The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-04
]. W. THE ORIGINAL
O.O.,SAYS STAFFORD
Hotel Clerk on stand More
Positive Than Ever as to
Identification.
TWO DRANK rs HIGHBALLS

Franklin y. Stafford. former clerk at
the Kensington Hotel. Plainfeld. y. j.,
Is more certain than ever now that
James w Osborne Is Rae Tanners miss
ing oliver. lie said so dramatically
Yesterday At his trial before Federal
Judge Hough on a charge OF perjury for
making his first Identification OF the
former Assistant District Attorney.
And Just ms positively did his erstwhile
employer, William J. Kitchn. the hotel
proprietor deny that James w. and
oliver were one and the same.
Seeking to impress the jury "a TO his
honesty. the clerk laboriously accounted
for virtually every minute Of his coming
to New York With David slade from
Greenwood Lake the night before Com
missioner Houghton's hearing OF the
Tanner Osborne case. He had asked
Slads for sio-he had only 81 cents
for expenses. Slade borrowed the $40
from, lawyer friend to give 10 him
and Stafford slept at SHADES house that
night. They went to the Commissioners
Office together.
Il saw a gentleman there" testified
Sifford, sitting beside a lady with furs
on. I knew him right away. had seen
him a.. the Hotel Kcnsir ggton. Plain
field. where he registered as %. Osborne
IJames W. osborne was sitting ten
Yards away from the witness chair.1
He Is the man Osborne. ] have no doubt
about IT,"
DO you mean 20 say queried Mr..
Slade "hat the man YOU walked up 10
in court and whom you afterward heard
testify was The same man who registered
at the Hotel kensngton as .. osborne ~
YES The more looked at him the
7 more convinced was that he was the
man. and won't take It back. I have
not committed perjury. and didn't say
It for money. And since hen I've been
before the Grand Jury and ! said I'd
I tell the truth. and did
30 YOU still believe II is true" asked
/ Mr.. SHADE.
! More so than ever was his promrS
: reply More SO than ever after watch
! ing him from my chair, his manners ms
AID the movement OF his lips. I stil'
! believe y IN my heart and soul without
J malice and without any hope Of reward
am sur. he Is tho man who rcgisterc,
~
and was assigned TO Room 10 and did
not pay for it"
7 The story told by Stafford did not
lack humorous side. The mans in
sistence on detail was itself amusing
He described meeting Mccullough tn,
first time at Paterson, y. J.. where
I he escaped from him after each had
imbibed eight hiehbal.s. When re- came
, TO New York he was afraid HE wifi,
would make trouble--his only reason
for hiding.
James W. Osborne. who will ne called
IN rebuttal this morning-the case viii
probably go 10 N, jury 'o-nirht-tool
I indignant interest IN the days pro
ceedu - He mumbled objections 70
himself before Roger Wood. he Govern
. meuts attorney. would make them tC
the court and scowled a. the men op
posed 81 him. Mr.. osbrne intends &c
spring few surprises when he goes
on the stand again. 1t was said, and a'
least four NOR. witnesses Will be callec
. Ia help him out stafford has only ou'
/ more witness. Eae's sister Rose. VIII,
D. was too ~ Yesterday 70 appear
Mccullough. the detective, VAS
witness In The afternoon H. deniec
so ever told Stafford that James w
vas oliver The prosecutor showed h
sU attempt 20 d'scrcdit Sirori that tn'
hotel clerk had lef. several previous en-
ploycrS when he owed them money
$1,000 TO one ~ tham sanford adnitte.
an that as well ~ that he had hor
-oV'"d about 81, In a., for expenses IT.
the Osborne case saving hc intcndc,
- pay II back when n. could
NcCu'lpuEh testified that he Shove,
kitch,u q photograph or James ". Os
borne aud that kitchiu said q locke
like the man who registered a, IN
k.usinEtnu, bur Kitchin denied this az
m" stand JUS, before adjour m, ~
kitchir VS. positive that James W wa
f NOT oliver
Tho trial viii go on today q, - 81
o'clock.