New-York tribune., 1874-08-14

Committee will probably inquire into. But VIII
say this 1t can be shown by papers and tes'lhonS
in the hands of this firm of lawyers, that MI mou'
ton. together with Mr.. b. q. Jayne, the Notorious
informer who was lately forced to leave the lover"
mani .ervice bv the exposure Of his impostons on
merchants concocted an affidavit, when Doth kno"
TO he false. and got fellow named Hayes who mas
s;n.e been arrested and indicted for the CRIME 10
s;o, !. All the statements therein were known W
no flae vet the LAWYERS hold written evidence thao
Mr. Moulton and the informer Jayne concocted' anu
the latter actually wrote the affidavit Mr. Mou'on,
at Washington under oath before aCongressioi'',,
Tn,toe alInded TO it as a true affidavit. and still
hoosts of ito possession The man who made IT mas
had TO leave the State to avoid the State Prison.
"And the statement in this affidavit you say MI.
Mouton knew to be false !"
"Knew 1t perfectly we'll as the lawyers alluded 10
have suaicient proof You see the of it was
this This man Hayes was the informer against
Woodruff & Robinson, of which firm Mr. Moulton Is
tho active member. 1t Is the same firm which con-
fessed to paying DR.. Carnochan, when Heaitn
Officer a bribe of $4,000 to induce him to compel
merchant vessels to unload at the stprehouses OF
that frm. You will find Mr. Moulton's testimony
and that of a member of the firm admitting the pay
ment of this money on page 273 OF the report oi
the New-York Assembly Committee on Commerce
and Navigation for 1872. The same firm were latey
mulcted in $4,000 for fraud on the United states
revenue. II was specially alleged against Mr.. Moul-
ton in the latter charges against his house that ne
required his clerk to enter the brbes PAID to CUSTOM
house officials to another than their personal ac
counts : and that he had caused an opening to be
surreptitiously made in the wall between bonded
and free warehouse, and had thus removed goods
ON which duty should have been paid Jayne himsel
confirmed the latter of these charges The 1er
low HAYES, who informed on Mr.. MoultoD, SUD
seouentlv wrote to him anonymous letters threat
ening exposure of these frauds If certain amount
of money was not paid. Mr.. MoultOn carried these
letters to JAYNE and subsequently to Hayess law
yers, Doolittle Davis, and Lyon, as proof that
HAYES was not worthy of belief as against his Thi.
Hayes was accused of this oiense by his lawyers ana
finally confessed to writing the letters His lawyers
thereupon kicked him out of their office and told MN
not to return again. Mr.. Moulton fell IN with the
fellow who was thus left destitute and not only IN
duced him to turn the whole matter OF the charees
| against Woodruff 81 Robinson over to jayne Du'
| Mr. Moulton and Jayne concOcted ana JaSno
actually wrote al affidavit charging one OF hayes
LAWYERS with writing the threatening letters, and
made HAYES sign it. The statement in the lawyers ;
hands saws that at the manufacture of this affidavit
| Mr. MoultOn present during the whoie 'n'o
I and in close conversation with this man Hayes
|
chairs close together, so that nobody should hear
| them while this was being concOcted." Jayne read
the affidavit from his manuscript to two OF MS
| clerks and they saw Hayes copy and sign IT,
| What became of this aifdavltP
"An attempt was made to publish it, but MI Moul
| toms own lawyer Mr.. SD. Morris, went 10 the
newspaper Office where it was III type ana
exposed it's utter falsty thus preventing lts puoh
cation II was attempted to he used to aid Wlnche'-
ter Britton District-Attorney of Kings County VINO
WAS then on trial before Gov. Dix, and who was sub
seouently convicted. Mr.. Youlton and his friends
were active in aiding BrltSon, and the affidavit was
to have been used to inuIe the standing OF one oi
| the prosecutors of Britton.
! e. And Mr.. Moulton knew the affidavit was false
| "Not only knew it was false, but himself fur-
nished the proof that the Matchmaking letters when
the affidavit charged upon the lawyer were actually
written by the man who signed the affidavit"
Aud YOU say Mr.. Moulton concocted that ath-
| davit 7"
"Such is the testimony in the possession of the
! lawyers-he and the nformcr Jayne together N
| cocted il. One of the witnesses who to it
was clerk in the Office in which it was DONE and
JAYNE read it to him from his own manuscript. This
was not done without personal motive understand
and strong one for it was done by MoultOn to pro-
! tect himself and firm Woodruff & Roblnsonl from
pnblic exposure for committing frauds on the rev.
enue for which they had eventually TO pay penalty
| of $4,000 Now, whether Mr.. Moulton has any such
motive TO induce him to misrepresent any documents
i'm the case of Mr.. Bcecher is question tor the Com
| mittee Ia inquire into"
For Mr. Bese, Statement in mn and t@ oIlOciHg pages