Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-02-28
Card IFon PrahBeutils Attorney WhIle,

Card Iron Praheeusins Attorney Whlle.
H. s. sfHTHNs,--Iu ysur card Of yester.
day morning, you complain Of an attack
made by the Prosecuting Attorney upon
yOursslf saying you vas not included in
the Indictment or evidence, nor had any
thing 70 do with IT,"
Why referred to you, will now inform
both yourself and the public,
There are acts and conduct not made
criminal by the laws of the State, which yet
merit and receive the reprobation of public
officers, and Of all good men. You have
placed in your hands as the agent of the
Omnibus Company, by railroads and steam
boats, the care Of women and children ar
irving by rail and water, and stopping in
our city. Pete Phillips has been employed
by you as 6 driver, or TO sell omnibus tickets
for The past several years. He was driving
your carriage when he decoyod q poor girl
from tho depot, and upon her person and
in that carriage, committed the crime of
which he has been convicted. You have
long known his character. Capt. T. A.
Pierce, two years ago, asked you to discharge
him, telling you that he and other drivers
Of yours insulted passengers, and asking
you why you employed such men. You
refused to discharge Pete, and said that
unless you employed such mon, you could
not get passengers for the low tayerns on
the river. Other persons about the depot
have given you the same information.
The owner Of dog, when informed that
he will worry or kill sheep, is ever aftervards |
responsible for any damage done by the dog. |
You were told that you had such dogs those |
dogs did the mischief, and you are respon-
sible for it.
Another driver Of yours, John Green, on
the above trial testified that he committed /
an infamous outrage, at the very door of the
depot, on the weeping victim of Pele Phil
lips.
Another driver of yours, Patrick Diniu,
had been examined and bound over BY JUS
tce Allen for an attempt TO commit a rape
upon his Washer-woman. You were his bail.
On the hrst day of Court, I told you that
had examined the charge, and believed him
guilty. Thereupon you surrendered him in
open Court. On the same day Dinin assign
cd you his Savings Bank book, calling for
S4l2, and you again went his bail. He was
indicted, and plead not guilty, on Tuesday
morning Of last week. On the same Tues
day, in the afternoon, with the penitentiary
staring him in the face, he settled with the
washer woman a suit to be brought for civil
and with your knowledge, You
went to the Savings Bank, and told Mr..
Mather, the Secretary, to let Dinin draw
SlOe, and Pat Dinin paid, in L. ]. Rvder's
othee, that money to the woman You thus {
voluntarily reduced, on Tuesday, the secu- ,
rity given you by the man you had surren-
iered on Monday from fear that he might
run away. The woman ran away that night. {
and the whole police power of the county
has not yet been able to arrest her on an at
sehment 1 caused to be issued.
Would any reasonable man, especially
would Henry s. Stevens, have given up that
me hundred dollars, or let his servant set
lie such civil suit, thereby acknoH ledgipg
lis guilt, unless he knew the witness would
un away2 That question, Henry, l shall
lsk our next grand jury to answer.
With all these facts within my knovledpe.
10 you, or can the public wonder that | 4;
banked God that the employees of the Lake
lhore Road were not like the drivers of the L
omnibus Company, and that Horny Not q
inghsm was not like Henry s. Steyens?-
That was the extent of my attack.
B. WEITI,
Prosecuting Attorney. 9