Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-02
PLAYED INNOCENT
ROLE IN tanner
SUIT, SAYS Wax
Assistant District Attorney
0sborne'S Double Tells
of EscapadeS

CHICAGO, nl.-Strange tangleS OF
mistaken identity were revealed in the
further examination of the man known
here as Charles H. Wax, who. accord
ing to the police, mas admitted that he
is OLIVER Osborne" the mysterious
20. o." whose escapades with Miss
Rae Tanner, a New York milliner, re,
suited in her filing suit in March
1915, for $4,000 against James w
Osborne, a onetime assistant district
attorney.
Wax. who asserts he was graduated
from Columbia University in 1907 and
is a physician, was taken into custody
by city detectives and United States
postoffice inspectors at his apartment
here He is said by the police TO
have been known by more than a
dozen aliases and to have swindled
more than two hundred young women
in various parts Of the country out OF
their savings, while the postal authori'
ties are investigating alleged fraudu-
lent use Of the mails.
In his statement he denied that he
had played anything but an innocent
role in the suit against Mr.. Osborne,
and asserted that the marked likeness
between his appearance and that OF
the New York attorney was response
BILE for the suit.
Tells Of Filtration
Wax told of the filtration which
led to his acquaintance with Miss Tan
Ter and Of his later attentions to her,
including a trip to Plainfield, N. j.,
which Is said to have directed the
attention Of federal official to the
case.
He insisted that he went to Mr.. Os-
borne and told him OF his acquaint.
snce with the case in the hope that
he might clear the attorney of the
stigma attached to the case, but be-
cause of the publicity given the suit
decided it would be dangerous for
him to remain In New York.
"Mr. Osborne and l look strikingly
alike. although he is a much older
man." Wax said. In fact, put on his
glasses and his wife laughed at the
way 1t strengthened the resemblance.
am thirty-six. Mr.. Osborne must be
more than fifty"
WA uoS DCCA AIfEh6 III SutOo6O oAA
months with Q woman known as Mrs.
Ida Dorothy Wax, to whom he says he
Is legally welded. A part Of last sum-
mer he spent In NASSAU, Wis where,
as Francis E. Burke, he is said to
have been a social favorite., Until a
few daye ago he was employed here
as head night porter in q downtown
department store, Mrs. Wax asserted
that she had known her husband only
n little more than year, and that
they were married q year ago, but
declined to say where.
In United States Army
/ Wax Is neatly tailored, and he is said
to speak French, German, Italian and
Spanish. He talked freely Of his con-
nection with the Osborne case, but
of little else except his record as
quartermaster sergeant in the Twenty
eighth United States infantry.
The police say that he had served
two penitentiary sentences, one at San
Quentin, Cal, and one at Salem, Ore,
both for swindhng women. 1t is al
legged that he had preyed on working
women in moderate circumstances,
scraping acquaintances usually by
street fiiRtations. Then, the police
say, after he had worked on their
credulfty by promises Of marriage, he
obtained possession Of their small saw
ines and disappeared.