New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-27

@ Is your recollection sufficient to enable you n say
that there Other conversatonf A. IL IS snmcent
| to say that don't recolIect any more.
O You don't my question. A. do, Sr TO inc
best that possibly answer it,
O. Don't you recognize the difference between reeoI
locting what conversation was and recolleetpg hst
there a conversation, as sensible mani A. Twas
that you had made that distinction, however
@ have made the distinction, Sir; asked yoh
whether your recollection sufficiently accurate In re-
gard TO that conversation to enable you to swear that
nothing more said than what you have repeated
A. All that can in reply 10 that is that don't reco
lect anything more.
@ Well that will do Sir. That is all. And you have
recollection that Mr. Woodruff participated In
that conversation A. Not in that conversation; Mr.
Woodruff told me-
O. Wait moment, Sir, wait one moment-and upon
that subject upon any kindred subject connected with
this litigation and scandal, have recollection OF
having conversed with Mr.. Moulton at any other time
A. have recollection OF ever having conversed with
Mr. Moulton the subject Of this scandal except on one
occasion.
Q. This one occasion I A. No. not that one occasion;
that had nothing to do with this scandal.
@ Well, then, you had another conversation with Mr..
Mouton upon another occasioni A. did.
q. When was that A. should think that was about
two years before left the Office.
@. Well, when did you leave the object A. left the
Office the 31st day of last December.
@. Well, then that in 1927 A. Well shonh
think about two years could not give you the Parteu
lar date.
O. Well that is not the conversation you alluded TO-
when this expression of about the Spirituass and the
Congregationalists usedi A. No, Sir.
A, Did you make any memorandum Of that conversa
ton A. No, Sir.
Mr.. Evarts-What conversation
Mr.. Beach-why, the In evidence, OF course; u lie
the only have been inquiring about When did yon
first repeat that conversational A. could not tell yon
Sir.
@. When do you first recOeot OF repeatingtf A. Well
don't recolect when did first repeat ii.
O. Well, you must recollect the time when you first
lecollect IT. A. have repeated It great many times
and could not tell you WI. repeated 1t first have
repeated It several times.
Q. The first that you recollect, ask youf A. Well
could not tell you.
Q. Why, you can tell me the first that you recolect
can't youi A. cannot at this moment tell you any
time except when repeated TO counsel but have re-
peated it good many times before that
Q. Well, want to know as you can tell when
you first repeated it, A. could not tell, but since
it must have been since those statements last Summer
@. Oh! since those statements last Summer that will
do, Sir that is the first time you repeated til A. don't
recOlect-
@ To whom did you repeat til A. could not tell
you
@. Can you mention some one personi A, could not
menu0n any now tnat i
O. Iasked you Sir to name 10 me one person TO whom
you repeated this conversational A. Well think, Cir
stated 1t to that gentleman in Northampton, Mr.
Clark and think other gentleman In Northampton
Mr. Hubbard, and I
@. And do you recollect any otbers-recoect any
in this vicinity neghborhoodi A. think did TO
Mr.. Albert Woodruff.
Q. And that was within two or three wecksi A That
within short time yes, Sir.
O. Well you have no doubt about that, have yon-yOu
have doubt about having repeated IL 10 Mr. Albert
Woodruff have youi A. don't think that need doubt
it
@. Well, have youi don't know whether you need
have O. not-haye You any doubt about 1t A. would
not say certainly whether did not ; think did
O. Well name some one in this vicinity 10 whom yon
are certain that you repeated it before you did TO counsel
upon this trial A. repeated II, I recolect, 10 Col
Noyes, in Woodruff & Robinson's oaice-Capt Noyes.
O. Capt NOyes A. Yes Sir.
O. single question Sir il all that propose to asx
you further. When this check and yellow memorandum
was handed 10 you, any instructions given to you
by person who gave them to youi A. Not on-l can
not recollect any particular language used
O. DO Won recolect any instructions in regard to them
given to you by any connected with the hrmf A.
Well 1t is not proper for me TO say that haven't any
doubt but what told ~ credit it to Mr.. Tlton.
O. No. don't ask you that ask whether any instruc
tons were given to youl A. Unless such nstruc-
tons that.
O. Do you recoect any instructions given to you A.
Not positively.
Q. Do you recOllect az all any instructions given to
you at the time the papers handed yout A.
could not say that | can recollect anything that Mr.
Woodruff said at the time
Mr.. Blackwell, that will cover it, think