Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-03
And his Impudent Hussy OF a Witness
Overwhelmed by the Testimony Of
Emile Weber, who Swears
that his Brother was
Murdered
Because he Threatened to Publish Let
pose the Frauds, Perjuries and
Thefts OF the Louisiana Re-
publicansE lille Also
Swears that
He Destroyedsthe sherman Letter,
with which Hrs. jerks had Nothing
to Do-Attempt to Break him
DOwn-PrOgress OF the In
vestigatiOn In New
Orleans.

DOwn-PrOgress OF the In
vestigatiOn In New
Orleans.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-The Potter com
mittee to-day recalled
Thomas e. Anderson,
| who testified that he did not see any one sigr
| the certificates of the electoral vote while in
the governors Office in New Orleans; that
Mrs: jerks, pleading the poverty of hel
mother, asked him to appoint her brother
A. R. Murdoch, to place in the New Or.
| leans customhouse. Witness promised to d.
something for him this month, but has moi
yet. Murdoch has had letter from Senator
Kellogg for some time, requesting witness to
do something for him.
A long examination of witnesses regarding
the operations OF the returning board ELECTED
nothing new.
In reply to General Hunton witness said
that the returning board, as body. never at.
tempted to fill the vacancy with a Democrat;
he had spoken to Mr.. Smith. the present re-
porter on the New Orleans Democrat, about
accepting position on the board, but he re
fused; never knew of the board having asked
Smith; never heard it stated by any member
OF the board that the presence of Democrat
was undesirable.
Witness, In reply to Mr.. Cox, said he had
heard that Daniel Weber was killed because
he had signed his protest; never heard that
he was killed, as Judge Campbell had testi-
he'd. because he was supposed to have had
the Sherman letter on his person.
Thomas III. jerks
testified that he had never made an affidavit
similar to the one submitted before the Louis
lana sub committee yesterday, in the hand
Of
Notary Seymour in New Orleans, before
whom the affidavit appears to have been
made.
James e. Anderson,
asking permission to explain, stated that
on the eleventh of May he met jerks in the
street, and as he Anderson was going to
leave for the north at two clock In the even
ing jerks requested MIN to use his influence
toward securing him position In Washing
ton, and after some conversation jerks went
with him to his Office in the customhouse and
dictated the affidavit in question; he lander
som copied it, and then they went to Notary
Seymour's office and jerks swore to the docu-
ment, for the purpose of making an affidavit
which was to aid Anderson in securing jerks
position; Anderson was to show the affi-
davit to Mathews, and endeavor to secure him
an appointment on the strength of it.
Emile l.. Weber,
brother of Daniel Weber, was sworn, he de-
string to read a statement of his connections
with the Republican party. Mr.. Cox OBJ
jected. The statement was read, being a
part OF the testimony, and Weber retired for
the present.
HI. Conquest Clarke,
former private secretary to Governor Kellogg,
retold his recollection of the signing of the
electoral certificates, and promptly and en-
phatically denied all knowledge of who ap-
pended the supposed forged signatures.
A secret session was proclaimed. When
the doors were reopened,
Emile Weber was Recalled,
and was given permission to read his state
ment, provided that he would swear to the
facts it contained. The statement was read,
and set forth that he had no personal knowl-
edge that Democratic intimidation existed in
the parishes of East and West Feliciana;
his brother, Daniel Weber, and James E. An
derson, had informed him tine parishes had
gone Democratic; influence was brought to
bear upon his brother to make his protest; he
had been approached very frequently to use
his influence with his brother to effect the
signing of his protest; he saw Anderson sign
his protest. and saw blanks therein; after
his Jurat to the paper; 1t was not sworn to
by Anderson; it was notorious fact in the
customhouse that Kellogg, Packard and
others, were pressing Anderson and Weber
to make their respective protests; John
Sherman was the spokesman for the visiting
statesmen, and he Weber, knew that Sher-
man had given his brother assurances which
caused him to allow his protest to stand after
it had been made; Weber had, in converse
ton with Sherman, explained to him that
his brother thought his parish had gone
Democratic, and he was disposed to take
back his protest, whereupon Sherman assured
hIm his brother would be cared for, and re-
quested that he send his brother to him; his
brother, on the day he received it, showed
him the Sherman letter of assurance and said
he had received it direct from Sherman;
witness was familiar with the handwriting of
Sherman, and was satisfied that the letter
was written by that gentleman In 1877; the
Sherman letter was the subject of great NOR
LITIGATION to the Weber family, and his sister
in-law, Mrs. Daniel Weber, had endeavored
to find it among the papers of her husband,
which were packed away in two trunks and
a large shoe box; late in the summer of 1877
he witness] had made search for the letter
and had found it In the shoe-box, and had
destroyed it forthwith; Mrs. jerks had been
in no way connected with the authorship of
the Sherman letter; about November 9th
it was discovered that only six of the Hayes
electors could be saved, and Kellogg, on that
day, remarked to me, I'VE are, after all,
beaten:" in regard to the agreement between
James E. Anderson and D. A. Weber, here
state that l personally know that such
agreement was entered into, and was SUBJ
stantially the same as has been presented;
my brother was murdered March 7th; in the
issue of the Ledger, of which he was editor,
previous to his death he threatened to pub
lish certain letters and statement emanat-
Ing from the State auditors office, and that
is supposed to have supplied the immediate
cause of his death, and to that extent might
suggest its authors; while | consider this
threat the immediate cause of his assassina-
ton, do not believe it would have occurred
If he had not made the protest which de-
prived the people of their votes, and thus
placed himself in such position that his
personal enemies were encouraged to make
this murderous assault; in the Sherman re-
port appears purported affidavit from me as
United States supervisor, containing some
what sweeping allegation OF intimidation In
the parish of West Feliciana; declined,
when requested to make an affidavit on this
subject, to do so; this paper was subsequently
prepared by L. B. jerks, and without read
ing or examining it, l signed it; performed
no duties as United States supervisor. and
should not have signed the paper if l had
previously read it; did not swear to it, bnt
the jurat was attached by the commissioner
as a matter of form merely; have no defense
was done without elaboration; Mrs. jerks
visited my sister-in-law In the summer of
1877 and urged her to hunt for the Sherman
letter; Mrs. Weber declined to do so or to
give her any Information whatever;
about the twenty-seventh of May she
brought letter from General Sheldon,
offering to pay Mrs. Weber's expenses to New
Orleans and Washington In connection with
the Sherman letter, and threatening In case
she did not come to have her arrested and
forced to go; Mrs. jerks and her husband
have always called the paper the Sherman