New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-07
James w., Clasping o.
iver's Hand, Says
I'm a Friend"
GIRLS IDENTIFY
RECREANT WOOER
One Prompts Him on
Courtship - Miss X.
Peeks and FleeS

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in the Office of Assistant United States
Attorney Wood, shook hands yester-
day with nine quondsm acquaintance
of Oliver Osborne, that philandering
phantom. whose adventures in loveland
have made so much trouble for near
namesake.
With each handshske went smile
Perfectly at case himself, the con-
fessed Oliver seemed anxious thatsall
concerned he saved embarrassment
to make it perfectly clear he didn't
mind acknowledging the name from
which James W. Osborne, former As
sistant District Attorney, has been;so
keen on dissociating himself.
Wax Has Soft Smile for All
So it was a most pleasant OCCASION
after all, with no jar, no angry LOOK
and no word Of recrimination TO mar
il. As one Identification followed an
other. the man they all called Oliver
beamed around the circle OF reporters
and attaches Of the Federal prosecu-
tors office, as if enjoying the triumph
over those who had been loath to ac-
cept his admissions.
Two of the nine who made the
identifcations were young women dug
by postoffice inspectors out OF the pit
of Oliver Osborne's past-Rose Helen
Kayscr. who succumbed to the Oliver
esoue dimples at the first glimpse OF
them in a crowded subway station, ana
Blanche Unger, who looked up one day
from her desk in the Office of Bloom
ingdale Brothers department store, TO
find Prince Charming framed IN WIN
dow across the street.
It is the habit of the conquistador
of hearts, who takes himself seriously,
10 cherish the illusion that no fair one
unon whom he has chosen 10 smile
can ever be disloyal TO him, whatever
he may have done. Wax proved not
so vain, taking it as matter OF course
that neither of the girls should seek
to shield him.
",Iiss X" also an Accuser
There was another woman who saw
Oliver. too, but that was at strictly
private viewing. 1t was she whom MI
Wood has elected to have known Only as
"Miss X"-a woman OF such social posi-
ton. so the explanation goes, that 1t
was a question either of promising to
keen secret her identity or Of dispen'-
ing with most valuable testimony.
Clothed in black and heavily veiled'
"Miss X" slipped into Mr.. Woods once
Lotto in the forenoon, saw Wax and
slinped away again, leaving an lmpres-
sion of raven hair, big black eyes and
skin startlngly pale in contrast The
mystery of Miss x" extended even to
what transpired when she faced Wax.
Mr.. Wood refused to say even whether
or not she had been able to identity
him as Oliver.
Wax was taken from the Tombs to
the Federal Building about IL o'clock
in the morning. The Photographic
world. both still and movie, had turned
ont in force for the occasion. But
Wax. with his hat brim pulled down
and his coat collar turned up after the
fashion of the conspirator, efectually
hid himself from the cameras.
Thirty Watch Greetings
An audience Of thirty odd, made up
mostly OF newspaper men. had as
sembled around Mr.. Woods desk when
Wax was ushered in. With him came
Detective Sergeant James Duffy and
Postal Inspector Niles. of Chicago-the
latter the man who ran the elusive
Oliver to earth after pursuit lasting
more than a year and half. the former
the active agent in his arrest
The first of the nine who knew Oliver
WAS the only one TO falter IN making
the identifcation-and that was James
" Osborne himself Before Mr. Os-
borne was invited in every one in the
room was asked TO stand.
Il was the plan TO have Wax placed
inconspicuously in the crowd, but he
lrifted away and stood by the door g.
IL opened 70 admit the former prosecu-
Tor whom little Rae Tanzer has so
thoroughly confused with Oliver Os-
horne that she insists on collecting
$50. 900 from him for heart havoc OF
divers working.
AS Mr.. Osborne stood in the middle
Of the circle, pirouetting and peering
through his spectscles, IL was impos-
sible for those who knew which was
which TO trace a resemblance. They
u,ore both mountains of men, and that
was the end Of likeness. The lawyer
vas a thick. square mountain; Wax a
mountain OF gentle curves. The eyes
behind the glasses were brown; the
eyes OF Wax blue and sharp enough
without artificial aid
one had chosen his apparel with an
eve 10 adornment; the other just wore
s suit OF clothes. One had a snubby
nose. fine to breathe through, but more
thu nose of lawyer than a Lothsrio;
the nose of the other was straight and
finely chiselled. The difference in the
mouths was that between oratory and
osculation - and Mr. Osborne has
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