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Show 1S.SWFSI1S 1IBTISFSLSIFIEI Multi-Millionaire's Wife Testi- fies Before Grand Jury in Pardoning- Case. By International News Service NEW 'YORK, March .6. Mr.. Mortimer Morti-mer L. SchJff was a witness today- before be-fore tho 'grand Jury, which Is Investigating Investi-gating charges that Folkc K. Brandt was railroaded to prison . as the result of a conspiracy. Tomorrow her husband will testify. ' The examination of Mrs. Schlff lasted about twenty minute.''. She suld that she came as a . voluntary witness, as she desired to tell all idle Icncw of thu Brandt case. It Is said that she corroborated In most particulars the published .statement .state-ment of her husband. She denied that she had ever wVitten Iettcis to Brandt or In his Interest. It is said she testified she knew practically prac-tically nothing of the visit of Brandt to the Schlff mansion the night of the alleged al-leged "burglary." Sho said she was awake, when her husband in the next room tulked for half an hour with Brandt and then gave him fifty dollars. So far as Mrs. Schlff knew Brandt never had a key. Brandt testified he obtained entrance to the house with a key. Nathan Goldcufarb, who said Brandt confessed he got into tho Schlff house through a coal chute, when he and Brandt were fellow prisoners at police headquarters, was another witness. Frank C. Cole, former warden of IJan-ncmoora, IJan-ncmoora, lestltlud that Brandt told him many conflicting stories. He said that he did not believe Brandt's story of his arrest and conviction. Cole appeared at tho request of Schlff's counsel. Paul t. Cravat h. counsel for Schlff n:id Gcis, had a. long conference with the young banker tonight. He Is expected to escort his client to the criminal- court building tomorrow. |