The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-20
GOT ALLEGED $1,000
SHIFT OF son FREE
Mark Natkiel at 0'Neil Trial
Shows His First Names
All Wrong.
MITCHELL Is ACQUITTED
Lieutenant Not Conclusively
Linked With Others Oper-
atoms, Judge Rules.

kiefs name stands for Mark
q, In the second place. NJ. Natkiel's boy
Joe had been indicted into that branch
OF the military service which gets posi-
lively the first crack at all honors Of
war, to wit. the infantry.
In the third place. there came to be
placed at NJ Natkiel's disposal certain
mysterious influences through which It
was promised that Joe. could ne be per-
suaded TO sacrifice the thrills OF first
line combat. might be accommodated
with congenial yet martial employment
at the rear.
In the fourth place, and this cannot
he too thoroughly appreciated, the M
in NJ. Natkiers name stands for Mark.
Has to Give Up His Rifle.
Certain understandings were reached
between NJ. Natkiel and his powerful
friends and certain arrangements were
made. Time passed. and a day arrived
when Private J.. Natkiel was forcibly
dispossessed OF his rife and bayonet Cor
would have been IL he hadn't had the
good sense to know that orders were or
ders and no use hcking) and set to
work behind the wheel Of a snorting sup
ply truck.
This all may be catalogued as in the
nfth place. When NJ. Natkiel reached
the, sixth place in the narrative, which
was yesterday. he sat down in II. Sixth
place was the witness chair in Judge
Manton's court room In the Federal
Building, where Frank 8. ONeil. former
state Boxing Commissioner Samuel
Reichback. O'Neils alleged runner"
and Lieuts. Oswald L. Simpson and
Leonard L. Mitchell OF the Quartermas-
ter Corps. were on trial for conspiracy
to defeat the draft.
NJ. Natkiel cleared his throat and
raised his voice when Judge Manton's
clerk failed to catch his full name. He
spelled It out, sweeping the row of de-
PENDANTS with a glance In which there
wss satisfaction. certainly. and a CLINT
of some emotion not SO easily defined.
Mark he was forced to say again.
MARK"
Here NJ. Natkiei's left eyelid huttered
ever SO slightly. and in a fash the nature
OF the second emotion was revealed. 1t
was triumph.
"Reichback." began Natkiel. 1T know
for seven years. One Sunday night he
came to my house and pretty soon he
asks me why I look SO blue tell him
Joe has been drafted and put In the in
fantry. and he says / should ought to
get the boy fixed up. What do you
mean fixed up?' ask. and he says
why, fixed up in the q. NJ. Corps. !
think got friend OF mine that could
do something BY and by he says
Well, do you want II done?
Sure I wanted 1t done. but tell
Reichback 1t wouldn't be worth 80 much
rs new hat to me, He laughs and
next day he rings me up and says he
spoke to that party and / should be
down to meet him outside the Breslin
Hotel.
Cole whispers to Mrs. NatkieI.
81 met Reichback outside the hotel
and he introduces to me man by name
Mr.. Cole. My wife was along and her
and Cole whispered while. Cole comes
UP to the house and him and Mrs. Nat
kiel talks some more. didn't hear all
this, but when Cole is through he speaks
to me and his voice Is shaking
"'Satkiel. he says. I'm going to do
something for that boy Of yours he
says. It's going out of my way he
goes on. but your wife is a nice woman
and 1t amt fair she should worry about
the kid. The infantry he says. 'ain't
no place for boy with a mommer like
that And besides. he winds up
he has been begging like anything ]
should go the limit in this CASE"
George Curtis. prosecuting for the
Government interrupted NJ Natkiel
briefly to ask II he knew what his wife
had said to Cole. who Is asserted to be
Edward ii. Cole, sporting man, who
has evaded arrest Again there was that
futter of NJ. Natkiers left eyelid.
Nope" said he. Mrs Natkiel done
all the talking"
We'll. after that Cole comes to the
house quite often. Then he gets to
ringing up on the phone. First hi
says. Everything's working all right for
that kid Of yours to me- After tina,
he talks to my wife.
One day Reichback had me go dowr
to Mr.. O'Neil's Office that should hav,
a talk, Mr., oNeil just shakes hand,
and says Hello and walks out int
another room Reichback says. 'Whatys
know to-day. Mark
"'Oh. says, Il know a good horse
Pretty soon / had to hurry away, TOLD
Reichback
Next day it's this Mr.. Cole apt
he's on the phone. He wanted to know
II I heard Joe was transferred to be {
quartermaster. Sure. | tell him. 10,
was In from funeral last night ant
brought the news Much obliged
Tells Him shift Cost $1,000.
Mr.. Cole he hens around a littI,
and then he says
DO you know We had TO lay GU
$1,000 for your"
The witness paused. apparently con
centrating on an effort TO control M
eyelid which once more was perceptibl,
giving trouble.
We'll. and what did you say to that
Mr.. Natkiel?" Curtis wanted to know.
What l said?' repeated NJ. Nat
kiel. surrenderlng Internationally to Tn,
oyelId. II says. Well. that's hard luck
Hey. do you know you got the com
bination up In the air over this? Mr.
Cole says.
What combinatlon?' ask him.
The gang he says They're look
ing to me should make good the thou
sand.
ut was too bad. 7 says. but did he re
member any promise | would pay hin
anything"
And did you ever pay anything t,
anybody for Joe's Transient asked tn,
prosecutor.
Not so much" answered Mr.. Natkiel
barking back to the phrase he had use,
earlier. "as new hat"
Under cross-exam.nation by Martin
w. Littleton. Natkiel added that Reich
back had told him o'Neil had infiuenc
and was "a very big man" He ha,
been introduced to oNeil, he said, a
"the Commissioner"
After one more witness had bee,
heard the Government rested Thi
was Jennie HONG. whose brothe
Abe paid $500 to get Phil Honlg. an
other brother of the road to the firinl
line. The girl testified that O'NeiI ha,
visited Abe's store and promised h