used the present tense in referring to
his occupancy of the office OF town
clerk Of Haverstraw -,
"Are you a believer in heredity -
asked Comesky
Eyes The purpose was to show
that because Fred +. Newman, father
of Cleary's victim, was once an inmate
of an insane asylum Eugene had been
afflicted and TO bear out the conten-
ton that Cleary opposed the assocla-
ton Of his daughter Anna with Eugene
because of the latter's environments.
Cleary was asked if it were not we'll
known that the boys mother had
eloped with sixteen-year-old boy.
eyes" Cleary replied.
81 bring you TO the night of July p.
this year. What did DR.. Schultz tell
you after he had talked with your
daughter"
"He came out and sat between my
wife and me. Are you prepared to
stand a shock?' he asked. We said,
Yes Your daughter he said, should
be married
This was given in considered phrase.
Trouble Overwhelms Cleary.
"The doctor went back into my
room he went on "Hn