, 1872-11-01

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arrested, which could in anywise compromise
you. ** As man Of honor you should now stand
by and help me-" he insists upon an interview
| with the General in some safe and quiet place,
before noon Of the next day: "If I do not
hear from you BY that tina, I will conclude that
you intend to let me carry the load and leave me
to my own resources, and will then change nv
system Of defence, which I fear will not be as
advantageous to either Of US as the one have
| now in view but can't put on paper" The result
OF this threat WAS sec-et meeting between
Hurlbut and Robinson at the Generals Office
| one Sunday afternoon, when the place was
likely to be deserted. Robinson himself states
what occurred. He proposed that the General
should return the 914, 900 which he had taken as
his ahare Of their joint operations, and give him
memorandum OF inBtructionB, dating it back
to November, 1864, under which he would pre-
tend to have collect this money for public pur-
poses, and would account for it to the Govern
ment. Hurlbut agreed to write the memoran-
DUN, and, after some further solicitation, ho did
write it, On the 4th Of April, 1866, and dated it
Nov. 19, 1864. ut being the month Of April
When he wrote the paper" aays Mr. Brady,
IL his report to the Secretary Of War, "he
naturally commenced to write the name Of chat
month, but detecting his error when the A had
been fully formed, and not having the forecast
to obliterate it, or take fresh sheet Of paper,
he wrote directly over the A an N, in the abbre-
Walton 'Nov.,' as it now appears On the
memorandum" Before night this document
Was in the possession Of the Commission. It
was placed in copying press and the report
thus continues:
The day Oh which this copy WAS taken was q moist
one, known to be unfaVorah1e to 1etter-press copes
and the same press had been at work all day making
very faint mpregsions Of fresh LETTERS This from be-
ing longer time in press and the Generals writing
heavy hand, furnished fair 1egble COPY having the
peculiar hue Of copy Of freshly written letter, and
Of precisely the color Of written by General Hurl-
but On the 9th Of April, press-copied On the came
day.
The memorandum merely warned Colonel
Robinson that "huge cheating" might be e1-
pected in the matter Of trade permits, and that
he must gain the confidence Of the operators,
On the strength Of this, Robinson WAS to excuse
himself for taking money from the New Orleans
merchants. With the memorandum General
Hurlbut gave him 81, 900. The Courteney bribe
accounted for $1,000. Hurlbut agreed to repre-
sent that $4,000 had been expended in the secret
service. That made up his $4,000. Robin
sons share was in the National Bank Of New
Orleans, deposited in the name Of one Of the
clerks Of the bank, and the Government had
already seized it, The confession Of Robinson,
and the discoveries made BY Mr.. Brady in other
quarters, brought down the whole fabric Of pee
ulation and lying, and left General Hurlbut the
pitiable spectacle Of cornered rogue.
But this WAS not all. Besides the transactions
with Robinson, there were other frauds in which
the Major General apparently did not allow the
Provost Marshal to participate. General Hurl-
but, like othor great Generals, VAS provided
gentlemen WAS Mr. L. L. Crandall, member Of
the Generals household, employed at q salary
OF 9125 month to take care OF property seized
by the Provost Maraha1. The report says of
him:
he receised for his services In the procuring Of per-
mits signed by the General 5000 in case $3.50 in
each Of two other cases. III another and says that
he told the General OF having received the and
the General made objection Crandal also received
$3.50 from lawyer, in New Orleans, named Eoland
to tntercede with the General in behalf Of man who
had been convicted and sentenced to the Dry Tortu
gus, and crandau to his influence to endeayor
to have the punishment commuted to ane- He says
In f1-a1 $n Jim
that the General would not say much, and
never did in fact cay whether he would
change the sentence not; but finally it vas remit
ted. He says that r. Vrosca, who gave him <C1anda
$3.50 On one occasion for permit and whom he had
assisted In the matter OF permita than ONCE also
gave him On one occasion suit Of clothes but he did
not know what this WAS done for.
Another brother-in-law was III. Chester D.
Stevens, to whom the firm Of Vrosca l. Irwin,
on the 28th Of March, 1865, assigned one-ffth
interest in 10000 bales OF Confederate cotton,
to be brought in from Mobile, Selma, and
Montgomery. The only service to be ron-
dered by Stevens was the procuring Of
the necessary permit from General Hurl-
but. The General WAS too wary
to give formal paper Of protection Ohe Rob
AA-eo-A
way), but he sent to Irwin pass to go to Mo-
bile, and written opinion to the effect that all
persons owning cotton would have
the privilege Of bringing it in as soon as the |
Federal troops got possession Of the country.
Ho made no objection at tho time to the con-
tract between Stevens an Irwin, which was sub
mitted to him !; but, when that document was
produced by Stevens before the Commission,
IN indorsemont in pencil, disappearing it, was
found written across its face in the Generals |
hand. Mr. Bradys report says:
This Endorsement in pencil, no doubt tor tho |
:cason that General Hurlbu (as know from reliable
1uthorty) knew what stress had been laid upon the
langerous Of Ink in the memorandum dated as Of
Nov 9, 1864. We suppose that this pencil indorse
nent made after our summons had reached
3tegons, April q, 1865 We tried to fix by Stevens
ghen it wrs made, but could not make him more |
pecihc than to Say sit might have been two OF three
lays after the opinion Of General Hurlbut was
gritten; within a month, but don't know if 1t was
grtten within week Of his examination, more or
ess."