New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-21
Tanner Girls Sister Identi-
fies Lawyer as Wis
itOr to Home.
ASSERTS 20. O." HAD
WART ON NECK
Remembers Point Which Eluded
Her at Safford's Perjury
Trial.

The shade Of Oliver Osborne devel-
oped wart on the back OF his astral
neck at yesterdays session OF the Tan
zer trial. Dora Tanner, sister Of Rae,
put it there.
Dora noticed the wart, she said, when
the much sought Oliver called at the
Tanner home. Though she had several
opportunities in court, she failed to
mention il because she hadn't thought
of IT,
Counsel for the defence sprang the
wart sensation Immediately after Dora
had identified James W. Osborne as
the man who courted Rae and encom-
passed her downfall. Mr.. Osborne, who
had rushed into Judge Wolverton's
courtroom from the Appellate Division
Of the Supreme Court, where he was
busy arguing a case, didn't stop long
enough 10 be asked whether he had a
wart on the back Of his neck.
Sister Forgot About Wart.
AS Osborne came in the door and
strobe down the aisle toward the wit
ness stand David Slade asked Dora II
he was the persistent caller At the Tan
ger home in 1914.
Eyes, he is the man-thst's HIM"
cried the witness, half rising. HE is
the man who ruined my sisters life!"
Mr.. Osborne remained only long
enough to glare at the witness.
Dora admitted on cross-examinstion
by attorneys for the government that
she had known about Oliver Osborne's
wart when Franklin Stafford was on
trial for perjury in testifying that Rae
Tanzer and James W. Osborne spent a
day together in the Plainheld, n. D.,
hotel of which he was clerk. No, IL
hadn't occurred 10 her as worthy OF
mention, though she admitted she was
careful TO describe every striking feat
ure of his makeup.
James w. Osborne wears glasses.
Oliver Osborne. so far as has been dis
covered, does not. But Dora said she
remarked on the occasion OF one of
divers calls that he looked as II he
wore them-that he had mark on his
nose. Oliver laughed at this, she said,
and passed il off with the remark that
he could see all he wanted to with the
good old eyes he had when he was
born.
Oliver. Dora recalled, told Rae he
lived in Seventy-frst Street with IAN
old lady whose son was lawyer
Defence Gets Setback.
All the familiar testimony of past
trials and commissioners hearings was
repeated yesterday-the appreciative
divers request for second plate or
Dora's excellent homemade soup; his
impetuous generosity in taking dia-
mond horseshoe pin from his tie and
pinning it in Rae's waist; his oft-ex-
pressed wish TO provide a nice little
apartment for Rae to show that he
loved her really and truly; his prom
Use 10 send Dora a turkey for Christ
mas if she'd agree TO make some Of her
delectable soup OF the bones.
The defence was set back when Judge
Wolverton refused to allow Benjamin
Slade to introduce evidence of Il con-
spiracy on the part of James W. Os-
borne and United States District At
torney Marshall to save the lawyers
reputation.
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, OF coun-
sci for Rae Tanner, who is on trial for
perjury, outlined his clients case to
the jury. He promised to prick 1.-THE
Oliver Osborne bubble" and to prove
by at least two handwriting experts
that the Oliver Osborne letters and
the James w. Osborne letters were
written by the same man.
Girl Wanted in Court
Chanler also told how Harold Spiel
berg. former attorney for Miss Tan