New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-30
0. OSBORNE SANG
OF RUSTICLOVE,
SAYS WAITRESS
michigan" His Ballad
When Witness Met Him
as Friends Wooer.
WARDROBE HE LEFT
BEHIND IDENTIFIED
Mrs. James w. Declares Missing
Witness Called on Husband
Cross &C. Bacon's" Trail.

"O.iver osborne, the muCH-"dH''u
witness in the Tanzer-Osborne tangle,
held the centre of the stage again yes
terday at the trial of David and Max
well slade before Judge Russell in the
United States District Court He didn't
msterislize, but the government pro-
duced probably the most tangible evil
denee 1t has Of his reality-two large
trunks Of tho expensive Beau Brummel
wardrobe he left behind.
Tho quest Of the elusive Oliver was
pursued with untiring diligence by the
government witnesses. Beginning with
Mrs. James W. Osborne. wife OF the
lawyer who Rae Tanner sued for $780,
900 for breach Of promise, and ending
with Miss Kittie Caulfeld. waitress in
the Green Tree Inn, a Maiden Lane
restaurant, with whom Oliver had
tried to firt," the government called
e long line Of eye-witnesses of the now
missing o. O.. who testified they had
encountered him on various occasions.
Tho issue involving the Slade broth
ers in an alleged conspiracy growing
out Of their part in the Tanzer breach
Of promise suit, for which they are
being tried, was almost lost sight OF
in the all-absorbing hunt for Oliver.
Martin W. Littleton, counsel for the
defence, though he joined the hunt re-
luctantly, picked up the scent on the
run and followed the government wit
nesses, on cross-examination, TO the
very end Of the trail. When he had
made vigorous but unsuccessful oojec-
tions 70 the admission of evidence
pointing toward Oliver, he changed his
tactics az vigorously and entered the
chase.
Hunt On for Oliver.
If this is to be hunt party for
this vanishing, double o, two-cipher,
exclamation point of a person, let us
have everything that tends to show
that he ever existed" declared ,coun-
sci for the defence.
With the exception Of Mrs. Osborne,
whom Mr.. Littleton declined to cross
c>amipe, he put all the witnesses
through a grilling test. Miss Rose
Helen Kaiser. who testified she be-
came engaged TO Oliver" three days
after she met him, suffered for three
tours under his relentless prodding.
Her friend, Miss Caulheld, depicted
what might be called "sn evening with
Oliver at home" which proved to be
one Of the most entertaining bits Of
testimony Of the day
On a cold night last November, Miss
Caulfeld said, she called on her friend,
Miss Kaiser, at her home In The Bronx
and found oliver there. She had
heard Rose Helen speak of her new
friend previously. 80,
"How were you introduced TO him
asked Mr.. Littleton.
"He stood up" replied the witness,
"and Miss Kaiser said, This is my
intended husband. Oliver Osborne
"Then what did you do?" asked Mr..
Littleton. , .
1--WE sang and danced a little-Mr;;
Osborne said he could not dance much,
said the witness. "He asked me 10
sing. and | did, and he sang. We sang
Michigan 4 Love the Ladies and
Silver Threads Among the Gold He
had q good voice"
The contention that Oliver Osborne
and James W. Osborne were the same
man, which was set up by Miss Tanner
in her breach of promise suit, was rele-
gated 10 the gallery of the ridiculous
in the ewes Of James W.'s friends, IN
the picture that Miss Caulfeld painted.
They couldn't place the noted criminal
lawyer anywhere in the frame OF
Bronx fat singing a song like "Michl-
gan" which runs:
Il want to 90 back, want to go
back, / want TO go back to the farm
far away from harm-with milk
maid on each arm" etc.
Besides. il was fatty denied that Mr..
Osborne had a good voice, or had ever
made any pretensions Of being
singer.
Miss Caulfeld testified that Oliver
Osborne accompanied her 20 her home
on Vast Fifty-fourth Street, after the
singing bee in Miss Kaiser's Mott Ave
nue. home and tried 20 firt with ftr"
all the way down in the subway TO Co
lumbus Circle. In answer 20 one OF
Mr. IittletOn's questions, she said Oil
yer told her she had "a pretty figure.
The witness was positive that Oliver
looked not at all like James W. Os-
borne. She corroborated large part
Of Miss Kaiser's testimony Of her tor
rid courtship of three weeks and hasty
engagement 20 Oliver before he van
ished.
Dimple is Only Link.
The only real resemblance she saw
in a photograph Of James w. 20 Oliver
was "the dimple in his chin" the de-
mure wsitress-on the witness stand
said. with a dimple in his chin, and
the devil within" was the way she
spoke Of the "lost Oliver" TO Miss
Kaiser, she testified,
Miss Kaiser's testimony occupied
good part Of the days sessions: On
direct examination by Assistant United
States Attorney Wood she said she had
known Oliver for two or three weeks
last November He made her acquaint-
anee in the Broadway subway, at the
Seyenty-second Street station. She
was changing from an express 10 a
local when she was thrown against the
door Of the car by the crowd. and
oliver stepped forward and asked her
II she was hurt, she testified. He re-
marked on the courtesy of Western
gentlemen as compared with that OF
New York men, and their friendship
ripened quickly, so that she kept TN
aDDontment with him for luncheon the
"eAt cay, anC ne toGk her 70 luncheon
and dinner and home from her work
every night for two weeks after that.
ghe said.
In describing Oliver Miss Kaiser de-
parted from his usual we'll known de-
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