New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-09
Many Who Hope to See
"Oliver Osborne" Wax
Are Disappointed
JURY BOX FILLED
IN THREE HOURS
Meeting Between Rae Tan
ger and Elusive LothariO
Postponed

The second trial Of Franklin ID. SAT-
ford, charged with perjury in identify
ing James W. Osborne as the Oliver
Osborne who registered with Rae Tan
ger at the Hotel Kensington, Plain
field, n. j., on October is, 1914, was be-
gun yesterday before Judge Learned
Hand in the United States District
Court
Stafford had been convicted before
Judge Hough and sentenced to nine
months in the Federal penitentiary at
Atlanta, but the verdict was set aside
and new trial ordered by the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals on the
ground that irregular evidence had
been introduced by the government.
Hoping to get a glimpse of Charles
II. Wax, who has been produced by the
government and identified as the real
Oliver Osborne, men and women
thronged. the corridors Of the Fedora
Building, and enough got inside the
courtroom to fill it to overlooking.
Visitors Disappointed
But they were disappointed, because
the first thing that Judge Hand did
after opening court was to order the
room cleared Of persons not connected
with the case.
The long expected meeting between
Wax and Rae Tanner did not material
ize Yesterday, and it is doubtful il the
little factory forewoman will face him
until later in the week. One of the
first rulings made by Judge Hand was
that neither Miss Tanner. Wax, nor
James W. Osborne would be permitted
to enter the courtroom until needed.
William Rand, jr., special District
Attorney. wanted Wax to sit in the
room throughout the trial and mingle
with the spectators that his identiiica-
ton by witnesses might be more diff
cult. Judge Hand upheld the conten-
ton of BENJAMIN Slade and Lewis Stuy-
vesant Chanler attorneys for Stafford,
that Wax be brought in only when re-
ouired for identification.
All Challenges Used
Both the government and the de-
fence used an their challenges before
the Jury was chosen. As finally select
ed after three hours of examination, 1t
is composed Of:
George A. Wagner. retired. Middle
town; George ". Storm, contractor, I64
East 10th Street. The Bronx; Joseph
II. Fink, diamond dealer. White Plains;
Michael J. Howard. dealer in silks,
Yonkers; Louis Lowinson, cotton brok-
err, sol West 10Sth Street; Samuel
Grinthal. printer. 900 Fox Street, The
Bronx; William Smith, shipping clerk,
537 East 135th Street; Gerson Stern, re-
tired. $50 West 125th Street; Archi-
bald L. Young, florist, 81 West Twenty
eighth Street; Walter J.. Lascelles.
merchant, 1871 Riverside Drive; John l..
Adams, dealer in spices, 462 East 1880
Street, and Malcolm Laidlaw, broker,
PSF West Seventy-second Street.
The jury chosen, il was taken before
Commissioner Clarence IS. Houghton
that it might see where the alleged per-
Jury was committed and establish
the location OF persons and objects
Samuel Hershenstein, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney, made the opening state
ment for the government, asserting
that the prosecution would produce the
real Oliver Osborne and prove that
Stafford Intentionally, wilfully and for
a price" committed perjury. Commits
sioner Houghton was the only witness
Yesterday.