The Sentinel=record., 1915-03-25
OSBORNE CASE
 AIRED IN COURT
TESTIMONY BEFORE COMMlS SlONER IS OF VERY CONTRA
 DlCTORY NATURE.
Clerk of Hotel identifies Osborne as
 Man Who Visited Hotel While pro. prietor Says Osborne Was Not Man.

New York March 2i-A mass of contradictory testimony was given be- fore United States Commissioner HougAton today when Miss Rae Tan ger. who recently brought suit against James w. Osborne, former assi tant district attorney for alleged breach of promise, was arraigned for hear ing
 The proceedings will be concluded tomorrow morning and at that time the commissioner will decide whether Miss Tanzer, who is charged With using the mails to detraud, should be held for the action of the grand jury. The charge is based upon a bundle of letters Miss Tanzer is claimed to have mailed to Mir. Osborne, whom she says she knew as "Olver Os- borne priar to the time she filed the suit asking $50,000
 The attorneys for the defendant placed upon the witness stand her three sisters, the Misses Rose. Dora and Ruth and J. r. Stafford, clerk Ol the Hotel Kensington at Plainfield, N. J. The testimony of Rose and Dora Tanzer was corroborative
 They both identified James w. Os- borne, who was sitting in court With his wife and his son, as the man who had called upon their sister Rae and represented himself to be oliver Os- borne. q ranChman of Santa Rosa. Cal"
 Oliver they declared mad given their sister d diamond horse shoe and two diamond rings, but, they went on, he took back lis jewelry, saying that he wanted to have it repaired. Tle sisters agreed, too, that Oliver Os- borne" had told them that he liked Rae very much and that he intended co take her back to California with him. The sisters both declared also they had been told by Rae alter she had known "Oliyer" for more than two months that she had found ont that he really was James w. O. borne"
 Ruth Tanzer said she had seen Oliver at her house only once. MT. Osborne was asked to stand up and she said she was not sure whether h. was the man or not
 The hotel clerk on the Wmes stand said that October IS last there had come 10 the hotel in Plainfell a man and a woman who signed the register as 0. Osborne and Mrs. o. Osborne of New York" The witnesa identified James W. Osborne as the man who signed the register
 For the government James w Os- borne and w. J. Kitchen, proprietor of the hotel in Plaintield, testified. Mir Osborne denied emphatcally that he had ever seen Miss TanZer or any of her sisters. He denied also that he had ever been in the hotel at Plainfield.
 MT. Kitchen said that he had seen the man and the woman known in his hotel as Mir. and Mrs o. Osborne Mr Osborne stood up and the witness said. Absolutely that is not the man who was in my hotel"
 'Oliyer Osboue.' who appeared voluntarily when he read or the ale gations Of Mics Tanzer in her suit, and announced that he knew her well, and that she had been writing him letters 10 Boston and calling him Dear Oliver" at the same time she. was alleged to have been writing to' James w. Osborne and addressing him in the same terms was not pres ent at the proceedings today As the, government rested it's case it was plain that he would not be called upon to testify
 United States District AttoneyI Marshal said. however that he could produce "ONyer" at any time he wanted aim. The arrest of Miss Tan ger was caused primarily by the state ments accredited by the government 10 "Oliyer Osborne"