Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-17
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The Milwaukee correspondents oil
the Chicago Tribune and Times have
had some unfricndly criticisms of
Hcdrick of late, upon
which utterly unfounded aspersions
the editors respectively of these two
papers have abused that gentleman
i'm most foul and libelous manner.
These correspondents are both con-
nectcd locally with Milwaukee news
papers which have notoriously
throughout the whisky war been the
defendants of the ring and the assail-
ants of the Government and its agents
in prosecuting the thieves. About
the most complimentary epithet
which they could apply to Supervisor
Hedrick was to call him ''the pam
pcred mental Of despotic govern
mcnt."
These fellows, and the guiltiest and
worst men of the Ring, started the
cock and bull story that Hedrick was
privy, or would be privy rather up
on proper inducements, to capture the
books and papers in his Office, and
otherwise aid the Ring to get rid of
the evidence against it at milwaukee,.
Supervisor Hedrick heard Of this
scandal against his reputation while
at Washington, whereupon he hast
cned to Milwaukee, and sat down on
the conspiracy so hard that in open
court, the Judge and counsel on both
sides said that he had fully eXoncra-
ted himself, and that no shadow of
evidence rested against him, and
which statement was duly reported
to the Chicago and other papers, hav-
ing their own reporters on hand, and
which has heretofore substantially
appeared in the COURIER. All the
testimony addnccd on both sides
which was worthy of any sort
of respect or consideration, fully sus-
tanned Supervisor Hcdrick's inno-
cence in the premises, and now comes
the aforesaid Milwaukee correspon-
dents of the Times and Tribune, in
their yesterdays papers, with the fol-
lowing statements, which ought to be
considered conclusive on this subject,
bearing in mind the fact that both
writer's arc aud have been unfricndly
to the whisky war, and especially so
to Supervisor Hedrick, from the day
it commenced in Milwaukee, one year
and five days ago to-day:
Special Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune.
MILWAUKEE, May lathe Jonas
Goldberg-Cr0sby WHISKY trial has
been the most interesting feature of
the wcok,-two Weeks,--and Crosby
being absent, tho villain of the piece.
Crosby disappeared about tho time of
the indictment of the three defend
ants, and has never since been found,
although have good reason to be-
lieve he can be produced if the neces-
sary Inducements arc offered. Since
the trial commenced, everything tes-
tilted to has gone to prove the missing
man was the chief pl0tter, and the
others were auxiliaries, perhaps in.
noccnt tools. The sensation of the
trial was the production of Gen. He'd.
rick on the witness stand. Evidence
pointing to his guilty connection with
iha case, both written and oral, had
been presented of SO direct and con-
vinciIig character that no one sup.
posed he could clear himself; yet
when he descended from the box, the
Court gracefully said his testimony
had cleared the clouds on his good
name. Counsel on both sides paid
him handsome compliments, and the
reporters and auditory completely
acquitted him of evil intent. 1t be-
came evident that Hedrick' 8 name had
been freely used by Crosby without
any authority on the part of the per-
son principally concerned, and that
everything connecting him with the
alleged conspiracy had been assumed
OH the shadoWy authority Of the mis-.
ty Crosby. Mr.. Hedrick's testimony
necessarily confiicted with that of the
whisky men; but then, the time has
passed when the whisky men were q
power in this city and their word
considered better than their bond
Full, reports of the trial have been
telegraphed to The Tribune daily, and
nothing further need be said thereon
in this column.