The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-13
TaIAL Roa CouNrHarEIr LANp WAnRANrs-

TRIAL ron CoUsTERFEIT LAND WARRANTs.--
The Cincinnati Commercial states hat James Ir-
win, alias John p. Anderson, was arrnigned befors
United States Commissioner s. S. Carpenter, in
that city, ON Monday last, on charge of putting off
aud selling nine forged and counterfeit land war
rants to William b. Hale, broker, knowing them
to be such. The Commercial adds:
''It shown that the defendant sold to Mr..
Hale nine land warrants, for which he received
j. 900 cash, and to receive $500 so soon as
the land warrants were asccrtained TO be correct,
and not counterfeit, was suspected. The war
rants purported to be signed by j. H. Heath, Com
missioner of Pensions oil the Department OF the III
terror 1t appeared on the part of the defence, that
The name OF the defendant was w lillian Is. Allison,
nephew of j. l.. Edwards, Commissioner OF Pen
sions, at Washington, ID. O., and that Mr.. A., the
defendant had moved in the first circle; that lie
was a young man of no ordinary learning and
talent, and that in the last twelve months his
whereabouts was not known, and character not
vouched for. The defendant brought to this
city by Marshal McKnstry, who testified that the
defendant had registered his name as Anderson,
and that he found in his possession several blank
certificates Of land warrants and other papers per-
tanning to the United States. The court required
the accused to give bail in $4,000, and, in dc
fault, he was committed"
The numbers of the forged warrants stated
in the warrant of arrest to be ~ 49, 72633, ~ G0
q. OBS, 72,49s, 72,525, ~, 6s4, 1929, 72.522.
ATTEMPT AT AssAssINA ATOM On Tuesday last
our usually quiet city became the scene of most
unprecedented and outrageous brutality.
I'VE give below plain, unvarnished statement
of the facts they occurred. These details
have been collected from the representations OF
nearly every disinterested witness of the affair.
With regard to the main leatures of the case there
is striking uniformity i'll the opinions of all who
witnessed il.
While standing at the corner of the Anthony
house, in this city, the editors of this paper
simultaneously attacked by benjamin F Danley,
the sheriff of this county, @. c. Daney, Auditor of
the State, William Danley, a steamboat engineer,
and Scion Borland, United States Senator.
The attack was made upon MIR. Whitelcy by Benz.
f. Danley and c. c. Danley striking at him with
heavy bludgeons both at the same instant. White.
ley fired pistol at BENZ. f. Danley, without effect,
and closing with him, succeeded in wrenching
from him his stick, and with it beat him to the
ground; during this time, C.. c. Danley strik-
ing him (Whiteley) on the back part of the head
with heavy cane. Whitley, upon turning to
ward off the blows of g. c. Danley, shot in the
right breast by pistol ball from b +. Daney.
In the mean time MIR. Reardon, who had taken
no part in the afIray, seized from behind by
Scion Borland, twisted to the ground, and dis
armed. Borand held him down and choked him,
with pistol presented at his head, until pulled
loose by Gordon N. Peay, esq As Mr.. Reardon
was being raised from the ground, William Dan
ley, coming up behind him, dealt him blow on the
side of the head with heavy stick, which left him
apparently lifeless. When this feat accom-
plished, the engineer and the honorable Senator
their murderous assaults upon Mr. Whitley.
which was continued with murderous ferocity
til he fell exhausted by the erceness Of their at
tack and the wound he had received in the outset.
When the bystanders, shocked with the COW
ardly inhumanty of the proceeding, sought to pre-
vent the cold booded murder of a man no longer
capable of resistance, they hurled aside by
Borland, with pistol in hand, who continued even
then to cry out to his contederates-" Shoot him
kill him kill him,'
1t is due to Mr.. Whiteey to state that he only
saved his life by most desperate resistance to the
combined attack; that though assaled from every
quarter, in front and from behind, by sticks,
knives and pistols, and defending himself under
every disadvantage, (hs right being render
ed useless by the pistol ball. he far forgot
himself as TO strike Captain c. c. Daney, the Grip
pie, though he had frequent opportunities to have
telled him to the ground.
Such the facts of the case. They can be sub
stantiated by the testimony of numerous of our
most respectable citizens, who were eye-witnesses
of the whole proceeding. We leave readers to
make their own comments.
Little Rock (-Ark.) Banner.