The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-10


vo ~ nov many tunes did Davis approach
you On Che subject of this pardon:
AT fhe time he requested me to 90 to
the Bay TO see Gov. Ames
about it? " "
+; a. No sir; he spoke to me two or three
times after that.
| Z. How MANY other times2
"A. do not recollect
Y. were You and he not in constant con-
VeIsatlon, almost whenever YOU were TO-
gether about this pardon?
"A NO, sir; we were together two or three
| GAYS after he had employed me.
Y. When did he first employ YOU?
A. Three or four days after the pardon
was issued. P"iN0"
.. How do you know it was three or four
| days after? wa
"A. found it out afterwards | saw it in
the Office. "
Q. Did you not swear before the commit
tee, that Mr.. Davis approached YOU and said
MI. Matthews was dissatisfied, and was 90
ing to get a second pardon?
| A. Yes, sir
| q. When did you take the office of Pri-
Vate Secretary
second pardons.
.. You said you went into the office on
the 9Th June?
! A. Yes sir?
| q. Was that the first knowledge you had
| OF the first pardon?
A. No, sir.
Q; When did you get the first knowledge
of the first pardon?
A. The day after it was issued.
" nave you not sworn halt dozen times
that you did not know anything about the
hrst pardon until after the 9th June?
A No sir.
BY Manager Barksdale-Did you ever
have that receipt in your hands, the receipt
or order of Dowsing?
A. Yes sir.
Q. When did you get it?
A. do not recollect the exact date, |
put 1t amongst lot of personal papers of
| Davis. that were ON my desk
O. How long did you have it in your
| possession?
a. Probably from 10 to 3-office hours.
@. Only one day?
A. Yes sir. did not have it full day.
q. What was that date?
A. | cannot fix the date
q. Was it the day he went off with it?
| A. IeS.
Q. How long had he been here with it?
a. do not know ASSN ~.
@. How long had he been here then be-
fore he went off that day-it must have
been 18th or 18th June?
| a. The evening of the 18th, I think
@. How long had he been here with that
paper in his possession before that day?
a. He had been here perhaps four DAYS.
q. When did you first learn he had that
paper-on the 18th June?
A. No, sir; he told me before that.
O. He delivered it to you on the 18th?
A. l es, sir.
Q. And you were in possession OF it du-
ring business?
A. les, sir.
O. How did it get out of your posses
sion?
A. gave it to Davis to collect.
q. Did you endorse it?
A. | did not. go r.-
q. Then you told him to collect it?
A. | told him in the morning he mi CHI
as we'll collect it.
Q. How long was that before he left
A. Three O'Clock, P. NJ, and he left a
5 80 to go to Columbus.
Q. You gave him the papers to carry
with him?
A. Yes, sir.
O., Q, The he. pardon pa a64 he issued was anon!
A. | did not give it to him.
Q: Well, when he left, the pardon LET
J too?
A, / think it did.
@. There were some of his private paper;
! together with this check and pardon, wher
: you handed it to him?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you endorse that paper?
\. No, sir.
Q. Why
A. Because I handed it to him and h
said he would come back. / was busy AM
said would endorse the draft for him th
, clock was slow. | started for the train
L saw that Davis had not been in the office
and | saw the train had gone, and Davis ha
! gone.
: @. Did you have an engagement to NEE
\ him in the office?
: A. Yes, sir; he said he was going to dir
ner and would be back.
@. Did he say that in reply to your PROF
t ostiOn to endorse the paper.
A. No, sir.
Q. Then he got away without the pap'
, being endorsed?
A. Yes, sir.
@. Ifit was endorsed, it was endorsed b
V him on your order?
a. Yes, sir; | told him to collect it.
Q. Did you tell him you would collect il
10 A. No; l authorized him to collect it.
Q. And told him that you would endor
it?
A Yes, sir.
Q. Did you read that paper?
A Yes, sir.
~ Q. You say you were retained as
70 agent TO procure this pardon!
= A. Yes, sir.
Q. Who retained you?
A. Davis retained me for Col. Matthew
who was the attorney for Barrentine. ID
Wis brought the message from Matthews
me.
Q. When did you learn, for the first tir
"a that the first pardon had been issued?
81 A. On that day, think; the 21st of Ma
| did not know until after it had been dor
Q. Did you not know this first pard
ut had been issued until you went into the Sc
retary's office to get the seal and signatur
+ A. No, sir.
Q. Did you not swear to the Commit
ct YOU came to that knowledge after you we
to appointed Private Secretary?
A. No, sir.
a. O. Was Travis Rhodes Private Secreta
at the time this first pardon was issued?
to A. es, sir.
en- O. And he continued to perform the
es ties UP to the 9th of June?
A. Yes sir.