Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-04-06
The War Department Investigation.
More About the Posf-fraderships
The Attorney General and Detec.
tive Bell.
Some Raey Testimony To day.

Some Raey Testimony To day.
War department met TO day and examined
| James TrsiTOr.
! How TRAINOR GOT HIS POsT-TRADERsHIP.
witness said that he applied in 1870 FOR a
! pos t-tradcr>hip at Fort COncha, Texas Tie
! applied 20 Secret sry Belknap for the place.
| Belknap told him 10 go and see Gen. HeI.
rick. HedIicR wanted witness 10 pay hin
! $500
q. Did you ever pay anybody else any
| money?
A. did.
| A. Simon Wolf He said he wantcI Il
/ retainer TO work for me. ami / gave MIN
| $50 at The bar Of the Metropolitan hotel. in
| his city. also paid Congressman Clarke,
| Of T. Xas. money, not that he ever aid any
| thing specially for me bat because thOuEUt
| he was poor aud needed il. / paid \ {. Law
! ton fer Hedrick first 81 500; then | paid
| lHsn named Cheney, an agent of HedriCk's.
/ SiCoO and said would pay any more.
q. / see that Loeb WAS appointed in lS.G
! How was that brought about?
/ A By payir 2 this fellow Simon Wolf 900
/ Loeb told me he paid il tO Wolf When /
| retained Wolf ] was Introduced to him
| hy Coz gre sman begener, OF Texas. Wolf
! was 10 nave me appointed ~ Fort COnCGa,
| for which was to paw hin, 5000 II he sue
| ceeded. l paid him The 500 as n retainer
| lie was reG9mmenfed to me y = celebrated
lawyer. when ! came 10 Washington,
| ahOut the place, first went 10 see General
| belknap about IL. ! couldn't do any busi-
re- : win him as politics were no where. He
| told me TO wait until Gen. HedrIck came To
| town, that his family had the measles, but
| ih0t he would along I'm a little while. Con
| gresham Clark, of Texas, once went TO a
man named Wicks. He said TO him, CROSBY,
| the chief clerk Of The War department, has
| just returned from Europe: ne ia hard mp,
| ard II you want the Fort Concha post you
| can get II by paying $1,000. Wicks said,
mo, Jim TTainor has the post and don't
want To put him ont"
| An lNTkRvItw At TEE NATIONAL HOTEL.
mo WnIF Of IL
| days ago asked him about a letter he put
| lished. He said he didnt think was IA the
| land OF the living. / said, n an here, ami
| IL cost me $50 TO come 10 come, | said, II
| you had known ! was here yod w0ri,In',
! lave published the damned lie YOU did ia
| your letter 10 newspaper" l was intro
| 6uced 10 Woii when met him a day or two
ago by some man; don't know who he was
EneW Wolf before the man introduced him
| % me
AN EPIsoDE-s52.J 20 IL : $3.50 OFT.
This VitTe>s was what ArIemus Ward
would call an "auO1sin cus.7 He at o &c
time had beer po tDaster place n Texas
flied, as ke put II, $50 for political par
poses
q. What did Wolf say when he saw You AZ
| the hotel The other night?
A. He said he DIDN'T think l was in tie
| Land Cf The living.
q. Well, what next
| y. Well, he didn't say much OF anytI il 2
more lie kind OF Jewci out.
g Are you SIRE il was Simon Vol?
A. Oh. yes. He is q tall, thin man. with
long nose; not much bigger around than my
thumb; wears gold spectacles. I don't forget
faces. He don't look a. If there is much IN
him.
q. DID you ever pay Gen. Rice any money?
A. Not cent When ] was dealing with
HedrlCk be told me TO keep away from Rice.
OF TO go near him.
| TWO Posr-TRADERs WHO DIDN'T PAY ANY
THISG-
j. FTieUdndcr swoTn.-My brother is posi-
tracer at Fort Clars. he - uOj here ! an
post trader at Fort Stockton, Texas NV
brother secured the place for me doc
Know by what means my brother ec1rsi jar
place. never paid dollar b acy oQe r
the place,
Whipp,e, Arizona territory, Theodore Rich
ards Is my partner. Gen. Crook, | th'uE
secured my appointment Never paid dol
lar directly or Indirectly To any person TO
| secure The appointment: am moi relateI 10
the late Secretary of War by blCot or ma-
riage.
WHAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL KNOWS
ABOUT DETFCTIVE
Attorney Genera PierrCp0N sworn Mr.
PieIrepOnt testified: Last December, q man
called at my office and sept me in a card
| IA green face and white back printed 40. Q
| Bell, Southern Editor" The card vas larger
| than il now is. When the card was Drouzht
| me was making diagram for ARGUING n
! case in the Supreme Court, in which wished
! to show the starbOard and port light. fused
| the card in the diagram. which shows the req
! and green lights. Bell had a card from the
| mept. He (BelD said 10 me that he wanted
! employment in the secret service. | asked
| him what he had done. He said he had been
would have TO see the President about en-
| ploying him. ] saw the Preident tue next
| day, and he said he had known Bell during
| the war as q scout or a detective, and th n he
| desired employment in the secret service
| Next day Bell came and asked me II
| was going to employ him. | asked him what
| he could do. He said that he had been q St
4 dpfpffiVa nOnli
| tiers concerning the whisky trials. He said
| he could get letters from Joyce. He said
th n Dyer wanted naob him eInpioyed; | s3it if
| come away? / said to Bell that ii DYER
| would say by letter or telegraph that be
| wished him employed, / would employ him.
| He left and came the next day and showed
| me telegram he had sent Dyer, which was
| In effect that "the Attorney General VIII
employ me If you wish me-" Meanwhile
| inquired about the man. / learned he u al
| been employed in the Post Office, aud that
| his employment was not satisfactory. The
next time saw Bell l told him Of this, and
| told him Dyer had not written for him, and
| Should not need him. He then went away
| and nave not seen him Stree. never had
| prepared any instructions for Bell. It'd
| him would If Mr.. Dyer would request his
| employ mert. Bell called upon rue some-
| time soon after returned from the Congress
sionsl Centennial gathering. told him that
| i bad made inquiries about him from per-
| sOIs IL high position, and that the answers
were not satisfactory.
| q. Dld he attempt 10 identity tnat person
| in high position by pointing towards the
| Treasury department"
y. / don't think ne did; have no such re-
| collection. The line of my inquiries were
| from the Secretary and the Postmaster Gen
| eral.
q Did Bell ever meet you at your Office
| when Bluford Wilson was with your
A. l DO not remember ii. IL wouldn't be
| by any means impossible. No one spoke To
| me about Bell except The President. 1 never
heard General Babcock or Luckey speak OF
| Bell in my life.
! WHAT A. c. BRADLEY KNOWS ABOUT BELL
AND OTHERS.
| A. e. bradley sworn:-Reside in Washing
! ton; know c. s. Bell; first met him in st.
| Louis in November last, between Thanks
giving day and the 18th of November. Heard
| of him first through Mr.. Luckey. On the 4th
OF November General Babcock said he had
| received a telegram telling him TO come to
| st. Louis. as his name had been mentioned
| In the Mcdonald case, and he had better
| come Oh. Babcock asked me TO go there as
| his counsel and ascertain from him all /
| could in relation to the matter. and If ne
| cessary send for him 10 come. i went TO ST.
| Louis. and In q few days after got there
| met Mr.. Luckey. About Thanksgiving day
! Luckey told me he had met Bell, who had
| be- u engaged, or had some relation with