Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-11-05
The Reported New whisky Fraud
Indictments

WHAT GEN. BABCOCK AND OTHER OFF,
Gals SAY.
Gen. o. Z. Batcock, private secretary to
the President, says with reference to the
special dispatch from ST. Louis to the Gin.
clnnat Enquirer, stating that he has been In -.
dicted by the grand jury at st. Louis for con-
spring with the distillers of that city TO de-
fraud the government out of tie taxes on
crooked whisky" that he does not believe
mat any indictment has been found against
MIN, Tor several reasons. In the first place,
me news of his indictment ap-
p teenSd In n,a an opposition paper; in the
lntimation from any source that his name
was to be presented to the grand Jury; ani
nnailX mat ne knows nothing of nor has he
directly with the whisky ring" Until he
receives reliable information that such ac
ton has been taken by the grand jlry
say VI the man Fitzroy. who II is
stated turned states evidence. he knows
nothing, although he believes he did see
nm once, and Only once, in st. Louis
Neither secretary Bristow, Commissioner
Pratt, the Attorney General. nor Solicitor
wilson have received any Information from
81. LOUIS IN relation TO the Indictment of
General Babcock, Orville Grant, and Others
secretary BristOw expresses the opinion in
which the Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. cOncurS, that there is no truth in the
statement; and that it is sent out FOR sensa .
tional purposes, being a part OF the tactics of
members OF the whisky ring TO break
IL.
Wilson said this morning that be had no in
formation, either official or unofficial In re-
gard 10 the indictment Of BabcOck. Oryille
Grant and others, and did not believe it.
since he mad never heard the names of either
OF these gentlemen mentioned in connection
with the frauds In question. Those VINO
Know Them best scout the idea of their COM
pliclty. They say that General Babcock
Is "well fixed" so far as the worlds goods
are concerned; that he is a gentleman of
unlmpeachable prooity OF character; that
even III he were not. he is person of
good judgment OF mole than ordinary eau
ton; and finally that his intimate relations
with the President would naturally pre- vent
MIN rom entering into any "entancling al
liances," which would reflect discredit not
only upon himself, but upon the President
ana the national administration. At any
rate; tne General himself does not seem to be
al all disturbed by the news from st. Louis.
"A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN INDIANA
The kokomO (lnd.) Tribune has the follow
ing: David Robinson came to town yester-
DAY and boughta new suit of clothes and
revolver after which he went home, showed
the purchases to his family and ate his sup
per. Robinson was In a good humor. and APP
peared perfectly sane. He remarked to his
Wlfe that IL would have been well If little
Dan (hiS SOM had died two weeks ago. and
said he had attempted to kill the child. He
then crew his revolver and 1red at a second
son, who was lying in bed, aud then turned
OF tie house, and the oldest boy, eight years
~ age, started TO follow, when his father shot
him III the face, but the ball glanced of ,
without hurting hi badly. The father then
struck him on the back % the head with a
chair. but the son succeeded in getting out
with his mother. Robinson thea del be rately
TOOK a razor. approached the bed in which
lay his only daughter seized and cut her
throat nom ear to ear. He followed this
murder by taking the life of the son whom
he al first shot In bed i'm the same manner
after which Robinson Jumped ON his horse
and fled. His dead body was found this
morning one mile north OF Jackson station.
on The indianapolis, Peoria aud Chicago
railroad. II IS supposed he com nittei sui
eide.