Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-11

80 bA40 0Ggt8 OF tQG Concern
with them; he seemed to think thew bad
MOI neen treated as firm, Just stating,
should be; this was after tie iiflcnltieS
aoout'the Line tobacco. RI! a -. :
MT Ernest Reiner testified that a pentle-
man came to our establishment to INV a
stove. witness pointed out EldridRe as The
man; recognized him by certain peculiari-
we Wnen he came to buy thei stove; notic-
90 mat his front teeth we're fastened with
gold pin; sold him the stove which was
taken 20 his store room on Market street.
old not pay for it; have seen Eldridpe in
the store room of Bovar& 90.
MI, Fleming recalled-Thinks EldridDe
Is the,man who sold BoYar & Co. the pens
ana pistols; BoVsr also told him that Ed.
loge had bundle of silks; Bovar L Co.
sold the pens to ]. O. Orr 4 Co., and the
pistols to Cartright.
Mr.. Adams.-I am clerk in the post
omeei recognize Wesley as the person who
called for letters for ]. ". BidWell; sup.
posed that was his own name as he did
not inquire for any other; have put letters
IN .. =. Bovar & Co.'s box for s. s. Bolivar,
tney have been taken out and not return.
eds some time ago Bidwell or Wesley call.
ed and eDquired for letters for ]. Seaorist.
These letters were read in evidence, and
were somewhat ambiguous, referring to
Harriets husband and ]. w, One mr.
ported to be from John Wesley, stating
that he was at Cadiz junction, requesting
the party addressed to come up or send
some money, telling them not to purchase
ucket but pay fare on the cars. The
contents of these letters he deemed suffi.
clent grounds for the arrest of these mar.
ties. l think Mr.. Cole left before the de.
cision in the Lane case.
a letter was read from Evansville. ad.
dressed to John Wesley. The information
contained in this letter led to the arrest Of
Cole at Evansville. lfr "a -
Cross -examined.-It was on, my order
that Wesley was arrested There was no
warrant issued for his arrest until some
Tune after his arrest. had been Informed
oy the laiEor that he could hold q prisoner
three days without warrant. l had no
a9 a. to intercept letters except in my
official capacity.
Mr.. OFT recalled. When Bovar & Cole
bought me out they did not give any ac-
count of their former residence; thinks Mr..
BoVar did say he had done business in Pc.
tersburg, Va; did not ask him about the
matter.
Thompson McKelVey-I am telegraph
operator. know Of dispatches being sent
from here to A. B. Brand; despatch sub.
mttted to the witness said it had been sent
to their Office with instructions to charge
to the account of s. s. Bovar & Co., others
witness recognized as being answers to
Lane. am aware of despatch being read
from ]. B. addressed to ]. Wesley; also
Identified a despatch as the answer
brought to the Office by John Wesley; wit.
ness also identified Wesley.
Mr.. Fleming, Tecalled.-A despatch was
examined BY the witness, who believed that
1t was the handwriting of Mr.. Cole.
Mr.. Beekman sworR-I bought goods of
BoVar 4 Coz one barrel of sugar and box
of tea Mr.. Fender, Mr.. Cole, and another
gentleman came TO my store and examined
the tea; the gentleman with Pender and
Cole described the marks and found It to
correspond; Mr.. Cole was not present when
the box was examined.
DISPATCHES.
One to A. B. Brand says: "Hurry up
thiDgs; BoVar will be there on Saturday."
Another to 8. s. Bovar & Co., from Lou.
isville, reads: "Have you sent me money;
when will get it."
Another from S. s. Bovar L Go. to A.
Brand, at Louisville; "Sent letter Monday;
same day sent post Office order in another
envelope, same address" l
Another, signed A. Brand, to 8. 8. BoVar
4 Co.: "Not damned thing done yet;
when Monday comes will go to Evans.
Ville."
Several witnesses were questioned in
reference to the signature of Mr.. Bovar,
but none of them were able to identify it.
Mr.. Lewis Jones-I reside in Ohio coun.
ty; am Jailor and Deputy Sheriff. have
in custody N. T. EldFidge. His appearance
is changed by the absence of some false
teeth. He had them in at one time since
he has been in custody.
A. W. Campbell-I reside 10 the city;
Rm Postmaster. There are no special in
structious from the Post Office Department
in regard to the delivery of letters to
parties charged with fraud only general
one to cooperate with officers in discharge
of their duty. have not opened any let.
tiers to any of the prisoners in this case;
have handed them to Mayor Sweeney
Witness identified q number of letters,
which he said he had delivered to Mayor
Sweeney. ~
Gross Observation-Disclosures did not know
if the Mayor had authority to receive
these letters. He recognized the Mayor as
an officer of the law, who had siright, upon
we'll grounded suspicion, to take out the
letters of suspected parties. From wit
ness's knowledge of Mayor SWeeDey's
character, and from evidence submitted
by him, he believed there were proper and
sufficient grounds for delivering these let.
tiers TO Mr.. Sweeney.
A. J.'Sweeney (Mayor) testiies, do not
know anything about these goods purchas-
ed in Pittsburgh, only by heRrssy. My at
tention was first called to this case by Mr..
Mole. of the firm of R. Gillet & Co., of
Baltimore, who applied for a search war
rant for goods, and next by Mr.. Line, of
Cincinnati, under similar circumstances.
Some letters were intercepted purportiug
to be from A. B. Brand, at Louisville; these
letters were all similar and served to fix In
the mind of witness that these parties were
connected with BoVar & Co. Irecsived an
anonymous letter from Athens, Ohio, In
forming me that letter WAS mailed TO Jos.
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