New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-17

AS O. OSBORNE,
DECLARE SHADES
Lawyers, with Subpoena,
Open War on U. S. Dis
trict Attorney Marshall.

Process servers. representing David
and Maxwell Slade, served subpoena
yesterday upon the man who repre-
serted himself, they claim, as Oliver
Osborne, one Of the hief. though in
visible, figures in the famous Rae Tan
ger suit against James w. Osborne for
$4,000 for breach Of promise.
The subpoena calls for the presence
of the man in the Federal Court before
Judge Wallace on Monday, when the
Slade brothers go to trial on an lndlct-
ment based on the discovery OF Oliver
Osborne, who later disappeared, charg-
ing them with conspiracy against the
government.
The man under subpoena is detec-
tive in the employ of the government.
Service was made upon him at the
Custom House yesterday. Immediately
afterward he went to the Federal
Building, where, 1t is understood,
he laid the subpoena before members
of the United States District Attorneys
Office Later, attended by another gov
eminent employe, he called at the Of
fees Of Slade Slade, 200 Broadway.
What took place there Benjamin
Slade, who is counsel for his brother,
declined TO say. When a Tribune re-
porter saw him in the early evening ne
was surprised that the matter had be-
come known. but he refused to discuss
any phase Of the case. He did not,
however, deny that his detectives mad
located the man he believes to have
played the part of Oliver Osborne.
Roger B. Wood Assistant United
States Attorney in charge Of the Os-
borne case, said last night that the
man whom the SHADES will try to snow
acted the part of Oliver Osborne KNOWS
nothing about the case. 81,
This man came to see me to-day,
said Mr.. Wood. 81 told him ne Woulq
have to respond to the subpoena. |
don't know whether he knows tng
SHADES or not. They have subp9naed
about everybody in sight. Why, they
even went so far as TO summon james
w. Osborne, jr., of our ONCE. Alto,
qether I've had FIVE or six people tell
me that they had been subpenaed.
The man under subpoena, IKE the
mysterious Oliver, who called at the
Sherman Square Hotel and confessed
he was the Osborne Miss Tanzer meant
in her suit. comes from Boston and
answers. 10 the last detail. the descrlp-
tion given of Oliver by Mrs. Osborne
At the trial of Franklin d. Stafford, the
hotel clerk o. Plainfield, \. J. AT TINS
trial she described the visitor as tai,
well built, broad shouldered, with good
complexion, good teeth, straight nose,
light eyes and weighing. 100 TO ZOo
hounds. He was large, but not cor
pulent, she said, appeared TO be thirty
five TO forty years old, and gave the
;r,nression of being a well to do bust
ness man. Mrs. OsDorne's good falth
hu Alangg.
lanes w. Osborne, at the same trlai
a. which Stafford was convicted, gave
the same general description OF the
man as his wife did. o,.
The only persons who saw Oliver
Osborne. besides Mr.. and Mrs. James
w Osborne, was Edward W. WILCOX
Mr. Osborne's law partner. wilcox
found him at the hotel, but aside from
him the government has thus far
brouqht forward no one else VINO saw
Oliver at the hotel that day.
lanes W. Osborne's story and that
~ his corroborating witnesses, his wife
and Mr. Wilcox, was 20 the effect that
oliver presented himself as the guilty
non because he wished 10 square any
injury done the lawyer through case
~ rnistaken identity, and that on ms
nroooise 10 return the next day and
visit the District Attorney wlth MN
he allowed him TO leave the place with
out making any attempt 70 detain MN
Ne did not do so. he said at the triai'
because ne felt the man had acted 80
Souarely he could be depended upon 10
return as he had promised. l.
The subpOenainR OF TINS deteetlVe ~
,hs 6yst Indication Of what the defence
~ the SHADES will be. II Is interpreted
a. meaning that they will carry the
6oht 10 the government from the start,