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EW YORK, Marrh 1 lber was
a trial In the Criminal Court
building a short time ngo In
which It tock two days to present
the evidence to th Jury. It was
of Home Importune to the cotn
and fir that reason ther wa
speed w'.th which It
a trial
munlty
nme comment at th
u dlspr.sed of. Nothing was iiali about
tho time that had been taken in preparing
tho case from the stutxlp lnt of the prose
cution. As a matter of fact two members
of the district attorney' staff had been
engaged for two months In examining wit
nesses and get .lug tho evidence In shape.
When the public hears of a trial that
lasts two weeks or perhaps six weeks,
llttl attention 1st paid to the days nd
wek that are put: In whipping the case
Into shape. There itritlclsm because "so
much of the court's line Is being wasted."
The labor that has b required to get the
case ready for the liry Is passed unno
ticed. I
There 1 a, young nian in th district at-
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ASSISTANT
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ATTORNEY
torney' office today who has had practi
cally sole charge of preparing five of the
most Important criminal case In recent
years. He Is Francis r. Qarvan, an as
sistant district attorney. It I no exag
"geTnflon to say that he has had . wider
knowledge of the inside history of the Nan
Patterson murder trial, the second Roland
B. Mollneux trial, Albert T. Patrick s fight
for life, thn rodge-Mors marriage and di
vorce tangle and the Thaw case than any
other one man.
It has been his Job to get these cas
ready for presentation to the Jury. Ana
while that was being done he has had
charge of the homicide bureau In the dis
trict attorney's office In addition to prose
cuting makers of fraudulent claims against
fire Insurance companies and taking the
routine, court work which every member of
Mr. Jerome' staff has to do In his turn.
Mr. Garvan Is a young man, a few years
over .the 30 mark. He looks younger, al
most boyish. An observer of the Thaw
trial pictured him as "the man behind the
gun." He waa prompting District Attorney
Jerome In some Important technical piece
of evidence In the case. More than once
Mr. Jerome has spoken of the careful and
painstaking manner In which this young
man, who was an athlete at Yale and got
M.T enrly legal training In the office of
Colonel James, got In shape all the evidence
concerning the killing of Stanford White) by
Harry K. Thaw.
"I never knew of a case better prepared, "
Wrs one remark made by Mr. Jerome.
In every criminal case, especially th
one that are taken up by the newspapers,
an enormous amount of anonymous Infor
mation Is sent to the district attorney's
office. If the case Is properly prepared all
this Information, unless It Is abeurd on- Its
face, must be Investigated. It has often
been the case that Information furnished
anonymously has been very valuable.
Scores of witnesses who think they have
something to tell are examined only to
show that they know nothne of value, but
are seeking notoriety and feel that by being
a witness of some kind they will be able
to get Into the court every day and hear
the trial. Then there are cranks who look
ana enough, but have only theories which
they expound as facts. In every so-called
"big" case these persons have to be dis
poned of before any real work Is done, and
all through the preparation of the cae they
have to be eliminated.
In every Important case an extraordinary
amount cf evlrlence must be gathered which
Is useless at the trial. A phase of the case
that at one Stage of the Investigation ap
pears to be easrntlnl turn out. sfter a
week or more of Inquiry, to be worthies.
Frequently some little thing, of which
everybody has known alwut. but to which
no one has paid attention, develops Into a
factor cf the greatest magnitude.
In assisting James W. Osborne for th
trial of Albert T. Patrick Mr. Garvan went
to more than 100 autopsies to determine the
effect of emblamlng fluid oJn the lungs. The
question thfro was whether embalming
fluid would not have the Rame effect on the
lungs as chloroform, which killed William
Marsh Rice, (rr whose murder Patrick was
convicted. Rut that was not all. Hun
. dreds of cats. doRS nd other animals were
killed for the purpose of finding out the
effect of chloroform administered In differ
ent quantities. At the same time any num
ber of slides were made to Illustrate the
eflWt of chloroform on the lungs.
Not a little of this waa done for the
benefit of experts who were to testify for
the rrosecutlon. It also had to be done
tlon of how Young had been killed. No
small amount of evidence was accumulated
on those two points, but It was not suffi
cient to convince two Juries, both of which
disagreed. Th evidence presented at the
trial was no Indication of the work that
bad to be done to collect It.
In one murder cas It waa clear at th
beginning that disputed handwriting would
play a Vf ry Important part in th case. At
the UKgestlon of Mr. Garvan repre
senatlves of the district attorney's office
were sent through th country to get th
opinion of handwriting experts a 10 who
had written a certain lgnature. Beforo
the defense got started the district attor
ney oflic had In It possession the opinion
of nearly every handwriting expert of note
In tho country. Having once got the hand
writing men on record, the prosecution felt
secure a to what they might do when the
defense got busy.
When the prosecution presented It direct
case at the trial of Harry K. Thaw less
than ten witnesses were examined. It was
probably the shortest and most direct pre
sentation of the people s side In a famous
case. But before the Jury had been se
lected more than 400 witnesses were ex
amined by Mr. Garvan. The statements of
mor than half the witnesses were taken by
a stenographer. The torles of these wit
nesses were needed not o much to be told
to the Jury as to use In th cross-examination
of witnesses for the defense.
It was known from th beginning that
the question of Thaw' sanity would be one
of the principal issue of the case. That
meant the gathering of all Information
available on different forms of Insanity.
The library in the district attorney's office
was not very complete on that aubject
when Thaw shot White, but a a result
of the researches made by Mr. Garvan In
this esse the office is now very well
equipped.
It requires enthusiasm, tenacity, clever
ness, a knowledge of the law and human
nature and common sense to prepare a dif
ficult case. It Is all done In the office,
where the limelight Is shut off. One of the
essential things Is to keep from the public,
and therefore the lawyer for the defend
ant, what Is going on unless It helps the
prosecution' side of It.
Mr. Garvan possesses all these qualities.
He has a great capacity for work work
that means many sleepless nights. To hi
friends he Is known as Pete, Mike or Pat
Garvan, as fan.'y dictates. Through It all
he remains young so young that a dis
trict attorney from a western city, vet
eran of many cases, remarked when Mr.
Garvan was pointed out to him at on of
the trials:
"So that 1 Garvan, who has been men
tioned In our home paper so often. He I
a mere boy."
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Inspired a National Song
Mrs. George Livingston Baker of 6
M'estcrvelt avenue, New Brighton, Staten
Island, Is authority for the statement that
the star spangled banner, which flew over
Fort McHenry during Its bombardment In
the war of 1812 and Inspired Francis Scott
Key to the composition of th national
ode. Is now In New York City.' Mr. Baker
I the granddaughter of Colonel Oeorge
Armtsteed. The flag, she says, la the
property of Eben Appleton of thl city,
her brother, and has been deposited by
him in the safe deposit vaults of a Broad
way trust company. Mr. Baker refused
to give any mor definite address for her
brother or the name of the trust company.
Her brother had been annoyed so much
on account of hi ownership of the flag,
he said, that he wished his address and
the place ot deposit of th flag kept pri
vate, Mrs. Baker and her brother are mem
bers of the Appleton family of Boston and
New Tork City. Some of the New York
Appletons, among them Colonel Daniel Ap
pleton of the Seventh regiment and W. W.
Appleton of 28 East Eighteenth street were
unable to throw any light on the where
about of th proprietor of the flag, but
all knew of him. Mr. Baker said:
"The flag cam Into possession of my
brother in this way: It was originally
the property of the government, of course.
After the fort had been successfully de
fended against the British In th fight
which prompted Francis Scott Key to
write the national ode, th government
presented the flag to Colonel Armlstead In
recognition of hi conduct of the defense.
He died oon after. Three months after
hi death hi widow gav birth to a little
girl, to whom the flag descended. Bhe
married William Btuart Appleton of th
Boston family, who then cam to Balti
more, her home, to live. My brother, Eben,
and I are the only surviving children. On
my mother' death the flag was left to
Eben and to m all th picture and data
concerning It.
"The flag Itself I in a fin state of
preservation. Th edges are not frayed,
although th flag 1 pretty dingy and
f 1 Prl ThM arm a mimk.. r. Knll.l hnlu '
In some of t th stripe and other rent
that look a If they were mad by th
fragments of shells In the bombardment.
It Is a large flag of the aixe usually flown
now over army post. It ha thirteen
tripe, as I remember. I don't remember
how many stars there are In th field,
but the arrangement of them, a I recol
lect, I about a they ar arranged In ttra
present day flag.
"It 1 my brother' intention to leav th
flag on lUs death to either one of th na
tional museums at Washington or th
Massachusetts Historical museum at Bos
ton. It was his Idta, for as a southerner
lie Is devoted to hi state, to leave It to
Maryland or one of It historical museum.
But some year ago a number of men who
wer getting up a hors race la Pltnllco,
Md., thought they would Hke to hav th
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to combat any evidence that the lawyer flag at the race. They wrote my brother
for Patrick might Introduce on this sub- to this effect. When he replied expressing
jt his surprise that they should ask for th
p.efore Abe IJummel was put on trial or flag for such a trifling use they boarded a
even Indicted for conspiracy In connection train and came to my brother's house at a
with the Dodae-Morse marriage and dl- time most Inconvenient. They had been
vorce tangle niore than a year was df voted drinking and the upshtt of their visit to
to collecting evidence to be presented to ask the loan of the flag wa that thy went
th grand Jury. Charles F. Dodge, one of away angry, and my brother wo o en-
the chief figure In the conspiracy, was raged at their lack of respect for th rello
first taken out of the city by those who hat ho vowed th flag should never go to
it.r.te.l In bavin him rut out of Maryland.
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the way. For several months lie was In
Texas, upending money as freely as a Pitts
burg millionaire. He was In bad shape
physically and at the pace he was going
It was a question how lung he would live.
It was necessary for the district attor
ney's office to know every move Dodge waa
making. It was equally necessary t know
what those around him were d.ilng. That
was one of the things Mr. d.irvan had to
look after, as the preparation of the case
wa left to him. Different sets of de
tectives were employed to watch what was
go'rg on. In the end Mr. flarvan had to
go to Texas himself, us efforts had been
made to get iHjdg over to Mexico and out
of th way.
After a lot of trouble, Involving proceed
ings In the I'nlted States supreme court.
Dodge was brought back ' to this city In
th custody of several Texas marshal.
When he landed her he dropped his old
lawyer and after that came the trial of
ITummel and his conviction.
When Caesar Young, the bookmaker, waa
hot while riding In a cbwlth Nan Pat
terson, two qui.siln er asked at once:
Who bought the pistol and who took It
Into the cab? Whin that had been settled
th prosevutloa would b bearer th solu-
"It Is for the same reason, his annoyance
through beings the owner of the flag, that
he has made It a rule not to talk to any
on abut It and to keep hi address to him
self. He lives in New York, but h and
his wife sre now traveling. I have all the
Interesting facts In my possMislon. I In
tend soon to write a little booklet using
these and th picture not only of thl flag',
but of the two other great flag of the
country.
"I mean by that th famous Joha Paul
Jt-nes flag and tha on other mhnse nam
and origin I Just now cannot recollect. Th
Jcmes flag Is th first that wa ever saluted
a the American flag on the sea. That wa
whll Jones waa flylo It. He also put this
flag at th roaattuad of th Bonhorome
Richard In th famous bettk with th Ber
apla"
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for the fight she put up om year ago
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sixty New Tork Bun.
Many a fellow get on hi upper wait
ing for dead men' ho.
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