Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-08-04

| side OF MS position. All THIS, and much
more, he told to the jury, as free from
shame as he was from exultation, and
in appearance as careless as he was in
reality guarded. The wholesale Wilt
cation which he heaped upon his own
character equally surprised both de-
Tense and prosecution, though the lat
| ter must have been in some degree pre-
pared for it, To the defense, however,
il came like a bolt from clear sky.
They had apparently sheltered them
selves under the belief that Edison would
try to save as much of his own charac-
ter rs possible-as, indeed, would be eN-
pectcd-and that then, by showing up
the blackness of his life to the Jury,
they could materially weaken his tesii-
mony.. As Edison was pdrftceps cTiminiS
in this action, the law requires some cor
roborative evidence of his statements,
and this has been furnished in very ex-
traordinary manner.
SINGULAR CORgoBoRATIvE TESTIMONY.
Edison stated in his examination that
the plan to rob the Northampton Bank
was perfected in Wilkesbarre, Penn,
whittier he was summoned by a tele-
gram from Dunlap under the fictitious
name of X. c. Hill, aud with whom and
Scott the business was arranged. Now
comes the hotel clerk and register, the
latter showing on its pages the name of
X. c. Hill under the date described by
Edison, rs well Is the name of Edwards.
under which alias Edison declared that
he travelled. The Wilkesbarre telegraph
operator, also, showed the original of
the telegram sent to Edison by ..R. c
Hill," and the receipt of the one sent
by Edison in reply. the signature being
in each case identical with that on the
hotel register. Edison also stated that
Scott and Dunlap, after the robbery,
drove from New York 10 Springfield in
a double team, to secure the plumber,
and that Corners, hearing of the vigil
lance of the bank officers, went on to
warn them against attempting its re-
moval, but that they saw the account of |
the vigilance in Northampton in a
Springfield paper, and returned TO New
York before Corners reached them. |
The Clerk of the Rockingham House. an |
obscure Springfield hotel, confirms this
by stating that on the day designated BY |
Edison, Scott and Dunlap, whom he
afterwards positively identified, came 10 |
that hosiery in double team, but soon
went away again, and that, after their
departure, a man answering to Conners's |
description called for them, but found |
that they had left for New York.
Edson's testimony in regard TO the |
keys and combinations is also strikingly |
confirmed by the fact that the burglars
visited no others of the bank officers
save Mr.. Whittlesey, thus showing that
in some way they were aware of the
fact that he was the sole possessor of
the secrets of the bank. So, too, in one
piece of mistaken information which Ed
son gave to the burglars. He became
possessed of the idea that the key to the
outside door of the bank was a large
one, and so informed Dunlap and Scott,
who. when Mr.. Whittlesey gave them a
small key as fitting this door, declared
at once and without trial of il that it
WAS not the correct one, and by various
tertures tried in vain to make him sur
render a larger one. Edison also stated
that the gang engaged in the robbery
of five persons in all, and re-
manned two days in Springfield, facts
which are corroborated by the Paymas-
ter of the Boston and Albany Railroad,
who met Scott and Dunlap ON two con-
secutive days Immediately before the
and saw them talking with
three other men whom he has never
seen since. Many other bits of cor
roborative evidence, though slight in !
themselves, strongly unite to support
Edson's strange story.