Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21


opportunity to get a good look at
Burns Detective OReilly, the witness
who testified in the contempt case
yesterday, and now wish to make
this statement: While ] am not abso-
lutely positive, / think that O'Reilly
Is the man who thus spoke to me dur
ing the trial. He looks like the man.
He answers the description of the
man. He talks like the man. Accord
ing to the best of my recollections
O'Reilly is the man."
Second KidweH Affidavit.
The second affidavit, signed Deem.
Der 16, follows:
1, Edward J. Kidwel1, being first
duly sworn according to- law depose
and say:
THAT one day while the trial was
going on l went to the Smithsonian
grounds and had lunch with me and
| ate my lunch while I was sitting on
a bench. While l was there, sitting
on the bench, a man came down the
| path, the same path that the bench
was on upon which l was sitting.
| This man went behind the bench
upon which L was sitting and sat
| down under a tree for a while He
sat on the ground and a little while
| later he got up and came and sat
on the same bench beside me.
thought that this was a queer thing
for a man to do, as there were other
benches around that were not occupied
at the time. He was the only man
in the park at the time that i could
see. This man asked me if | had a
cigarette and / told him that | did
not have one. / was smoking a pipe
at the time. This man then asked
me If / had the markings of q cigar
cite; and he said what kind of tobac-
co do you smoke | told him it was
Prince Albert. / had leather pouch
which is now in Mr.. OLeary's hand
and which Mr.. O'Leary is now putting
tag on on which tag j have written.
this is the pouch / handed the
pouch to the man. He made cigar
cite out of the tobacco from this
pouch. He rolled a cigarette. He
thanked me for the tobacco. He said,
this is nice weather that we are
having for this time of the year. ]
told him that it was, and after that
he never said any more to me and
| never said any more to him. thought
that he was probably a man that was
| looking for some information about
| the Fall-Sinclair oil case because he
was a well-dressed man and did not
| look like the kind Of man that would
| be burning tobacco. [ left him sitting
on the bench by himself and 1 got
up and came back to court.
| Since the trial of the contempt
| case has been started | have been
| in the courtroom and l have seen
| Detective Stewart on the witness
! stand while he was being questioned
| by Maj. Gordon. While j am not
oh Int Oh
/ lection is that this Detective Stewart
is the same man that approached
| me and talked to me at the Smith
sonian grounds.
EDWARD J. KIDWELL, JR.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this sixteenth day of December
1927.
| carlton G. SCHENKEN,
Notary Public, d. c."
Met Man i'm Doorway.
The jurors statement the same as
| ne testified TO on the stand, declares
| chat Sunday afternoon October 70
or October 80. when leaving All four
and-a-half street southwest, at the
| doorway of this place he met a man
whom he believed to be one of the
Burns agents, named Kline. This
man entered the door as was COM
ing out the same door," Kidwell
stated. 'He did not say word ia
me and l did not say anything to
him. / did not see him again thai
day. AT the time this happened
had no knowledge that this man was
shadowing me-"
The second, group of affidayits were
made by Juror Kidwell, his mother
and his father at their home. In one
Kidwell relates certain facts to show
he believed he was being Swallowed
and told of a. call received by friend
of the family, Miss Ruth Teates, in
which she was asked what purported
to. be credit report, relative to the
juror.
Mrs. Kidwell's affidavit dealt with
conversation she had with a man
who came to her home to inquire
about the location of .'Kidwell, the
barber" who was Juror Kidwells
father. The man said he had paper
for Mr.. Hidwell to sign, the wife
stated, and she told him where her
husband could be found.
Detective O'Reilly admitted on the
witness stand that he had gone to
the Kidwell home to make inquiries of
the father
The elder Kidwells affidavit tells how
this man came to his barber shop and
made inquiries about a Mrs. Stewart
and that his answer was that she con-
Quoted beauty shop nearby. Each
of the Kidwells in turn certified to
the correctness of the others affidavits.