The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-15
FLOP IN BECKER
TALE Is DENIED
NOW BY NEGRO
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mony These afldavits are very impor-
tant as supporting Marshalr's affidavit,
while Mr.. Groehl was talking to he
parents Marshall called his mother by
telephone. She asked him where ne was.
He avoided a direct answer, saying
merely that he was In the city. hut that
he had to go straight back to Philadel-
phia. It developed at once that he was
talking from Martin r. Manton's law
office. Mrs. Mcdaniel asked him over
the telephone
statements yesterday as the papers say
YOU did,
"'No, I did not Marshall replied.
That isn't true. They made me APP
pear to say just the opposite of what I
really said. I didn't go back on my
testimony
AT that Mr.. Groehl went to the tele-
phone and asked Marshall 10 come up
to the Mcdaniel home MIR. Groehl told
him he had nothing to fear. but that
matters had TO be Strengthened u In
less than an hour Marshall appeared.
lie said he was arrested in Philadelphia
for beating his wife. While lie was in
Jail a reporter for n newspaper talked
to him through the bars. The reporter
told him that he could do a lot trward
helping out q new paper and the re-
porter himself by giving a sensational
! story on the Becker case. Marshall says
, the reporter asked him a few questions
bearing on the testimony and that his
replies we're positively c~orroborative Of
the testimony.
Bombarded with Questions.
When he was discharged yesterday
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| paper men before United States Com
! missioner Long. who apparently was
acting In the private capacity OF repre-
senting Becker's lawyers. Marshall
says that reporters and tho Commits
sioner d~ingdonged him with uestions
for the purpose OF drawing from him
admissions tina he had lied in the sec
ond trial. He says his nsw were
clear and straight. that he stuck to his
testimony and that he never intimated
that MIR. Groehl had persuaded or forced
him to commit perjury.
while the boinbardment OF questions
was going on John II. Johnston. who
had hurried to Philadelphia from New
York as soon as a report reached this
city that Marshall had 'iopped.' rushed
into the room and took charge Of the
questioning.
"He says Mr.. johnston remained Will
him in Philadelphia until late last night
and then asked him to come to New
York and let Mr.. Manton question him.
He says Johnston gave hin money
for railway fare and took him to Mr..
Manton's office. There he told Mr.. Man
ton over and over again that his testi-
mony was the truth and that he couldn't
change II. In the middle of Manton's
questioning he asked PERMISSION to call
his mother by telephone. Manton gave
,...,t.t.n lAt. .a. 10 "a EtYrnwNs.l
when he learned that Marshall was
going uptown TO talk to Mr. GrOehl.
Having obtained d full statement
from him. Mr.. GrOehl asked If he was
willing to make an affidavit i~ncorporat-
ing the tatemsnts just made. Mar
shall said he was perfectly wiling 10
do 30. Within "A few minutes his aiii1a
Wit. a document OF two pages Of long.
hand writing, was completed and signed
II would like to make that affidavit
public. along with the letters Marshal
wrote TO the District Attorneys of'ic,
beginning last August-the letters in
forming us tina, efforts were being made
10 bride or threaten him into dcsertiue
the States casc-but | suppose ! shall
need all of these documents In tn,
Supreme Court hearing " Beckcr's law
yers apply for a new trial. II would
he improper. therefore, for me to make
them public at this time. Please &C.
cept my mere word that the Marshal
affidavit made this afternoon contains
all that | say II does.
Il might add that Marshall assures
me that he told Commissioner Long II
Philadelphia that the reporters hac
falsiacd his statements and that the
article in the Publtc Ledger was un-
true"
Permitted 10 Go Back.
District Attorney Perkins question:,
Marshall at the Bar Association for I'VE
hours. telling him ne had nothing To- f'ai
and that his best course WAS to tel
story. saying the arida sit h. made II
Philadelphia was merely to the cfec
that he had been induced to come n,r'
IN April. 1914, on the un~dorsiandinI
that he was To get "A profitable theatri'd
engagement that he was immedia'cl,
subpnnacd TO testify in the socon,
Becker trial that he was paid for hi
time and that he was handSomel,
treated In the way Of automobile ride
and comfortable lodgings.
Al midnight he was permitted to leav
for Philadelphia,
His admission as regards tire Phila
delphla afhdaNi leaves the situation II
q tangle, hut the District Attorney Il
confident that Marshall cannot he uses
ny the ftT'ktr lawyers - a ltN'' tp &c
a new trial. Mr.. Perkins j. inclined &
7 believed tho norr, was mlsrcprcsente
and that he tells the truth when ne say
he did not repudiIte his testimony "
I would not Ice surprised. however II Nj
Mant1n produced an AFFIDAVIT.
I At the Vanderbilt Hottl Mr.. Nantol
would not say positively whether he IA,
an affidavit and continued
Il don't think Marshall saw wha
, he said he saw originally (Reckor talk
e. ing 10 Rose IN iInrlcmI. But At N
same time don't take much stoc
in him now When he came to my Of
, fee this morning he repeated TO m
:, substantially the story he told in l'hi!a
: delph.a Yesterday.
. HIS wife, he said, had him a%rreste
I and II was she who told the newspane
4 men of his importance IN the B'cke
o case. In that way his Identity h"cam
I known lie told me h" didn't know
% ans OF the men who We're with Becke
In Harlem that might. ! know ina
r much, that II a Judge could have hear
what Marshall told Mr.. Johnston an
me- this morning that Judge Woul
grant q new trial for Becker
after he heard from Mr. 'iroehl owe
the telephone, he turned To mo and aske
me what he would better do. II" sai
y Groehl had promised 10 be his friend an
protec him from arrest. ] told him
suit himself
g Before he went uptown he told thi
Immediately after the seconu trial he RI
u ccived a telephone call from a friend
Rockers who assured him he could -
- a. mn II hp ,NptlI testify for Rocker