New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-08
Wax, in Court, Sees
Rae Tanner, Winks,
Then Has to Flee
Oliver Osborne Is Ban
ished from Room After
Left Eyelid's Action
Many Identify Him
Two Boys, New Witnesses,
Call Lothario Their
"Near Uncle"

Charley Wax and the girl he says
he most particularly left behind him
when "Oliver Osborne" vanished out
Of a city Of lachrymose ladies and
aching hearts had one more good look
az each other yesterday in Judge Van
Fleets room in the Federal District
Court.
Rae Tanner did her looking out OF
two eyes. wide and warm with some
emotion not love. Wicked Mr., Wax
devoted only half his optical artillery
70 the bombardment. An eloquent left
eyelid futtered down, Just A. that tense
moment when by a.. the rules OF drama
an orchestra OF stage somewhere
should have struck up Lovers Once.
but Strangers Now" and silenced Bat
terry No. ,.
There wasn't any doubt o.; g. Right
there, after he had passed down the
aisle from the front OF the courtroom
and had looked over his shoulder 20
/ find the leading lady Of the piece doing
the same; right there by the door.
with the Judge or the bench and the
jury in the box and the whole air
heavy with dignity and solemnity
right there Mr. Wax had paused TO exc
cute the wink without which he has
} come 70 consider no public appearance
complete.
Wink Gets No Reply
The wink, individually directed a. the
tiny defendant, got no reply in kind.
But Wax, undiscouraged. fingered on
the threshold until Miss Tanzer's at
torney objected to his presence and
Judge Van Fleet ordered him on his
way.
Wax, as hawless in attire as bis wink
vas in technique, had been brought
over from the Tombs a. the request o.
Samuel Hershenstein. Assistant United
States Attorney, who "a aiding in Miss
Tanners prosecution for perjury.
The prosecutor desired that william
!. Kitchen. lately proprietor Of the
Hotel Kensington, a. plainfelG. y. j.,
have another look at Wax and repeat
under oath his Identification Of the
governments star witness as the man
VINO visited his hotel with Rae Tanner.
II was after he had been so Identified
by Kitchen. bad smiled blandiy or The
Jury and favored the jury with d bow
that Wax sent his wink 70 Rae.
The government put several other
witnesses on the stand II the hope %
convincing the jury that Miss Tsnzer
was guilty Of perjury when she svo-e
that James ". Osborne. the lawyer,
was her "Oliver" and that he promised
20 marry her.
Others Take Stand
Frank Lapp. man q al work IN the
Kensingtsn when 80. Osborne and
wife" registered there-the latter sd-
mittedly Miss Tenzer; the former. as
movie subtitle writer's pungently put
IL. ?"-f followed Kitchen on the stand.
Ire did not see Wax. but put himself on
record as certain that James y. Os-
borne was not Rae's companion.
Wax, brought back into the court
room when Lapp was excused, was ide1-
titled then in succession by Mrs. Moilie
Denham. who knew him as {. L. Bacon
and Oliver Osborne when he lived IN
her boarding house. in 1919: by Blanche
Unger, who worked I'm ngtale's,
opposite Mrs. penham's house, firted
with "Olivcr" Up 20 the letter stage
and just can't be mad az him now; and
by Rose Helen Kaiser. who also got
letters from the gay deceiver IN 1914.
Bows Identify Wax
By these women Wax had been seen
and Identified before at reunions ar
6y the District Attorney Just
cn the identification al the trial
.e Kaiser and Emery Mincsler,
rerha.s Of Miss Kaiser and each about
eleven. went on the stand and pointed
out the man who spanked auntie. Nei-
thcr had amy doubt that Wax was their
almost Uncle Oliver.
Mrs. Charles Silverstone. another
new witness. said that she had looked
from her kitchen window into the din
inc room Of her neighbors the Tanners.
one evening IN the fall Of 1914 ard
there had seen the ubiquitous Wax.