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BRASSAIT LOSES After hearing the evidence and argu ments, Judge Brackett decided for Mr. Hallian. Daniel Brassait testified that he lived at 21 Worcester street and was a chaf feur employed at the Northampton street garage. He said on the night of July 2 he was called up on the tele phone by Eisenman, whom he had known for several years. At Eisenman’s request he met Eisen man and Miss Hallian at the South End, and took them in his auto to Malden, but it was learned that the Portland train did not stop there, so he took the eloping couple to South Lawrence, where they took the train for Portland, Mr. Brassai declared that he then came back to Boston and from his lodging house on Worcester street called up Mr. Hallian. It was about 3 p. m. He said he told Mr. Hallian about taking his daughter and Hisenmen to South Lawrence, where they took the Portland t train, Mr. Brassait said he also called up Detective William B. Watts at his house and told him the story. Margaret Rogers, keeper of the lodging house at 21 Worcester street, testified to hearing her lodger, Mr. Brassait, telephone to Mr. Hallian on the night of July 2 about taking Miss Hallian and Eisenman to South Law rence. She didn’t remember hearing Brassait ask for money. Mr. Hallian testified that it was not true that his wife or himself were prostrated by their daughter’s elope ment. On advice of his attorney, Michael J. Sughrue, who also testified to the same effect, Mr. Hallian said he offered a reward of $100 for the apprehension of the two fugitives. “Brassait called me up on the ‘phone,” said Mr. Hallian, ‘‘and asked me if I wanted to know where my daughter was. He asked me ‘How much is there In it?’ I asked him if he was a married man and I think he said no. I asked him who he was and he replied that he was a poor man. Did Not Kick Him Out “I said, ‘I should think you'd be ashamed of yourself to commercialize a matter like this.’ He told me he was employed at the Northampton street garage and I told him to come to my office the next morning. After talking with him I telephoned the Boston Post about putting an ad in the paper, offering a reward of $100. Mr. Hallian testified that next day he received a call from Chief Reynolds of the Hull police on the phone that his daughter was in Portland and left on the 1:15 train for that city. In Port land he took a taxicab to the police station, where he was introduced to Chief Dresser. He saw his daughter, who was in charge of the police mat ron. He said that a girl telephone operator at a Portland hotel also claimed the reward of $10. On the Monday following Brassait came to his office, Mr. Hallian said, and claimed the reward. ‘I told him I did not think he was entitled to any reward, as what he had told me had not led to the apprehension of my daughter. I did not kick him out of the office. I did make a gesture toward the door with my index finger. The Watts Detective Agency was not hired by me on the case. I never heard of them.
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Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Thu, Nov 26, 1914
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