Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-28
.LAMBLE TRIES TO PROVE
ALIBI IN KUpfER-JANNY CASE

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times would have to shut of the ig-
milton to slow down the car. 1
turned into Milton avenue and about
one-quarter Of a mile from the sta
ton the man told me to slow down
as l was getting neal our destina-
ton. 1 throttled down to twenty or
twenty-five miles an hour.
II then heard a report and
thought IL was a blowout or back
fire. 1 put on both brakes and then
heard another report and turning
saw a revolver in Brandon's hand.
My Cod 1 cried, what have you
done7' l then got out the left side
Of the car and IA around h front
as Il was a bright moonlight night
and I did not wish to be recognized.
Brandon jumped out of the rear
seat, went to the left side and as
sisted the man to get into the road,
the man having already started to
stagger out of the car. Get the girl
OUT the man said as Brandon
dragged him across the road and let
him drop. l then got in the drivers
seat again and had trouble starting
the motor. The girl, in the mean
time, had toppled over towards the
left. Brandon then jumped in tina
rear and pointing a revolver at me
said: Go ahead. What are you walt
ing for?'"
The witness then told of going
through Milton venue to the Rah-
way River road. At a spot along
this road, the witness said, Bran
don ordered him to stop the a and
throw out the girls body. Il stop
ped the car" Perchand said, but
told him to throw the girls body out
himself. He asked me to wait while
he dragged the body into the bushes.
/ started the car to get away and he
dropped the body in the grass and
jumped on the running board of the
ear, and then into the back seat.
After we had gone about one-half
a mile he told me to stop the a
again. He said he had money enough
to go to New York with and that
1 could keep the car. He got out
and / continued, going to Linden.
A policeman tried to stop me by
swinging a light. l slowed a bit, but
speeded up again and went past him.
1 deserted the a at Wood avenue
in front Of a school house.
II then walked on to st. Georges
avenue and saw by a sign post that
IL was fourteen miles to Newark. !
got a lift on an auto truck to New
ark and another lift from there along
the plank road to New York City.
] got there between 6 and $3.50 o'clock
that morning. / saw Brandon about
1890 O'Clock. Where Is the carr,
he asked. He said he thought I was
a fool If 1 had taken 1t to New York.
He asked me how l got in and /
told him. i then asked him how
ne got in. I'm here. ain t II. he
answered"
Perchand was cross examined by
the attorney for the defense when
he had finished his own story OF his
actions on tEat night. He exp,aaacd
that in going out Amboy avcnIe, up
a hill near the cemetery. he hal been
bothered by the glaze OF an arc light
in the windshield of the car and had
closed 1t with one hand. He admitted
having been convicted twice befvi q
for crime and said he FIRST met
Brandon in the Eastern New York
Reformatory while serving q sentence
of eighteen months and nineteen
days. He was serving a term of six
years and eight months for carrying
concealed weapons, he said, when the
governor committed his sentence in
order that he might be brought to
Union county for trial. While in
jail, the witness said. John A.
Galatian, chief of the Union county
detectives, had visited him, had re-
ceived from him (Perchand) a
sworn and signed statement and
f~ingerprints of the witness had been
taken. =
Upon arrival in the Union county
jail, the witness said. a man front
the prosecutors Office visited him
and talked with him. Perchand de-
MED that any promises were made
to him by anyone hat If he turned
states evidence he would not be
tried for murder. 1 vas told to tell
only the truth, Perchand said.
During the o examination Per-
chand admitted having worked at
the du Pont plant in Parlin, also the
Hercules works at Kenville, in 1918,
but said he worked at Nor
gan. Brandon did not work with
him in any of these plants. the wit
ness said.
At this point in the testimony Mr..
McDermitt questioned Perchand
about a certain man by the name of
Steve" whose last name was not
mentioned. Perchand said steve
had not been in Perth AmDoy with
him and the last he saw of steve"
was in November, 1918. The attor-
ney for the defense also questioned
Perchand about his brother Frank.
The attorney charged that when
Perchand went to Parlin on the
night of August 81, it was not Bran
don he took with him, but his
brother Frank and this man "Steve."
The attorney also charged that Per-
chand removed from Brandon's coat
a reference in order that he might
secure work.
do you know a girl by the name
of Marion" asked Attorney Nc
Dermitt. II know she is Brandon's
wife," said Perchapd. In reply to
a question as to how often he went
to Parlin, Perchand answered that
he and Brandon had gone there on
the night of August 10 to see a Mr..
CihSon about getting a poSitiOn. but