Arizona republican., 1915-03-25
Miss Rae Tanzcr anu Her Sisters Swear Former As sistant District Attorney of New York Courted Girl as Unmarried
ARE CERTAIN
 OF IDENTITY
But James Osborne. in Court With Wife and Child. Denies Ever Hay ing Seen Miss Tanzer or Her Sisters
ASSOCIATED PRESS DisPArcHl

NEW YORK, March 24.-A mass of contradictory testimony was given be- fore United States Commissioner Houghton when Miss Rae Tanzer. who recently brought suit against James Osborne, former assistant district at torrey, for alleged breach of promise was arraigned for a hearing. The pro- ceedings will be concluded tomorrow morning and it that time the commis- sioner will decide whether Miss TanZer who is charged with using the mails to defraud. is to he held for the action of the grand jury.
 The charge is based upon a bundle of letters Miss Tanzer is claimed to have mailed osborne. whom she says knew as "OliVer osborne. prior to the time she filed 9 suit asking for $50,000 Attorneys for the defendant placed upon the witness stand her three sis and J. r. Stafford. clerk of a hotel at Plainfield, x. J. The testimony of Rose and Dora Tanzer was corroboratiVe. They both identified James Osborne, who was sitting in the court with hi1 wife and son as the man who called on their sister. Rae. represented him self to he Oliver Osborne, q ranchnan of Santa Rosa, California.
 Oliver. they declared. had given their | sister q diamond horseshoe and two 1 diamond rings. but. they went on, he ! took back the jeWelry, saying that he i wanted to have it repaired. The sis 1 ters agreed, too, that "Oliver Osborne" l told them that he liked Rae very much i and that he intended to take her back 1 to California with him. The sisters 1 both declared also that they had been i err for more than two months. that she had found out that he really was James Osborne
 1 In describing "Oliver Osborne. the | sisters said his hands were covered
 with diamond rings and that he was
 exceedingly well dressed. He never
 Wore eye glasses. they declared.
 Ruth TanZer said she had seen Oliver ] at her house only once. Mir Osborne i was asked to stand up and she said she was not sure whether he was the | iildiH bI llti-
 | The hotel clerk. on the witness stand 1 said that on october 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 Osborne as the man who signed
 the register. He. too said Osborne
 wore no eye glasses. and that he was well dressed.
 For the government James Osborne and w. J. Kitchen, proprietor of the hotel in Plainfield. testified. Mir. Os
 borne denied that he had ever seen 1 Miss Tanzer 1r any of her sisters. He i denied also that he had ever been in
 the hotel at Plainfield He did say
 that he had once talked to Miss Tanzer
 over the telephone After he received
 q package of letters signed by her
 name at the New York Athletic clnh
 and at his office, he telephoned her to
 put her right" as said He said he
 told her she surely must be mistaken
 as he had never seen her in his life
 never heard of her In reply. Miss Tan
 ger told him. Mir. osborne said. tha,
 she knew she had the right man