New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-12
Is SO Hysterical After
Identification She Is
Led from Room
GOVERNMENT HAS
3 NEW WITNESSES
oliver Tells How He Met
Tanner Girl-Her Cousin
Aids Her Foes


Yesterday afternoon in the United
States District Court, where Franklin
D. Stafford, Plsiuheld hotel clerk, is on
trial.
The meeting produced the expected
dramatic result Miss Tanner became
so historical after Wax identified her
As the girl 70 whom he had made love
under the name of Oliver Osborne
that she had to be assisted from the
room.
Wax. apparently glorying in the at
tention which the crowded courtroom
gave him, watched her curiously, smil-
ing broadly when she shriekeo
"Brute!" and Liar"
Wax on Witness Stand
Wax was on the witness stand all
afternoon, telling Of his acquaintance
with Miss Tanner, Rose Helen Kaiser
blanche Unger and others Of the "ol-
iver Osborne Octet" Miss Tanner, &C
eompanied by her sister Rose and
another woman, entered the court
room a few minutes after Wax had
taken the stand. Her appearance
caused a stir, and Wax, in the midst
Of answering a question asked him by
William Rand, jr., Special Prosecutor
turned his head curiously and grinned
as he saw who had entered. Miss
Tanner. CHANGING at Wax, turned up
her nose.
After Wax had answered q few ques-
tons concerning his conviction in New
York in 1911 and in Oregon in 1913
Mr.. Rand asked him if ne had ever
been acquainted with a girl named Rae
Tanner.
~ knew her very WELL" said Wax.
"Do you see her here nowF he was
Wax looked carefully about the room,
turned his head, craned his neck and
looked past Judge Learned Hand to the
bench where the Tanner girl sat.
There she is" he said, pointing
"There she is between the other TWO
women
Rushes from Seat
How dare you!" cried Miss Tanner,
rushing toward the witness stand.
"You brute!"
Her companions seized her and
nulled her back into her seat, although
she resisted hercely.
Not more than fifteen minutes later
Mr.. Rand asked Wax if he had met
any members of Miss Tanners family
besides her sisters. Wax said he had
"Cail Miss MatildA Oseher!" said Mr..
Rand. -.
AZ the mention of this name Mist
Tanzer again tried to leap from her
seat. Miss Oscher, dark-haired girl,
entered the room, standing within NJ
teen feet Of Wax. a.
"Do you know this young woman !"
asked Mr.. Rand.
Dyes" said Wax, "she is Rae Tan
zer's cousin. ! met her at the Iah]er
apartment"
Miss Tanner, breaking loose from the
CRASH of her companions, rushed
toward the railing. -.
"The dirty brutes!" she cried.
They've even turned my own cousin
against me-"
Led from Room
With her sisters arms about her,
Miss Tanner, sObbing, sank into her
seat as her lawyer, Lewis Stuyvesant,
Chanler, crying, 81 tried to ayola
thisl" rushed inside the railing 'Cry-
ing and shrieking that they are mars
and brutesl" Miss Tanner was led from
the room and few minutes later was
excused for the day.
The identification Of Miss OscneI
my q
by the government yesterday thIee
witnesses, new to the triais OF tne
cases growing out of the Osborne
Tsnzer tangle, testified that in the fall
Of 1914 they saw Rae Tanner IN Colum-
brs circle with a man. Each identified
Wax as the man.
They were Henry Hartman. an at
tornev of ia West 179th Street;
Christian p. Christensen, of 109 Wes'
Fightv-seventh Street, president Of th'
psychological Research Society, ane
Miss Anna Nj. Hunt, of the same ad
dress. the society's secretary
Way told of his acquaintance with
Rae Tanner and the other women wh'
were involved in his New York love
affairs in detail. II was substantially
Inc same as he gave it after his arres'
in Chicago in December. He appeared
~ relish the prospect Of being WIT
ness and having all eyes focused on
him. Throughout the direct eXamina
ton he spoke glibly and smiled whei
the "honey-bug," baby girl' an(
"dearie" letters which he had writer
20 Rae Tanzer were read to the jury
Tells Of Fiirtations
In January Of 1914, he continued, HI
NrHnv E~gf
Twonty.second Street and later IN Eas
Sixtieth Street, where he hirted WIT
Urls in Bloomingdales' department
store.
Wax also told Of meeting Rae Tame
IN Columbus Circle in October, 1914
and said that on October IS he wen
with her 10 the Hotel Kensington
Plainfeld. where they registered as 20
osborne" and "Mrs. o. Osborne"
Wax also said he had taken Mis-
Tanner 70 other hotels in New York
lie also told Of his visit to James "
Osborne and Mrs. Osborne at the Sher
man Square Hotel. and how he ha
written Mr.. Osborne saying that Ra
Tanzer was trying 20 get money GU
Of him.
On direct examination Mr.. Rand pu
Wax through an exacting handwritln
Test. requiring him to write from die
tstion the various names used b.
oliver Osborne, as well as several let
tiers.
BENJAMIN Slsde. attorney for Stat
ford. began the ross-eXaminatIon o
Wax. but was not able 20 shake hi
story. Wax made a willing and loQua
cious witness for the government, bu
on cross-examinstion he declared Otter
hat he "could not remember or dc
clined 70 answer on the ground that n
might incrirlinate himself
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