The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-10-20
THE D0DD CASE.
Testimony of Detectives---George Pugh
Identifies Vallandigham's HaDd-wri-

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r Telegraph Corr, Cincinnati Commercial
l INDIANAPOLIS, Friday Sep. 80, 1864.
The commission met pursuant to ad-
journmeDt The cross examination OF
Felix S. Stidger, the Government wit
ness, was recommended by Major j. w.
Gordon, counsel for the accused
All the members of the American
Knights were not admitted into the Or
der of the Sons of Liberty the latter Or
der was in all its essentials exactly like
the Order of the American Knights, but
they admitted into the Order of the Sons
of Liberty only such as was considered
true to the principles of the order, and
were deemed reliable and worthy of ad-
mission the title of the order was chan
ged from o. A. X. to 0. S. L.; and some
additions were made to the ritual of the
order, among which was the motto. "Re-
sistauce to tyrants is obedience to God, "
which was introduced as a part of the col
loquy, or secret sign of recognition be-
tween members; the two persons pro-
nouncing the alternate words. This mot
to was said by members to have been in
troduced by Vallandieham. The New
York committee had revised the ritual;
Dr. Bowles gave witness a program
me Of the operations of the order /;
Illinois was to furnish $4,000, who
were to concentrate at st. Louis, and to
co operate with Missouri which was to
furnish $4,000; and these combined for
ces were to cooperate with Price, who was
to invade Missouri with 20,000 men, or
what force JEFF Davis could furnish, and
that the 100000 in all were to hold Mis-
souri, against any Union forces brought
against them; Indiana was to furnish 49,
/ 600 to $4,000 men to cooperate with
whatever forces Ohio might send, and all
! these then to be thrown into Louisville,
and were to cooperate with whatever
! force JEFF. Davis could send to Eastern
X cntucky, under Buckner and Breckin-
ridge, or whoever Jeff Davis might deem
best to conduct the operations. A Salem
Ind, he became acquainted with Heffrcn,
who was formerly lieutenant colonel in
an Indiana regiment; he told witness
;
the Confederate forces then in Kentucky,
and some Of the forces of Forrest who
had disbanded after the massacre at Fort
Pillow. He thought witness might be
his commissioner. Before being intro
duced to Heffran, be had conversation
with John -, who spoke of Heffran as
one of the butternut tigers Of that eoun-
". He said he had been at Indiannapo-
lis few days before, consulting with H.
H. Dodd about calling a meeting of the
Grand Council of the State, and that it
would be between the 18th and 18th of
June; he further told witness that he
and Dodd were the only two men who
had right to call the members Of the or
der together, and that it would number
between 5000 aud 80, 900 men. At the
Indianapolis meeting, Missouri was pied
ged for 10000 and Illinois for $4,000
men to cooperate with Price; Indiana,
Bowlcs said, at that time would furnish
40 900 men, and before that he said they
would furnish more. At the Grand Coun-
Gil at indianapolis, on the l4th of June,
Dodd said that if Coffin had penetrated
the secrets of the order, that he ought to
be made away with Gattling was pres
ent at the Indianapolis meeting, when
they expressed 4 unanimous opinion that
Coffin ought to be murdered; there was
no vote taken on the subject; Dodd was
the only one who volunteered to 90 to
! Hamilton, to assist in the assassination OF
Coffin Mcbride said he would like
to. but circumstances prevented this
Mcbride was large, feshy man, medi-
um height, forty years of age or more I;
Dodd, Bowles and the witucss went on
the cars to Hamilton. and Milligan met
them there, but they did not find Coffin.
They spent nearly all of one day in Ris
tines Office, waiting for young Ristine to
point out Coffin, should he pass he saw
I Coffin toward the latter part of the day T;
knew Coffin before, and merely feigned
ignorance did not know why the upri-
sing failed, but got the programme from
Dodd Bullitt was arrested on Saturday,
and Dodd gave witness the programme on
Wednesday or Thursday of the same week;
witness went to Bowles, who told him
that they had agreed on it at Chicago /;
witness understood that Bowles had a
message from Dodd that the programme
would not take place that message was
sent by boy, thirteen or fourteen years
old, whom he knew he met him between
Paola and Bowle's residence; Bowles said
they might yet consent to the uprising
if they got the co o-operation of the Rebel
Colonels, Jesse, Sippert, and Walter, in
Kentucky; Dodd confded the insurrec-
tionary scheme to but few; he said he
talked freely about such matters only to
Harrison and witness; he did not con-
fde much in Voorhees,, who seemed to be
in the confidence of the organization the
Rebel officer who got the work of the Or
: der in Kentucky was Colonel Anderson,
! of the Sd Kentucky Cavalry, who knew
DR.. Kolfus who gave him the vestibule
! and first degree witness gave him the
second and third degrees, by order of
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