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       No Money To Pay Expert Witnesses
   DIR By: HowBrown1953
       Date: August 10, 2026, 5:42 pm
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       New York Tribune
       June 17, 1892
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       NO MONEY TO PAY EXPERT WITNESSES.
       The contingent fund of the District Attorney's office has been
       exhausted, and Mr. Nicoll has tried in vain to get an additional
       appropriation from the Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
       There was a deficiency of $6,000 at the beginning of the year,
       owing to the heavy expenses in the trial of Ameer Ben Ali or
       "Frenchy, No. 1." The Board appropriated $15,000, so only $9,000
       was left. The testimony of the experts in the trials of Carlyle
       W. Harris and E. M. Field was exceedingly expensive, and the
       investigation of the charge against Dr. R. W. Buchanan, who is
       accused of poisoning his wife, will entail a big outlay. Dr.
       Allen McLane Hamilton, for his services in the Harris case,
       received $1,500. Dr. G. De F. Smith, of No. 20 East Twenty-ninth
       Street., has filed a claim for $500 for testifying in the same
       trial. There is no money to pay him, so he has filed papers
       preparatory to suing the county. Professor Rudolph A. Witthaus's
       bill for $5,000 also remains unpaid.
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