The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-21
"OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. -

nave Dtch hunting up y reporter Oh
the New York TTiJytne reports an inter
| view with prominent lawyer and Office
holder, in Brooklyn, who has been cog
infant Of some Of the political and other
vagaries Of MouIton. The following ex-
| tract from the interview will explain
| itself.
DO you know anything about Mr..
MoultOn's character for veracity.;
Il have heard from the very best au-
thority that few months ago Mr.. MOul-
ton was publically denounced in the
dining-roOm at the Delaven house at
Albany for having gone to Washington
and sworn TO what he knew was a lie.
| Mr. Moulton did not resent or deny the
| impeachment, but remarked, Very we'll;
and so, ! suppose, with lIis Endorsement.
1T is proper to believe it,"
''Did you know anything about MIR.
Moultan's misrepresentation Of dOcu-
| mentsI'
81 told It member of the Committee
that a law firm in Pine Street, New York,
Messrs. DoOlittle, Davis & Lyon. could
| give them information on this point of a
strange character 1t is a long story
too long to enter into now-involving
| not only Mr.. Moulton's reputation, but
| that of the firm. and anticipating mat
! tiers which a Congressional Committee
| will probably inquire into. But | will
say this Ii can be shown by papers and
testimony in the hands of this firm of
lawyers, that Mr.. Moulton. together with
Mr.. h. q. Jayne. the notorious infOrmer
who was lately forced to leave the Gov
ernment service by the exposure of his
impOsitions Oh merchants, concocted an
affidavit, which both knew to be false,
and got a fellow named Hayes, who has
since been arrested and indicted for the
crime, TO sign it. All the statements
therein We're known to be false, yet the
lawyers hold written evidence that Mr.
Moulton and the inforlner Jayne con-
cocted, and the latter actually wrote the
affidavit, and still boasts of its posses
sion. The man who made it has had to
leave the State to avoid the State Pris-
on"
'And the statement in this affidavit
you say Mr.. MOultOn knows to be false!"
''knew it perfectly well, as the law
yers alluded tc haye sufficient proof. You
see the way of it was this. This man
Hayes was the informer against Wood
ruff & Robinson, of which firm Mr. Moul-
ton is the active member 1t is the same
firm which confessed to paying DIR. Car
nOchan, when Health Officer, bribe of
So, 600 to induce him to compel mer-
chant vessels to unload at the storehouse
of that firm. You will find Mr. MouI-
tons testimony, and that of a member
of the firm, admitting the payment of
this money, on page 273 of the report of
the New York Assembly Committee on
Commerce and Navigation for 1872. The
same firm were lately mulcted in $50, 600
for fraud on the United States revenue.
1t was specially alleged against MoultOn,
in the latter charges against his house,
that he required his clerk to enter the
bribes paid to Custom House ofiicialst to
another than their personal accounts;
and that he had caused an opening To
be surreptitiously made in "A wall be-
tween a bonded and a free warehouse.
and had thus removed goods ON which
duty should have been paid. Jayne
himself confirmed the latter of these
charges. The fellow Hayes, who in
formed on hIr Moulton, subsequently
wrote to him anonymous letters threat
ming exposure of these frauds if a certain
amount Of money was not paid. Mr..
MOulton carried these letters to Jayne,
and subsequently to Hayes lawyers,
DOolittle, Davis & Lyon, as proof that
Hayes was not worthy Of belief as against
his firm. Hayes was accused of this Of
fense by his lawyers, and finally confess
ed to writing the letters. His LAWYERS
hereupOn kicked linn out of their Office
and told him not to return again. Mr..
MOulton fell in with the fellow that was
tbuS loft HaSfitI1ta anI not
him to turn the whole matter of the
charges against Woodruff & Robinson |
over to Jayne, but Mr. Moulton and |
Jayne concocted, and Jayne actually |
wrote an affidavit charging one of Hayes' |
lawyers with writing the threatening let.
ters, and made Hayes sign it. The state
ment in the lawyers hands says, that at |
the manufacture of this affidavit, '.Mr. |
MOulton waS present during the whole |
time, and in close conversation with this
man Hayes. 4" He was in close
conversation, sitting with chairs close
together, so that nobody should hear |
them while this was being concocted."
Jayne read the affidavit from his own |
manuscript to two of his clerks. and they |
saw Hayes copy and sign ii"
and you say Mr.. MOulton concOcted |
lllil llllNdNll-
''Such is the testimony in the posses
sion of the lawyers-he and Jayne to- |
gether concocted it. One of the witnes-
ses who swears to it was clerk in the |
office in which 1t was done, and Jayne |
read it TO him from his own manuscript. |
This was not done without a personal
motive, understanding, and it was a
strong one, for it was done by MoultOn |
to protect himself and firm Woodruff & |
Robinson) from public exposure for com
mitting frauds on the revenue, for which
they had eventually TO pay penalty of
$50, ,OOO. Now, whether Mr.. Moulton has
any such motive to induce him TO mis-
represent any documents in the case of
Mr. Beecher is a question for the Com
mittee TO inquire into"
This will account for Moulton's init
macy with Benz Butler, as it will be re-
membered that Butler and Jayne were
connected in the Sanborn swindles. The
Plymouth Church investigating commit
tee are said to be in possession of ali the
facts
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