New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-03

ton with him, in which l told bin
@. What do you call communica-
tion?" 1t may be either in writing or
oral, and l asked you half dozen times
whether you had communicated this fact
to the Governor?
A. tell you that had a general con-
versation with the Governor, on my return
from the North--the next morning after
my return-and, in the meantime, that l
had been informed that was summoned
before the Grand Jury, and | mentioned
that fact to him.
@. When were You informed that you
were summoned before the Grand Jury?
A. On my return from New York.
@. We're YOU informed on the very day
of yonr return?
A. The day after, think. l returned
in the evening, and think it was the next
morning. l renamed here nearly week.
@. Where were you that evening on
your return?
A. do not remember, sir.
O. We're YOU with Captain Swords?
A. think not I am not certain.
@. When did you speak to Captain
Swords about it?
A. believe that he was one Of those
that / spoke to.
o. When WAS this conversation?
A. Before left to the North; before the
eighteenth of March, Immediately after
my transaction with the Auditor.
@. And you returned, when?
A. do not remember. did not bring
the dates with me. / returned some
time, 1 think, in April. I am not
certain whether it was March or April; l
I l. h. Of
| March.
Q. What sum of money did you tell
Captain Swords that you paid Wickltfe?
A. do not know. 1 told him, think,
the whole facts, as I have stated them
here.
| @. Did you tell him that you had paid
the Auditor on two different occasions?
n. am not certain; | told him Of the
transaction that had had.
@. You did not say whether It was on
the first or second occasion?
A. | do not remember; be told me that
it was a general conversation among print
ers that
(The managers object to hearsay testi-
mony. aud the Chief Justice instructs the
| witness to confne himself TO answering
the question asked, and explain his an
SWer that he QeSlreS.)
O. Task you whether you told Captain
Swords that you had to pay the Auditor
| twice?
Al do not remember, whether ] did or
not.
@. And you had this conversation with
him in the month OF March, before you
| went the North?
A. Yes 10 the month of March, went
to the North, and this TRANSFERRED at that
time.
Q. Before you went to the North?
A. Yes.
Q. Was it Immediately after you had
made this payment to Mr.. Wickliffe?
A. believe it was.
O.. How long an interval elapsed be-
tween this payment, and your going to the
| Nor b?
A. l have forgotten.
O. Was it week?
A. No only few days.
@. What was your business at the
North?
A. Private business,
@. Have you any Recollection of that
| business-I do not care to know the
character of the busiuess-but from the
character of the business, have you any
recollection. so as TO remember the time
YOU were there?
a. could tell from my memorandums,
| if had them with ne; it was after the
| thirteenth, and between the thirteenth
and the last of March that | was in the
North.
@. And you returned at what time:
A. About the last of March, or the first
of April.
@. How lang were you absent?
A.. think three weeks, more or less.
TESTIMONY OF E. 8. DREW.
E. S. Drew, witness for the prosecu-
ton, was called, and dull y sworn by the
Secretary.
l. Examination-in-chiet by Manager
Lowell
Question. State your name and res
| idence?
Answer. E. S. Drew, and live in New
Orleans.
@. Are you member of the Board Of
Health?
A. No, sir.
@. Have you been?
A. Yes, sir.
@. When?
A. l was a member of the Board of
Health in the early part of 1869.
@. In that capacity did you have any
conversation with the Auditor HI regard to
| the issuance Of warrants on an appropria-
ton made by the board?
A. Yes, as you will observe by the re-
port of my testimony before the Commit
tee of Investigation. can simply sub
| staatiate that.
| O. Please make the same statement here
again?
A. l was appointed by the Board of
Health to see Mr.. Wickliffe, the Auditor,
and solicit or request OF him to give the
board the smallest possible sized warrants,
| so as to realize as much as possible for the
benefit of the Board of Health. He OBJ
| iected to issuing small warrants; his objec-
ton was that he would have to have COM
pensation tor the extra duty imposed on
| the clerical force, and that he could not
| do it for les than-some compensation
| five per cent, think.
| @. Five per cent that yOu would have 10
pay his clerks for extra labor?
| A. Yes; that was the language, as near
as 1 recollect; that was the sense of it at
| least.
| @. Did you make that arrangement?
| A. No. | was not authorized to do SO.
| TESTIMONY OF J. II. PERALTA.
| J. Fl. Peralta, witness for the prosecu-
| ton, was called and duly sworn by the
Secretary.
Examination in chief by Manager
Lowell.
Question. State your name and occupa-
ton.
| Answer, Nv name is J. Fl. Peralia.