The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-01-25

ANA 90 YOU tNink that tncv AFRO guilty.!
why, rs to that, don't exactly know;
Hicks says they are, and he ought IL
know
And can Won confidc in Hicks? Do YOU
think tha, Hicks is entitled to credi,?-
Would you believe him on oa,hv
Now you are asking too much. You
talk too fast, and ask too many questions
Nv lawyer SAYS that Hicks is my main
dependence, and ! know he il. lie is
bad fellow, ! suppose, aud would commi,
nny crime for ,riie, but nobody has thus
Tar impcached his integrity; and do you
think that am a-goipg TO destroy the main
prop by which stand. Alter these trials
are over. III tell YOU nlI about Hicks, and
You'll know what you doknow. But stop;
I'm wasting time; must be ofi, and gc,
nv witness, or shall I've too late. Adieu!
and mark me, before 81, down 10 this tn
bic, Henry White will DO convicted
man"
And away went Colonel Kelley in pur.
sni, oft this new witness. And was he sue
cessIu? Ay! indeed, was he, and, ere m
hour had elapsed no wen, into court with n
wounan for witness, who sworc that II.
White slept in Der honsc the night the fire
occurred; tha, he 90, up in the course ol
the night and was absent an hour or two.
nnj then came back. That, when the cry
II fire was given, Inc was seen 10 leap out
Of "ne Of the windows Of her dwelling, aud
make all possible speed for the Baltimore
and Dadcnshurgh road
Such was the substance Of tho tcstmo-
~ procured from this 'ncw Witness ac-
cording to my recollection. As depend
upon memory nlonc FIR N, second, may
err in some immaterlal particulars.
!. At any rate, the evidence elected from
the new witness did the job CIR Henry
White, and he was sentenced 10 seven
wears Imprisonment in the Washington
Pontcn,iarv. lie went there. aud saw
him. year or two afterwards, working vc-
rs diligently ut the business of shocma-
kcr. ] think he had entered on The third
: year Of his imprisonment, when the then
President, Mr.. Van Blrcn. received salts
factory evidence tina, he had heen convict
: ed through perjury and the snbornation Of
=
, inglv. he ordered him To he discharged.
. Poor White might have escaped conviction.
D if he had awaited himself ot the statute nf
!. limitations, which required that nll crimi.
: nal prosecutions in the District of Columbia
Z should commence within seven YEARS.
, The Indictment against him fell within the
, limits Of that statute; but. MS he had said
, that he would pass through the ordeal with
] clean verdict, or nonc, he would NOT avail
himself Of its benefits, and to prison he
: went.
3 In the meantime, the tria! of Richard
4 White came on. aud tho jury empanne!lct
! in the case could not agree. lie was ar
4 raisned tho second time, with tho same re.
suit ;.and the prosecution was continued 1,
the sixth time, extending some three years
!; when he was acquitted md discharged.
!. In consequence Of his long imprson
{ ment, his business in lie was DESTROY ed
u md every farlhing he had had in The worlt
j, had he.r exhausted in payin. costs. ant
d feeling lawyers. lie came OIL, Of Jail az
innoccn, and hcar,-hrokcn man. The sui
ferings he endured demanded redress; bu,
u none was 10 be Ind. lie had been mad,
c the victim of n body Of the vilcst villain,
4 and culihroa,s TINT over lived; and, I,
Il know that he had nothing 10 hope for, eve,
at the hands of that government which ha,
J. been dupcd by Kelley aud his association
Of cui-,hroais. believe he did recery.
n some little sum Of money from the Sccreta
i. ~ Of the Treasury, Mr.. Woodbury., whe,
4 he left the Washington Jail; hu, j, amount,
ed to nothing more than his incidental irav
|; Cling expenses from the Capital to New
y York.
5 Kelley, although he managed TO convic
Henry White. did not succeed in ge,iin,
:, aus ten thousand dollars reward.
% Tho Secretary Of the Treasury, who ha,
:, paid some thousands of dollnrs 10 Kelley
= which lind been exhausted in collecting Iii
C gang Of cut -throa;s, aud in suhornaiion
G and in .io,ng in the taverns and bro,hel
&c Of the city, declined paying any spccifi
reward for services rendered in conviction
> lie did pay, believe, per diem salary L
l. Kelley; beyond this, ic could not an,
II would not 60.
II Finding, nfcr the conviction Of Henri,
= White, that public opinion aud the Secre
4, ,ary were both changing, and rapidly ns
y Stunning hostile attitude toward him, Kel
D ley, in fit Of Indignation produced by dis
. appointed hope, vented his denuncaiio,
J. and malediction against the government
and The administration. and boosted tho
he Ind hapcd and bamboozled both Hi
1 suborncd Witnesses, disappointed in no
! sharing with him the anticipated rewart
Of Ten thousand dollars, threw up thci
dands,' and boasted Of their infamy.
&c There wss not the shadow Of shade Il
ID Justify the chnrgc that had been preferred