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The Third Affidavit
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: August 11, 2023, 6:30 pm
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The affidavit that Damon shouldn't have made: The 3rd Affidavit
from July 2nd, 1901.
This is the one in which he either invented a substitute for C.
Kniclo from his imagination: an accurate description of a man
who really worked for him or someone that he knew from God knows
where.
Reproduced in its entirety and as it was written, misspellings
and all.
George Damon
Affidavit Number 3
In the matter of the application for
pardon of Frenchy, "Amer Ben Ali"
City and County of New York
George Damon being duly sworn deposes and says :
That the man ' Frank' referred to in my previous affidavit* did
not leave my employment in Cranford, New Jersey, for at least
two days** after the murder of
"Shakespeare" was discovered.
That this man 'Frank' was about five feet ten inches in height,
had brown hair, clean shaving, wearing no wiskers or mustache.
That, when not shaven for a few days, would show a very light
growth and very light color;
He was a man of about 175 to 180 pounds, with square broad
shoulders.
He had a large flat nose, and large eyes, ( I do not remember
the color ); he had a low forehead.
Either on his right or left wrist, near the hand, there was a
wide tattooed bracelet, extending completely around his wrist.
The figures on the wrist were quite
fancy.
This man 'Frank' spoke fairly good English, with a foreign
accent; I think that he was either a 'Dane' or a 'Swede', and I
know that he talked German because I heard
him talk German with German people; I understood enough of the
language to know he was speaking German.
He had a little hitch in walking, apparently stepping shorter
with one foot than the other. He was a man about 35 years of
age. My belief is that he spoke only German
and English***
He was a man who would seldom speak unless spoken to; he had
done some splicing of ropes for me while in my employ and from
this fact and the tattooing, I inferred
he had been a sailor.
On the first day of July 1901, I visited the police headquarters
on Mulberry Street, New York City, for the purpose of examining
the photographs in the Rogues Gallery.
I was accompanied by Mr. Robert Butler, one of the editors of
the 'Sun', and Mr. Ovide Robillard, attorney for 'Frenchy'.
Upon inquiring of the officers in charge, we were informed that
no picture of 'Frenchy' had been taken at that time or placed in
the 'Rogues Gallery'.
That one of the officers in charge whose name I do not know,
stated that he well remembered 'Frenchy', as he was one of the
detectives working on the case, at that time; he described
'Frenchy' as a man about five feet eleven inches, with sharp
features, with a long and thin nose, dark complexion with quite
a heavy mustache, and about
45 or 46 years old in appearance; that Frenchy had been arrested
about nine o'clock in the morning on April 24, 1891, in the 4th
precinct, and that at that time he had
dark wiskers of about two weeks of growth.
From the fact that this man 'Frank' had no mustache or wiskers
while working for me, and comparing the pictures of 'Frenchy' in
the papers, at that time, describing him with a black mustache,
I am satisfied that the man 'Frank' is not the man 'Frenchy'
heretofore mentioned.****
Sworn to and by George Damon July 2nd, 1901
* The May 20th affidavit is what he's referring to, which was
actually the 1st affidavit. One followed the May 20th.
**One report has it at 4 days, another at 10 days.
*** Not only is this a bizarre comment, that the hired hand
spoke only German and English, it begs the question of why
Damon believed he was first, a Swede, and then a Dane. The
first affidavit mentions 'Swede' twice. This is the first
affidavit in which
a reference made by Damon to Danes is made although Robillard
mentioned it in a May 23rd, 1901 article. That's a span of 40
days
before Damon, himself, mentions a Dane in the context of the
ethnic background of the farmhand, and even then, he isn't sure.
****Why Damon even needed to verify anything is ridiculous. His
hired hand, imaginary or not, was in Cranford for two days after
the crime according to Damon himself !!! News of Ali's arrest
was well-known by the date the real or imaginary farmhand left
the cozy confines of Cranford.
It's a shame that none of the original prosecutors had gone over
this affidavit and were still in office. Since they weren't,
which may be a reason why he appeared in the first place, no one
could challenge it.
#Post#: 2000--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Third Affidavit
DIR By: HowBrown1953
Date: August 11, 2023, 6:36 pm
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Reporters from the same newspaper, the Sun, from where this
sketch was published, may not have seen or been told what Damon
swore to in the third affidavit.
Had they been, they could whip out the sketch below and figure
out how a man with no mustache made it over the Hudson River
shortly afterward and sprouted one like this one.
Then again. maybe they did and were just as dishonest as some of
the other figures in the 1901 sham were.
HTML https://i.imgur.com/bZ2EbAj.jpg
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