The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-10-21
AGENCY CRY, Oct. 18th, 1889.

81 Vu0 SiHoUbOE0 Va sSs 0UUtOy} WuiCu
Z for political reasons, you refused me a
Irejoindef before the election.
! Ii I hope now, as the election is over,
you will not refuse mo the common
courtesy due ono gentleman to an.
other, to answer, at least, portion
of said communication, aS it does me
Iinjustice personally: as well as politi-
cally, and for the reason that you
have many readers outside of iAgon-
4 cy City, who are not conversant with
the matters charged by Nr. Dudley,
which is calculated anddntended to
injure me in d moral point, (if be-
lieved) as well as politically.
4 l will not consume time and space
to answer certain charges made by
inuendo, but content myself in say
ing that Mr.. Dudley ddfs not make
those charges direct thai he makes
indirectly from report originating
BY. some person who. has neither re-
sponsibility orstandingincommunity
/ In regard TO the charges made by
him of my having caused the arrest
Of one Connolly, tcr Illegal voting,
by trying to get some respectable
democrat to file an Information
against him, and failing, got one
James Magee, drunken boy to file
4 it," Ipronounce totally false as the
following certificates fully proves:
CERTIFICATES, (oopy.)
i 81 James Magee hereby certify
that J. M. Estes did not get me to
| sign an information against one Con
nelly, nor diG I see him (kstes) that
day before ! went into bis Office to
i sign the information
i (oigned,) JAMES sMAGEE.
i (COPY,)
i eve G. Myers, and ], Davidson,
hereby certify that J. n. Estes did
not get James Magee to sigr the in
formation against Connelly for ille-
gal voting (Signed)
G. MYERS,
! J. DAVIDSON.
i Mr. Dudley further says, j. NJ. Es-
les, with others, had one Of their
own witnesses arrested for perjury
because he did not swear.to suit US,
and the sequel is, he was acquitted,
the county having nico bill Of cost
to pay, Estes coming in for good
share OF it,
| also pronounce this assertion
false. The witness, onD Hawkins,
inserted himself into tho matter to
get to be q Ditness, having told G.
Myers and B, g. Myers that he heard
Connolly nay, che was not voter,
that he had not been In the county
sixty days." and on the trial, said
Hawkins swore that Connolly never
told him this. and also swore he new
or said so to said Myers" tnat said
Myers had Hawkinss arrested and
brought bsfor me, then Justice Of
the peace, and / acquitted him under
the law on perjury. Mr.. M. J. Will
Jams, of your city, is his counsel, of
which he will confirm the same.
l also gave Connolly change Of
venue, and he was bound over by an.
other ]. p.
Nov as to this "nice bill Of cost
that come in for good share.
My cost in the two cases was just
SO, as the docket (p. lie & 11s) now
shows, and if Il came in for good
SHARE" the reader can estimate the
whole amount by the single rule of
three, rule, very much doubt if
my ''neighbor" (?) Dudley under
stands as well as he should. Again
this creature, Hawkins said, that
"Charles Dudley was going to appear
before the Board Of Supervisors to
prevent my allowance in these Gas.
es." Whether he did or did not,
know not. and care not. All know
about it IS, out of bill Of some thir-
ty one dollars for whole year, the
Supervisors curtailed the bill some
Eve or six dollars, and ! made no
'.Juss" about it.
The next very serious (Y charge is
that 81 advised the said Connolly to
run away, after he Dudley had
gone on his bond for his appearance
at court, while was aJustise of the
Peace"
To this plead guilty in part only.
1t is true, l was then q J. p, but did
not try Connolly, nor did / advise
him in the capacity of q J. P, but
what l did say was through sympa-
thy for him, and with a full belief,
(Which l now entertain, that said
Connolly was over persuaded to vote
against his oicn inclination, for he
told me SO himself, and begged of me
mot to be too hard on HIM" told
him l was sorry he had got into tho
trouble he had, and that ! would not
blame him to "be out of the way"
when court set, for the reason that
he was over persuaded to vote by
others, and because Dudley was the
author of the Registry Law, "to pre-
serve the purity (?) of the ballot
box" and he was among the first to
encourage its violation, and acted as
| attorney in the case for Connolly.
/ Now, if Dudley can find any CON-
i fort in this, he is welcome to it. But,
"neighbor (?) Dudley failed totally to
answer the charge, that he was and
had been practicing law here for sew
eral years, and he had never taken
out and paid for government license
as lawyer, although had received
d small fees in his practice.
l Ichallenge him to denial of this
charge.
II In conclusion, l wish to remind
'neighbor" (?) Dudley, and others in
terested, of the arrest and two days
trial of old man Faulkner & Son, for
) illegal voting here three years ago,
after his fright hand men" and .ootS
hore had advised them to vote, Gas
they wore blue over coata) and find
ing afterwards they voted the demo.
. cratic ticket, their ''rnan Friday"
swore out an information against
them and dared not show his face at
the trial Of two days.
+ The sequel of this was they were
s bound over to court by their J. p
. who refused TO grant them a change
of venue, as | granted to Connelly
9 and put them under bonds for theil
appearance at court, whero they
0 were acquitted by the Grand jury
0 failing TO find bill against them
0 What this case cost the county,
o am not prepared to say, but from th'
. time OF trying it here and before th
o Grand Jury, with the number o
o witnesses, it must have cost at leas
e el50. to the county.