The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-10-04
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ANOTHER DEAD SOLDIERlSi
MONEY.
CONVEYED by gaYEs.
a Sit Of Information of Interest
TO the Boys ia Bfzze.
How The Republican Candida - for Pres.
demf Made 81 900.
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deRf Made $1,000.
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'Oh. that my Uncle Birchard coHld see me
nOw!' Did you read in my yester. avs Cour-
Ter Journal that st0ry of General Rutherford
Hayes and the late Nelson J. LeRoy's s. .O0O2
If you did nor, hunt il up and read H. by
all means. 1t reads like an old romance of
the days of the Frcedmen's Bank. Ruther-
ford was in command of a brigade i'm the
valley of Virginia Just before the battle of
Winchester a soldier Of his brigade named
Nelson J. Leroy gave him $1,000 for safe
keeping. I'm that battle young Leroy was
Killed His father lives in Wisconsin. In
1863 three mem were introduced to him at
three different times and each of them ask
eel him If he were Iict the father of Nelson
j. Leroy, who was Killed ~ HAYES COM
mand at the battleof Winchester, all of them
having been struck by the resemblance of the
two men. And each Of them asked him if he
had ever received the 81 900 which Mel
son gave to Gen. Hayes for safe-keeping
just before the battle in question. This last
interrogatOry was one not of sentiment. but
of business. and ii naturally interested Mr.
James Leroy. He had never received a cent
OF that $1,000, and feeling that he was Justly
entitled 10 II, he wrote note 10 Gov. Hayes,
requesting him To unLOad-tO diSgorge-to
refund-in word, not to put too fine a
point upon il, To she'll out. To this note
Rutherford answered thus:
Mr.. James Leroy:
Sir-I have no recollection of any such per-
son, and consequently codfd not have h;ol his
money. You must be mistaken, or some one is
trying to impose upon you. r. B. HAYES.
Naturally Mr.. Leroy was not satisfied with
this reply, and he again wrote the governor.
telling him that since writing his first r,t..
he had received letters from four of his sons
companioni i'm arms al of whom distinctly
remembered the little transaction between
Nelson LcIsoy and the general i'm command
Mr.. Leroy added, in So many words that if
the governor did not refund the money there
would be the dickens to play in the United
States Court and no pitch hot. This threat
quickened Rutherford's memory little but
not to any reasonable extent. as will be seen
by his reply which ran thus:
"COLUMBUs, o., Nov. ,, ls69.-MR. JAMES LIZ
RoY-Sir: In reply 10 yours of Oct. 70, say
NEVER HAD ANY MONEY BEioNGING To HIM.
You are being deceived, or are trying to black
mail me- Yours, &c, "R. y. HAYES"
Mark those words in small caps Ruther-
ford remembers young Leroy nOw-iust
does remember him-but never had conti-
mental red belonging tn him. And Ruther-
ford is thoroughly convinced that the r;lS-
cally Leroy is trying to blackmail him.
You have probably seen men blackmailed in
the same way yOurSelf-men who owed
money and were deterfained not 10 pay il.
Again, old man LeRey makes an effort To
wrench the money of his dead boy from
the irongrasp of the.wretched and ayari-
cOus Hayes by point Blank threat 10 appeal
to the law, and poor Birchard, driven To the
wall and trembling in his boots at the
thought of exposure and utter disgrace.
writes the following pitiable rcply-and
godsl how very pitiabie-it is too.
COLUMBUS, O., Nov. Is, ISsa.-JAMEs LEROY.
ESD: In reply 10 ysHirs of the 9th instant,
fhar los of
boys money, but il was all returned by me
before the battle. ! think you intend 20 levy
r. D. HAYEs.
Come, now. can,lidly-4id YOU evere-
And the idea of aaiiing that thinl Great'
heavensl Why. the word thin" no more
describes il
"Than pleasure paints the rapture OF the blesi;
Or pain depicts the torment Of the damned
Come to think af it. I did have some OF
the boys money left with me, but il was all
returned by me before the battle! Coald
the ingenuity of man possibly invent story
bearing more sonspicuouSly upon ITS face
1.-The persuasive Odor of its own probablAy?''
Young Leroy handed Gen. Hayes thC-sum
of 1000 for safe keeping just before the
battle of Winchester and having Kept it
safely for him until 5ast before the battle.
begun. Gen. Hayes handed it back "a him..
They do things differently in France.
But it was noticed at the time thst there
wes great deal os eecentricity exhibited
among brigade and other commissioned
officers just before the battle of Wizehcster,
and this was no G9dbt small tat selecG
sample of it. RutherfOri may possibly prev
cure somebody TO believe his story. but il he
does. il i, feared that he will have ro do IL as
his party leaders alssng the Ohio procure col
ored Kentucky vOters "a go 10 ln[iann--siiat
is, by giving him $3.50 day ana paving all
his expenses.
Old man Leroy did not bring suit against
Governor Hayes to- recover tae money for
the reason, a. he alleges, that be kneS that
nothing would be easier than for Governor
HAYES To swear ont 0f the whole thing
And this, OF course, he wonld inevitably
have done.