New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-29
Bitterness Continues to
Finish Between Slade
and Prosecutor.
DIVERS RAIMENT
IMPORTANT FEATURE
Do Not Be Influenced by Promi-
nence of Osborne, Judge
Warns TaIesmen.

SIX hours were not enough last nigh.
for the jury that has been listening to
Rae Tanners hysterical testimony in
the Federal Court TO decide whether or
not the diminutive m:lliner was guilty
of perjury.
The jurors were taken at 1880 O'Clock
TO the knickcrbocker Hotel to be locked
up for the night. They will resume
their deliberations at $3.50 this morn
ing Judge Wolvcrton left the Federal
Building an hour before the jury.
The summing up of the opposing at
torneys in the case was characterized
by the same bitterness that has been
such a marked feature of the entire
trial. Special Prosecutor Rand, in one
of his sallies against Benjamin Slade,
Miss Tanners lawyer. declared
His eye is black, his hair is black,
but neither is so black as the heart
that conceived such yillainy." Later,
when Mr.. Rand asserted that Mr..
SHADES insolence to the court had been
carefully calculated TO betray Judge
Wolverton into an improper ruling, he
was compelled TO withdraw his remark
by an order from the bench.
Slade Accuses Osborne.
The greatest part Of Mr. SHADES
wrath was spent against James W. Os-
borne, whom he repeatedly accused Of
being Miss Tanners own Oliver. lie
pictured his frail little client as tfo
central figure in an appealing TRAGEDY,
and in trembling voice told of how
the only bright light in her life as
working girl had been her love for
Oliver Osborne.
Every time that James W. Osborn
was away from New York, Oliver Os-
borne likewise disappeared" he told
the jury. Isn't this a superhuman in
cident7
III the prosecutor had produced the
trunks in which the clothing of the
alleged Oliver Osborne were found,
we would have dressed James W. Os-
borne up in this clothing. II would
have been easier TO have proven our
case then. But | have waited three
weeks, and the government has not yet
dared TO produce the clothing of this
mythical Oliver.
"How did Rae Tanner know Of the
existence of Ethel Curtis. the tele-
graph operator at the Hotel Imperial,
if James W. Osborne had not told
her? Osborne said to Rae Tanner: 1
had a friend, Ethel Curtis, to whom !
was good. | gave her money and she
squandcred il on an actor. hope
you won't do the same
81 do not doubt that there was man
representing himself as Oliver Os-
sborne who called on James ". Os-
borne, but this was merely blind to
pacifv Mrs. Osborne"
In summing up the governments case
Mr. Rand said:
IF Rae Tanner has told the truth, she
would have il believed that James W.
Osborne was a professional seducer in
1914. finding time in the midst OF MS
ardent professional duties to betray
number of young women. Mr.. Osborne
was too busy a lawyer and was too
much in love with his wife and son 10
bedeck himself in sporty clothes, dis
card his eyeglasses without which his
sight is miserable adorn his fingers
with gaudy rings. put on yellow CATERS
and 20 about New York City whore he
is as we'll known as the clock on CITY
Hall. -,
Defence's Evidence Raped.
"The defence has not adduced enough
evidence to hang a yellow dog. ne
Tanner eilr's entire testimony has been
A deliberate, carefully planned false-
hood As fast as one lie was uncov-
cred the teller of the tale took refuge
in another lie"
During Mr.. Rand's arraignment OF
Miss Tanner, She broke out IN vloleht
IN of sobbing She was carried 20 a
couch in the rear of the courtroom,
where she remained through the rest
Of Mr.. Rand's address to the jury.
Harold Spielbcrg. who represented
Miss Tanner in her first action against
Mr. Osborne. was given clean bill
Of health ty the prosecutor Mr.: anc
Mrs. Spielberg are honest and kindly
neople. who remind me Of the gentle:
sweet souls in one of Dickens novels,
he asserted. They were kind to this
Girl when she needed kindness
The only thing the defence has been
able TO rake up against James W. Us
horne is that he once gave DOCK 20
telegraph operator, and that his only
disipation consisted in sometimes SIT
ting up all night to play chess
Judge Charges Jury.
Judge Wolgerton. in his charge TO
the Jury, declared that the real cues
ton at issue was whether James W.
Osborne was really Oliver Osborne.
"Do not be Influenced by the fact
that Mr. Osborne is a prominent man,
Judge Wolverton told the twelve men.
"pr. aside all memory of the contro-
vorsv between counsel and the court.
II Won find that James w. Osborne
and Oliver Osborne were not one and
Inc same. then the defendant has testi-
fed falsely.
you are asked 20 determine whether
lanes W. Osborne has become ira
Queer. despoiling young girls. dressing
himself il loud raiment, going about
engaging himself to young girls ana
even marrying them. You are asked 10
determine whether, if he were bad
enough. he would have been fool
enough to act in this manner.