The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-10
flQ. $500 at once and another 500 within a

O. Did you pay any of Davis debts with
it?
A. No, sir.
that he told you to?
A. No; he had no control over it sitter |
received it.
@. You deposited none of it according to
his order?
A No, sir.
q, Nor for his use
A. No, sir.
<. No. 'p0'''e0 none IN the oank
q. Did you pay any of it out in this town
A. do NOT recoliect.
q. How lcng was Davis gone at the time
he went to Colum bus and took that draft
with him before his return?
a Might have been three DAYS?
q. I on knew nothing of his going over
TO Columbus with the first pardon
a. \ es. sir; he went over there.
q. DO you know of his going over there
with it?
A do not know if he took it with him
or not; he might have mailed it,
Q. Well, this second pardon you made out,
did he take it without your knowledge?
A. l sealed it and laid it on his desk.
&. How come you to seal it
A. | put it in an envelope ready for mail
ing.
z. Did you stamp it?
A. Yes; | think | did.
Q. Did you address it?
A. Yes; to Thos. II. Barrentine.
Q. Where was Barrentine?
A. In Columbus.
Q. What line did the mail go out?
A. They closed the mail at P. Nj.
Q, Did you mail it2
A. No.
Q. Did you make 1t ready for mail
A. Yes, made it ready for mail. | did
not see HIM take it up.
Q. When Davis lett the office, you knew
he was going 10 Columbus?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Then you gave him that draft to col
lect ?
@. Why did you not give the pardon at
the same time?
A. left it for his choice to mail or not.
O. Did you ask him his choice whether to
mail or to carry it?
A. don't think | did. Was it in your
m nd that he was going to carry it?
Q. Then why did you address it, and
stamp it,
A. So that he could put it in the mail if
he chose.
Counsel Spears Mr.. Packer, what at that
time was your business in jackson?
a. | was Acknowledgement of the State.
Q. Did you ever sit in any part of this
ii ouse?
A. Yes, sir, | was member of the Senate.
Q. Did you flavea desk?
\. Yes, sir, in the Governors office.
Q. Did you have access TO the papers
there?
A. Yes, sir, | have been acting as Private
Secretary for three or four times.
O. Did you have access to the office be-
fore the issuance of the pardon?
A. les, sir.
@. Was it in consequence of that access
that you sought it!
A. Yes, sir.
Q. In regard to this matter the gentlemen
have asked you about your testimony before
the committee in which you stated it was
June, in which you first heard OF that par
don, was that an error?
A. Yes, sir.
! @. When was it?
A. In May the DIST
| Q. They also asked you whether or not
| you did not swear that the first time you
| saw anything about the first pardon, was
when you saw the record of it when you
become Private Secretary.
| A. / saw it before.
@. Then that was an error OF yours?
| A. Yes.
| @. Where were you examined before this
| committee?
A. In the Judiciary committee room
| House of Representatives.
| @. When was the examination?
A. In January, L think.
@. OF this year?
| A. Yes.
Q. At what time of day were you exam
ined?
A. In the evening.
Q. How many persons were present?
A. Four.
@. What was the character of the exami
nation? Were the questions written ou
! and the answers written out, or was 1t take
narrative style?
A. Narrative style.
@. Did you write the narrative or di
somebody else?
A. 1t was written by a member OF tn
committee.
| O, What member?
; A. Mr.. Clifton.
O. Was there much hurry, or was it wit
, due care that these statements were ia Ike
down?
A. There did not seem to be any hurr
about it.
Q. You say these statements were write
! did you make a special examination or
mere supervision?
a, just made a careless supervision, an
some of these points L did not take much M
!. tice Of That is my signature.
: q. Did not you sign that more as to I'll
0 general accuracy of the party taking 90"
the testimony
A. Yes; because [ have signed testimon
which was taken down in shorthand.
Q. Your examination was more supe
: fetal than an exact one?
:, A. Yes, sir.
: Q. And now, when you are cross-examin
? in connection, you state they were errors !!
A. Yes. sir.
"a O.Was your attention called as specifical
q as it is now?
A. They were not.
@. If your attention had been called
y specifically, would you have seen the ere
A. / would.
Q. And you are positive of the facts y
! have stated to-day?
A. Yes; 1 testify to what l have said
day :,
q Q. You said before the committee. I'll
your receipts from Dowsing was for So
and you now say it was for 5000; how
a. you account for the discrepancy?
A. / think it was an error IN taking
down In regard fo the draft. the reDC