South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-26

NEW YORK, March "a fourth
Womao-as mysterious as the third
presented herself TO United States
Dist. Atty. Marshall Thursday with
bundle OF letters 20 prove her cOnten-
ton that she too has a claim upon the
heart Of the elusive oliver Osborne
She appeared in Asst. Dist. Atty.
Hershensteln's office and was at once
filed away for future use as was No.
3. She appeared just &C Commission
er HoughtOn held the first victim Of
the ubiquitous oliver Miss Rae
Tanzer-fOr the grand jury on the
charge Of using the mails to defraud
James w Osborne, the former public
prosecutor, whom she persisted in ad-
dressing as her dear Oliver"
The commissioner hearing ended
with a riot imminent. Asst. L.. 5. Dist.
Atty. Roger b. Wood invited David
sslade, Miss Tanzers lawyer, into the
hall for the purpose of settling the ar
gument with fists. Commissioner
HOughton threatened to punish Slade
for contempt Of court. Slade declar-
ed that he and his brother, Maxwell,
had been hailed before a "factitiOus
grand jury and then intimated that
charges were being filed in Washing
ton against Mr.. Marshall.
Both Sides Busy.
To vary things a bit Rose Tanzier,
came hySterical and both sides made
strong intimatiOn that charges of per-
jury would be preferred against wit
nesses who appeared at the hearing
on Wednesday.
But peace was restored and Miss
Tanzer's bail bond of $1,000 renewed.
James w Osborne has set about ac-
cumulating alibis with which to de-
fend himself when a jury will be ask
ed whether he spent October Is with
Miss Tanner at the Kensington hotel
in Plainfield, y. j.
u. s. Dist. Atty. Marshall late to-
night made this statement:
The evidence in this case has be-
come sufficiently clear to enable me
to state that there is no reasonable
ground to believe that either Rae
Tanner or her lawyers ever had rea-
son to think that James w. Osborne
ever knew or met Rae Tanner.
II have received from many sources
evidence which tends to prove this
woman's lawyers perhaps others,
have joined with her in q scheme to
defraud. This evidence 1 shall sub
NIT to the grand fury"
Mathew J. Smith, formerly district
attorney Of Queens, was the first of
MIR. Osborne's affidavit makers. Mr.
Smith declined to discuss his affida-
Wit but it was stated officially that
that on Sunday, October 1S-the day
OF the KensingtOn hotel affair-James
W. Osborne and Reuben Peckham,
Mr.. OsbOrne's law associate, spent
their time with Mr.. Smith in a private
room in the bar association executing
a brief in the case Of Mr.. Smith who
at that time was under charges.
Deposition Is Made
Mr.. Smith spent an hour with Mr.
AsbOrne Thursday, made his deposit
ton and then went to Asst Dist Atty
Hershenstein's office to file the docu-
ment
That done Mr.. Osborne said his
books would show that II was quite
impossible for him TO have been a
guest in the Tanner apartment al the
time the sisters charge.
Meanwhile the mysterious "Oliver"
is among the missing. Not only are
the government detectives looking for
him. but che New York police are
searching.
BY way Of further strengthening the
case of James w. Osborne Matte
Smith. a waitress in the Kensington
hotel who served Mr. and Mrs. Os-
borne" with meals on October IS, and
Frederick G. Lapp. painter. who
lived at the KensingtOn, came TO Mr.
Marshall Thursday and after looking
iEtently at Mr.. Osborne declared that
they were quite sure that he was not
.. Osborne"
Mr.. Marshall pointed out the fact
that while the hotel register has it
thaC October Il was the day of the
Osborne" affair in Plainfield. both
Kitchen. the proprietor. and Stafford.
the clerk, saw that the hotel register
was wrongly dated and that the affair
took place on Sunday. October IS.
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