New-York tribune., 1915-03-26
TANzER GIRLS
COUNSEL In PLOT,
MARSHALL SAYS
Federal Attorney Declares
He Has Evidence of
Scheme to Defraud.
OTHERS MAY BE
IMPLICATED, TOO
wIu Submit New Charges to
Grand Jury Investigating
the Osborne Case.

United States Attorney Marshall
.bo has been investigating the charges
-sae BY James W. Osborne against
wss Rae Tanzer. of misusing the mails.
/, reply 20 her suit against him for
,,.sch of promise Of marriage, an
,ouneed late last night that he had
.Jasnce tending 10 show that her law
..-s Sladc & Slade. schemed with her
- defraud. lie said he would pre-
~, the evidence 70 the Grand Jury
Immediately.
~The evidence in this case said Mr..
MARSHALL. has become sufficiently clear
20 enable me TO state that there is no
,.,.onsble ground TO believe that
,,ber Rae Tanzer or her lawyers ever
L.d reason to think that James W. os-
k,rno ever knew or met Rae Tanzer.
81 have received from many sources
evidence which tends TO prove that this
vOmsn's lawyers, perhaps others have
,,ined with her in a scheme to defraud'
-,;s evidence shall submit TO the
rsnd jury. =.
l Matthew !. Smith. former District At
,ornev Of Queens. made an affidavit IN
10 Office Of United States Attorney
v,rsbau last night which purports to
.,-,;sb an aNbi for James W. Osborne
a, Sunday. October is. 1914, the day
A. which Rae Tanzer alleges he visited
he Hotel Kensington, at PlainheId' y
!, with her.
NJ Smith swore that Mr.. Osborne
Vas with him that Sunday afternoon
e. the Bar Association, preparing
l,;sf relative TO charges then pending
.-.;rst Smith before the association.
Reuben Pcckham, member OF Mr'
o.borne's law staff at his office, was
with Smith and Osborne at the Bar
association at that time, and will cor
-oborate Mr.. Smiths affidavit, accord
Br 10 the federal authorities.
Two new witnesses, Matte Irene
Smith. a waitress, and Frederick G.
lam. PAINTER, both of whom were
,rployed at the Hotel Kensington, on
October Is. and stated that they saw
sOliyer" Osborne, failed yesterday to
IDENTIFY James W. Osborne as the
mysterious "Oliver.'
Fail to Identify Osborne.
Nr. Osborne was placed in room IN
The United States Attorneys office, TO-
setber with seven other men, and each /
vi,,ess was brought in and asked to /
nick out "Oliver" Osborne. They failed
to find him among the eight. Later
when Mr. Osborne was pointed out TO ,
them, they declared that he was not
the man who registered at the PLAIN
field hotel as go. Osborne
These developments occurred after
United States Commissioner Houghton
had held Miss Rae Tanzer on the
charge Of using the mails to defraud'
pending the action of the federal grand /
jury. Miss Tanzer was detained sew
eral hours in the Office Of Commission I
sr Hourhton, after the hearing closed,
before her counsel was able to obtain
new $4,000 bail bond. Her original
bondsman surrendered her when she |
vas held for the grand jury. MI
Marshall said last night that the grand
Jury investigation of the Tanner girls
case would not begin until Monday.
Five Flames of SOLVER"
The government expects to make out
strong case against the millinery
forewoman before the grand jury. An
Indictment is expected. Three other
girls have appeared, whose names the
federal District Attorney has not yet
made public, who are said TO have
known "Oliver" Osborne and received
letters from him. The letters were
turned over to Mr.. Marshall. They
were in the same handwriting as speci-
mems Of O. Osbornes writing, Mr..
Marshall said yesterday. With Rose
Helen Kaiser and Rae Tanner this
makes five girls who are known by the
authorities TO have been FLAMES" OF
Dear Oliver"
0. Osborne was still among the miss
ing yesterday. Mr. Marshall said he
expected him to be on hand for the
grand jury investigation.
The closing session yesterday Of the
hearing of Miss Tanzer before Com
missioner Houghton was stormy. Inc
same morbid curiosity was shown by
The public as at the hearing the day
before. Many persons were turned
away from the courtroom. The room
was filed with spectators long before
Proceedings began.
Mr. Marshall, in attacking the evl-
oence adduced by the defence, intl-
mated that perjury charges might
grow out Of the present hearings. The
government called two postofiice in
spectors, Swain and Mayhem, as wit.
nesses, who testified that they had
Seen a strange man point out James
W. Osborne in court to +. ID. Stafford,
the Hotel Kensington clerk, who iden-
thed Mr.. Osborne at Wednesdays
hearing as the man who was at the
Plainiield hotel on October 18.
David Sade, counsel for Miss Tan
ger, hurled challenges right and left
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