The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-24


ON the evening Of the fssh inst oasces ~ Reynolds
served search warrant on me- Which warrant issncd
10y H. w Ferguson Reynolds Accompanied by
john 4 Little who saed that the voucher tr the uc
tobsr terra Of the as States district and c'eult courts
iof the northern district 81 Illinois We're lost and that The
object which he had ia view was tn ascertain II had
them 10 my possession Reynolds thea ordered me 70
show him 10 my room wcnt Win heJhoids and
Lathe 10 Mr. Chandler room, amt asked that gentcuial
20 20 with to nay rooul which hs cosfne 10 do On
entering my ROOM ., nolds demanded 10 be shown
papors Offering To allow 10 read the warrant but We
had no light and / ordered servant To bring one
up carrying on, at the same tame very eAcuing
conversation with Little Tie servant who brought
the light announced Mr. Fitch's nauae. | told him
60 show him up and then told Little that i
had papers la my possession except private leueis
which did not think ho had a right 70 see i'e
said that IL Mas the private which he had come 20
see la order to ascertain who the damn fools were that
were aiding in preierrng charges against Mr. Pine :
and then told Reynolds 10 commence the search told
REYNOLDS that ali the papers which had were IN my bu
re,a- drawer and vase He then commenced search OF
the drawers AT this time Mr. Fitch came to my doorand
knocked 1 opened IT, and told him To come M lilo
said that he wanted u and have talk, and asked
me step outside OF my door into the ha which did
He there told that he wanted to understand that he
had nothing to do with this business that he knew Little
was wrong that the papers ior which he was search
ing were file in the First Auditor, Office at the lfens-
ury Department that he knew what Little was DOING but
that he did ythng to do with it, asked him
fhe would his influence with Little and stop him from
reading my private letters as believed he tttle would
do. ii lao was not already doing So lie said that he
could do anything with John that should just let
him aonn-not notice him. that he wond be sorry for
what he had done ''as soon rs he cooled down We
then went into my room, where found Reynolds aid
Little with my letters and Mr. Chandler says that Little
was busy reading my letters during the whole time that
out and that he thinks Fitch took me out for that
purpose. When went into my room, MI Little called
Mr. Fitch attention To two letters from Mr.. VIM. III
Bradley and told that gentleman, that Bradley in the
Al apInt ainst Diupt nud m Up
wanted to see the letters. He said that he did, and
asked me, favor to him, TO let him read them,
then asked the officer II his warrant permitted Mr.
Little to read my letters He, the officer, said that ii did,
for II he did not read them he could not tell whether
they were the papers he wanted or not. told Mr..
Fitch that being the case he might read Bradlcys letter,
1t might possibly b. the very paper which Little waned
AM, ut the time explained to him Mr. Bradley
Ilatons TO me- to the courts and to the marshal Mr.
Little handed Mr. Fitch Mr. Bradley letters at the
same time read elegrapbic despatch which had re-
ceiyed come days before, a. Beware of Littlc-on
say word him Eat this time the search OF my
was finished aud Reynolds asked Little if he satisfied
that the certain papers called for by his not in
Mr.. Martin possession lie ittle said that they might
be in Chandlcrs room, as he was friend OF mine
then told Mr. Chandler that in order To satisfy Little that
was hot guilty OF the Charge which ho had brought
against me- would prefrr that he would consent to his
room being searched, de officer could do udr Me
rant Reynolds insisted that his warrant permitted him
to search erry the house, Mi. Chandler sud that
he would object to his being searched for the
papers but that he would object TO his letters being read
a. mine had been at the time assuring I,tio and
Reynolds that he had no papers IN his Fooia such AS they
described we then went 10 Chandler room Arrived
there Fitch said hat lac believed that Chandler the
chief conspiraor and that he would himself search hr
and proceeded to his drawer and took out papers throw
| ing out several on the floor Reynolds was very busy
searching Chandler room looking hra,l5h his sta.
onery box, hat box, and thsagh AL lis drawers. He
also exsmlleA NY pockets but, finding nothing, he
abandoned the search wv Y. sts 81 ~, ~.