The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-04-21
REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE
AIIrAoRShIP OE LETTER.

Smith showed Porter COPIES VI
letter Of the witness OF July II, 1917
taken from the. Police Headquarters
fiIes TO a MT. Maroney Of No. l0S West
Seth street, The letter related to the
sacandal over the arrest or Lillian
Kahn and SalAe Goblin by policemen
dressed as army officers,
Porter refused to acknowledge the
authorship Of the letter. He insisted
he had no memory of 1t and 1t was
marked Copy"
@. Copy of what? A. A copy.
O. A copy Of what? A (by Mr..
IJttleton)-The Declaration OF lnde-
pendence, If Your Honor ple9ses'
This whole business ID frivolous
Rend the letter.
THE letter was laid aside unread.
0. Did you know May owens ana
Grace Buckley? A. Yes.
O. Did YOU not visit them at No. 2l1
West 69th Street about May IL, 1887
A. No.
O. Did you visit them at any other
time? When? A, No.
q. How long had you known May
Owens? A. About four or five years.
met her at the 18th Regiment before
she became an instructor in dancing
al the Grand Central Palace.
DENIES GIRL WAS KNOWN TO
HIM AS TooTslE.
O. She introduced you to Grace
| Buckley? A. 1 don't remember.
o, You were enough interested in
them to order a police investigation
on a telephone complaint OF May
Owens. A. Yes.
o. Didn't you know her as
Tootsie? Didn't she call you on the
wire and say: commissioner, this Is
Tootsie?" A. No.
O. Didn't she call you on the tele-
phone in your apartment at in the
morning? A. No.
O. From the West eth Street sta
ton didn't she call you up7 A. don't
know. l didn't get the message.
O. Didn't you call in three police
men and notify them you were going
to "break" them because they had
arrested May Owens-Tootsie? A. Nc
never did such a thing. I never
served such notice on any policeman
Q. You suspended a policeman n
| BROOKLYN by telephone at 2 O'CLOCK
in the morning without hearing. A
At the request OF the secretary to the
Police Commissioner.
Q. Hackett. A. Yes.
O. And wasn't the policeman rein
stated next day on a complaint by
his captain. A. ny my bubBeStlOh A'
was ordered reinstated.
Smith got Porter TO admit ne hac
recommended the issuing of Hcenss
TO the st. Nicholas Skating RIM
dancing room to the same personi
who had managed the Grand Centra
Palace establishment.
The Assistant District Attorne!
then began asking regarding Porteri
story that he was with Mrs, Porter al
of the evenings OF NpT. IL and IL last
smith wanted TO know how man!
trunks Mrs. Porter had at Greenwich
Conn. Atlantic City and MorristoWI
4 ana other places during the summer
Magistrate Joseph e. Corrigan wa
interpolated as a favorable characte
witness. Mr.. Smith continued tn
baggage inquiry.
81 What was the business OF Ber
nard Lowenthal in 1919? A. DIT!
goods,
O. Have you ever had busines'
/, transaction with MT. Lowenthal III
to November IN 1919? A. No.
O. When did Lowenthal last visl
, your apartment? A. About ten day
ago.
, smith then took up again the Ma
roney letter. Littleton insisted tina
the best evidence as to the Kahn
, Goblin case was not PorteTs casua
recollection. The Maroney letter wa
, read. In II Porter criticised Assistap
District Attorney Markowitz for cis
: counting the value OF the Polic
HeadQuarters investigation OF IN
Lahn- Cobin case.