The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-01-17


with him. sfter sitting on a park
bench with him for ten rninutes7 A.
/ was fascinated, not in love, think
q. Did you lose your heart to James
w. Osborne In ten minutes? A. Yes,
I did.
Did he embrace and kiss you when
A. Yes. he did.
q. And he so fascinated you that
you agreed to marry him? A. Yes.
q. That was after he had spent an
hour In your home? A. Yes.
Just then James w. Osborne en-
tered the courtroom.
q. You say your Mr.. Osborne never
wore glasses at any time-even when
ordering dinner or looking up trains
in the Plainfield time table? A. No,
never.
Mr.. Rand asked the witness to name
the various dates on which she was
sure she had met James w. Osborne.
She gave Oct. II. 1914, as the date of
their meeting: Oct. 1s az that OF the
trip to Plainfield: Oct. "a an the day
of the ball game and subsequent visit
to tho Knickerbocker Hotel in Third
Avenue, and March 10, 1915.
II remember that last day!" she
screamed. That's the day you ar
rested me for using the mails to de-
fraud--and you've never tried me for
that. have your Miss Tanzers voice
broke and she began to sob. II can't
stand this any longer!" The court
ordered all this stricken from the
record.
During the course Of the first Saf.
ford trial, according to the witness,
she had been very careless about her
statements of dates on which she
swore she had seen James w.
Osborne.
Q. Yet that was the trial in which
you identified Mr.. Osborne as the
man who had ruined you? A. Yes.
j didn't think dates made any differ
ence. | wouldn't have given them II
I'd known I was going to be indicted.
JUST GUESSED At TIMES SHE
MET "oLivER."
Mr.. Rand read from the transcript
OF the first Stafford trial the dates on
which Rae Tanner swore she had
been with James w. Osborne and
she said she was Just guessing"
when she gave them, as she had been
told by a representative OF the Dis
trict Attorney that ut would be all
right" A number of the dates, the
witness stated to-day. had been
suggested to her" by Roger h.
Wood. then Assistant United States
Attorney. The next minute she
withdrew this statement
At this tuncture Wax was called
from his seat in the rear of the room to
take the chair directly before Miss
Tanzer. which Mr.. Rand had hitherto
occupied, the left side Of his face to the
witness.
No sooner was he seated than Mr..
Slade called upon Mr.. Osborne to take
n chair beside Wax. Mr.. Rand pro-
tested and the Court upheld. saying
II don't want YOU up here; 20 back to
your seat, Mr.. Osborne" And another
incident was closed.
q. You have testified James W.
Osborne was big. broad -shouldered.
well set. bald on the top OF the head.
and that he had blue eyes? A. Yes;
but / was guessing about the eyes.
| thought they were blue.
James w. Osborne's eyes are hazel
brown.
Turning 10 the minutes OF a
previous inquiry Mr.. Rand read Rae
Tanzer's recantation Of her accusa-
tion of Mr.. Osborne, and she admit
ted having said "ho was not the
man" and II made an honest mis-
take" y
@. Although you made those state
ments at the United States District
Attorneys office. do you now say
they are untruthful? A. won't say
that.
O. Didn't you tell Commissioner
Houghton that you'd made an hon
est mistake? A. I didn't even make
mistake.
O. You say now it's untrue that at
this hearing you felt any doubt OF the
Identity OF your lover? a. ] won't say
it's true or untrue. said what was
told to say.