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Show n ally and signed by Mr. Cleveland. "I can say positively that It is not," C testified Brandenburg. f- Brandenburg said a '.number of peo- pie had seen the original Cleveland t article before August 10, the day on which Miss Bacon had testified she transcribed the. one In evidence. It $ was in possession of the Broadway Magazine some time In July, he said, i and G. E. Fleming, a lawyer, had seen h it in June and again in July. ; BRANDENBURG ON , STAND HIS OWN DEFENSE t TELLS HISTORY OF THE GROVER CLEVELAND ARTICLE. Says Article, With Signature, Offered in Evidence by the State, Is Not the One Prepared by Him. - New York, June 24. Broughton Brandenburg was on the ' stand all , day, today, a witness in his own defense, de-fense, and when court adjourned the prosecution had begun a severe cross-examination. cross-examination. Brandenburg described the preparation prepara-tion of the Cleveland article, the sale of which to the New York Times led to his trial for grand larceny, and reiterated his assertion that he saw Grover Cleveland sign his name to the article which ho sold the Times. But he insisted that the article offered of-fered in evidence by the state and the signature purporting to have been clipped therefrom, were not the originals. ori-ginals. ; The approval of S. H. Hastings, executor ex-ecutor of the Cleveland estate, to the sale of the article was obtained, Brandenburg said, in August, 190S. After it was published, Brandenburg offered $500 to Mr. Hastings, but the latter declined to accept it, saving that he "might be in a position to take It later." New York. June 24. Broughton ! Brandenburg, a witness in his own de-i de-i tense today, related the history of the preparation of the Grover Cleveland article, the sale of which to the New York Times led to Brandenburg's trial on a charge of grand larceny. During a talk with Mr. Cleveland, Brandenburg said, he suggested to the ex president that he prepare a series of three political articles and allow Brandenburg to sell them to be published pub-lished just before election. The witness' wit-ness' said ho offered Mr. Cleveland $2,000 for the series. On March 5 Brandenburg called at Mr. Cleveland's office and received from him fifteen or eighteen groups of papers. The contents was mado into an article 6igmed "Grcvor Cleveland." Brandenburg said he transcribed them himself and that either on March 6 or 7 he took the typewritten sheets to , Mr. Cleveland, who made corrections correc-tions in them. The sheets were again transcribed. The first drafts of the article wero shown to Mr. Baker of Everybody's Magazine. Brandenburg said. Hi next and last interview with Ir. Cleveland was between the twelfth and the sixteenth of March. On this occasion, occa-sion, the witness said, Mr. Cleveland complained of feeling ill and did not care to discuss the matter. "I read the whole article over to him." Brandenburg testified. "He made no corrections and w hen he was through he signed the last page of that carbon cony and did not hint iho nature." Brandenburg was shown the alleged signature in evidence and declared it whh not the signature Mr. Cleveland affixed to tho article. He said he had never seen the signature in evidence until it was produced at the trial. Handed the Cleveland article in evidence, ev-idence, the one alleced to have been sold to the Times. Brandenburg was , asked If that was the original devil I land article, prepared by him person- i |
