The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-11

| told me he wanted to draw mp that aifldaVlt
again, rs
DICKS HAD DESTROYED 1T.
| The second affidavit dated June II, witness
| delivered to Mr.. Hobbs. | saw gentleman
who was pointed out to me as Weber ny Ut.
! West, who was boarding at the motel ne
wanted soup and coffee, rs he was IN q hurry
| because there were good many pafIes albeE
| him, and he wanted to go away.
| had no conversation with Weber Whatever
| about signing the Anderson Weber document.
! He merely stated that parties had been aber
| him all day, and he was going home, MINK
he stated to me there were some parVleS aleea
him to get him to sign document | swore
| in the second affidavit that Weber hau sald
that certain parties wanted him TO sign Ger
| tain papers before Mr.. Seymour, but that ne
was going home and would have nothing u
do with It. That was put in my affidavit.
didn't know it was Weber. SEYMOUR Office
too, was not in my affidavit, and my saying 1t
was Weber who had
NOTHING 70 DO With 1T,
that was added by somebody else This was
signed and before it was read to me. The
Inv part Of the affidavit was not read to me;
il 1t had been | would not have signed IL. |
swOre to 1t before Commissioner Lane. can
not read enough to make out oil the affidavit.
/ am Colored. and can only write my name.
don't know who this Mr.. West was. He told
me that
THE SOUP AND COFFEE GENTLEMAN
was Weber. / don't know that he meant it
was d. A. Weber, but believe he told me 1t
was. The Saturday before Weber left the city,
the day before he was killed, he stated to me
that certain parties had wanted him to sign
an affidavit, etc. / saw on Monday the state
ment that D. A. Weber was killed. 1t was
Friday or Saturday, November 16, and he was
killed the following Monday
IGhe fact was shown here that Weber was
killed Wednesday, March 7, 1877.
stick to my dates. am positive that one
OF the name D. A. Weber was killed the Mon
day after first the Saturday In November. !
, saw the man who was told me was ID. A.
Weber. I'D. A. Weber was not killed on that
Sunday,
MY AFFIDAVIT is FALSE.
Mr.. B.-Suppose it appears Mr., Weber filed
protest on or about November IL or l72
, Witness-I could not swear to 1t, but don't
= know whether IL was protest or the Weber
and Anderson protest they were talking
about. Nothing happened on the sixteenth to
E fix that In my mind. except quit tho StJamps
November 10 or 10, and went back one year
+ afterward ] had that chat with him Will he
was eating soup He was apparently about
! thrty-flve or thirty-six years old, sandy
| hair, slight gOatee: weight, 1875 pounds;
height, five feet eight inches. ,.
Mr. Dicks had been drinking little. lie
| told me he was Mt Seympur's when that ALL
/ davit was made out. He said that Weber did
! not sign it, and Anderson had not sworn to It,.
He did not tell me that Weber was not there.
He didn't tell me that anybody signed It,;
Weber had not sworn to The protest.
| made this second affidavit because Mr..
Fish and Mr.. Hobbs came to me. Mr.. Fisk
told me that Dicks had destroyed the first nf-
fidavit | was not paid for my trouble. The
statement that IL was Saturday Weber left
the city, and 1t was the day before he was
!, killed in the affidavit, is not true
Mr. Cox then called
=. CHAs. T. Hobbs,
as mean specimen Of human nature rs could
J be found who testified: / was present MT the
! office of Mr.. Dicks when Williams the wit
ness was there 1t was on Saturday
Geo, Fisk came up to my house at o'clock In
the morning he wanted me to make nm atii-
r davit as to what Wilder had said. They in.
i sisted on my making an affidavit refused
: and | left. We met Wilder about the same
n time; Wilder conversed with Dicks, who made
- statement that Weber's name was not
T. signed TO the affidavit. Wilder told me on
!, Rampant street, near where Judge Billings
lives; Wilder wasn't drunk and wasn't sober
. he told me that Weber was not present when
/ Anderson came to his Office and wanted to get
an affidavit sworn TO and not to have its con.
tents seen. He tAnderson) came up to Sey-
mours' office then.
Mr. Dicks wanted me to make an affidavit
as to what Wilder had told me- / did not
know when | repeated this statement that
Williams would make an affidavit Of It, Dicks
told me what he wanted. First he told me
he wanted to make an affidavit, and afterward
/ to meet some parties. | was there fifteen OF
E twenty minutes In Seymour's office when vii:
liams came in. | went out and came tack.
4 repeated the substance OF what Wilder had
!, told me- not knowing that Williams would
' make an affidavit Of it. He said he
n DID NOT KNOW WEBER.
t He told me that nobody went tn the office
except Anderson He said that Wilder and
Anderson went up to Dicks office and signeC
the paper, and no other. He didn't say thai
C Anderson had n friend with him whom he in
=, PRODUCED to him. | made an affidavit to this
afterwards before Commissioner Lane, ut the
>, request of Henry Fisk. ] wrote an affidavit
in presence OF Henry Fisk. Don't know
# whether 1t was alter the evidence had beer
n taken in Washington or not. Fisk told mt
! that Williams had made an affidavit, and ht
q had also wanted mine to corroborate his.
q wrote the affidavit myself. Fisk went will
q | me to Commissioner Lane. | left 1t with Mr.
, | Fisk. | have never seen 1t since.
+ To Mr.. Blackburn
t. THE FIRST MAN
g who asked me to make an affidavit was Mr.
: Dicks. Mr. Fisk Is a young gentleman who
o terest he has got In this matter Of proof col
7 lectlnp. When / went to Mr.. Dicks office VIZ
l went out and had a conversation: When W.
9 came back Williams was in the office. l lef
g called upon by Mr.. Dicks to make a state
p ment Of what / had heard from Wilder.
$ left the Office by myself
o Witness here contradicted the preceding
| WiJIltSS b L4StlnODy, lie SAlu Jn6 SLdJeLlGu
Williams made was not true.
q J. r. KELLY
: sworn: reside In Rchand parish and was
l. supervisor Of registration there in 1876. Made
r my consolidated statement Of returns anC
= left to bring them to New Orleans in the latte
q part of October. | went with my consolidated
: statement to Michael Hahn. | forget tn
name Of the firm where deposited the rolls
| of registration.
t had an interview with Kellogg. | did no
L have protest made out then. There wer
t some affidavits filed with my returns. On
h Moore furnished one and a negro man mad
0 one The affidavits were in the same envel
J, ope with my statement. l had interview
q with Kellogg. d. J. NJ. A. Jewett saw hin
8 first with reference to the protest. Mr. jew
:: EFT asked me II had not fled protest
u told him no. He asked me If was not goint
9 to make protest and as had no protest t.
s make saw no reason for it.
K Jewett said ought to have filed some kint
/ of protest, and he drew up paper for NJ