The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-01

Oliver Osborne. sutton extraordinary.
did not appeal yesterday in the
United States District Court before
Judge Gordon Russell, where David and
Maxwell Slade are being tried for con-
spiracy to obstruct Justice, but the
Government proved as well as II Is able
that he was the man who accompanied
Rae Tanzer to the Kensington Hotel at
Plainfeld. ~. j.
1t was this trip. on which Rae was
accompanied by a man who signed the
hotel register as Oliver Osborne that
led To the girls $4,000 breach Of
promise suit against James W. Osborne.
special counsel to the Government in
its prosecution Of the New Haven rail-
Dad The Government In prosecuting
the SHADES. who were attorneys for Miss
Tanner in her civil suit. contends that
n man who frequently used the name
OF Oliver Osborne was her companion
on this trip and that she had no reason,
nor did the SHADES have any. to believe
that James w. Osborne was this man.
James W. Osborne had already testi-
fed how Oliver called on him and old
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c~orroborated by his Office associates
and his wife Rose Helen Kaiser had
already told of "A man who had courted
her under the name OF Oliver Osborne
and had identified articles in trunks
found at 16l East Sixtieth street As
having belonged to her oliver Mrs.
Stuart Denham. proprietor OF the
boarding house at l61 East Sixtieth
street. had testified that the owner Of
tho trnnkQ had Uiyan tho name of -
Bacon. but that she had heard the name
OF oliver Osborne applied to him.
Produces Two Letters.
Then came yesterday what the Gov
u believes is the most convincing
link in the chain connecting &. Bacon
Of I6i East Sixtieth street with the
Oliver Osborne who registered at the
kensington Hotel with Rae Tanner.
Miss Blanche Ungar. Il stenographer Ia
Bloomingdales' whose desk is close to a
window facing the room G.. Bacon occu-
pied, told how the occupant of that
room tried to firt with her and gave
her two letters in which he tried to
make an engagement.
These letters were signed Oliver Os-
born, and were passed around the jury
box with the kensington Hotel registry
card, the letters received by Miss
Kaiser and the letter Oliver Osborne
handed to James W. Osborne when he
called.
There was no need Of handwriting en-
perts to testify that the same man wrote
all the signatures and letters. n the
Government contends that this proof is
absolute OF the existence of Oliver Os-
borne, and that II vas he who went to
the plainfield hotel.
This done, the Government began its
presentation for the purpose of show
ing that the SHADES and Albert J. Me
Cullough. their private detective who is
being tried with them. tempered with
witnesses.
Martin W. Littleton. counsel for the
SHADES. has commended all along that the
testimony about Oliver Osborne has no
relevancy concerning his clients. He has
objected to all of IL. but Judge Russell
has allowed IL to go in.
There was n rumor around the Fed
eral Building yesterday that Oliver Os-
borne liz now in New York and that the
authorities are close on his trail. Mr..
Hcrshenstcin conferred with several
mysterious strangers during the after
noon, but would give no inklinR what il
was all about.
Cupid Shortena session.
Court was in session only until
shortly after | o'clock. because Juror
No. >, Samuel II. Myers. a manufacturer
OF 545 broadway. living at 23s West
l3sth street, had an engagement to at
tend the wedding Of his son. To make
up the time thus lost the court mas
been sitting enrlier and later than