Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-01-27
NUMBER II.

perjury and the subornation of perjury
that he was innocent aud accordingly, he
ordered him to be discharged. Poor White
might have escaped conviction, il he had
awaited himself of the statute Of limitations,
which required that all criminal prosecu-
tons in the District of Columbia should
commence within seven years. The indict-
ment against him fell within the limits Of
that statute but as he had esaid that he
would pass through the ordeal with clean
verdict, or none, he would not avail himself
of its benefits, and TO prison he went.
In the meantime, the trial Of Richar&
White came on, and the jury empaDasiied
in the case could not agree. He was ar
raigned the second time, with the same re-
suit; and the prosecution was continued to
the sixth time, extending some three years,
when he was acquitted and discharged.
In consequence of his long imprisonment
his business was destroyed, and every far
thing he had had in tic world had been ex-
hausted IN paying COSTS, and in feeling law
yers. He came out an innocent and heart
broken man. The suffcrngs he had endu-
red demanded redress but none was to BE-
had. He had been made the victim Of =
body of the viIest villains and cut-throats
that ever lived and to know il, was to
know That he had nothing to hope for, even
at the hands of tina; government which had
been duped by Kelley and his association Of
cut-throats. believe he did receive some
| little sum of money from the Secretary Of
the Treasury, Mr. Woodbury., when he left
the Washington Jail but it amounted to
nothing more than his Incidental travelling
expenses from the Capital to New York.
Kelley, although he managed 10 convict
Henry White, did not succeed in getting
any ten thousand dollars reward.
The Secretary of the Treasury who had
paid some thousands of dollars to- Kelley,
which had been exhausted in collecting his
gang of cut-throats, and in subornation, and
in rioting in the taverns aid brcihels Of the
city, declined paying any specific reward for
services rendered IN conviction. He did
pay, believe, a per diem salary to Kelley
beyond this he could not aud would not 90.
Finding, after the conviction of Henry
White. that public opinion and the Secrets-
ny were both changing, and rapidly assu-
ming hostile attitude towards him, Kelley,
1 IN Il fit of Indignation, produced by disap-
| pointed hope, vented his denunciation aud
maledction against the government and I'D
ministration, and hoasted that he had duped
and bamboozled both. His suborned wit
nesses, disappointed in not sharing with
him tho anticipated reward Of ten thousand
dollars, threw up their hands," and boast
cd of their iniamy.
There was not the shadow Of shade to
Justify the charge that had been preferred
against the Whites nor is il probable that
the government would have dreamed Of
prosecuting them had it not been ascertainsd
that they had resided at one time in one Of
the moral towns of Vermont, where had
lived Judge Pacre-I do not recolect his
christian name-who had been detected in
preparing numerous frauds on the Pension
Office and who, to avoid the ignoninous
punishment which was sure 10 await him.
had conn. tilted suicide by blowing his brins
out at Gadsby's Hotel, in Washington.
This Judge Pacrc had been member OF
Congress, and had held, think, seats in
both houses BE this as il may, he had Sc
cured the confidence Of the government, and
had been appointed to the office of Judge
of the Supreme Court of the United States.
AT the time that he had committed suicide.
or shortly anterior to the act, the Whites
had been seen with him, and il was said
that when he destroyed himself, he was
fearful that the Treasury Buildings would
escape the match Of the ncendiary. At
any Ilte he became desperate, and did the
deed.
General jackson, | believe, ultimately
became satisfied Of the innocence Of the
Whites, and Of the guilt Of somebody
else but as Judge Paere left behind
him a family which ! would not annoy,
and which cannot be held responsible for
the delnquencies of father and husband,
will not longer dilate upon this most UNI
happy and unfortunate subject.