Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-10-19

Mathews which involves or even seems to
involve him in any approach even TO
criminal, unptop;r or doubtful conduct
to wards the person who accuses him or
any other person whatever. Nor does any
person whatever come forward to offer
substantial proof or resemblance of proof
of the woman's charge.
On the contrary, one abundant aud I'M
broken mass of testimony of the unblem
lsbed and pure conduct of Mr.. Matthews
Is afforded us By our own long-continued
intercourse and personal intimacy with
him hy his character aud work as min
lister of the Gospel fjr2I year,, IL of which
we've spent in EktUn, and during his
whole lie, from his boyhood TO the pre-
seut hour;
Influenced by these considerations after
mature dclihrratun the Pigsbytery passed
the following paper:
In view of all the testimony concerning
the criminal accusation made against the
Rev. Henry Matthews, this Preshytery find
no ground whatever fo preierriug charges
or entertaining suspicion against him, ana
do declare our continued nm abiding con-
confidence in him, and most cordially
commend him to the eutire confidence OF
his congregation, TO the church and the
public at la ge us most faithful minister
ofthe gospel,
This paper was passed unanimously by
a rising vote after full expression OF
opinion, twenty-sevCn ministers ana nine
teen ruling elders being pres ,nt.
The evidence IN the case was analy-
zed by Rev. j. IL. Johus, in his argument
before the Presbylery on Wednesday
evening, as follows:-
The contradictions in testimony;
/. Maria testiil.s positively that Mr..
Matthews never had camal intercourse
with her but three times. Those three
times she specifies most infinitely as TO
month, time of day, place, etc. She had
told DIR. s. II. lamar and DIR. Frazer that
MIR. Matthew had never committed the
Oilense but three times that she could
not remember any other times. And yet
two hours later her sworn statement to
the committee, being again asked when
the crime was first committed, she most
positively declares that Mr.Matthews had
been running after her for two years, anu
that he had intercourse many times. nut
he never did her any harm until last FAIL
Here is II Hat contradiction about mat
ter that she is incapable of forgetting. II
in a clear lease Of perjury on the very
question at issue between her and Mr..
| Matthews, and i'm the opinion of the Pres
| flies her charge.
.. Her whole statement about Mr.. Mat
thews taking her toa boarding house in
| Baltimore Is coutrndicted by the testimony
of five witnesses. Mrs. Henrietta Hines
swears that Mary Howard told her several
times that she went to Giliard's in hack,
and paid the hickman one dollar. Mrs.
Sophia Hines testilies the same thing. Lew
sutton swcars that he took her to Billiards
| in his hack, and how he came TO take her
there, and that she paid him one dollar.
Mrs. May A. Gilllard says Levi sutton,
the day Mary Howard came To her house,
came iutO her sick room aud said that ne
had brought her Il hOardcr. Mary f. Hll-
lard says Levi Suttou, whom she knows
well, brought Mary Howard to their
house, and that she saw Mary Howard
get out of the hack. All of these five
witnesses. Of three different families, are
Intelligent, and, to all appearances, most
respectable, wcl-to do colored people
p Levi Sutton lives in a good house in Matt
street, owns a hack and two horses, and
is lahoring diligently to support a lint
family of seven children. The ILLNESSES have
O. most comfortable house In Chesnu
street. and Mrs. Gillard resides in iine
large house near the Battle Monument
, They are all undoubtedly good, reliable
: witnesses. who, in the most frank anl
honest manner answered such questions
, as were INT TO them. In the face of thci
/, testimony Maria's entire statement ahou
going to billiards is a ialschood.
5 8. Maria says that she reached Mrs
Billiards August 18th, about two O'Clock
A lip. M. lust before dinner, and thai on
D hour (ahout three r.. Nj arer Mr.. Mat
e lhews returned to see her. Mary E. eli
0 lizard SAYS their dinner on August 18th
v was mt -, p. NJ. Mary Howard wa
{ sitting Looking ont of their dining ROOF
r window, and that no man came to see he
), that day.
+; DR.. Zollickoller says that Mr.. Matthew
= was at his store, No. 30 S. Howard street
o between IL and ., =. M.-uearer ?, 7. NJ
than IL. r. M.-and Mrs. Zolickollt
v testiics That her hrothcrreached the hOus,
No. 90 Mccullough street, not later tina
" 3t{, 2. Ma distance Of more THAI mi
d from A. Calvert street. MIR. Matthew
a instead Of talking to Maria at ~ Calve
street, was more than u mile distant tall
,e ing to his sister at No. go McCulloug
II street A.
thews. when he returned To Glliiard
n rave her $50. At North East she tel
e James l.. NJ. Houston that Mr.. MATTHEW
e had given her SO. She tells VIM.
L Alexander that MIR. Matthews had give
RI her sum of money which he remembers
" was not 50, aud II. Clay Baker hell
her telling VIM. y. Alexander that VI
re Matthews gave her Slj. From Mrs. Ma
st thews' statement Maria must have hI
near $40 when she came to Baltimo
W August 18th, and yet she testihcs on GA
It. that Mr.. Matthews gave her ten dollars
of a store to nav In part ON certain bnnd
w that she had gotten. Albert Nonstal
Id saws that in her conversation with hi
It. she said that Mr.. Matthews gave her :
tb I'm a store, and afterwards she SAID 5
had $40 in her puckCt al that time. !
Nv Hines say that she deceived them abb
at the amount Of money in her possession.
VS. She testified herself that shr could eOu
as money.
b. The letter marked "B - winch S
at saws was given her by Mr.. Matthev
ny already sealed, aud Of the contents :
was ignorant, to be sent by her to NJ
II. V. $. Mathews, was written by a NJ
i'm Josephine Carr. u cOlurrd woman boa
ad ing at Mrs. Billiards und roaming at
lii time with Mary Howard. This Is
to sworn testimony of Mary Il. Gillia
her The letter is evidently written 10y a llma
i'm In a kind of schoolgirl hand-it has
appearance OF heing a designed hand, q
A. in fact it is believed to be impossible
Tvs Mr.. Matthews to initiate such hand II
rec tried.
6. The envelope marked a." Z
a Maria says was given to her by
she Mathews to be- senL1o him in case all \
i'm right, may or miy'noi hc his hand WIN
Mr.. If even it is his'hand, his explanation
re- how Maria may have secured Il is III
probable to say the least. MIS-. Matthe
'ch, testifies that he was in the haclt of
ent dressing envelopes to himself for he
free use in their separation.
and Z. Maria tcslifes that she did not Il
e is Mr. Matthews say to any one al Mrs.
linrd's to take care of hcr-she ins
aria that no one saw him at that house.
fore DIR. j. IL. lamar says she told him
she Mr.. Matthews took her to board
light house and tod them not to let her "
she for anything,
few S. Maria Saulsbury's character
the herself admits what Mrs. Ward, y
us Wallace and Mrs, Matthews testify,
igs she was a night runner that she was
her almost every evening. She also ad
oods that there were had reports about her
different men at different times.
The Matthews testified that Clayton Ma
give married man, and no blood rela'
sent Maria his photograph through
that Post office, when they were both livlr
and that time in Elktou. Why did she
treat Mrs. Matthews repeatedly that Cha
Manlz, II married man, and no blood
ii6ed latlon to her came home with he
II 80 nights Especially too, when there
,cte d been bad reports about them ? She