Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-21
so IFrom the New York Times, August I6.l IA /,
The Conoyer Casc-statemenf of
Q MIR. BeDj amin Wood and OfHlr.

q mr.. BeDj amin wood and ofIIr.
~ Roger A. Pryor. io sei'7s islet.
The snbjoiped statement having refer
ence to the affidavits published In the Times
of YESTERDAY, appears in last evenings
.DaiIy Nees, of which Hon.. Benjamin
Wood is proprietor and editor, We also
append the afiidavits of Mr.. Roger A. Pry-
or and Mr.. Bruno upon the same subject.
The documents TO which these gentlemen
give such explicit denial appeared, stimuli
taneously with their publication In the
Times, in Washington and Philadelphia pa
pers, and were furnished to the Press with
the usual marks of authenticity:
.tFrom the New York DsilyNews.l-
The Ne,o York Times of to-day, in its
Washington correspondence, publishes
from documents alleged TO, he respectively
the affidavits OF Nathan Anser, James p.
MattersoH, Francis McFall and John Mar
tin, in which the name of Mr.. Benjamin
Wood Is mentioned in connection with GER
tain attempts said to have been made to
procure false evidence against the Judge
Advocate General. 1t is possible that the
Times correspondent has been the victim of
a senseless hoax, and that the whole mat
ter is an invention to create newspaper
sensation. If the affidavits really exist,
they are, so far as Mr.. Wood is concerned,
absolute perjury. Mr.. Wood never, to his
knowledge, laid eyes upon any one of the
SlGHOIS OI -but-SG dliludVItSs- never mao an
interview with any of them; never, to his
recollection, heard of them before seeing
their names printed this morning in the
Times. The only knowledge he has OF
Chas. A. Dunham Sanford Conover) is
what he has gathered from reports in the
newspapers; he does not know the man.
never spoke word to him, never sawah
In his life, unless, perhaps, in the public
streets or elsewhere, as a perfect stranger,
We could not, without the evidence of our
eyes, believe it possible for any one to in
vent string of such uublushing, absolute
falseboods; and If the affidavits have real
ly been filed, Mr.. Wood will take immedi-
ate steps to procure the arrest of the sign
ers, and will prosecute them without delay
for perjury. - 5-fi5.sa
STATEMENT OF MR.. PRYOR.
90 Nos. 81 AND 80 NASSAU STREET.
NEW YoRK CRY, Aug. 10, 1867.
State, City and County of Ne,o York, ss::-
Roger A. Pryor being duly sworn, says thai
he has read the affidayits of Charles A
Dunhan, Nathan Anser, James E. Matter
Son, Francis McFall and John Martin, pub.
lished in the Neto York Ddily Times of this
morning, Aug. 15, 1852 in which depo.
pent's name is implicated with others in 81
alleged conspiracy therein set forth. TIL,
deponent says that the statements embod
led in these affidavits so far as concerns tn,
ticular; chat the deponent to his knowledg
never saw either one of the persons above
mentioned, that to his knowledge, neithe
one of them was ever in depenent's office o.
elsewhere in his presence; that the transac
tions set forth in the affidavits of these per
sons never occurred to the knowledge O
the'd e'deponent; that deponent never had an,
knowledge, directly or indirectly, of any O
the matters exhibited or mentioned in thos,
affidavits; that the Hon. BENJAMIN Wood
to deponent's knowledge, was never ii
deponent's Office at any time or in AM
place; that dcponent was never presen
with the said Wood anywhere at any sucl
or similar transaction or transactions a
are recited in the above mentioned aft
davits; that to his knowledge no word eve
passed between him and said Wood as t,
the release of Jefferson Davis; that de
ponent had no intercourse, direct or indi
rect with said Davis during the past thre
years, nor had anything to do, directly o
indirectly, nor attempted to do ANYTHING
touching said Davis release; that tdeponen
has had no communication, direct or indi
rect, with General Dick Taylor within tn
past fvesyears in regard to the release O
said Davis, or on any other subject; tha
deponent has had no. communication, di
rect or indirect with President Johnsol
or any other official in Washington, in re
gard TO the release OF said Davis, or on an
other subject that within the past fiv
years deponent has not had any communi
cation, direct or indirect, with A.
Rogers, William Radford, w. E. Niblacl
c. A. Eldfidge, F.. G. LIE Blond, or Georg
B. Latham, or either of them; that de
ponent is utterly and entirely ignorant Z
any attempt to procure the release of Jei
ferson Davis except SO far as he has bee
informed by publications in the newspa
pers; and this deponent says finally ths
the statements contained in the aboy
mentioned afiidavits, SO far as deponent
concerned, are in the whole and in deta
absolute and unqualified fabrications; an
that in each and every particular they al
utterly and entirely false and untrue.
80 .7f3 aa's ROGER a. PRYOR.
Sworn to before me this 18th day
August, 1867. n 81
81 iz9 ,as GEORGE G. BARNARD,
Justice Supreme Court.
.T- STATEMENT OF Mr.. BRUNO.
Nos. s37 AND 80 NASSAU STREET,
New YORK CRY, Aug. 10, lS67S
City, County and State CT Nec York, ss-
Richard M. Bruno, being duly sworn, sa,