The evening world. Newspaper, October 15, 1903, Page 1

OTBALL | RACING #@ SPORTS “ Circulation Books Open to All.” f “ Circulation Books Open to All.” ] *~ PRICE ONE CENT, RS. LAMAR EEPS IN COURT) LYNCH ITALIAN Testifies Nervously that Six Men He Had Attacked a Girl Twelve from the Coachmen’s Union Called on Her and One Made Threats of Violence. LAMAR HESITATES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. Admits He Paid Bills of the Eastman Gang and Gave Them Instruction—Denies the Charge of Conspiracy. FREEHOLD, N. J., Oct. 15.—Thé ap- pearance of Mrs, Lamar as a witness ‘was the most interesting feature to-day fof the trial of David Lamar, Monk ‘waptmah, Joo Brown and Bernard Smith for assaulting James M. McMahon. When Mrs. Lamar entered the witness hair she showed extreme nervousness and became somewhat hysterical. After testifying how she was threatened by one of the six delegates from the coach- ‘ men's Union she burst into teal and ‘ghortly afterward she was laughing. David Lamar resumed the stand as oon as Judge Heisley took his seat. Lamar's testimony yesterday. was In- terrupted by the defense for witnesses te aid “Monk’’ Eastman and Brown in proving, the alibi that they have set up. MOB TRIED 10 Years Old in Hollis, L. |. and Was Caught by Search Party Hiding in the Woods. FURIOUS CROWD DRIVEN BACK BY THE POLICE. Had to Use Their Clubs Freely, So Determined Were Angry Residents to Take Frightened Prisoner Away from Them. An Itallan came near being lynched in Hollis, L. 1., to-day by an angry crowd, and !t was only by hard work that. the police could keep the mob away from him. As it was the policemen were knocked down and they had to use thelr clubs to protect the man. ‘The residents had been looking for the Italian all morning with clubs and sticks of all kinds, He was wanted for an attack upon a little twelve-year-old girl, the daughter of a resident, who was on her way to school. Ida Bauer was the victim. Ghortly after 8 o'clock ehe was met by Charies Gabella, twenty-seven years old, who says he is a shoemaker, and that he lives at No. 187 Wyckoff avenue, Brook. lyn, The girl was about to pass the Italian in a lonely stretch of road, lined It th the contention of the “Monk” and Brown that they were at Coney Island on July $.and 9 when the assault on MeMahon was committed. Mr. Foster resumed the cross-examina- of ‘Lamar. “How long was the employment of ‘Monk’ Eastman and his friends to con- setue?” “Until I could find out just what was going on.” “Did this body guard ‘have clubs or pistols?" “Tf you mean ‘Monk’ Eastman and his @rlends, 1 don't know. * “Why did you keep ‘Monk’ Eastman and the gang at the Oceanic Hotel, fewenty minutes from your home?" “It was more convenient.” Lamar Paid Gang!s Hoard. “Did you aspume the Hability for the beard of thé Eastman crowd?" “Yes; T think: the bill was $45." “How many men were you responsible “tort” “I don't know.” “Was the bill paid upto July 5 or 67” “I don't know whether it was on the Aeth or sixth.” lave you the bill?" jo; Mr, Wilson has it.” Mr. Foster then went Into the reason ot why the gang was there, was kept ,@t the hotel instead of # cottage on the Lamar estate. ‘ “The whole matter was in the hands et Thompson,” Lamar said. Lawyer Wilson objected to the use of the words “thugs” and “bodyguards.” Judi Helsley decided that the term ‘thugs’ was improper, but that there (7e8. no, reason why “bodyguard” should Mot be used. “Who was in charge of the men?” “[ don't know. I gave them instruc- stions just before they came to the unds ‘on July 4." “When did you discover that the dan- @w was over?” "On July 6 at about 1 o'clock.” then?” “Why did you discharge the gang ~The men were respectful and every- .tiing aboyt the place was in good “Nhen' as the result of one day's se- ourity you decided to go away’ and leave tho property to take care of it- el “Yes; we went to New Yor! Judge Rebukes Lamar. ‘Lamar sidestepped every question that the prosecutor put to him. He sparred for time’ again and again and created a controversy over the most trivial ques- tion. His one purpose was an attempt to confuse the District-Attorney, Sev- eral times Judge Heisley said: “Mr. Damar, don't argue the question with the District-Attornsy; answer it.” Invarjably Mr, Lamar would eay, “Mr. Gtenographer, olease read the question "hen, when the question was read, no raatter how unimportant, he woutd he: ttate a full minute before making » fect answer. Jf. Did you tell the employees your Wurpose of having Monk Eastman on the premises? A. Yos, I told some of “them and alac told the public watch- ran. @. Did you register at the Astor Pa ont in New York, last Thursday jer the name of H. Lewis and there | ;#ueet the groom Dunphy and Thompson? #. No. I did not. Q. You were very angry at McMahon om July 5, Were you not? A. Be 1 was Very angry at him @. Did you ofter $100 tor“his arrest ‘without @ warrant? A. Yes, 1 did. Lamapias he left the stand appe.ted @leased; wiih the impression he had raade. ¢, _MGemts? Need Not Heginier. ¥ Geller, ew Ti Hee y island hotei-keeper, "Hfe “said that that he was Staying at Rud fs % mse, bit Rare oat ata, “he haa tye Counsplior ‘wile loned. the witness | ou brin, gar rexisier| ot oo wD with shrubbery, when the man suddenly grabbed her, and, placing one bend over her mouth to prevent her crying out’ he carried her into the thick shrubbery. The girl's face and body are badly bruised and giv struggle. She sa: sclous and when she revived she man- aged to crawl tothe home of a neigh- bor, .to -whom she, told her.story. " "squad of Police Arrivas, Word was immediately sent to Je- maica police headquarters and Sergt. Cahill and @ squad of men were sent on at once. Meantime the news spread| Blea and every road and Sn acs herd jatched until oe site Pelee Sethe Stn hunt the residents bg conta not fi idence of a hard oust : be Meas 1 Bol ¥, 1 al a ‘cank plied pe ey, the. ring that is pours 4 ‘up feai e wo rorely “deatt with ae. trou The, people pels the Italian and made Several ater ts to get at him, and, someone shouted “Lynch the beast.” This was taken up by others and the police,” te fearing se man would be taken from them by force, Grew thelr clube and bad to beat angry crow po- Reemen was keocked down, burt Be was rescued by other officers: Identified the Prisoner. The fight between the le and the police was kept up. all the way to 1 railroad station, where, the man, w placed on a train and taken “tod ‘The little girl 1s in a critical condition: She identified the prisoner. WOMAN SCATTERED CROWD WITH PISTOL SENS Pulled Weapon on Railroad Pre tion Agent After Declaring] <0 Change Was Due Her for Ticket She Had Bought. (Spebial to The Evening World.) NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 15,—Th ence of a young woman with a loaded revolver in the Market Street Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad caused much excitement there to-day. She was rested Lut refused to mve her address. ‘After being locked up at the First Precinct station, she told Sergi. Ryan that her purpose in having the weapon was to shox one of the ticket agents ‘The prisoner asserted that oue of the men had awindied her out of sange when buy Heket. ea ‘The woman was at the station yester- day when she told Charles Porter, the ticket seller that he had given her the wrong amount of change when she mount claimed, and sno went away af- ter deciaring he would have to. Wilham Brittan, another ti et agent, | Was in charge atthe depot when abs appeared to-duy- woman asked for a tleket to Wiimingrons Bhe at once ture It up, but without paying for x. Then she ‘waved a loaded revolver at | Grittan, who dodged. Policeman Meehan aaw the act and put the woman under bat ‘examination as to the prisoner's sanity Wh be mad Mi —— ro BIG CASH GAINS. ‘The banks have gained since Friday $1,551,000 from the Sub-Treasury. The Sub-Treasury is debtor at the C.earing- House to-day $1,054,358, ‘This would in- dicate that there would be a big gain of cash by the banks in Saturday's state. ment. eocennennnl WEATHER FORECAST. —_—— Forecast for tho thirty-alx hours’ (] ending at 8 P. M. Friday-for New. eed City and ‘Ale % Ape to- $ : it to. pity on ; a! prow. | $f NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1903. 1 GAY BOY CAPTURES JAMAICA STAKES. PEBHIAD COLT [DOWIE WANTS TAKES FE FEATURE POLICE GUARD Beats tipoea teat a Head at Odds of 9 to 2—100 to 1 Shot, Dr. Bissell, Beaten a Nose in Opening Event. CAUGHNAWAGA CAPTURES THE THIRD EVENT. High Chancellor Shows His Heels to Toscan in the Second Race—Good Crowd Sees the Sport. THE WINNERS. —EE FIRST RACE—Caviar (even) 1, Pr. Biesell (100 to 1) 2, Blue Victor 3, SECOND t:ACE—High Chancc..or (1.to 2) 1, Toscan (16 to 5) 2, Prince Ching 3. THIRY RACE—Caughnawaga (6 to 5) 1, Sheriff Bell (6 to 1) 2, wye- fleld 9. FOURTH RACE—ury Boy (9 to 2) As Ingold (6 to ., 2, Ascension 3. FIFTH RACE—Gouriere (7 to z) 1, Bob Murphy (15 to 1) 2, Monet 3. SIXTH RACE—Widow’s Mite (5 to 1) 1, Charme! (4 to 1) 2, Bolina 3. BRIGHTON BEACH RACE TRACK, Oct, 15.—There was nothing particulany attractive about che programme at Brighton this afternoon, an excellent attendance. The ¢elds were well balanced and the prospects for juloy_long shots were alluring and there ie no qnestion that this catches the public. The breezes wers blowing in ¢rom the ocean this afternoon, and though weather was not cold there was a raw- ness in the atmosphere that intimated that a good easterly gale with rain cquid make Brighton a most uncomfort- able place. tee take fixture to-day was the Ja~ affair at six furlongs, post sellin watch’ sent to 4 best fleld of the afternoon. ‘The track was very fast FIRST RACE: One mile and a sixteenth. Bet Starters, whts., Jocks, St.HIf. Fin, r, a Bie Caviar, 112, Hicks 5. Bissell, 90, Tu a 100 Efie Victor, 4 8% 92 Bb Qi 100, 4 8 8 3Y 20 ao 8 6 7 ) 2 8 4 7 9 2 11190 00 wo 41 50 2 12 12 100 30 ‘Waisi 13 % ig iteltiue, od. fturne re kod, Won driving.” Time—i-40, Dr, Bissell made the running, followed All Gold, Caviar and Blue Victor in the hot favorite, the turn moved up on. the fan" ‘and was lucky enough to get through, He collared Dr. Bissell in A sixteenth and ead. Dr. Bis ih front of Blue Victor. BHCOND RACE. Six furtongs. ne. PI. Beiti Jocks. Bt.HIt.Fin, es cht. mage Ae habs Pus “ulane. fat erson 8 » st Danie ni Buiees 8 8 8 F intart Rood. Won iivine: Time—tds I ‘oun’ and head to the vmieatch, with Bie Chancellor lying When they straightened out High Chancellor went to the front and won, ridden out, by hs from Toscan, who was two front of Prince Ching. THIRD RACE. Mile and/@ quarter, oatas and C two Jeni lengeas eine ores whts., Jocks. ‘St. HIE, Fin, ity aughnawage, Odom 3 3'%1) Sheriff Bell, 103, BSE Ow I Redfern 1 4 Ev Wyettela. 06.De Boum 4 4 a fe SUrErt good, Won driving. ‘imeZ07 3 Wyefleld ‘made the pace, followed by surmise and. Caughnawagi “Phe jauter was in a pocket, sin, the first. half Sdom dropped back. He th Caughnawaga to the outside jurmiee near the far tur Fee nthe stretch Bheritt Bell Caughn: be di quarters of @ length from. Bh Who was @ length and a half | FOURTH RACE. Six furlongs. aiarters. whte., ‘ke Bt. Wat Gay Boy, ot off a as Es Arent 106, Seek Pan Cingueeall i 308)" 8 warns 2 > & Mh +H Demurrer, nes. 3 6. } 8 Wi ysod. Won Sriving. ‘rime—1.18'2-8, ch quevalll, Gay Boy and King Peppe: raced away head and ‘head to tun wien | ny {BOY Went ‘to the front. Ascension od okt then ¢loxed on the others and set anf y Boy as foon as the Sirelch. was. reached” In the'run home insoa sloned fast, bat’ could never who won by a neck from Inala. ake jatter “peathig Ascen- won four lengt the place, FIFTH RACB, furtones, W. B. Kimble, representing missioner Greene to-day and Square Garden properly peliced during the big meetings of the Doweyites. The Commissioner Chief Inspector Brooks. ——— +: 4-0 TAMMANY; EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS ON HURRY CALL| Witherspoon om- Elijah Il.. called on Polise C asked that he have Madison put the matter in the aands oF ‘A meeting of the Tammany Hall Exesutive Committee was hurriedly called late this afternoon. It is believed io have an ‘mportant bearing on the politi cal situation in Brooklyn. = ee DANGERCUS DERE! LECT IN HARBOR The Marine Observer at Sandy Hook reported to-day an abandoned and water-logged canal boat adrift in the main ship channel near the southwest spit. The boat is very danger- ous to navigation, as it is on a | level with 0 the surface. LATE RESULTS AT WORTH. Fourth Race—Auditor 1, Dick Bernard 2, Clangor 3. Fifth Race—Toah 1, Jack Ratlin 2, Sidney C. Love 3. AT ST. |Astute Senator Kept Senator ‘Thomas Collier Platt was married to Mrs, Lillian Janeway last Sunday afternoon at the Holland House jin the presence of the immediate fami- les of himself and his bride. All the speculation of the past three days about his approaching marriage and the pos- sible action of Miss Mae Catherine ‘Wood, the Washington department clerk, to prevent it, have simply served to temper the Senator's annoyance with amusement. ‘The Senator and Mrs. Piatt left for Lakewood late this after- noon. Mrs, Platt has eaid many times since Sunday that the plans for the wedding had not deen changed. The Senator smiled and said nothing. While all New York wondered. what would be the final outcome of his matrimontal intent and the complicution furnished by Miss Mae Wood, he determined to have a quiet LOUIS. Fourth Race—Braneas 1, Columbia Girl 2, Burke Cochrane. Fifth Race—Glennevis 1, Dekaber 2, Captain Gaston 3. SENATOR PLATT MARRIED TO MRS. JANEWAY SUNDAY the Secret Carefully Guarded, but the Announcement Is Finally Made. formed at noon in the Marble Collegiate Churoh and the officiating clergyman was to have been the Rev. Dr. David J. Burrell, the pastor, who has been Sen- ator Platt's spiritual adviser since Dr, Parkhurat's political sermons drove the Senator from the church at Twenty- fourth street and Madison avenue. In- vitations had been issued to a small circle of friends. Then came Miss Wood on the scene— the witty young woman to whom the Senator had been kind in this city and in’ Washington. Gossips hinted that Miss Wood was going to make trouble. Strange stories of a contemplated suit for breach of promise and a settlement of the same became ciroylated. Senator Platt was annoyed. His long experience in politics came to his assistance. He got married and he did not get married at noon to-day wedding. Rev. Dr. Burrell was called to the Holland House last Sunday and in privacy pronounced the words making Mrs. Janeway the wife of the Senator. ‘The attendants were Frank H. and Henry Platt, sons of the bridegroom, and ‘Miss Snow, daughter of the bride, Senator Was Foxy. From the actions of Senator Platt to- day there was reag@on to suspect that tho wedding arrangements as originally made would be carried out. He visited Mrs. Piatt at the Holland House, and there were other visitors whose pres ence justified the belief that the mar- rlage had not taken place. An Evening World reporter asked the Senator as he was leaving the apart- ments of Mrs. Platt to-day if he hed been married. The question was prompt- ed by the beatific expression on the countenance of New York's eenlor repre- sentative in the Senate. “I have been married,’ Beni “Ww replied the the ceremony just performed?" aeked the reporter. Will Net Say When Married, “I preter to say nothing on point, that was the answer. “All I have to that I have been married. I will not say when.’ The wedding was to have been per- Dae ae eet | SON IS FATHER’S ACCUSER. pee ob Murphy. 10 105. carrey BE a 16 6 5 3 iG 5 4d Bed 10 6 3 KTR Bl i so A Arg Y 30 «12 1. 10 20 600 au 6 2 612 100) 8 mw 1m 40 ish ao ot BOD 100 5 17 17 tb Dw fly, Time—1.14. Sourlere went to the front at the start and made ali the running and won easily by five lengths from Mur- phy, Awho ong end deat lonet @ Lemret for the Ce - crest waa th Sheer third, ‘Both dying away at SIXTH RACE. Milo and a sixteenth, ~~~ fa le EL bas "1 He became enraged at my grandmother in the Marble Collegiate Church. This 1s what he did to-day: Driven to Mollagd Ho: While a small gathering of persons, attracted by curiosity, was encumber- ing the pavement in front of the church, the Senator got into a cab at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and ordered the driver to proceed to the Holland House. On the register at the Holland House appears the name of Mrs. Lillian Jane- way—who is now Mrs. Platt, Sho was in her apartment on the fifth floor of the hotel when the Senator got there. He went upstairs through a crowd of reporters that overflowed 1 lobby. Soon afterward Miss Snow, the daugh- ter of Mrs, Janeway by her first mar- riage, came !),» the hotel accompa- nied by two young men, One of them waa clerical in appearance. They weat to the apartment of Mra. Plutt, ‘Miss Snow, the two young men and Senator Platt came out of the apartment of Mre, Platt together. Miss Snow and the two young men went to the ground floor in the elevator. Sen- ator Piatt followed on the next trip Naturally it would supposed that the Senator would drive away to a se- cluded spot, there to be Joined by his pride, and that together they would get (Continued on Second Page.) Chicago Man Charged with Mur- der of Hie Wife and Mother. CHICAGO, Oct. 1%—Frank Pavitk crented a dramatic scene in Judge Clif- ford's court to-day, pointing an acchs Ing finger at his father and declaring that the Intter wae guilty not only of wife murder, but also of biting h's mother, “The murder of my the first one committed by my father, fait the accuser, ‘In Bohemia, where I wag born, he killed his own mother. mother Is not and #ruck her a viclous blow, For FIGHT AT END OF HUGHES CASE Lawyer Spalding, Wife’s Chief Counsel, Punched the Nose of Herbert Witherspoon, Broth- er-in-Law of Playwright. TOLD THE ATTORNEY HE WAS A SCOUNDREL. Epithet Was Resented by Two Hard and Swift Blows and Was Quickly Sprawling on the Floor, A fist fight with blood in tt was the Closing incident this afternoon of the Sculptor Ruoert Hughes divorce case against his wife, Agnes Hedge Hughes. Lyman A. Spalding, chief counsel for the beautiful young wife, smashed Herbert Witherspoon, the tuesband's ‘brother-in-law, in the nose, He followed the blow up with a in the Jaw and down went Winsreron to the marble floor of the County Court foune. Court Officers jumped in be- tween the two men, and one of them had his uniform torn ¢rying to tear Spalding away. Jury Had Just Retired: The jury had just filed out of Justice Clark's department of the Supreme Court and both sides in the sensational suit followed into the corridor to get a breath of fresh air. Witherspoon reached the outside before Mrs. Hughes's attorney, and there he waited for him. “You are a dirty mud-sligning scound- rel.” sai the soulptor's brother-in-law advancing threateningly toward Spald~ as the datter appeared. “You lle! was ¢he answer, and with the wonls Spaiding’s right shot out straight and Witherspoon went sprawi- ing. Witherspoon's wife and mother-in-law were only a few feet away and instant- ly thelr cries rang through the butldin and all was confusion in that quarter. Spalding is an earnest lawyer and the way he followed up his advantage against Witherspoon showed that this MERE DUMMIES ISSUE MILLIONS OF TRUST STOC Frederick W. Seward, One of the Figurehead! Directors of the United States Shipbuild— ing Company, Tells How Manipulators: Worked Through Youngsters Who Knews Nothing of the Deal. HELD ONLY ONE SHARE OF STOCK, BUT ACTED AS THE TREASURER: Admits to Amazing Ignorance of the Value. of the Yards He Purchased as a Director — and Shows that He Did Not Even Know Where Plants Were Located. Remarkable disclosures concerning the methods by which boy du mies tule millions in Wall street through their employment as in the organization of great corporations and trusts were made — when the inquiry on the application for the appointment of a permanent receiver for the United States Shipbuilding Company was resumed before! United States Examiner Oliphant in the offices of Guggenheimer, Unter ~ myer & Marshall, at No. 30 Broad street. The inquiry was continued Frederick K. Seward, one of the youthful directors of the shipyards on the stand for further examination. He asserted that"he Had beert set retary and treasurer of the company without any knowledge of its plants, and while only holding one share of stock. eminence was not confined alone to the Practice of his progression. Rupert Hughes stood by and saw his brother-in-law punched without making a move. When Witherspoon and his broken glasses had been gathered together from the floor and officers him and Spalding wright-sculptor-husband walked away with him. > 1 Herbert Witherspoon, “Bertie” Witherspoon, as he {s also known, Is an opera singer. During the trial he swore that he and his wife had called at the Hughes flat in West Eighty-firet street one night about 11.30 o'clock and that after knocking repeatedly at ¢he door !t was answered by Mrs, Hughes, who presented herself In a bath robe, stockingless feet and bare limbs show- ing. Witherspoon added that he had looked into the hallway and there seen Lieut, WilMam H. Reynolds, of the Navy, one of the etcht co-respondente in the case. In his argument to the jurv Attorney, Spalding commented upon this evidence strongly. and asserted that {t was fal: Bi Evidence Was Prepostero “Ip it resonable to suppose,” he asked, “that Mrs. Hughes. assuming that she had done wrong or was do- ing wrong . would have gone to her door tn a bathrobe. her feet stocking- less and her bare lexs showing? And, gentlemen. {8 It reasonable to suppose that Lieut. Reynolds would have ex- posed himself as this sweet singer says he did? People don't commit sin in that way. ‘And Iwant you to remember, gentle- ‘men, that this singer who sets himself up to criticise the actions of others, who gets himself up to swear away the fair name of a woman, was at the very time he swears he saw my client in| such a compromising position in company of a woman not his wife. Mr: ‘Witherspoon was then seeking a divorce from her former husband.’ Feeling Ran High. tending parties to the divorce action when they rested thelr cases, Attorney Mathot had forgotten at times during | his argument that Mrs, Hus! was a woman and when he said, early in his address, that he wondered that the sculptor had not broken every bone in her body becatise she returned late from a football game and that “common street walker was not all that an angry husband might have said in such an occasion sympathy turned :o the defendant, ‘The cese went to the jury at 340 PF. | M. Was Summing-Up Day. Mrs. Hughes, worn looking and with | lines in her pretty face that were not | there when the trial n, appeared in court In the same waterproof raglan, felt hat, white shirt waist and short skirt which have been her apparel since the day she first took a seat bo- fore a jury to fight for her good name. Lyman Spalding, chief counsel tor the accused wife, opened an argument on her behalf, He went down the line of three weeks she suffered and finally h} died. My father was never punished for that crime." Attorney, for the defendant told the Ly 0 denials of tesla ee Tena bed indant killed hia’ mite, to prove him ‘icra Pia ak a the twenty-five counts of alleged mis- conduct named in the issues which the case embraces. The “For Crowell” Letter, § “At tho cnd of the case,” said the} A: # y one paid for it for me ft wren beayit f attorney, “at the very last hour the/im that we: 5 , ,became.of it: Goptinued on. Gecond; Page Fe i ph ceratlaper conte fat MNSLRE Kies Lob. ects x ok nedilabigial Zeal la neal £81 corning the company of which you were to become a director?” asked Mn Feeling was high between the con- |ital was to be increased after the company had acquired certain properties, The skilful probing of Mr. Samuel Untermyer had élicited from Sewe. ard and his predecessor on the stand, George B. Daily, that they and am other clerk had acted as dummy directors of the defunct corporation and had in their figurehead capacity voted out of the company $71,000,000 in spite of the fact that they held but three shares of stock in the trust, ©” Their testimony also revealed the interesting fact that the Corporation Trust Company, of New Jersey, by which they were employed, was in the business of turnishing dummy directors for giant commercial corporations: whose majority stockholders preferred pulling strings of puppets behing the scenes to walking in the lime-light, so that when the bubbles burat’ thelr names would not appear in the minutes of directors’ meetings, THEIR IGNORANCE AMAZING. The hopeless ignorance of these boy directors of the affairs of-tne whone millions they voted away was amazing, Taew frankly that they did not know what they had deme As soon 4s Mr. William D. Guthrie, counsel for the defendant come pany in the receivership proceedings, arrived, Mr. Untermyer contin the questioning of Director Seward. fy Seward said he was twenty-five years old,that he was a lawyer, but ae clerical work for a large law firm. He became a director of the Shipbulliie ing Company in June, 1902. He did not know that he was a director unash — Mr. Deming, counsel for the trust, told him that he had been made ong a Q. Did Mr. Deming tell you why he wanted you to become = @H rector? A. I don’t remember that he did, but I expressed a willingy ness to join the Shipbuilding Company's directorate. @. Did you know apything about ihe Shipbuilding Companyt Ms Only that there was to be organized such a company. The witness said that the Corporation Trust Company of New Jersey (which furnishes dummy directors wheresoever needed) had in its offices the shingles of between 1,200 and 1,300 corporations, “Do you remember anything that was said to you by Mr. Demfny-eoue Untermyer. The witness remembered vaguely that something was said about orgame izing the Shipbullding Company with a capital of $3,000, and that thih cape He knew nothing about these properties. Seward admitted that Mr. Deming was a total stranger to him whem he asked him to become a director of the Trust. HIS WORK AS AN INCORPORATOR, “Did you regard this request of Mr. Deming as usual or extract dinary?” inquired Mr. Untermyer. A. Within a year I have become am Incoiporator of between fifty and seventy-five corporations, and acted as director for between fifteen and twenty corporations. 4 Q. Did you understand that in order to be qualified as a diroccor it wag necessary.for you to be the owner of at least one share of stock? A. Lwaa he owner of one share of stock on the books, I understood that if any ividends were paid on this stock I was'to get them. 1 have never recetved’ any dividends, nor can I recall when the one share of stock required wae delivered to me. Seward said he had received the share from some One, somewhere. He was not sure of the who, the when or the where. He was sure that never got as far as his pocket, for immediately upon receiving it he it back, and that was the last he saw of his stock in the Ship! Company. Q. Di you pay anything for this stock! @. Did any one pay anything for that sha Not that I remember, a Q. Did you underst that the share of stock was @& sift to oe