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RON r4z RIch .uo.sD ENQUIRER
j TRIAL
or
COLONEL a. BURR.
Motion FOR COMMITMENT.
EXAMINATION OF EVIDENCE.
MospAy, October $.
(Nygr Bru6's evidence.
CONTINuED.
CONTINUED.


10 i775 egsiost the tories, had second
lisu,enan,'s place in i7I6, and continued
10 service throughout the war have
YOU been 10 the service ever since
entered the service again 10 1894, under
an expectation of bearing arms against Inc
British for having been taken prisoner
during the war, and not well treated by
them, could not love them. Q What was
your grade whsn you left the army!
major of artillery.
Mr. Wlekham. Did you see such a &C.
position as that of Timothy k'bby Ia the
hands of the attorney general or secretary
at war? No. gave them the letter al
ready spokea of; expected that all the
gentlemen whose pames have mentioned
wosld have been summoned. IL has been
SAID that came on here as a volunteer.
certainly should have come on 10 any eveRt;
bar was surprised that ihsse gentle
M, should not have been sunsmone<i, and
that the enquiry should be on one side on.
~.
MIR Wirt. Is the Samuel Hammond
you have mentioned the sane persoa who
had commission in The time OF Genet
The very same who is said 10 have had
one,
Mr. Han. rhick you said IL was in
Taoe 1905 that general Wilkirson disclos.
cd to you this important secret! A Not
10 June sometime in the summer.
think ia July. Q What was The impression
90 ycur mind at The time did you sup.
pose i, was some project hostile TO the y.
S. He said he had some grand project
10 view. i expected that he would -bsyo
made The disclosure without my saying that
/ wished him 10 make my fortune. / did
DO, intend TO come under any obligation or
TO commit myself. 20 When was the Erst
time that you made sny ccr aunicatlons
TO the government or any of its oticers,
with respect 10 .hese prciecss? have a
letter here dated January 8, 1906, ID
which say: "I have no confidence 10 the
patriotism of general Wilkinson apd as
man think Of him with horror"
Mr. Writ. To whom is tha, letter ad.
dressed To the secretary at war.
General Wilkinson. Were you under
arrest at that siaes A No. was DOT.
Hooking at his papers) it does GO. appear
from this letter that was under arrest ..
that time.
Mr. Hay. want TO know the fact, whe.
Their you were under arrest or not? a
was not. Q What was the Interval be
tween your arrest and the trial by the court
martial? A believe s OF 10 days, bat
am not certain
Mr NcRas. Had you not been 10 ex-
pscraton OF 40 arrest! had expected
j, for some Time. 10 conversation with
the general, about mr. saying that he would
not be in service six months, he got very
warm aud said, "shis IS sedition." re-
piled, "then arrest me-"
Mr. Hay, AT VIVA, time did this CONVEX,
sation take place about Cold Water, #hen
You stated 10 your evidence, your ruin was
decided Oh think 10 September 1905
Then commeuced a system of persecution
which terminated in my arrest. was
charged, among other things, with con.
temp, TO the general; that, never denied.
i was found not guilty OF all the Other
charges, except that ooe. Major bruH then
said that the sentence OF the court martial
had been disannulled by the president OF
the u. S. and his pay and emolunenss,
which had been suspended by the sentence,
restored.
TGsnesal Wilkinson. ] understood thar
was by stipulation what is the date OF the
Presidents reversais a believe twas on
The iash of March last. and my pay and c.
molumsn ,s being restored, is equivalent 10
areversaL1
Maior BruF proceeded. The secretary
.. wsr observed that the president. was dis
posed to do me Justice bu, twas deli-
cate point, aud there was DO precedent