The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-04-06
WHOLE NO. ~.

g. Did you attempt to get ~ A, No SIR:
Q. Why didn'tyous A. WELL / thought that
was going rather too far in the matter.
1t was Intended that Ishould be appointed
special agent in the attorney generals Office
and sent to St. Louis to continue my work,
and here is the key of the cipher that was
given3me to- communicate with [The witness
here reproduced the original of the cipher pub
lished in The New York Herald on Feb. iOth.]
@. Were you appointed in the attorney gen.
erals Office! a. was not, but lwas,to be ap-
pointed, and had a card from the president
to Attorney General Plerrepont similar to the
one had to Secretary Chandler.
@. A card asking to have you appointed
special AGENT A. 1t did not say so. Il said:
'sThis is the man Of whom | spoke for that
appointment'-or something to that effect.
O. Did Babcock make you any promise with
regard to it? A. Not there. He did here. He
said would be literally paid if | got tic evil
deuce oil. 1t was not SO much that was
working to his interest, as that regarded the
whole matter az political move at the time,
and desired to serve my old commanderiI
could. | had very little acquaintance with
Gen. Babcock, and had no special intereS
or sympathy with him.
G. Did he ever tel you any particular thing
that he wanted You to get? A. After spoke
to him about the dispatches signed "Bulinch,"
or "B. Flnch,o he said he did not think he
had ever sent anything with that signature to
that quarter, but he wanted all there was
everything
Q. You were to take those bodily from the
district attorneys Officer That was tho
understanding.
@. And they were to be destroyed? A. Yes;
but never agreed to it,
Bv MIR. Blackburn. G. Do you know who
Bradley is? A. believe he is a brother-in-
law OF Mr.. A. r. Shepherd here; was sent
| out there Just to be on the watch, as he OK
| plained to me; he was acting rs one Of the
| = onnsal SuDpeSA.
O. There was a syStematica contrlvance ON
| the part OF the indicted man to suppress testi-
mony against him? A. Yes, as | understood;
don't know ofmy own knowledge;
| O. You supposed from the knowledge you
derived from him and his friends as to the
| tracks that he wished covered, and the evil
dence he wished suppressed, that he was un.
quest4 nahly guilty il all the facts We're KNOWN
A. That is the way understood It. !. don.
think he had any delieacy in regard to my
thinking so. There seemed to be dual feeling
III the matter The president had one line OF
feeling and they another.
@. You don't think the president had any
thing to do with this attempt to cover up the
tracksg A. Not at ak
On cross examination BY Mr.. DanfoTd, wit
ness stated that he had communicated TO Col.
Dyer, pending Babcock's trial, everything now
given to the committee, and that re under
| stood tina. he was to have been called III rebuff
tai Of Luciseg and some other witness, whose
|
called for Babcock; but AS they were not called
neither was lie.
BY Danford. @. Does that article III The
| Herald state that YOU We're engaged to act as
. spy on Col. Dyeri a. It did.
G. Don't you think Sscretury Chandler did
exactly right III dismissing you theny A.
Now, yon have asked Insa plain question, ana
| will tell you that Mr.. Chandler knew exactly
2 what was employed for. ! said went there
on matters connected with Babcaek. Said he,
: add General Babeock know you went theret"
Said |, H. did, because wrote hmm letter be-
fore left Tha. lis all the conversation we
: had | don't know that he knew the details
Of my st. Louis employment, because asked
If it was necessary Tor me TO gslnto tails, ana
he said no.
There is, Of course, a howl q abuse
raised against the witness by tina parties
u implicated and he has even been at
IS tackled and beaten in his hotel by one OF
their friends, named iAollirc, but it is
!, proved Dy Chandler that the Pre- sldrnt
!. did request him, Chandler, TO give the
+, witness an Office and it is admitted that
i be was at St. Louis. Col. Dyer, Dist.
!. Attorney, testifies that Bell was mixed
. up in the stealing If certain papeis I'm,
4 piicating Avery, and nc further said.
"a Witness had been very caresul Of the dis
10 ra.ees aAi letters raIa.ing 10 tn BabcD4k case
( becau-e he
D. YgARED sCAE SUCH EXPLOIT
ID a. WAS re,orted to in the Avery case. lie plac
10 III thrm in 0 box and deposited taem III th,
= safe vault Before tina. Bell was one day seen
~ in the district attorneys Office overhaYlin'
Some papers. and was inscsmed that ncbod,
- was allowed to 90 that in the absence q Col
:. Dyer Bell excused hmss!i by saying tlat h
~ was hunting for match 10 light his cigar
- - Bell soon after the proposition TO furnish hi
IN u xt.4 fh1ra
- Egadiey'r letter. After the trial he returned
- them 10 Bell, and has rot seen them since, ex
~ eep. az prgiuced in the New York Herald
~ !, These papers were nk prodased til near tn
~ end Of the trial. The reassn they were nc
=. | used in evidence WIS because Lncksy was Sum
- moned there BY tue government, and was final
Y, ly claimed a. witness foz the defense. At
~ consultation between witness and big a.soci
atgs b.oaia.ad and Eaton, a. 70 the advisa
- - biliiy Of
vet CALLING BELL A. NzraEss,
il. !. sas decided to wai. ill Lnckey was put NJ
on the stand, and then produce Beal IN rsDu
tys tai X was understood that Bradley vas her
in also called b. tn defense, and it was intsndc
aid thzt Bell should net b. bsough. in az VII
Of ness in chief. Had the prosecution known
it; believed the dsfsrse would no. call Lncke]
nan tLeT would hs~, brought Bell Toward an
used him ~ Tis1sss-in-chicf.
Al It is, take it altogether. avery surpri
4fang piece OF business. The PresideI
elects an old aud trusted military SPY
brochures him a clerkship In the Interit
Department, be then goes 70 st. Lou
and il caught trying To steal the testim
ny duplicating Babcock, from the Di!
trict Attorneys Office, with an HndeI
Standing, as he testiGes. with Lncke
H. the presen. private secretary OF Il
hey President, ard Babcocx. his then secre
n: iary. that the documents 50 to be stole
~. were To be Destroyed.
twill be surprising ii Grant closes h
noe present term Wittou; an Impeachment