Richland beacon., 1876-04-01
4 Mysterious Witness.

A Washington special 10 the (incInnat |
Gazette says: There is u lady At Willard ,
Hotel in the close custody ol the Sergeant at !
Arms, and not permitted to leave her room. |
She has been there for some days. II Is sad |
tina, on her testimony depends the tate anu !
good name of person high IN authority. No
person in private life Is permitted to see her,
nor arc any private messages delivered To |
her. vet the Chairman of the House Naval
Committee has undi,turbed access to her
room and seems 10 know what he IS about.
There was a woman in the Sccor clam,
one in the French arms Guslncss, one IN
almost all the historical Iascalities here, and
il seems that there is one now IN winch Tie
Naval Commission has 80 much interest as 10
closely guard her door. There Il, 1t seems
too, a woman in the safe burglary business.
This has uo, been published, or publicly sns-
pec,cd, until now. The Sergeant atArms Is
on her track, aud expects 10 have her here III
three days For pi udential reasons her name
annot now be gwen. This woman Is said
10 Se the missing link that will convict the
professional burglars Who did the misrTable
Job with the myste rous persons who, sitiinS IN
a darkened room with pebbles IN their
mouths, to disguise their voices, conducted the
original nego,ia,ons with Nike Hayes.
The Judiciary Committee tonight com
menced picir first secret investigation Of this
subject, and expect IN Il few days To arrive
"a, the missing link. Those who ought to
know most about this my ysierious affair insist
that the evidence Is forthcoming WHICH Will
fully explain it. Three witnesses of impor-
tance are 10 he summoned, Two lawyers and
the woman mentioned. The witnesses who
have already been examined IN the Old inves-
uyatun, and III the courts, are Lot to be re-
called.
THE MYSTERY SOLVED.
A Washington special to the New York
tribune says, in reference to the above mat
! ter:
A special dispatch 10 the Tribune yesterday
! from Washington announced that woman
| (whose name was not nientioned) was kept
under close guard ut Wizards Hotel, aud that
no one was allowed to communicate with her
except by permission from the Sergeant at
Arms of the House of Representatives. IL
! was further slated that she WIS there III com
ncctiou with TIE invcs isa,ions OF the House
Committee on Naval Affairs. Inquiry in this
city Yesterday showed that the lady was Mrs.
Gen. Roddy, who, it will be remembered,
having stolen a bracelet from Gen. Philip
Rod,,y, and acquitted. Gen. Roddy, with
two other persons, named Brooks and Everett,
had been al the time indictt d al the instance
of Mrs Roddy, for conspiracy to rob her ol
important papers and document, while III
Chicago.
Immediately after her discharge she de.
manded the trial Of these persons, but District
Attorney Phelps entered a nollc pre- sequi in
,heir cases Ii has since been discovered that
Rodd, ard Brooks have been engaged foI
y.urs pas, in the collection ot what are be
liey.d to be fraudulent cotton claims, and
also that they were interested III a pa'en
pump, known as the automatic pump, which
through influence in Washington, they man
aged to have placed upon nearly al! tho yes
s-ls in the navy.
Mrs Roddy was taken from her house a
Hacketts,own, N. J., on Wednesday last, b,
the Sergeant.at.A rms, to Wizards Hotel
Washington, where she wa. retained uni
Monday, having appeared before Messrs
Whitthorne, Harris and Lewis, the House
Committee on Naval Affairs, Saturday night
:. and also before the District Attorney. Ii i
said that her testimony is important, and, II
connection with the pump, impIicates severa
, prominent persons Roddy and Brooks hav
: been indicted in Washington on account Q
: their connection with alleged frauduen
claims 70 the amoun, Of about $50, 900.