The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-12-31
Tutton's Whitewash Fades On
ID the Light Of Evidence
and Tell Talo
kilograms.
How the Government is Gripping
the Prosecution ut
st. Louis.
The Balcocs, Mckee, Mcguire Mum ant
Linegar Cases.
Mrs. JoIsn a. joyce After u Pardon
apr Her Husband.
ffron The st. Louis Times, 3o.l


THE PERSECUTION CRIPPLED.
There WIS considerable excitement
about Disrict-AttorHey Dycr's Office
yesterday. 81 the receipt OF an order
from Washington, ordering Col. Dyer 10
make u cleai sweep OF his whole clerical
force. The osteuslble object of this step
was economi. The employees were be.
hand on Their salaries two months. On
Monday Col. Dyer sent in his account to
the district court claiming $500 for the
expenses and salaries of Lis Office during
the Novembe' term. The specified ac-
count was sworn to by Assistant Dis
trio Attorney Bliss aud allowed by Judge
Treat. Besides his three assistants. Bliss
PeddricN and Emmons, Col. Dyer has
found IL necessary to have quite larg,
clerical force to aid in arranging cvi
dence. tIanscribing and looking az
\ ~sss-Ny 'ptvscvuei ,iis naive Veeu ~ t,fO
gress there have accumulated, to esti
mate in bulk for the present purpose,
seventeen or eighteen bushels of manu-
script and documentary evidence. Snc.
cess IN these whisky eases, as already
abundantly shown, depends upon clear
| and complete chain Of evidence without q
missing link or flaw. Not only tor every
case but every count ia each indictmen,
these bushels Of testimony must BE- over
hauled. and the running chain of evidence
for each count be made. This involves
a vast amount of research and COPYING.
much of the manual and routine part OF
which has been entrusted to Fagc. Sto.
| well and three or four others.
Under yesterdays order these are all
cut on and this drudgcry must devolyc
upon Dyer and his three assistants. This
application of economy was peculiarly
ill-iincd i'm the opinion of those &C.
qua'nted with the management OF the
prosecution. Dyer and his clerks were
Just In the midst Of their preparations for
the Babcock. Mckee. Mcguire. Mum
and I.inegar cases. They were working
night and day TO bring order out OF the
chaos OF the evidence. Tuesday night
they worked until am. and yesterday
came the order of removal. There re-
main only twelve days. including sun
days, To prepare for the prosecution, and
il is now feared the preparation caunot
be made as ii should be. Besides, when
the cases open, the courtroom will re-
quirc the attention of nearly all the coun-
sci, and the absence of clerks and copy
lists TO do the Indispensable routine work
from day to day will be sadly felt.
GEN. HENDERsoN's HEALTH.
Only those who have had anything t,
do with the whiskcy cases understand
the exhaustive labor entailed upon their
management. They opened up a COM
paratively uneXplored field in legal prac-
ticc, and required an extraordinary
amount OF study, while the evidence was
OF the most perpleXing and complicated
character. Judge Chester IL. Krum's
unusually strong constitution almost
gave way under the strain and the close
Of the Avery trial. found him completely
exhausted. Gen. Henderson is still suffer-
ing severely, and after brief trip east
will in all probability go to Cuba, on the
advice OF his physician, to spend few
weeks in absolute rest and amid changed
scenes.
M'KEE's CASE.
With show of genuine complacency
and satisfaction Mr.. Mckee remarked 10
u friend yesterday that he believed he
had now gotten things into good shape
and was ready Tor the trial. Colonel
Robert Mckee, of Waverly, H., a prom
inent man in Morgan county, has been il.
he city several days giving Cousin Will |
liam no end ot good advice. He is of |
about the same age as the journalist but |
I good deal more combativc. He Is bitter
" u. o.
i will he remembered testified that he |
Colonel Robert ia spite of bis years has |
,nly been restrained by the earnest solicit |
alions OF his more pcaccable cousin sew
raj times from going out to hunt up |
'itzroy and give him u good country
for what The colonel calls '.his
Under on Billy
THE BUTTON LETTER.
Ten days ago letter from Supervisor
luton, addressed to the president was
elegraphcd all over the country. Tuition
vas the IMMACULATE Philadelphia super
.sor wnom Douglas ordered to change
aces with SuperI isOr Mcdonald long
nOugh to break up the st. Louis whisky
ing. In this letter Tuition says III
bserve that Senator Henderson, in the
rial of the United States VS.. Avery, If his
peech be correctly reported, charges
'eneral Babcoek, your private secretary
nth having some connection with st.
.ouis whisky rings and in their interest
avlng improperly influenced you to re-
oke the order OF the secretary Of the
reasury transfer ring supervisors, dated
anuary q, 1870. AS have claimed the
redit Of having Influenced you to revoke
hat order feel it my duty now to ss.
ume the responsibility and receive what.
yer odium, II any, attaches thereto, and
nth this IN view, beg leave to remind
on OF the facts as they .recur to me-"
There Is altogether too much of the
'arkis disposition In Tuition. lie goes
N to say that Commissioner Douglass
sslied the order Of transfer on the twenty
eventh OF january he got copy the
asst day of the month and on the Sd OF
february he went to Washington where
le saw nobody until the 4th OF February.
lark the dates. On the morning of the
tn Of February he had a talk with Mr.,
)ougl0ss, who sent him to the Secretary
tatng THAT these transfers originated
ND were ordered by the Secretary"
Tutton saw the Secretary and told him
he didn't want to 90 to st. Louis, hut
hought it would be better to send n man
o locate things, wait for favorable OBJ
'ortunity and then raid.
uuaasssi hat II had better see tho ",i ProsI
leat us he had taken great interest In this
natter"
To the president Tuition went and
iiter some delay got an audience late In
ne DAY. tuition repeated what he had
old the secretary aud closes bis letter as
ollOws:
"Iou listened to me attcntively and
iaa''y sad me more you thought about
he subject the more you were Convinced
hat the transfer of supervisors as ordered
would result In little or no good, and said
hat you would suspend the order that
lay. Thus you fully decided to suspend
he order, and SO stated to me before |
EFT you, and before General Babcock had
n OnnOrtlluitV IN SnanE IN Won nm thn |