Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-08
C. H. Wax WINGED
Before His Wife
CLAIMS MISS BROOKS IS ONLY
WOMAN HE MARRIED
HIT BY sIsTER-IN-LAW
Miss Brooks, in Picking Wax From a
Roomful of Men, Pointed at Him
and Said: "a Know That Speci-
H.
men,"

New York, Dec. Five more per-
sons. including one wife, recognized
in Charles H. Wax today the man
they had known as "Oliver Osborne
or under some of his other aliases.
Wax, who is held under $4,000 bail as
material witness in afederal case,
was brought here from Chicago to
clear the name of James W. Osborne,
prominent attorney. who had been
accused by Miss Rae Tanner of breach
of promise, after courting her as
"Oliver Osborne Wax has admitted
that it was he who was Miss Tan
zer's friend.
Admitted Marriage.
Wax was identified by Miss Ethel
Brooks as the man she married in
Hoboken, n. J., early in 1914 under the
name of Maise Mason Nye. Wax ad-
mitted the accusation but asserted that
Miss Brooks was the only woman
they can prove I did marry"
Assistant United States Attorney
General Roger B. Wood, in charge of
the case. admitted this contention was
true.
so far as we know" said Mr.. Wood,
WAX never married any other wo-
man than Miss Brooks. The woman in
Chicago who passed as his wife. Mrs.
| Francis Burke, he did not marry, we
| believe"
Mr.. Wood added that as soon as
Waxs services are no longer required
| as a material witness in the perjury
| and other cases against those figures
| in the Tanner breach of promise suit
| be, will be turned over to the local POI
| lice to answer, to a charge of grand
| larceny, made against him by Kath-
| crime Meisenheimer. nurse maid who
| claims never to have seen Wax after
| giving him 5000 to invest for her two
years ago.
| identified BY Fourteen.
Fourteen persons Altogether have
| now identified Wax as the adventurer
| the federal authorities claim him to be.
| Besides Miss Brooks, those who con-
| fronted him to<v were Mrs. Lillian
| Miller, Miss Brooks sister. with
! whom Wax boarded for a time; Frank
| Livingstone, a lawyer, Mrs. 7. p.
| O'Connor, owner of a rooTning house
| in this city Charles Smith, n traffic
| patroiman, and the latter's wife. &
| For the first time since his arrival
here, Wax showed emotion when he
| was confronted by Miss Brooks. whom
ried her. When Miss Brooks walked
| into the room in the federal building
| to which Wax had been taken from the
| Tombs. he paled and shrank back.
| His smile vanished and his eyes
| searched the floor as Miss Brooks un-
| hesitatingly identified him as the man
who had married her.
/ WINGED Before MISS BROOKS.
| He WINGED when Miss Brooks, in
answer to Mr.. Woods query as to
| whether she knew any of the men in
| the room, pointed at him and said:
II know this specimen
Mrs. Miller who corroborated her
sister stepped up to Wax and struck
| him repeatedly on his chest with her
| cIenched fist.
| Wax was vfsibIy embarrassed at
\ no ic;t re Mrc Mid
| aged. well dressed woman. At first
| he failed to recognize her. but later
| admitted she was one of his "land-
| ladies'" He denied, however, that he
had borrowed SIS from her and ne
| gfcted to repay the loan.
Smith, the patroEman, and Mrs
| Smith met Wax at Delaware Water
/ Gap, where he spent a vacation in the
summer of 1914, they said. and where
! they took the photographs used on the
circulars which indirectly ed to his
arresE Livingston said ~ax had
| worked as foreman of his dairy farm
| at Greenwich, Conn, for two months
| in the spring of 1914 under the name
| of C. B. Raymond.
During a lull in the days proceed
fngs. Wax was shown the two trunks
| suit case and travelling bag found iT
| the room in boarding house occupied
by "Oliver Osborne" He identified
the contents as his. They included g
| sealskin overcoat which he said was
worth $500, a half dozen suits OF
| clothes, a oxen pairs of shoes. scores
of silk shirts and socks. five canes and
| hundreds of small articles.
As Wax rummaged through the
| travelling bag filed with odds ano
ends, he S<~ ributed souvenirs among
the newsraper men and others present
II am very happy tonight" Wax
said as he returned to the Tombs. 90
have cleared the name of an innocent
| man and at last 1 have all the under
wear need"