Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-29

eAsslwAr's ExBLANATIos ASp TIE oPro-
sIrE sroRy-sEo re RIGHT, AND WHERE
DOES TIE rsUrS CONE IN?
The following letter was received yesterday:
WASHINGTON, ID. O., January %, 1874
To The Editor Of the Washington ChroRicts.
Will you permit me to say word in refer
ence to your comments this morning upon the
publication, in two New York papers, of GER
tain letters, written TO the late William s.
Huntington, sc. Ths documents in question,
it is true, would shortly have appeared in court,
as a part of the evidence in a suit found il
necessary to bring to recover certain MONEYS
believed by me TO be due the Huntington es-
tate, but we're placed by me in the hands of
wellknown gentleman in this city, to be held
intact until said suit was ready for trial. am
LOW informed that copies were obtained from
said gentleman by false representations. 1
write this simply to explain that the appearance
OF said papers In any other way than above iu-
dIcated was entirely without nv consent Or AN
i hhrooatlon, and to prevent the false impression
tne manner of their publication might give
I!se eV' Very truly yours,
+. IL. GAssAwAY,
Administrator of Huntington estate.
We have given space to Mr.. Gassaway's let
ter, and now present q communication detail
ing story which was current on the streets
WASHINGTON, January %, 1874.
To the Editor Of the Washington chronicls'
The publication OF the Huntington letters
of course, the inquiry is " How did they be.
come public ?" The answer is, of course,
through the aid of Frank Gassaway, a young
mar whom Huntington made his executor
Yesterday this assertion was boldly made with
out contradiction. The way it was done is thus
told :-"Gassaway had an arrangement with
two correspondents to seU these documents"
The correspondents, although they wanted the
letters, did not care to buy, so, determined to
accomplish their purpose, they procured the
services of a well-knOwn photographer, whom
they secreted IN convenient place, adjacent
to the room in which they had arranged to meet
GaSsaway. That worthy having appea red, in
accordance with his appointment, handed out
the letters. Correspondent No. opened them,
read them aloud, (the photographer mean
while jotting down their contents,) then
handed them to correspondent No. 2, who, in
turn, read them over, in order that the con-
cealed scribe might compare them and have
them perfect copies. This done they were
handed back TO Gassawsy, with the remark
that they were hardly of sufficient couse-
quence to publish" GaSsaway skunk out of
the office, and left the two newspaper men
chuckling over the success of their plan.
Il Chronicle Truth.
We have the following communication upon
this subject:
TOO THIN.
Editor Of the Sdr'-The card of F. H. CASA
way in this mornings Chronicle, in which he
seeks to escape the Just odium which attaches
tiers, is entirely "too thin" to stand the test OF
criticism, for i'll what remotest degree can the
letter of Mr.. Starkweather have to do with any
proposed suit to recover moneys believed to be
due the Huntington estate? These letters have
been hawked about too long to now undertake
to explain their publication in such a tiimsy
manner. QINk aE CORNER.