Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-25
1ang|e in Trial
 of Miss Tanzer
WHO IS CHARGED WITH USING
 MAILS TO DEFRAUD
IN BREACH OF PROMISE
Clerk of Hotel identifies in James w. Osborne Man Who Registered as o. Osborne-Proprietor Declares He Is Positive James w. Not the Man

O. Osborne-Proprietor Declares He l Is Positive James w. Not the Man New York, March 24.--A mass of contradictory evidence was given be- i | fore United States Commissioner Houghton today when Miss Rae Tan | ger, who recently brought suit against | James W. Osborne, former assistant district attorney, for alleged breach of promise, was arraigned for a hearing. ] The proceedings will be concluded to- | morrow morning and at that time the l commissioner will decide whether Miss Tanzer who is charged with using the mails to defraud, should be held for the | action of the grand jury. The charge 1 is based upon a bundle of letters which | Miss Tanzer is claimed to have mailed l to MT. Osborne, whom she says she 1 knew as 'OliVer Osborne" prior to the | time she filed the suit asking $50,0OO. | Sisters of Defendant Testify. | Slade & Slade, attorneys for the defendant, placed upon the witness | stand her sisters, Rose, Dora and Ruth, | and J. F. Stafford, clerk of the Hotel l kensington, at Plainfield, N. J. Rose and Dora Tanzer both identified James | w. Osborne, who was sitting in court with his wife and son, as the man who | had called upon their sister Rae and represented himself to be "Oliver Os- | Dorne, a ranchman or santa Rosa, l Cal
 Oliver" they declared. had given | their sister diamond horseshoe and two diamond rings, but, they added, he took back his jewelry, saying that he wanted to have it repaired.
 l The sisters agreed, too, that "Oliver | Osborne had told them that he liked
 Rae very much and that he intended to take her back to California with him. The sisters both declared also hal had hU | she had known Oliver for more than two months, that she had found out that he was really James w. Os- borne"
 Describe Oliver Osborne.
 In describing "Oliver Osborne the
 with diamond rings" and that he was
 exceedingly well dressed. He never
 wore eyeglasses, they declared.
 Rae Tanzer said she had seen Oliver I twas asked to, stand up and she said she was not sure whether he was the
 man or not.
 Hotel Clerk Identifies Osborne.
 The hotel clerk, on the witness stand said that Oct IS last there had
 come to the hotel in .Plainfield a man and woman who signed the register
 as 70. Osborne and Mrs. o. Osborne,
 of New York" The witness identified James w. Osborne as the man who had
 signed the register He said he had
 talked with the man for some time
 about property which the latter pro-
 posed to purchase in Plainfield. He, too said 70. Osborne" wore no eye 1 glasses and that he was well dressed. For the government, James w. Os- borne and w. J. Kitchen. proprietor of the hotel in Plainfeld, testified. MT.
 Osborne denied emphatically that he had ever seen Miss Tanzer or any of l hoT eli IJo jo1 al hat hoh had
 ever been in the hotel at Plainfield. He did say that he had talked to Miss Tanzer over the telephone. After he received a package of letters signed by her name, at the New York Ath- letic club and at his office, he tele- phoned her to put her right as he
 said. He said he told her that she must be mistaken, as he had never , Tanzer told him, MT. Osborne said, that she knew she had the right man."
 } Not the MT. Osborne , Mir Kitchen said that he had seen , the man and the woman known in his hotel as MT. and Mrs. O. Osborne 3
 MT. Osborne stood up and the witness
 said:
 Absolutely, that is not the man who
 was in my hotel I will stake every thing l own on that"
 I MT Kitchen said he could not iden-
 tify the woman who was with 70. Os-
 borne" as he had not paid much atten-
 ton to her. He did know, however that the woman was small of stature }. A vigorous cross examination failed to @ shake his testimony. The witness said that the man %. Osborne wore con- - siderable jewelry, that he was very y well dressed, and that he was a young s CT man than James W. Osborne, whom = he said, he had never seen until he T visited the offices of the United States
 district attorney in answer to a Sub- 5. poena. 70. Osborne" he declared did = not wear eyeglasses, although he read l, the registry and considerable printed y matter in the hotel
 p Osborne Questioned.
 MT. Osborne, recalled to the stand e was questioned by CommissioneI ,. Houghton. The commissioner exam d ined MT. Osborne's thick lensed eye a glasses. The witness, in reply to ques-
 tions, said that he had not been with
 out his glasses during his waking
 hours for many years. He then lean-
 ed over a book which the commissioner b had before him and, at the commis- ;. sioner's suggestion, scanned the cap ton at the top of the page. His nose
 almost touching the paper, he read:
 Record of Common Cases"
 = The commissioner then read into the 8 record of the proceedings statement 5. to the effect that the actual caption = on the page was Record of Crimina- s Cases" MT. Osborne's attempt to reat t other smaller type on the page was un y successful.
 Two MT. Osbornes. el Oliver Osborne" who appeared vol e untarily when he read of Miss Tan ]. gers allegations in her suit and an nounced that he knew her well anC l. that she had been writing him letter: s. to Boston, calling him Dear Oliver, - t the same time she was alleged tt
 ave been writing to James w. Os
 orne and addressing him in the sam,
 arns,. was not present at the pro
 eedings today. As the governmen
 ested it's case, it was plain that. h.
 yould not be called upon to testify
 United States District Attorney Mar shall said, however, that he could pro e duce "Oliver'' at any time he wanted $ him. The arrest of Miss Tanzer wa l. caused primarilY by the statement