, 1868-06-26
n. Parker Fires q Parthian Shot.
BAKIR Orr, ORHeOE, June %, 1868.

BAKsR Orr, ORlsoH, June %, 1868.
EprroR STATESMAN I'll have Just read the no.
tice you have given DR.. Mack, dentist, and my.
self. Will you please publish the following
quote first from Maek'S letter:
BAKER CTrY, June is, 1868.
"Frisnd Parker II say Friend, because have
no 1nfriendly feeling toward you-I regret very
much the existing circumstances between US
but these are not such that we may not be friends
still, notwithstanding, you have been inconVe-
nisnced some and great deal, by the compli>
cation Of circumstances. l say again, that |
regret It IS much as . man could, and would
gladly make all proper amends 10 screen you
from suspicion or blame which might arise from
the arrest and detention. l offer TO pay your ex-
penses, and for the time you have been detained,
at the rate Of ten dollars per day, together with
stage fare to Miller's Station, and if you desire
1t, the publication Of certificate, setting forth
the fact that you had the money at your disposal,
and like the honest man had always taken you
to be, you had left II safe and untouched, That
had hoped It would be 90, for the fact that
not only valued you ~ . personal friend, but
having the acquaintance Of your family in the
East, who also bore an enviable reputation for
uprightuess and honesty, would have deplored
very much, having to learn too late, that had
misplaced my most implicit confidence in you.
But 10 conclude; have l done differently from
what you Would have done 10 like circumstances2
l think not for have often heard you say that
you knew no friend in business must say
that do. But, in . matter involving 20 great
an amount, business demanded such action, and,
however much l might regreG it, l was forced,
as think you would be, to do that which was
greatly Antagonistic to my feelings. pray you
to forgive my error, knowing As you must, that
it is human TO err, divine TO forgive l wish that
we may be friends still, as We have been. l
would say that In visiting Walla WAlla did
defend you at every hand. Praying your kind
consideration, remain as evor, your friend,
(Signed,) @. H. MACK"
next give the affidavit said Mack made to en-.
able him to carry out his hellish move:
"Baker County, Oregon, SS.-I, G. d. Mack,
being duly sworn, dePOss and say, th.tH. Parker
did ct Baker county, and Stale of Oregon, ems
bezzle the sum of three Thousand dollars, the
personal property Of the said O. H. Mack, on the
18th day of June, 1868, and fraudulently con.
verted the said money 10 his the said q. Parker's
own use, contrary to the form of the statute in
such cases made and provided, and against the
peace and dignity of the State of Oregon, aud
pray that the said q. Parker may be arrested
and dealt with according to law.
(signed, @. MACK"
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
18th day of June, 1868.
County Judge ofBaker county, State of Oregon. J"
The reader can judge from the foregoing, as
to deliberate perjury. l copy from the records
Of the Court, wherein the Judge says there was
no cause to believe was guilty:
State Of Oregon, %. II. Parker, En6ezzlsment-
The defendant, H. Parker, being brought before
the undersigned, County Judge of said county,
and pleading mot guilty to the charge of em.
bezElement, made by the affidavit of c. H. Mack,
and waving his right to g continuance for the
procurement Of counsel, on motion of R. A.
Pierce, Esq, Attorney for the State, the cause
was continued TO Monday, the 18th day of June,
1868, at one o'clock, P. n"
"HoRddy, June 10, l86s.-Case called, and on
motion Of R. A. Pierce, Esq, Attorney for the
State, and it appears from the proofs that there
was no cause to believe the defendant q. Parker,
guilty of the crime within mentioned, it was orr
dered by the Court that the said q. Parker be