The sun., 1873-05-21


"Q-The entry to which you direct attention
rad ,cGIT,E 900 Is for interest on sS0 certin.
"Q-You made this eniry7 Ayes, sir.
."Q.-Do you think 1t was made on that day!
Al think the entry was made on that day, and
"Q.-what were these certificates Of the Union
Pacific Rairoad9 A.-The trustees Of the oakes
Ames contract made dividend Of Is per cent.
first mortgage bonds. They did not have, the
bonds and never had them. This was, think, in
July. 1919. On the January following they paid
the interest on the certificates the same ~ they
would have done on the bonds Mr. CoLfAx
az IL the bonds themselves had been actually
divided. | collected the interest and paid it to
MIR. COIFNN.
"Q.-iho interest on that certificate was
sG0f5. which was due ur. COfFAx, and you paid
II g. him A.-Nes sir
% DO YOU remember how II was paid A
IL was paid here In Washington.
"Q.-What way AIN money"
The most positive evidence is thus fril-
nished of the contract, the payment of the
dividend of s1,2)O on the 22d of June, 1868,
and of u still additional dividend of sGO.55
on the 2?d Of January, 1859, whole year
after Mr.. CoLFAx swore he had absolutely
retired from all connection with :he Credit
Mobilier The effect of this last shot was
terrible, and Mr.. HALE struggled to make
mT. ~ WIS NIlfiI W ablill u'lltl ulIilNtll ny
quibbling lodges, which the committee re-
buked. lie inquired:
"Q.-Did YOU take ary receipt, voucher. or
ackuowled gwcnt from Mr.. CuLFAN In payment
oi the ~. ~ winch YOU stated Nol gave him in
Juucf Al d. not think did. | gave him
check a'd Ne difr ne HiuHsH.
90 The Last part of your at -wcr Il not re-
epon-iNc To- my question. Al Is lfu,, Utt,r.ht-
OF sGL;j made on the I'd Of January. i~g did
you take any voucher or receipt Tor that2 A
No, sir, 1t was his money
After a protractcd cross-cvamination.
which ended in Mr. HALE's retreat aud
discontinue Mt every turn, Mr. CoLrAX
reappcarcd on the scene for the fourth
time. He repeated the old story with
few variations, and protested against the
last revelation, which showed him a. re-
cciyiug Il dividend IN January, 1859. He
was quite a,toundcd at 1t. as wrll he might
he. Aud now came the development of
that negative. which was 10 be 50 conf
IDENTITY established in regard to the Sl,20o
check. The other payment of sG0.1j he
curtly dismissed with denial, as If that
would dispose of the sworn testimony and
corroborating records, with the exact dates
and circumstances.
The pretended explanation Of the ~ 900
he divided into two itcms-s!iO from his
fathcr-in-law, Mr.. MATHEWS, "about the
middle Of June" and thousand dollar
grcenback from GEORGE +. NEsnrrr, an
envelope contractor in New York, "a few
days after No date 20 cI.her, no letter
enclosing the bill, and no corrohOrdtiou
except lame aud impofeut effort on the
part of MATHEWS for S2lJ. Thc an llcity
of this attempted imposition ana the thin
ness of the device provoked the harshrst
criticism. From that hour the friends who
had trusted in sound defence, or ut the
least n plausible one uu1cd away, and
the fraud exploded. Gut the won't was
to come. This gift from NEsHIrr was
panded rs an extraordinary event, he
being almost II total stranger.
The committee had occasion to look nj
the bank account again end there they
found that this very NESHIrT, this total
stranger, had on the 18th of April. two
months before, sent him check for 81. 900,
ami that Mr.. CoLFAX, in explaining his big
bank account, as he claimed TO do frankly,
had concealed this sl,W1. and anotherSl 600
on the 18th of July from the same source.
among the Sl5,OD which he purposcly did
not explain. He was caught in his own
tolls. If hc had exposed these items
which stood TO his credit, then the pre-
tcnce Of the NEsnIrr thousand dollar
greenhack would have fallen 10 the ground
on the spot, aud with it the sham that y Is
Blrr was n stranger TO hm. He concealed
the truth 10 practise base deception, and
got trippcd up FOR his pains,
When CoLFAX came 10 know that the
committee had found him out, then he re-
appeared with NTH statement, and pro-
duced a lot OF NEsBrTrS Pecksniflian cor
rcspondcuce, evidently manufactured 20
order and by collision. He could find
various letters from him in April and July,
but not sign Of the only one. as he said,
which concentrated him on his nominal
ton as Nice-PresIdent, aud enclosed the
thousand dollar bill, Before and after
June they nhOuudrd. hut unfortunate
ly the most important could not be found,
and for the simple reason that it never had
existed. An examination Of this cor
rc'puudCncc, and the admissions connect
al with il, prove that CDLFAX regularly
received one thousand dollars quarter
from NEsRTr. As Chairman of the Post
PRESIDENT he had been the pcusionod agent
of this muu'- Jobhcry NJ the Post Once De-
paumcut
On the last occasion Nr. AMrs. mtorru-
eating CoLrAA, discharged pAitAan ar
row:
"Q.-Nou sHv that you received chr.l from
Nr. NLett.I on tine l,th - Aprlg \. l'-,
the ,I.t h ,- datcd the l,th, ana ID arrived on
the lsth.
% check for slO00Y A.-lcs.
"Q.-lu uu say that tAe remittance uf the nj II
june was in u hAN Ayes.
20 And you say that 20 was often talked
about IN the family, and that it excited good
deal of comment and surprise that 80 liherd "A
donation shout be made Toy a man who was
comparatively a astrdngcrf Ayes.
20 Can y"u account for so much being said
about uW thousand dollars when the other tfrss
uiDlsltd dulliS excited no attention at all 2
\. when opened nay mail a. tue hrcakf..,t
table and saw this one. .thuus 4nd-dollar hill
was very much surprised. II was a hlll which
had evidently been somewhat worn, because /
! remember II mad mono ~ the crispnr-s of a new
hill the rattle was all out OF 1t. held It up and
| we talked OF IL.
"Mr AYES II made a rattlng sensation at
! the hIeaafist table which IN, chtds dud not
/ HptLC.
,"Nr, CoLFAx-lt lacked the rattins scns,,-