The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-04-05

was to see Joyce and, III possible. get the
correspondence that ,assed between joyce,
avery snd BaDcock.. he wrote a note to
the warden OF the all and asked him to
deliver the papers 20 Bell, the bearer. Bell
subsequently car ne to st. Louis during
the time of the p Paddock trial. The witness
met MIN at the 'jouse of Eaton, a special
counsel for the government in the whisky
trial. He int'.nated that he had got
Avery's parSers from the files of
the district attorneys Office and
exnlpited toem to Avery and bis wife at
tne Linden Hotel. The witness asked
him the character OF the pspsrs, in order
to ascertain the truth of the statement.
Bell said that be bad pencil memoran-
oum from Biuford Wilson and dispatch
from the treasury asking the witness to
come to the secretsry's room. He re-
mem bered that he had had such papers in
his possession, and was satisfied from
Bells conversation that he knew some
thing about
THEIR DIsAPPEARANCE.
He had asked if he had sny dispatches
signed "B. Finch," or "Bull Finch.n Bell
said he had certain documents in his p1s-
session in New Y rk, and bad telegraphed
fo- them to be forwarded to st. Louis by
express; that the papers consisted of a
cipher, partly in his and partly in Luckey's
handwriting, and also letters from A. G.
Bradley, telling him to come to Washing
ton aud he would be cared for. The
substance of his statement was
that proposition had been made to
him by Luckey and Bsbcock to extract
the testimony In the Babcock case from
the district attorneys Office. The witness
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and letters relating to the Babcock csss,
because he feared some such exploit as
was resorted to in the Avery case. BE
placed them in a box and deposited them
In safe deposit vault. Before
that Bell was one day seen in the
district attorneys Office overhauling some
papers, and was informed that nobody was
allowed 10 do that in the absence of Col.
Dyer. Bell excused himself by saying
that he was hunting for match to light
his cigar. Bell, soon after the proposition
to furnish this information, delivered to
him the cipher and Bradley letter. After
the trial he returned them to Bell and has
not seen them since, except as produced in
the New York Herald.
THESE PAPERS WE'RE NOT PRODUCED
till nearly the end of the trial. The reason
they were not used in evidence was be-
cause Luckey was summoned here for the
government and was finally claimed as
witness for the defense. At consultation
between the witness and his associates.
Broadhead and Eaton, as to the INSTABILITY
of calling Bell as witness, 1t was decided to
wait till Luckey wa pu.upon he stand al d
then produce him in rebutral. 1t was under
stood that Brad ey was there. a'so called by
the defense, and It was intended that Bell
should not be brought in as a wit
ness in chief. Had the prosecution
known or believed that the defense
would not call Luckey, tney would have
brought. Bell forward anG used him
as witness In chief Bell. who was in the
room, asked Dyer whether it was because
of his supposed unreliability that he was
not put upon the stand. Dyer answered
that when be told him that he had stolen
the Avery papers from the district ait T.
ney's office, he did not look upon him as
the witness he wanted to tie to without
cUrroborative evidence, and he did not be-
lieve much in him till he got all the pa
pers. But IL Luckey had been called, he
would certainly have put Bell upon the
stand In rebuttal. Bell then asked Dyer
II, In such cases, extraordinary means are
not necessary to get evidence. Dyer said
he was not in that kind of business,
and did not feel competent to an
swer the question. He never found
1t necessary either as prosecuting lawyer
or otherwise, 30 resort TO such means
either TO purchase the abstraction or sup-
preston of evidence, or any such violent
or questionable tactics. That was not his
way OF conducting business. Dyer said
that Bells testimony was substantially
correct, so far as he had seen it printed in
the Washington papers, and so far as it re-
ferred to him. Bell was, however, incor-
rect in locating the conversation at the
district attorneys Office. 1t took place at
the house OF Lucien Eaton, one of his as
sociate counsel.
BELL ASSAULTED.
c. 8. Bell, who yesterday testified be-
fore the committee on war expenditures,
was tonight assaulted by a man named
Mollere in hotel of this city. Bell was
seated In the hotel when Mollere entered
and, walking up to him, struck him on the
neaI with a cane. The parties were sepa-
rated and Mollere left the hotel.