Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-08-26
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AUGUST 26, 1858.
First Court in snyder County!

First Court in snyder County!
Our readers will remember that the New
Berlin Anti -Divisionists, with the idea of
drowning the Division question for the
present, are attempting to revive the Re
iuaiatton mania of last fall, by re-exeitipg
the people on that exploded issue, hoping
thereby to stave off discussion upon the
other and the true issue. Under the dust
they hoped to raise on that decided ques-
ton, they seek to kill of the Diyisionists,
and to succeed-by electing one Of their
number, County Commissioncr-in fasten-
ing new Public Buildings, to be paid fer
by Taxation, upon the People. Their plan
was to arrest-on the oaM of.......George
Ueimbach "and his son John'-some Of
the most prominent advocates of Division,
on charge Of BRIBING that pure and spot
less parsonage to complete his contract with
the Susq. R.R. Company. ISRAEL CUTE
LTUs-against whom they supposed public
prejudice might be easiest infamed-was
the fist one arrested He was bound over,
and the result we give in the following
editorial from his paper of this week,
(Which is confirmed to Us by the reports
of several who were presently
From the selin grove DemohraIsnAEL Gu1alps Editor.
The Bribery Case.
We informed the public couple Of
weeks since, that upon the oath Of the no.
torious George Heimbach, we had been
arrested for, as be alleged, an attempt to
brbe him, to sigu the Railroad Bonds.
We then gave bail, until we could get
our case prepared for an examination,
when we sued out a Habeas Corpus, and
the same came for trial before the Hon
james MARSHALL, one of the JUDI ges of our
Court, on Friday last, at Selinsgrove. The
case elected great deal Of interest on the
part of the community, and brought to-
rether large concourae of citizens.
Messrs. Woods, Swineford, Merrill and
Van Gezer, volunteered as counsel against
us. We were represented by Mcssrs Pol
lock, Miller, and Casey.
The Hein,Jach party done everything in
their power to prevent hearing of the
case, and to take every little technical OBJ
lection, because they did not want the
facts out before the community. But the
Judge decided promptly that they must
come to hearing. They then attempt
ed to make out their case by George
Heimbach aud his son John. George
swore that we had offered him $3.50
to sign an extension of the agree
mcnt, or, that we said Miller, Slifcr, and
Casey would pay him that sum for doing
SO. And that at another time we told
him 'tiey' would pay him $500 to sign
the bonds. John swore that we said to
him that they had offered the old man
these sums.
We then proved by four of the most
respectable witnesses in Union county, that
George Heimbach had, before we spoke to
him on that subject, voluntarily agreed to
sign the extension Of the agreement, and
had fixed the time for Mr.. Wilt and Mr..
Miller to meet him at the Commissioners
Office for that purpose. We also proved
b. his own testimony, and that OF his son
John, that we had advised him to employ
the Hon. James Pollock, and to follow
his advice, whatever it would be, IN the
matter.
We also proved by his own confessions
and declarations that he had offered to
sign for certain amount, and wished
his o6er communicated to the Directors
of the Road. We also proved that he
had. over aud over again, solemnly declared
TO he most respectable gentlemen in In
ion county, that ace nerer offered RAM ore
cent.
We further proved that he sent his
own son, or that his son went to the Di-
rectors of the Company, and told them
that his Father had sent him, to offer to
sign the Bonds for $500, and that they
spurned his offer Indignantly. We also
proved that he himself directly offered to
one of the Directors of the Company to
sign the Bonds for $1,000, which was
again refused.
His testimony, and also that of his son
Johns, was fatty and directly contradicted
in important points by men whose vcracity
can not be doubted. We then proved that
this prosecution was got UP, and the war
rant issued ,otLtom any prosecutor, and
without having been ordered by any per-
son, and that it was the result Of consul
tation by Mr.. Justice Swineford, with
Charles Merrill, Fred Smith and Van
Gezer, the two latter trying to saddle it
on the back of Mr. John Reber, who came
up like an honest man and rerudiated it
on his oath that he had employed them or
given them any authority to act for him.
We showed clearly that it was a ccmhina,