The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-06-14
THE DAILY CAIRO BULLETIN FRIDAY

that | recollect as being said by either ont
of the gentlemen present was some express
zion Of surprise or astopshment On TN,
prt Of Mr.. Smith that such docum,nts o
papers c. std.
Q.--You were not su-lised at heir OK
istence! A. oh, no, So.
Q.--Were you surprised abort anythin.
you saw there that day! A,-Ndhing cs
cept Ma, news le,.er
q. You were SUI prsed that Matthew,
had been foo sh enough 10 wife such let
ters' A.-Yos, SIR, ano | remember Mr.
Smith expressed more surprise, Ia
Q.-Mhy d'CN't you am 10 Ande. c
and say;"You have been decei,lng me .
II S me. You told me you had en- a. ,e,
ment from Shc. ms and Stoughton, az,
row it ,n..s out you have got notl 'rg BIZ
copy Of lie n from She.mrn. VIVA
Cd you mean by telling me hose lics f
ibis year or more!" Did you make any
such rem; rk to Anderson! A,-No, 81,
did not. Witness further said Anderson
told h m he had represented to Sherman
and s ou"hton that he and Weber had rem
dered ces at the SIX of their lives, fnd
tina. hey w"re adv, ed 70 I'D finn by
Sherman, My recollection is that tough
ton did not take pa n the p.Isonal 1ter-
view, but that hey were not fully sat 'sfiei.
Y tn rs verbal assurances, and that mex.
dfy /! lderson and Weber wrote these 10
gentlemen letter, and received e. ON hem
letter in regard to it.
Witness test led he met Matthews in Ne
senat chamber end the later mentioned
first the subject of Anderson's il,er 'ew.
sa. g hat Anderson had called on him and
spoken very roughly TO him, and had made
threats of publication of these documents OF
sometf ug Of hat |. nd, and he told Ander-
son ne felt vei.J much hurt end d'se 'sta al
that action; hat he had been doing al he
could accordance with Andersonsw shes,
end that he had told Anderson he did not
want 20 see him cny fur her, and that he
might do as he pleased with the papers and
documents and that he would drop him.
and he ssid Substantially the same to me
that it was no use ing to do auyth I,g
with such man or something of the nd.
that he was incapable and expected to do
more than he could do, and that he had
done the best he could under the ci-cum-
stances, and he was detern'ned to have
nothing 10 do with Anderson.
WILLIAM II. SEYMOUR,
swosn and examined by Mcmahon:
Q.-What is your occupationl Al
am notary public and commissioner of
deeds.
Q.-Were you acquainted with James E.
Anderson A.-Yes sir.
Q-Were you acquainted with J. A. @.
WcD,ri A-No s'r.
Q-There has been paper produced be-
Tore tbs committee which seems 10 have
your name and seal attached; please look at
i and So" whether you can ident'fy your
Signature and seal: A.(after looking at 'he
paper referred toJ-Ies, sir, that is my sig
nature and seal.
Q-state an! hing you l.low about the
'Arcu, on OF that paper, you know any
hing IN her than by see Y your name
here, Al his was sworn to before me.
IS the date purports II be given by Mr..
Anderson and some other gentleman who
vas with him.
Odd you Llow the other person who
vas with him. A.-No, sir, did not, only
rom Anderson's introducing him.
Q-iow was he n,roducedl Ale
vas introduced by Mr.. Anderson as Mr..
Weber.
Odd you Llow whether or not it was
Weber! Al did not, knew the " theses.
Mr.. Dick End Mr.. Wilder; they are claim
igenfa or attorneys, residing in New
Orleans.
Q.-Was the inside of this paper COM
nunicated you or did the parties just
PRESENT this part of it and say they had
worn to it, A.-That is all, / Just saw the
inside. was not made acquainted with
he contents Of it; the gentleman seemed TO
'e very reticent about communicating the
ontents and put the question To them,
whether there was anything in it that
would be unprofcssional for me to sign,
nything that would appear ridiculous or
and Anderson said no.
The document was stoned when il was
,rought to me and said to Wider Its
ii right.' He came and introduced An.
lerson 10 me.
Q,-Let me call your attention to tbs
document in one or two PARTICULAR; do you
lotice the fact that "and d. A. Weber" APP
,ears to have been added after the jrrat
lad been writtenl Ayes, sir.
Q.-Do you remember Of your attention
icing called to that or noticing it at the
imei Al am almost posi- We that !
allied Anderson's attention to that fact,
md the fact that Weber's name was not on
hat document or at least his name vas not
Inserted, and / had the correction made
when 1t was first presented to me i was
imply sworn to before me this 18th DAY of
November, 1876, by the before mentioned
ames L. Anderson; ! said there are two
gentlemen 10 this, and the other name must
,c inserted.
Q-And then who inserted III Il
'on't know who inserted it, but somebody
lid, and it is not n my handw ting.
Q.-Do you notice the fact that your
Nn signature is signed on the l',c imme.
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