The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-02


w Osborne. one OF the leaders of the
New York bar and lawyer OF spotless
reputation.
Sensations Follcw.
Instantly, almost, Miss Tanzer found
kHrself the center OF an investigation
that was to produce sensation after
sensation, arrest after Arrest. indictment
after indictment. James w. Osborne
Immediately denied every one OF the
girls allegations and at the same time
set about to unravel the mystery. His
denial that he ever had even seen Miss
lanzer was followed by assertions
from her and her lawyer that they had
investigated her charges and were sat
isiied that James W. Osborne had met
and wooed the young woman; that he
had posed before her as oliver
Osborne" wrote love letters to her TN
der that name had dined at her home
in the Bronx, had given her presents of
jewclry, had proposed marriage to her
and was accepted, and then. under this
understanding that they were to be mar
ricd, had betrayed her at a hotel TO
| which she accompanied him at Plain
field, n. J.
II was while the case was in this
embryo stage that the unique person
ality OF Oliver Osborne. as an actual
llving hting. entered A man whom
James w Osborne's law partner and
clerks described as somewhat resem-
bling their business associate, walked
into the Osborne law offices on the
day Miss Tanzer's action was filed
and announced that he was the indi.
yidual who had courtcd Miss Tanzcr.
and that he did not want 10 see an in
noccnt man suffer for his actions. The
same evening he called on Mr.. Osborne
at his home and made the same dec
laraton' But Immediately thereafter
he dropped out of sight, and Mr. Os-
borne'S search for him was unavailing.
All of which tended to make the dark
mystery several shades darker
"Oliver" Declared Myth
In the course of time Miss Tanner
was indicted and placed on trial on
rperiury charge The trial was filled
with sensations. Miss Tanner her three
sisters and the clerk OF the hotel in
plainiield positively identified James
W Osborne as the man who had
courted Miss Tanzcr under the name
sf Oliver Osborne" The girls law
ycrs characterized oliver" as myth
who could never be produced in court,
The proceedings ended in a Jury dis
agreement Then came more charges
and counter charger as startling al
most as Miss Ian1er's original accusa-
ton against James w Osborne
Charges were filed against the girls
lawyers and also against the clerk Of
the hotel at Plainfield. The latter was
tried, convicted and sentenced on a
charge OF perjury. A higher court
eventually set aside the conviction
Through all these months the man
OF mystery still succeeded in cvading
the score of federal agents who were
hunting for him. But at last their
quest led them to a house in Chicago
IN which Charles II. Wax was living
with a woman whom he declared to
be his wife Wax was arrested and
Immediately acknowledged that he was
the long sought Oliver Osborne. Since
his return to New York most OF the
witnesses in the celehated case have
declared that Wax is unmisiakably the
real Oliver Osborne of their acquain
tance Nevertheless. the most impor
tant Identification of Wax has not been
made Neither Miss Rae Tanzcr nor
any OF her sisters has admitted that
Wax is the real 'D,ar OI;v.,"