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CALLS RECORD FALSIFIED
IN ELUSIVE OLIVER CASE
H. Snowden Marshall Alleges in Affidavit That Lead
Pencil Interlineations Were Inserted in Court
Papers Concerning Appeal of F.. D. Stafford.

Another chapter was added yesterday
20 the series Of prosecutions begun by
the Government against Rae Tanner and
her lawyers. David and Maxwell Slade,
as a result Of Miss Tanxer's $4,000
breach OF promise suit against James
w. Osborne. In affidavits fled In the
United States Circuit Court Of Appeals
Attorney II. Snowden Marshall charges
that some one has falsifed the court
papers filed In the appeal taken by
Franklin d.. Stafford.
Sanford Is the former clerk Of the
kensington Hotel in Plainfield. N. j..
who testified for Rae Tanner at the
beginning Of the prosecution against her
for use Of the mails to defraud. He
swore that Oliver Osborne and James
w. Osborne were one and the same and
that the man who brought Miss Tanner
to the P%lainfeld hotel on a certain oc-
casion was James w. Osborne. He was
convicted Of perjury in ths United States
District Court last May and sentenced to
months Imprisonment by Judge
Charles NJ. Hough. Benjamin Slade,
brother Of Maxwell and David Slade,
was attorney for the defendant.
The law Arm OF Slade Il Slade. 200
Broadway. carrid the case to the United
states Circuit Court Of Appeals. but be-
fore doing 80 had to gets Judge Hough
to sign a bill OF exceptions which was in
substance a transcript Of the testimony
on which the appeal was based. The
bill included among other extracts three
important questions asked by Assistant
United States Attorney Roger Il. Wood
of Mrs. James w. Osborne and Edwin
W. Wilcox OF Mr.. Osborne's law office.
Pencil lntcriineations.
After Judge Hough had signed the
bin on July IS last some one. according
to the papers filed yesterday. inserted
in the bill in lead pencil after each of
the three questions a note to the effect
that Benjamin Slade had objected to
the question. had been overruled by the
court and had taken an exception. An
examination Of the notes taken by the
stenographer in the United States Dis
trict Court reveals. II Is alleged. that no
objection or exception was taken by Mr..
Slade to any OF the three questions cited.
Judge Hough. Mr.. Marshall sets forth
In his affidavit. has protested that the
interlineations In the bill Of exceptions
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BROADWAY STIRRED BY
A BATTLE OF GUNNER
Bullets Whiz by Throngs Pass
ing the MarlbOrOugh-TwO
Arrested After Chase.

A gunman who found a foe In front OF
the Hotel Marlborough, broadway and
Thirty-sixth street. fired six shots at him
last night at $3.50 o'clock. when Broad
way was t%hronged. In the police pur-
suit of the gunman a dozen more shots
were fired. The only damage which the
fusillade did was by n bullet 20 4 taxi
cab In front OF the hotel.
The shooting began when two men
approached In front OF the T~hir'y-siNth
street entrance to the hotel They were
gunmen. according to Harry Warren. n
chauffeur, who stood beside his taxicab
al the curb. for one Of them, with his
back toward Seventh avenue, drew a
pistol from his pocket M began firing
at another chauffeur. Warren and others
in the street fled into the lobby Of the
hotel while shots were being sent In the
direction of broadway and its passing
throngs.
George ]. Braendly. a detective. who
happened to he on the spot. jumped he
hind "A taNicab, the same machine behind
which the %guninan's human target took
refuge. When Braendly saw that the
gunman's revolver had heen cinptied OF
its contents. he pursued and hred two
shots in the air as he followed through
Thirty-siNth street toward Seventh ave-
nue..
Tatrolman Henry Jacobson heard the
shots and came running east from
Seventh avenue firing six shots on his
own account and grabbing the man
Braendly was after. Jacobson. thinking
that the detective was Rn offender, too.
pushed his revolver into B~racndly's alb
domen. hut withdrew II when the plain
clothes officer displayed his shield.
Other patrolmen appeared and with
p growing crowd In their wake they
took the prisoner to the West Thirtieth
street station, where he said he was
James McGrath. a driver. % years old,
OF co. West Forty-eighth street. Ac-
cording to the police. he admitted the
shooting. but refused to say at whom
he had fired. The chauffeur who was
supposed to have been the objective of
Mc,irath's aim couldn't he found, but
a second prisoner was brought in and
charged with acting in concert with
Mctirath. He said he was James Brady.
% years old, a freight handler, OF 329
East Twenty-fourth street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-15
SWAMI WILL FIGHT
ADVERTISING FRAUD
District AttOrney-clcct En-
plains Plans at Sphinx
Club Dinner.

~
The members OF the spnIhN .'uo o'he"
last night In the Aston Gallery of the
u,.., ,,,or,, ord .f.erward listened
-. ,.,
to speeches. maoe ny r'S'''o'
elect Edward Swami. District Attorney
Iames G. Cropsev of Brooklyn and Chief
>,.- ,,iru
Mae's'ra'e "''''"'" ~
hall was decorated WIN '"''s'"'"s "''
Illuminated with electric lights. ~ large
.. r. -, yo,5 IN which Was
AMERICAN
thrown a spot lisht. ana American hass'
Preston p. Lynn, president of tie club.
49,. .o.r o,l v,,,b hin, a, the
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on file in the United States Circuit Court
OF Appeals were lot there when he
signed the bill.
on the strength Of these allegations
Judge T.. Henry Lacombe Of the Circuit
Court OF Appeals signed an order calling
upon the attorneys for Sanford to show
cause in court to-day why the matter
should not he RENTED to the District
Court and why the Stafford appeal should
not I've held up until the authenticity OF
the bill OF exceptions Is settled.
Assistant United States Attorneys
Roger Il. Wood and Samuel Hershen-
stein will appear in the Circuit Court Of
Appeals for the Government and will ask
that the papers be sent back to d
Hough for a full investigation and that
the Government shall have other means
OF relief deemed proper by the District
Court Judge. IL the contention that the
papers were falsiied Is sustained II Will
he for the court to decide h steps
shall be taken to punish the offender.
sIade Makes Denial.
The questions asked by Prosecutor
Wood Of Mrs. Osborne and Mr.. WILCOX
related to the visit said to have been
made by the elusive oliver to the Sher-
mar Square Hotel on March 10. 1915,
Wnen IN the presence OF WI. auu "'s
Osborne and Mr.. Wilcox the mysterious
p~hilanderer assumed full responsibility
for the misdeeds that Rae Tanner at
tributed to James W. Osborne. On h
occasion also Oliver Is said to have
turned over to James W. a letter written
to him by Rae Tanner.
David Slade visited Mr.. Wood after
the filing OF the afiidavits. He appeared
excited and said the charges OF falsih-
cation were untrue and would never have
been made had the Federal attorney re-
fiec,ed how absurd IL would have been
for any one to have attempted to change
the court papers. After a conference
with Mr.. Wood the lawyer emerged still
more agitated and made this addition to
his statement:
The charges are false. wilful. MALI
cious and untrue. The interlineations
were in the bill and transcript when they
were approved by the judge and the Dis
trict Attorney"
David and Maxwell Slade and Albert
]. Mccullough. a private detective. are
under indictment for obstructing justice
and influencing the testimony OF wit
nesses In the defence OF Rae Tanner.
Maxwell SHADE was arrested in Brooklyn
recently for attempted bribery In an
other case.
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ACTRESS SUES MOVIE HEAD.
Belle Herbert Asks 100000 Heart
balm From BalshOfer.

Frederick G. Balshofer. director OF
the Metro Film Company. vas sued In
the Supreme Court yesterday for $50, 900
damages for breach OF promise by Belle
Helvitz. a movie actress known as Belle
Herbert. The complaint charges that
Balshofer promised In 1903 to marry
Miss Herbert and has since ~repudiated
the agreement.
Walter NJ. Goldsmith. attorney for
Miss Herbert, will offer In evidence let
tiers written by Balshofer to Miss Her
bert In which he addressed her as my
Dear Sweet and signed himself Your
Loving Petty" 1t is alleged that Miss
Herbert and Balshofer lived at the Hin
man apartments. Los Angeles. as Mr..
and Mrs, Ralshofer and that ne left her
after complaining that she WAS spending
too much money.
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COL. CROSBY LEFT ONLY So, 1852
Estat Divided Between Son and
Gr granddaughter.

The appraisal filed Yesterday OF the
estate OF Col. John Schuyler Crosby.
who died AT Newport. r. L., on August
s. 1914, shows that he left an estate
OF only $9.9S2. OF this 5000
vas his share Of the estate of his aunt
Mary Crosby. lie divided his estate be-
tween his son. stephen Van Rensselaer,
Crosby. and his granddaughter, Beatrice
Henderson.
Col. Crosby was a civil war veteran
and served with Custer in Indian cam
paigns. He was American Consul in
Florence. Italy. from 1876 to 1852. and
Governor OF the Territory of Montana
from 1882 10 1884 lie married Harriet
Van Rensselaer,. who died in 1911 and
left an estate Of $4,000
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Y. M. H. A. FUND NOW $s.s54.
Excellent Results Reported
LVucheOu Despite storm.

Despite the storm Of Monday and the
impeded traffic conditions excellent re-
suits were shown yesterday at the Union
square Hotel luncheon for workers In
the campaign Of the Bronx Y. NJ. II. A.
to raise $4,000 for "A new building. Con-
tributions of N.og5 were announced,
bringing the total of the first few days
of the campaign UP to $685..
The team that led for the day, with
$685.. was headcd by Louis wasserzus
The team headed by Bernard u. SAKE
made no report, though 1t WAS unoff-
cially announced that IL had more than
made good its pledge to raise $1,000. and
had made a further pledge to raise $4,000
during the campaign.
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VIRTUE" HALTS THE LAW.
Owners Of s~uppressed Film At
DaIy's Theatre Get junction.

The Franklin Film Manufacturing
Company. owner Of the Arm virtue"
which was suppressed at Days Theatre
Monday night by License Commissioner
BELL. got a temporary injunction y%ester-
day from Supreme Cour Justice Whita-
ker. restraining Commissioner Bell from
interfering with the production OF the
piece until argument is heard on De-
cember II.
The hlm was shown last night. There
was a fair sized audience at the first
show at 40. At the second showing
there was a small crowd and many of
the spectators. becoming dissatisfied with
the picture. went to the box Office and
demanded back their money. Several
threatened to create a disturbance. but
were Gained. Nearly half the audience
finally walked out.
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Maxwell Motor Dividend.

The directors of the Maxwell Motor
Company. in accordance with plans an
bounced some time ago. have declared a
dividend OF i4h per cent on the first
Preferred stock. payable In n%on-interest
hearing warrants, which may he ex-
changed for preferred stock at par, by
US action the accumulated back divi-
uehds Oh The first preferred stock OF the
company are taken care OF. The stock
sn'" last spring has been on a Z per
cent, basis.
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lea by soliciting contributions from the
motion picture people. A special day
in February Is TO be called "The Actors
F'und Moving Picture Day" when 10000
Aim theatres will send u percentage OF
their receipts toward the fund.
DE Wolf Hopper will be seen foS the
first time In pictures at the knicker-
booker Theatre on Sunday In Don
Quixote."
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Clarence Winter was associated with
his brother. Reyes Winter. In the law
firm OF Winter 4 Winter up to r year
ago. At that time he went TO Indian
apolis and started practice for himself.
He came East on n visit to New York
early last week and also ven to Phila-
delp>ia. At his hotel there II was said
last night that he received a mysterious
telephone message from New York which
caused him to leave Immediately for
here. He visited his brother. Reyes
Winter. on Saturday and then returned
to philadelphia. Nothing that he said
while with his relatives led them to ex-
poet his deed and they could give no
reason for IT last night.
Mr.. Winters home was at 1929
North Meridian street. Indianapolis. lie
leaves a wife. Mrs. Margaret Winter,
and two children there, Peggy, ~. and
Ferdinand. ) years old
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THE SEAGOERS.

Sailing to day by the United Fruit steam
shin GARLIC for ports OF the Caribbean:
Mrs J. X. l. Ross, Mr.. and Mrs. A u
Mrs. +. ". Warren. Wood
Mrs. George h.. Col. Mrs. q. II. Carter.
J burn. Mrs. W. f.. Rowe.
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CLARENCE WINTER sEIF.sLAM.
Former New York La Found
Dead In Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. t.-Clarencs
Winter. formerly a New fork lawyer
and member Of the firm Of Winter a.
Winter OF So Liberty street. committed
suicide In a hotel here tonight. lie had
been In this city only a few days. He
left only one message. addressed to his
father. In which he asked that his wife
and children he taken care of after he
WAS zone.
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1.-THE Spirit of the Hour
THE HARBOR
BY ERNEST POOLE
BY ERNEST O

A novel Of lasting value
with the best spirit of con-
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ground. Make this book one
of your Xmas glfts--it is a
true and noble picture Of
modern America that claims
a permanent place in the
library of every thinking
man and woman.
".Absorbineiy interesting and significant
". Y. Times.
si.4O THE MACMILLAN CO.. Pubs. Nj
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Thomas A. Edison has accepted the
Craftsmanship Of a committee which will
raise money toward the $1,000. 400 en-
dowment for the Actors Fund of Amer
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-08-27
State Militia Interested.

National guardsmen of Frederick
and of the entire state are deeply in
terested in the announcement from
Washington telling Of plans on foot
at the War Department to organize an
army of 100000 men. Such an or
der it is reported would mean the
filing of the First Brigade, Maryland
National Guard to war strength of
$50 men to company in the three
regiments of infantry.
In addition there would be 100 men
in Troop A., Pikesville; 81 enlisted
men in the field hospital company, the
formation of an ambulance company
of so men, and also the organization
and equipment of 666 men for coast
artillery duty, or about 5000 in all.
There are now about 1900 officers
and men in the organized militia of
Maryland, which consists of three re-
giments and one seperate company of
infantry, the First Naval Brigade,
Troop A and field hospital company
of about IS enlisted men and five COM
missioned officers.
If called into active service in &C
cordance with plan already out
lined at the War Department, the
Maryland troops would form the sec
ond brigade of the Eight division
There would be about $4,000 men in
the division.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-08-27
School Boys to Study War.

Baltimore, Aug. 22.-When the
school board meets Wednesday it will
decide whether or not military tactics
and training are to be a part of the
curriculum at the City College and
the Polytechnic Institute.
Most of the boys who attend these
schools are anxious that such a
course be adopted in keeping with a
suggestion made by Adjutant General
Charles F. Macklin. However, it is
uncertain just what the special COM
mittee of the board of which Col
Clarence Deems is chairman, will rec
ommend, as the officials are more or
less handicapped by lack of funds, to
say nothing of restrictions placed on
the course of instruction in the public
schools by the Maryland school laws.
General Macklin's idea is to have
the boys drilled twice or so a week,
and he says that officers of the Mary
land National Guard will gladly give
the instruction. He thinks arrange
ments can be made to acquire the ne
cessary equipment with little outlay.
In view of the agitation over needs
for stronger national defense, the
topic of giving military instruction in
the public school is live one at this
time, and will be given serious con-
sideration.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-08-27
WRITE A CONFESSION
Three Negroes Recently Arrested Ac-
knowledge Their Guilt.

Two months of untiring waiting and
watching in a vain effort to nab
thieves in the act of entering freight
cars of the Hagerstown and Freder-
lex and the Northern Central Railway
companies lines, ended recently when
Henry Stanton, Sam Carroll and Cal
win Dorsey, negroes, confessed to the
series of robberies. Carroll is also
in Jail under charge of entering the
store of John M. Hartman, East street,
more than week ago. Stanton and
Dorsey were rounded up by Deputy
Sheriff Charles Smith, who has been
conducting the search. The three men
have made written and signed con-
fession.
The accused were arraigned in court
Monday evening before Justice Aaron R.
Anders and pleaded guilty. They were
held under bond of 500 each for
the action of the court
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-08-27
Trouble Over Tuberculine Testing
of Cattle Settled.

The controversy over the tubercu-
line testing of cattle in Frederick
county and the State was amicably
threshed out yesterday at a confer
ence between officers of the Dairy
mems association, of this county, and
the members of the Live Stock SAM
tary board held in Baltimore. 1t was
learned at this conference that ap-
praisement of tuberculine tested cat
tie has been temporarily discontinued
throughout the State, not only in
Frederick county, although a recent
order from the board intimated that
Frederick county would be the only
section affected by the order.
Those from the Frederick county
association attending the conference
were: Harry B. Witter, president;
Samuel Forney, vice-president; Lee
Ranneberger, a director, and Reno S.
Harp, attorney to the association. The
entire membership of the Live Stock
Sanitary board attended the confer
ence.
1t was reported last evening by
President Witter that the members
of the board admitted that the an
praisement system practiced in this
state was illegal. But at the same
time it was the intention of the board
10 benefit the farmer and at the same
tlme Keep the States expense as re-
duced as possible. The members of
the board declared that the cost of
appointing inspectors and filing re-
ports OF the test was very great and
Tor this reason the board had found
itself unable to make higher ap-
praisements. Mr.. Witter stated that
IN order that these routine filing ex-
penses might be reduced the an
praisements on cattle were cut in this
State.
me members of the board Impress
ed upon the delegation that more ap-
pralsement money has been paid to
frederick county dairymen and farm
ers than in any other county in the
State. The members of the delega-
tlon responded by saying there were
more dairy cattle in this county than
IN any other county in the State. in
TACT than in several of the counties.
Inc conference was marked by a
particularly friendly spirit. 1t was
anticipated in some circles that the
Joint session would wax hot and that
some bitter arguments would result
AS a matter of fact" said President
W1tter, "the best of spirit prevailed
during the entire conference and
some real work was done"
A complete report of the result of
the conference will be made at a
meeting of the association to be held
IN the Frederick court house on the
afternoon of September 1. On Satur-
day evening the directors of the as
ISOLATION will meet in the offices of
Reno S. Harp to consider matters rel
ative to the form that the report shall
take.
Mr.. Witter seemed to be entirely
satisfied with yesterdays meeting of
the Live Stock and Sanitary board.
lie intimated that many of the farm
ers' troubles would ultimately be
cleared.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-08-27
County Commissioners Ask For
Injunction.

With a section of the county high
way in the vicinity of Creagerstown
covered with layer of mud and wa
ter and the drain choked with stone
and debris, preventing the surface
water from running off the road, the
county commissioners yesterday filed
bill for an injunction against Lau-
retta c. Kinna, Harry Fogle and Sa-
die Fogle, asking the court that the
drain extending through the Kinna
property be opened. For weeks this
question has been hanging fire. The
commissioners say they have been
arbitrating the matter for weeks win
out any material results. Water still
remains on the public road, the prop
erty owners still refuse the county
permission to open the drain and
users of the highway are filing heated
remonstrances with the commission
ers, demanding that the condition be
eliminated.
The whole controversy hinges on
the filling of drain that extends
through the Kinna property. This
drain constitutes the chief outlet for
the surface water that flows on the
public road at the Kinna property.
The county commissioners claim that
the water has for years passed
through this drain from the county
roads. They claim to the commits
sioners that the ditch was closed and
the mud puddles created in the coun-
ty road.
Several months ago the commits
sioners went to the scene of the trou-
bic and started to open the drain Mrs.
kinna appeared on the scene and vir-
tually routed the commissioners. She
not only refused to permit the ditch
to be opened, but forbid the commits
sioners to enter upon the property.
The bill for an injunction recites
that seven acres of the property is
owned by George w. Young and Es-
tella Young, of Glencoe, Long Island,
N. Y. The natural flow of the water
is along the boundry line of the Young
plat and the farm of Clinton Stull,
which adjoins.
The commissioners charged that
stone and logs have been piled in the
ditch, that nuisance has been Gre
ated, and they petition the court for
relief.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-08-27

| Selected as Member of National
Committee of Woman's Section
of Navy League.
Mrs. L. Victor Baughman, President
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
of Frederick, has been appointed a
member of the National Committee of
the Woman's Section of the Navy
League of the United States to organize
the local work of that body in srousing
the women of the United States to the
necessity in the present days Of stress
and peril to work for the endsof patriot
ism and National Defense. She will act
in conjunction with body of over one
thousand of the most prominent women
in every section of the United States,
numbering among them Mrs. VIM.
Cunning Story, President Gen. D. A.
r., Mrs. Daisy McLourin Stevens,
President Gen. Daughters of the Con-
federacy, Mrs. George Dewey, Miss
Anne Morgan, Mrs. Phoeba A. Hearst,
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, Mrs. Alexan-
der Van Rensselaer,, Mrs. George IIau-
der Carnegie, Miss Grace NJ Pierce.
Registrar, D. A; R., Mrs. Augustus P.
Gardiner, Mrs. Medill Mccormick, Mrs.
Ralph Beaver. Strassburger, Mrs.
George Harvey, Miss Julia Marlowe
and host of others.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-08-27
Real Estate Transfers.

Jonas v. Summers and wife to Law
son H. Summers and wife, real estate
in county, 010.
Mary Burrier and husband to L: n
Myers, real estate in county, $l,O6l.
3. B. Hartle and j. W. Wolfinger
attorneys to William W. Smith anc
wife, real estate in county, $4,000.
E. B. Hartle and ]. w. Wolfinger
attorneys to Alvin e. Sensenbaugf
and wife, real estate in county, $3.50
James M. Kelley, executor to. Anna
L. Mcbride, real estate in county, VI
etc.
John E. Hargett and wife to Johr
Davis, real estate in county, $500.