The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-07
turning over of the duties of the office?

18th of June, of last year:
A. was out of the city.
O. Did Won then officially turn over TO
him the duties of the office?
A. When left the State on June 9th, 7th
or 9Th, my impression is that | did write
him personal letter notifying him that /
was TO absent myself from the state.
@. Do YOU know where he then was
A. | think | wrote TO Columbus.
O Do YOU know where he was when you /
were passing through New Orleans on May |
DIST, on your way to Bay st. Louis
A. do not positively know; think he
was here.
O. Did the Lieutenant-Governor himself,
prior TO your departure for Bay st. Louis,
on or about May 21st, approach you in re-
gard to a pardon for Barrentine 7
A. He requested me to pardon him.
O. When?
| A. One or two days previously.
| @. What was your answer?
| A. refused to pardon him. | think
| had stated to him that | would on no &C
| count pardon any person before trial or
conviction: and this was not case that
| cared TO reply to--which is my usual reply
| to such cases.
O. Had you been applied to by Gen. Pack
| er 20 pardon Barrentine, prior to that?
| A. | cannot say; | do not know whether
any one had applied TO me or not; | do not
remember Gen. Packer or any one else
speaking to me about that case.
\ ~.
| a reward being offered for the arrest of
Thomas H Barrentine, after the murder
| was committed in LOWndes county?
A. do not remember the issuance of this
proclamation.
Manager: Mr.. Secretary, please hand this
proclamation to the Governor, for eXamina-
ton. Which was DONE
| q. Are you able to say, on looking at that
paper, if notice thereof was given TO you by
t the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS?
A, [ cannot say.
@. That proclamation was not issued by
you?
Q. Ii You had been present would you
: have issued it, and not he?
A. | should have issued it if / had beer
here,
O. Do you recolIect to have received
letter from the District Attorney, from
the district in which that homicide Wa
committed, undertaking to give some &C
count of its character?
81 A. There is a letter of that kind in tn
= office.
at Q. Addressed to you or the Lieutenant
>. Governor?
W A. cannot say.
@. Are you able to say whether he re
ceived the letter, or did you?
A. / cannot say now, but the records c
the office will show.
@. How long was it before your retur
5O''~ W 'DN'J 1~O''ASf 49,
May 2lst?
A. Some two or three weeks.
@. Were you here at all between your dc
l. parture for Bay St. Louis and your depart
ure for Bunker Hill Celebration?
A. | was, sir.
in @. That was the Sth, 9th or 10th that yo
he left?
A remember that was here on the ct
he or 9TH
Q. You were here only short while b.
yn fore you left again?
A. One or two days.
rt Q. During your s'av at Bay St. Loui
he who was performing the duties of Govern
or?
A. | was.
it Q There had been no yielding of the dut
+? to him:
lg A. None.
od Q. Did you leave your Private Secretar
here?
r. A. My Private Secretary was here.
Q. Who was your Private Secretary a
that time?
lie A. Mr.. I Rhodes, | think, or Mr.. o.
burn might have been and Mr.. Rhodes &C
Is ing for him.
~ @. Was Gen, Packer your Private Secrt
taTy at any time?
I, A. | think not, certainly not at that tim
| have changed my Private Secretary
number of times, but | do not think Gel
Packer was acting at that time-at lea
cl LnaG Is my TecOlIectlOn.
er TENTH WITNESS,
Mr.. Rhodes, the tenth witness for til
r. prosecution was next called and sworn, an
IT, examined by Manager B1rksdale.
Q. Mr.. Rhodes, have you with YOU til
t letter written by the District Attorne
Whitfield to the Executive Office, concern
as ing the murder of Mrs. Ann Thomas, i
= Lowndes county?
10 A. have, sir.
r O. Have you with you the letter. book
y which the official correspondence of tn
- Governors office is carried on?
~ a. No, sir; the subpoena only called fc
v the letter.
D. Q. l would be glad if you would get tn
book whilst we are examining this letter.
n A. Yes, sir He left the Senate Cham
Der and soon after returned.
tn q. Were you acting Private Secretary fC
a the Governor in last May?
a. Yes, sir; for Mr.. Osburn.
n Q. Osburn was his regular Secretary, an
you were acting in his place is that whs
lv you mean?
ut A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you know the hand writing on tn
y; paper?
A. / cannot say. 1t is not mine.
lie O. DO you know whether it is Osburn's
A. | think not.
at Q. Do you know Gen. Packers han
writing?
TO BE CONTINUED.
THE WIFE OF THE ERRINd
CABINET MINISTER