New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-05
Picture Does Not Look
Like Man Who WoOed
Rae, They Insist
J. W. FEELS CERTAIN
FUGITIVE IS CAUGHT
Prisoner, Traced by His
Love Songs, Is Due
Here To-day

Tanner declared last night that he is
not the man whose powers Of lovcmak-
ing won the heart Of their sister, Rae
Tanner, and caused her TO start
breach Of promise action against James
". Osborne. Photographs Of Wax
given out at the Office of United States
District Attorney II. Snowden Marshall
they declared did not bear the slight
est resemblance TO the man they had
known as "Oliyer Osborne" Wax rs
on the way here, and the Tanner girls
may have chance 10 face him TO-
night
"Hc is not any more the oliver
Osborne that we know than | ami"
cried Dora Tanner. 81 never saw this
man in my life"
For ten years they could send me to
jaili" said Rose. But not in fifty
years could they get me TO say that
this man they call Wax is Oliver Os-
borne"
The doubt OF the Tanner sisters,
however. was not shared By Mr.. os-
borne, District Attorney Marshall or
by Harold Spielberg, Of $40 Broadway,
who was Miss Tanzer's attorney at the
time she rccanted her story that James
". Osborne was Oliver, and then re-
pudiated her recantstion.
Hes the Man." Says Osborne
"This man Wax must be the man the
Tanner girl knew as Oliver Osborne"
said James W. Osborne. In the first
place. do not believe that any man
in the world would confess TO divers
misdeeds unless he were really Oliver
himself. And Wax knows all the init
mate details Of divers career with
Rae Tanner | received telegram this
morning from q lawyer in Chicago. He
informed me that Wax had much more
than newspaper familiarity with
divers affairs with the Tanner girl"
Although the government authorities
admit that beyond Waxs own word and
certain GlICulllc LNlAllAi NfiNNAtNt NN''N-'+n
to show that his methods Of fleeing
women were the same as those en-
Moved by Oliver Osborne, they have
little proof that Wax is the man who
went under that and earious other
aliases here. District Attorney Mar
shall said he was sure that they have
the right man.
Rae Goes 10 Country
The four Tanner sisters Rose, Dora,
Rae and Ruth-occupy small nat m
The Bronx. Newspaper men were told
last night that Rae, who had been IN
moor health since her last trial, had
gone to the country for a months rest.
Rose Dora and Ruth were at home.
rs this man Oliver Osborne ~ asked
reporter, handing them one Of the
pictures of Wax.
Roth Rose and Dora looked at it
carefully. am
saw this man before!"
Put he says he is Oliver Osborne"
He's tramp and bum" cried
Dora Tanzer. throwing the picture on
the floor and trying TO stamp on It,
"Nothing i'm the world is he but tramp
and a bum!" $500,
"And he says he knows Rae and told
about running around with her." said
"He read it in the papers," cried
Rose. somebody told IL TO him. Our
little Rae is a nice little girl and she
wouldn't never know tramp Ike
this"
Wax Arrives To-day
Postoiice Inspector william g. Swain,
who has been in charge OF the search Tor
Oliver Osborne, wired District Attorney
Marshall last night that he had leit
Chicago with WaNlate yesterday after
noon lie viii reach New York late to-
dav with his prisoner, who Is belng
held on a warrant issued by Judge r..
N. Lands, Of the United States Dis
trict Court In Chicago. under the stat
ute which provides for the detention OF
material witnesses.
The exact time Of WaS's arrival is
being kept secret by the local author
ties TO prevent d swarm OF OllVef Us
harness wives and other victims from
crowding into the Pennsylvania station.
Wax probably will be taken TO Iombs
prison and held until District Attorney
Marshall can decide what will be the
next step.
Probably the FIRST thing that will be
done will be the confronting Of wax
with Catherine Cauheld, Rose Helen
Kaiser and several Of the other girls
who were acquainted with Oliver
Osborne under that and various other
names. lie will also be closely
scrutinized by government officials m
an effort TO determine il his re-
semblance TO James w. Osborne is so
great that Rae Tanner could have made
an honest mistake"
"If things turn out as we expect
said District Attorney Marshall. tine
apprehension OF Wax will mean the
immediate prosecution Of all the
criminal charges which grew out Of
the Tanner breach Of promise suit
J. ". to Aid Identification.
James W. Osborne said yesterday
that he expects TO be called upon 10
identify Wax a. the man who called
al his apartments i'm the Sherman
square Hotel and told him and Mrs.
Osborne that he vas Oliver Osborne.
81 have not heard from Oliver since
that day" said Mr.. Osborne. "The
pictures ] have seen of Wax have not
been good enough for me to identify
him las the man who told me he was
Oliver Osborne. Ny position i'm this
case is technically only that Of Wit
ness for the government. although, OF
course. / have very great personal
interest. People have talked about my
pull with Mr.. Marshall's Office. but rs
"a matter OF fact they haven't permitted
me 20 say word at any time during
the case. | haven't been asked 10 the
differences and ! haven't been con-
suited about the way the eases should
be tried II ! had been the result