New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
|rando1l Plea
brought Threat
% Punch Nose
! ,erney Who Tried TO See
s EDWARDS and the Jersey
Governors Aid Ha d
y;olent State House Row
Made Speech From Steps
|coIdeuhorn Says Story
& Three Interviews Is
False: Had Only One

r,..4ss. circum stances surrounding
....v;etion and execution of George
- .s,n remarkabie details that give
..xa continued activity. although
=. =. .sntraI figure died in the electric
LAR an August %, were ascertained
sss,.raay. They were had from /.
As,sser Goldenhorn. the attorney whose
- useks' effort to gain stay for
6 condemned man resulted in failure,
"a from J. Harry Foley, secretary to
e,y.rncr Edward l. Edwards of New
y.r..v 10 whom Mr.. Geidenhorn ad-
s,.sssd repeated appeals.
ssreluded in these hitherto unpub-
,;.sss events Is violent scene on the
S.sts House steps at Trenton, when Mr..
fslsv. exaspeyated by Mr.. Goldenhorn's
..srs:ssence in trying TO obtain an inter
reu with the Governor, threatened
~ attorney with his FISTS.
" Goldenhorn corroborated yester-
ssv The previous statements of his as
sor;ates, Saul Nemser, Jersey City, at
sornsy. and Thomas F. Farrell. of Mr..
ccldenhorn's office, that all interviews
Ssvond one had been denied them.
thew insisted that this was so. even
shaugh Mr. Foley declared that they
had been received by Governor Ed
wards three times, and that the Gov
krnor had given them every opportunity
II present their new evidence.
n Didn't Believe Affidavits
Mr.. Foley declared bluntly over the
&Ielsphone yesterday that, in his opin-
jcu. the affidsvits upon which the APP
zeal for stay was based were not on
he level"
Of the three interviews Foley saws
vers granted by Governor Edwards, one
took place in the Trenton State House.
Two weeks before Brandon was exc
tu.ed, and the other two at the First
National Bank Building in Jersey City.
The first. Foley says, lasted an hour
81 an hour and half Governor
Edwards, he says, told Goldenhorn,
Tho submitted affidavits made by
Auburn prison keepers as TO conversa-
tons with Brandon and with Charles
Perchsnd. who pleaded non vult con-
tenders and testified against Brandon,
to bring the keepers to Trenton and
let them be questioned. Both men
we're in prison when Brandon wrote to
tHe NEW JSiScy LnaL H6r
|<hand had told him about the murder.
aAny one can write an affidavit"
Foley says the Governor told Golden
horn.
To Goldenhorn' S plea that the keep
srs wanted were away on vacations,
Foley says the Governor told him that
prison keeper did not have money
enough to get very Ear away. Two or
dux,o 4a$a i. -
Bank Building, Governor Edwards re-
peated this request, and at that time.
Foley says, Gcldenhorn said that they
did not have enough money to bring
:. tie men down. Governor Edwards.
skFoiey says, said he did not think this
was a very good reason when a mans
LIE was as stake.
Governor Heard Rumors
Foley said further that affidavits do
not mean q single thing, that any one
could make an affidavit, and that the
Governor had heard rumors that thew
we're not on the level. although he did
not know who had cast suspicion upon
them
Foley frankly admitted that there
nae been tense IL not violent scene
On the State House steps. Goldenhorn
had insisted on seeing the Governor,
and Foley came out to tell him he could
not. Trenton newspaper men and cor
respondents. Foley said, gathered
around them.
Won't the Governor give me a hear
ing Foley says Goldenhorn asked.
NO more hearings.' / told him.
Foley said.
There followed an argument to which
she crowd listened.
7 told him I'd punch him in the
nose Foley said yesterday. 1.-THE
governor would not see him. He was
PERFECTLY satisfied Brandon was guilty,
ssiosolutely guilty. Goldenhorn lost
as head and was talking wild
!, uoidenhorn, who was at his New
10TH ,ork home last night, fatty denied
va! ~ ne had been permitted to see
GOVERNOR Edwards three times. He
saw him once, he said, for about fif-
y minutes, when the Governor read
me aitidavit of Meyers, the garage
man, who said Brandon had been work
ing on an automobile in New York the
aga, o. the murder of Arthur Kupfer
-au noith Janney near Railway, N. j.
Spoke at State House
made speech on the State House
sseps after they refused to see u.s."
~; Goidenhorn said. MIR. Nemser
aaa some newspaper men were there.
A. = y an absolute falsehood that | had
- sxsse interviews with the Governor and
saa' ne asked me to bring my wit
aesses down in person.
,;s Iaoidenhorn said that on the Sunday
TTisns .6efore Brandon's execution John
a. +, Asiley, Perth Amboy correspond mt
-. .sa. New York newspaper, whose last
~ sssay before he went into the army
Il, s' . sne reporting of the murder of
- - wv Trends, Kupfer and Miss Jan