New-York daily tribune., 1851-09-30
TIE MtHlGAY RAILROAD C0NSPRACY'
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frh" cign. following paragraphs w.r rot re-
oeived ty u n season 20 be inserre. o..ic thcy
tc.cng .n Yesterdays portion o. ,ae Speech
They should have appeared on eaec O.. supple.
menil las column. AFTER the second r..a--arh,
and before the head .llLJ
,. Thai re onls bureau ln ihc house >'oo1 N ne
tCtroco, covered vua dishes. hl. 'cs SLOW ihas
i.e tartntn utgAt easily have tcSl removed. anl
Shat iahe mishf have been seen Nrur- r ihat
room, or that. pa 'lc absence % tae ma,i.. md ns-
trc>S oi NE house. tac 14rcau mI.at a4tt .t,a re-
mosCd NO The ot1eT sq1rtmoAt.
4. Thar he Fic .c ot ~ai'cwooi rm1s- fl-t does
not exactly correspond m axe art Do s.-r I1 tn,
matches produced. / answer Hcreisa ... ser o,
The Wood exactly cones >pcnLine q tl.s ,sr pn t.,
Miles match bu, tlai question BIAS been slo.At,sd
10 your eNaninaUCl without proof. a. fuH "
mechanics THAT teO>e uat hes m.glt nr. ,eel taken
from mat identical >.CA. though perhaps no. lmmc-
tiatcip Aljomug iRC pAlt noN Ief. luu sal deter
mine but ln CON. 50 remember tha. 81 = .cf .pcss-
SaTN Ia oW i>f tnai me matceC> should ave q q
made Win iltse l.tAucal augCrs. iloal Cd f,ts-
teal billet Of WOOD The possession 9. an n,isr-
meui and Of any such wood implies tlaf re sane
party could procure other instruments a..a similar
lumber
: Tha, Stow could not have seen Pn,.o> a, the
manger thloush me window. \ our o~n .Nperi.
men,S have satisfied you that PhelG> colG nave oecn
seen there cc!CrC he corn m iho intervening fed
grew up.
: ma. stow erred IN stating that be>s, r troNe,
p'ecc ~ cati.e-suau .y.ug al RtyrC.1,> ero,siug,
near Phelps, house. cuung the las SUMMER Az
SNtT ImCcr Tor cattle guards WAS .dld a. ,el efL
crossings n tina, vicinity curing the summer and
there Is entire confusion among the witnesses n re-
gard 10 ;he places where II lay aEd tlC ne> !, re-
NAMED there. Indi j. an uu.mpouiDf man,r
9 That Fesn NAV have p.d Ell the nltct ot dui1cr
under the hay. ana that YOU are iG>Hnsd a a>>'.mDg
that he do because ,Ac defendant Bume, i>ed tao
search ot Pheips'> premises Reply. Huret re-
maIN> were the nlfura. suggestions - mind oOn-
SclOuS of innocence spd Knowing the innocence of
ihc defendants. search Of the dcieuilnf, premises
had been repeatedly made, and nothing .7s tceu
found 10 accuse them. Nhy not search tlt PREMISES
OF tnCu acCu>VT>
Again It Is ursod that the search Mas .,,de too
late, out 10 Was made as SoOn IS Phelps "a iaNs
had made their pretended disclosures or tl. tuai
and until thai time he defendants Ncre tSnorant
whatthey would have 10 answer BGrnt - ftmlTAs
were openly made, on sunday, 80 hi> iucu. &c thc
church door, when be- Va, allowed 3y 'he Sallroad
Company 20 20 home ana they lntlc t'Ca o. reason
able suspicion OF the fraud. But how coul, fcnn
any other person procure such piece OF humber and
convey u unob>eryed, by night or by dav. rom any
place where II could be found. and CCpO>.t IN the
mangsr BY what chemical proce>, coUa i have
been 80 eheciuay saturated aud sian,i, n the
short space mus have lam there, g. nlvc de-
cciyed and mIscd the intelligent farmers Nro agreed
that II must have been subjected 10 the ort oi
the decomposition OF the hay and eniA io' period
Of three months
once more tits said tha, these arme- found It
toe early reply, thcy say NtheN found b. Nihont
an indication ot place or order ot search II II had
ceen found later there would have been equal sUs-
pciOn Of fraudulent delay.
/ rccapltulaie. We fnd no matches intuc posses
sion ot the defendants. no materials, NO Implements,
nor traces AT the manu- acture. No one Of mem has
ever spoken eft matches. e md Phelps speaking II
matches three months before any are sttn. We
md Lake employ ed by him. LAX, J. AZ eng neer
and tklllful m working IN wood We find b ', with
tools and materials at work mlSfcrlog>.v No
match has ever been seen BY any person where
Phelps WAS not himself present, ana did mo pcrsoa-
ally produce Il, indicate where n could ne found.
Phelps and Lake, after procuring tools and mate
mails and beng seen At work, produced the matches
proposed. Those matches serve the purpose Of the
plot by Phelps and Lake Thcy are utterly 'nedect-
ual to any purpose which he defendants could
ever have conceived. The conclusion then IS, that
the matches were made by Phelps and Lake. and
thus IS the engineer hoist with ms Own petard'
Ne have then established "A second conn 'eie, CON
conclusive and independent de .onse.