Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-08
THE ROSCOE

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George R. Lanning, editor of the Roscoe
Express. sends us a string Of affidavi,s OF
which the following is a sample. They
are a refutation of the charges in the Ar
thur Jones letter, published in the Press
and Dakotaian Of October 81, 1878:
TERRITORY OF DAKOTA,
MOODY COUNTY. S
/, William S. Cobban, being duly sworn,
do depose and say, that I was In the town
of Roscoe, d. T., on the 5th day of Septem-
Der, 1873, and on that day. about z p. NJ,
Bartlett Trip came to Roscoe, and stopped
at the hotel IL said place that night and the
following day until about q p. N. which he
left to go to Sioux Falls, DIT. And l do
further depose and say that Arthur NJ.
jones, who was at that time employed in
the office of the Roscoe Express, did OF the
9Th day of September, 1878, about 8 a. m.
leave the town of Roscoe with the declared
intention OF visiting Lake Madison, D. T.,
and was not In Roscoe, D. T., after 8 8. m.
on said day, nor at all on the day following,
being thu 9th day of September, 1878.
Aud l do further depGse and say that
Bartlett Trip has never made other than
the above mentioned visit to Roscoe, d. T.,
since l became a citizen of the above named
YllldSSs Ou VI dUUuI dUEll OTU, 1910.
WILLIAM s. CoBBAN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
I'd day of November, 1873.
d. F. DRESSER,
Justice of the peace in and for Moody |
county, Dakota territory.
Another affidavit is presented from John
E. Moore, a merchant of Roscoe, in which
he ~testifies that Arthur NJ. Jones went to
Lake Madison on tho 5,h day Of September
and did not return until the 9Th that Bart
lett visited Roscoe on the 9Th for the first
and only time'in six years, and left at four
o'clock on on the afternoon of the 9Th; that
Bartlett Trip has not since been in Ros-
.coe.
John s. Lacy makes affidavit that he is
proprietor Of the Lacy house, Roscoe; that
Arthur NJ. Jones left Roscoe on the morn
ing of September 5th and did not return
until the evening of September 7th; that
Bartlett Tripp came to Roscoe on the 9Th
and left the next day at four O'Clock in the
afternoon that Jones did not see Bartlett
Tripp while the latter was in Roscoe and
had no means Of knowing anything about
any conversation between Mr.. Tripp and
Mr.. tanning.
Mr.. tanning himself makes affidavit that
he received nc money and no promise Of
money from Mr.. Trip or any of his friends
for the support of his paper or for his in.
dividual support. He also swears that
Jones was not in Roscoe during MI. Trims
visit.
AS MI. Jones himself has already tele-
graphed over his own signature (Which
telegram was printed in the Press and Da.
kota,n of Nov. 4th) asserting that the let.
ter purporting to have been signed by him
was a forgery. and as these afidavits are en-
tlrelY convincing in their nature,
the best We can do in the matter Is
to admit that we have been imposed upon
and ask pardon of the gentlemen interested
for giving publicity to a canard. Mr..
Jones' handwriting we are unfamiliar with.
The letter printed by US came by mail from
Sioux Falls and is signed with, his name.
The original has been preserved and it may
lead to the discovery OF the party who per-
petrated the act. We regret that so glaring
q Misrepresentation should have been made
public through the agency. of our paper
We are satisfied that there is no truth what
ever In the charge v ehsve made In connec-l
ton with this forged letter.