The New York herald., 1865-06-13
Q and Its Montreal Corres.
pOndent.


| ." rhk EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
as-From an article In your paper OF Saturday last
cut the following paragraph:-
Hs lConover) sweara that he informed IN. ys, OF tina
asns nsnass saT,a ra gPoS ogdensaIs but the
Ssss GsSsss ss to RssS .a ~ 2. Ss ss
and requested Il him as p % g h, Pre.dsn %
Know .ns shsSsr Mr. Cav 70
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c oS S:sd ss e wes.. ss.. on ss
he s Rs's q ssa 1sas"f so e
Gated M Conovsr o Mr Gay ssar.; but the in,
government authorities The editor Of the Tis stated o IA
w days that tw, two :, or three Of M. 0.povsrs
mo-, Sssn ns
s sp0a Cav hs Of Psss IN G
90. ally clear that Mr. Gay did nothing TO avert the
AS you seem so painfully anxious for information on
the several points made in this statement you shall
have it,
Mr. ConovsrWas either unsupported or mistaken in
saying in his tes smony that letter relating to the
raid on the Ogden burg Railroad refused publication
in the Tribune 1t appeared in that paper the 10th OF
January last called upoa Major General Dix the same
day to direct his attention to the letter He had already
ysad it said Mat confirmed the information he had
received his detectives in Montreal The publi-
cation Of tho etteo COURSE defeated tho plans OF the
rebels
Probably the letter which conover supposed was not
published because II 'sensation letter. that
relating to the assassi paon a President Lincoln The
main reason for not publishing It was that IL never
reached The I.e; anS the osy G excuse can ,S Sa~r
ernment of that pst s that not having received the
letter, knew nothing Of its contents.
You presume" that ''other rebel ploss, including the
3d. Albans raid, the firing Of New York city and the
poisoning Of the Crotsn water were also socommuncased"
to You assert in ihe sentence, that Mr..
ConOver youg presumptons. But two OF those
prcsunptions are wrong as your aas4ron is absurd
Mr. Conover gavs any infornaon Of the St
Adams raid or Of the plot this city. Hc did s
OF the proposal TO blow the Crotou daxs and that
the posonin ,of the Groom water had shoug Of
bu Wasa AZ m
passed through this city his way to Washington to
testify the trials Learning then, for the FIRST time
that he assumed to have Information on this pe4n and
also In regard 90 the assassination of MIR Lincoln ele
graphed immeiasely-as it had boen announced
cution would be closed the next 0sy--to tho
Advocate Generals Office that important
ton. The statement relative 70 the Croon dam at
laid before Police Commissioners Acton and McMrray,
were taken to defeat the scheme In case thing 80
difficult should be seriously undertaken Mr. Consver |
should be desirable to publish it at future time II
was given to the public in the Tribune o. June the day
Of the publication OF Conovers testimony in cours at
Washington
M Conover says he wrote two three letters which
received at this onlse. Whyf have no
doubt they suppressed in the Canadian Post Office
correspondent of the Trsne whose published
this morning, asserts that letters to him from Montreal
during the past three months have been stopped, |
tampered with and opened. There is nothing incredi
bio In the supposition that the Canadian consptra
Now York. and that he sometimes got hold OF those
they wished suppress II understood that they
exceedingly anxious " learn who was the Montreal
correspondent OF the Trbune and they once thought
they had discovered him. Certain information given mo
by Mr Conover and presumed to be OF importance 70
PLAINTIFF counsel in the st. Adams raid case, sont to
Of those gentlemen An inquiry in relation to the
subject the Tsistne office by telegraph and
in the reply also by telegraph my mentioned
The Montreal papers Of the next morning Announced
evidently intended notice to all conccrned-hat "S.
H. Gay the Montreal correspondent Of the New York
Titpne Toographc dispatches arc presumed to be ~
conadsntia and sacred letters by post Here posi-
tive evidence that ampered with for the special
purpose OF discovering tho Tribune correspondent II Is
fair presumption thai mail bags were no more nyiolate
than the tclcgraphic wires.
Trusting that your kind anxiety be somewhat re-
lieved, remain your obedlent servant s. H. GAY.
New York, June H. 1895. lEf