Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-31

MT. Miles the second time
 Al could not tell. did not count it.
 Q.-Did you count It when you paid It out?
 A.-When paid it out counted it cer- tainly.
 Q.-Who did you pay that money to?
 Al paid it to several.
 Q-How many men did you pay money to that day to induce them to vote for P. T. Bar mum?
 Question objected4o.
 Q.-You voted
 A.-Yes, sir
 Q.-And you were paying out money to ob- tain v6ters were you not?
 A.-Yes, sir.
 Q.-Do you remember now whether you paid W.m. Parks money to buy voters with?
 A.-If let hlm have money it was for that, l suppose.
 Q.-Do you recollect how much money you received from Frederick Miles that day? I want you to state precisely.
 Al could not tell anything about it. 1 did not count it.
 Q.-You did not count it as you received it, but you did count it as you paid it out.
 A-Yes sir.
 Q.-Did you pay any money that day, as you recollect, to a man by the name of Wood ing.
 Al do not know may have and may not.
 Q.-Have you forgotten whether you did or did not bribe Wooding to vote?
 Al do not know.
 Q.-Whom did you pay money to?
 A.-To Sam Ham.
 Q.-How much money did you pay to Sam Ham?
 Al do not remember. It was one hun- dred or one hundred and five dollars.
 Q.-What did you pay it to him for :?
 A-To vote our ticket.
 Q.-Did he vote your ticket?
 A.-Yes sir.
 Q.-Where did you get that money you paid him?
 A-From Mir Miles. Q.-How many men did you buy that day? Al bought few; could not tell the Q.-Did you buy all you could A.-No, I suppose could have bought more, if had wanted to Q.-Did you use all the money furnished you2 A.-No, sir.
 Q.-What did you do with the balance of the
 Al gave it back where got it from to MT. Miles. Q.-About how many votes did you buy? Al could not tell Q.-What was the highest sum you paid for any vote?
 A.-The highest was the sum paid to MT. Ham.
 Q.-What was the next highest sum you paid Al do not know. It may have been sev- nty-five dollars do not remember. Q.-How cheap did you buy vote that day? Al do not knew. I did not keep any | track of that. Q.-Did you receive all the money you used | of Mir. Miles, or did you receive money from others? Al receioed it oH from Mr. Miles. Q.-Did you furnish money for others to buy votes? l Al did.
 Commenting on the testimony of this wit ness the Bridgeport Standard points to his equivocating manner of testifying, considers the story that he'would have paid as high as $105 for vote absurd, and classes him as a champion liar alongside of Anderson, the Pot ter perjurer. We cannot agree with this view, for this among other reasons, that we find, on reference to our own files, reports clipped from the Courant of Oct. 15, 16, and IF, 1867, in which occurs the following statement of the testimony of the Samuel Ham spoken of by Odenbreit, and corroborating his testimony in a very important particular:
 Samuel Ham, voter in Salisbury, swore that his politics were republican and that on Sunday night before election he was offered by Erastus Goodwin the sum of $25 if he would stay away from the polls on election day. He further offered him as good a COW as ever pail stood under if he would vote the full Democratic ticket. He went to the polls and voted the Republican ticket and after wards was paid by MT, Odenbright $1O5 as a present. Previous to his vote he was offered $125 by David Presher to vote the Demo- cratic ticket, which he declined. Was asked to go to a room to see Mir. Barnum-as he SUD- posed in reference to his vote
 We have no report ofthe Committee hearing at Bridgeport where Odenbreit is said to have testified, and we cannot find that Mir. Miles testified in the case at Falls Village. Indeed one of the counsel employed fer Mir. Barnum tells us that the Committee soon ruled out all testimony having reference to general bribery, and that they would probably have refused to hear any contradictions from MT. Miles, or any other accused person except Barnum, as being irrelevant to the case in issue. We should like very much to know from
 what report the Farmer copies the Odenbreit evidence. A stenographer accompanied the Committee, but we were not aware that the : testimony he took had ever been printed, since , the investigation was dropped before it had g been completed. On seeing the Farmer arti t cle we wrote at once to the editor of that pa + per inquiring from what it had copied its - statement of Odenbreit's testimony, but have s never received any reply. The Farmer is no T 1 very scrupulous journal, but we should no
 expect it to invent testimony. Still the public
 are entitled to know from whatreport it copie > the testimony of Odenbreit, before full credi can be given to it's accuracy. On the othe r hand we consider the matter much too serious | to be lightly treated by the friends of MT Miles We greatly regret that there will prob ably be no opportunity for referring to tn, U matter in the weekly journals published in tn, s District, before the election. Denials or ex plantations by, or in behalf of Mir. Miles, might however, be published in the daily papers ant v communicated to town committees ,s We cannot conclude without brief refer l. ence to the closing sentences of the Farme :, article:
 No man with such record can stand tn scrutiny of the popular inquest nor receive
 verdict of popular approval. We advise tha
 for the honor of the District the Republican ? withdraw his name from the canvass.
 Whatever the record in question proves re