, 1875-12-10

Tho Whol0 OF tA6fh IN the IHfA That f1t. H8fd
neglected to hayo cctttin perrons indicted h5
tltn IaHt tlfand Jury whom tho Government off,
eera ~ouif Iiavp liked to Hoo indicted.
Tnu Of tuCrn Ln.n wore. Gf epttte, Charles y.
Fa,wet anI jAco:. lsohsn, aga.'rs neither Of
whom, N lu well known, was n truc I'LL found
BY tho Grand Jntf Eefoto It's adjournment.
Without Wishing to usor!'an TIM Iinlinga 1nf1s-
t.sEroporter sta'day found member III the lAst
frand Jnty. snd asked him to giyo an ousline
of tbs tos1nony againRt FarwolI which that body
thought Insufficient 10 warrant al indictment.
Without proiessinH ary false daltcacy about d.
vulging sncrnts which ara no LONGER necessssv TO
he Kept accset the gentleman said :,
"The truth OF that matter abont Farwell MAS
thht tha story MA gcry thfr.-Ho thin tlat It
wonld norar have CONS bofote The Grand Jury
II tho peraon egnnHt wlIntn tho allegations woro
mads hadn't been public oflcnr. All that We
Eot out Of the witneaaes-anh NO had 4 plenty
Of them there warrant yo'i-'sas, that aome timo
ago Roswell T.: ''ersereou cana to thia city from
someuhero in tho East. bringing
LITTER or INTRODUCTION
10 Chaflov Farwell. Charley mot him cordially.
sud, likely ~ not. he played a game vt poker
wtI hlul, or perhtps they hsd = little sonr ,nnsl
over H. PM there d,dnt sppo.fE e bo my great
lad something ike e7.oo9 when be came, md ho
asked Charley what ho should do with it to keep
it .ate. Now. yon know tho FatweIls do
= good banking business. 1t may NOT ba
generally known, butAsttt large nu:nDar Of men
Eeeop tlies accounts with tho Farwei!a, aud to
ail lutonts and purposes thev do banking busi.
moss. 50 Charley SAYS to him. You put your
moner right thorn with tho cashier and got .
book" And 10 did. Well. theu. Afterwards hs
went into tho d!s:i1ling business. and l,o kept
hs account right thers with t1Ie FAr~oils. liz
draw ont aud ho pasd In, and ONCE In while te
asked for acconmodntinhs n1aybe-Rot Charley
to back BIN paper for hin, Or perhsps Charley
| and hfs friends
WEST or :3EnsEnEAr's BONDS
when he went into the whisky busiuesa. and
thas would bo worry llkalv. because Mcrsoreau
cept The Farvellr. We'll, he kept his account
| With the TRrwels up to tho ttmo the Grand Jury
met, and 1 presume It IL there now. There
want anythinR 70 Indicate that Charley had any
ss could zee, and tho fact that Charloy WAS
| on lns bond or signed note With him at
the bank want tesHmony enough to bring au
Indictment Against him for : partnership NTH
him In tho whisky bEsness. o' course. you
! He was indicted. and his stnK al aezod, bat tina.
didn't appear To sucndo Farwell, a. wo could
Res. TAat'a nii tho testtmonv there waa against
Charley Fafwe'l. aud could mt SEQ how "a
reasonable men, we could 1ud AL indictment
sgnnst him y
The reporter sgrccd with the gentleman, but
| wanted TO Anow about
THE sAEE REHM NATTER,
| and bis Informant very freely BtaFtod OF to tell
that IN conversational way. io aasd
| "You fellows havo already published tlat
rnatser shout The burning up Of thc books Of tho
Northwestern slRlt Company, and, while We
thought that WAS quite suspicious, aud vas per..
l'nps a circumstance. yet Il alone would
not provo much, IL anything. because
tho butn Ming -, might have been dono
ianocensly Then We Lad tertimory
Jake iad something to DO with those leu larros
Of hiehuines then In tho Chicago Dock Com
pany's warehouse. l believe YOU publlphed
something about thut. too Well, 80 had Dur
| ply Up before uB mad ho produced tbs receipts.
| nn1 tnpp 1ni1OfktA. IT, nv
| thing that looked like ~. lielru." but
| 1T Wasn't JAKE nENh's HANDwKirixH.
md IL war SPOILED k1p4 Of diiIo.ont from 1ekoa
sca,na l!ko It was spe'Ied "l'hem.' OF
"Ithem," or someshtug like that. But
/ tho most doubtful circumstance about the
Endorsement whs that scyoral mcu who worc
well acquainted viii. 1aks yAi1 ttev Haw tho
| man write tha Endorsement On the receipt, Rld
they all sworo positiyelv that 1t wasn't Jalo
l:ehn WHO uroto the name there So you see
We couldn't very we'll indict mai for that, at'd
| that xas about all tue Testimony NO Ind against
| 1.ehin. Under thoHo crcumHtanccs 1t wouldn't
llavo been :air Of decent u have indicted thoso
| men when NC know that tflev conldne bo
convicted. Jnd8e BlodGest charged us vnty
strongly TINT we shouldn't find any indictment
that we didn't believe conld 10 prosecuted 10 ;
conviction Aud We had = fiue hodv Of men fos
n Grand Jury, too,-1lcnry ". king, Samuel
Hoard, aud ouch men, land we didn't wish to
lend ournelvos to fading airy indictment o1l tes
ttmony like that. It ia foolish for auybody to
| blame Ward for the matter for Ward didn't
counsel Iii 10 Aud An Indictment, or didn't
his opinion like auy lawyer would.
aud Agar was present part Of tho time and
helped to question thess mon but We couldn't
get anything further out Of them than Whist
told you
"lhear thAt somebody has d good deal OF nd
| dltiorh1 evidence about thla Northwestern Malt
Company, aud it may be that 1t may amount to
something. But tue thing ia to get at It. Per-
hapa ano,her Grand Jury might do it, but NO
couldn't"
Aud the reporter wont away.