Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-26
THE INVESTIGATION.
New ORLEANS. July 16.

Veasey swore TO them and brought them to
New Orleans, where another set was made, |
throwing out three polls and giving the Re
publicans 400 more votes than the original
statement.
j. w. Armistead (colored), of West Fell
ciana, testified; Made affidavit before Return
ing Board. Said IL was prepared In the Gus
tom-House. Witness never read 1t and now
denies many of the statements made therein.
Andrew Duncan (colored), of West Felici-
ana, testified regarding the organization Of
the Democratic clubs in the parish; the ne
groes complained of bad governments etc.
made affidavit in the Custom-House after
election; the affidavit was not read to me 4;
didn't know what they put in the paper. The
affidavit being read by Mr.. Stenger, witness
denied most OF the statements made therein,
and said he did not authorize them; never
made such statements
Thomas Steward (colored), testified Did
not vote at the election in 1876; witness knew
of many cOlOred men who, like himself, joined
Democratic clubs.
New ORLEANS, July II.
Several witnesses were introduced to prove
the bad character of Hiram Smedley, who
testified that be had seen Joseph W. Jones
sign Weber's name to the Anderson-Weber
agreement, that they wouldnot believe Smed-
ley on oath.
John s. Dula (coored), of West Feliciana
Parish, testified Was Parish Judge in 1916;
was invited to resign, but did not resign;
charging intimidation, violence and murder;
made the statements on information received
from others. Cross examination by Gov Cox
brought out the statement from Dula that he
had been daily in the company of f. /. Weber
for the past week; that Weber had offered
witness $500 and a promise of a position in the
public school as teacher If witness would fol-
low his (Weber's) example, recant the afiida-
Wits before the Returning Board, and deny in
timidatiOn in the parish. Witness believed
Arm Dunpan w
day, had been paid by Weber; understood
money was paid up by gentleman from New
York. Witness received $40 from Weber yes
terday and $35 to-day; was to receive the bal
ance after testifying; said this was the only
bribery case he had ever had anything to do
with. ....
s. H. st. Martin, of st. James Parish, testi-
fed Was present in Weber's room when the
interviews mentioned by Dula took place;
Dula and | talked of Weber's testimony, and
Dula said he believed there was money in it,
said Swasey would go along with them but he
wanted $1,000; Dula said If he could get
81, 500 he could manage Swasey, Dula giving
witness to understand he was going with
Weber on the same line of testimony; never
heard Weber offer Dula any money, but
Weber borrowed ten dollars of witness yester-
day, which was paid to Dula by Weber.
E. L. Weber recalled: Heard the testimony
OF Dula to-day; his statement that attempted
to bribe him is false admitted loaning Dula
the money as stated by st. Martin.
NEW ORLEANS, July Is.
T. NJ. J. Clarke (colored), of East Feliciana,
| testified: Had two or three interviews with
| K. l.. Weber recently; Weber wanted me to
recant testimony given before the Howe COM
mittee; the testimony then given was true,
| Weber offered me S115 and position at S15
| per month If would testify us he wished
| Dula also asked witness to go with Weber;
my impression is that Dula wanted me to
| make money; said bales of it had been sent
here from New York; Dula said Weber was to
| give him $500 to testify witness detailed acts
| of violence by whites, including the murder
of John Gair; said the cOlored people never
banded together for unlawful purposes; never
| thought of such thing; has heard that col
ored people were recently whipped in East
| Feliciana, but refused to give names.
Geo. A Swnsey (colored), of West Felci-
ana, testified: Had an interview with Webera
| few days ago, and before he went to Washing
| ton he wanted me to take back what | had
testified to before the Senate committee; re-
| fused to do it: witness refused to repeat the
private conversation between himself and
Weber, said his testimony before the Senate
committee was from information received
| from others.
New ORLEANS July 10.
Judge Morris Marks testified relative TO the
| Shcrman-Anderson interview, confirming sub
stantially the account of the affair heretofore
| published NV attention was called to tele-
Times of Feb. 4, about a woman being there
representing herself as Mrs, ID. A. Weber. l
knew Mrs. Weber very well, and being about
to leave for Washington, called on her, and,
referring to the article asked her If she knew
who the party was. Mrs. Weber seemed much
surprised, and after studying the matter over
said it must be Mrs. jerks. Mrs. Weber then
told how Mrs. jerks had come to her house
and told of document ID. A. Weber must
have had; that il she (Mrs. Jenks) could get il
she could make good use of it. She could
not satisfy Mrs. jerks until she had gone over
all the papers belonging to her husband; that
she then and there did go over all of ID. A
Weber's papers and could not find any such
document, and Mrs. jerks finally left. Mrs
Weber said she wanted this woman shown VI
as an impOster; that she had never authorized
this woman to represent her, as she had NJ
such documents. She authorized me to draw
up letter denouncing the woman in Wash
ington as an imposter l had no pen and inl
then, but went away and came back abou
twelve; | met L. l.. Weber in the room; Web
er asked me if didn't think it unwise fo
Mrs. d. A. Weber to mix herself up in news
paper controversies.
; New ORLEANS, July 20.
Further testimony was taken as to the gen
!. eral bad character of Hiram Smedley. T. w
Dalton, Annie Mitchell and Riley NOTtiiss
formerly of West Feliciana Parish, all of whom
; had made affidavits in the Custom House
/ and testified before the Senate Committee
a Their testimony was the same in character
They each recanted their previous affidavit
and testimony given before the Howe Senat
Committee, saying the statements made wer
not true, and that they were made at the il
stance Of others for political purposes.
Il NEW ORLEANS, July q.
: Julius Green, Howard Thornton, job
j, Legarde, cOlored men, formerly of West f,
: licana Parish, testified that they had mad
>. atfidavits before the Returning Board. Whe
. the affidavits were read TO them to-day, the
II denied the most important statements as
s intimidation, each averring that the afid
II Wits were not read to him after being pr
n pared, In the cross-eXaminatiOn, by Go
~ Cox Green admitted the correctness Of sever
i important statements contained in the afiid
n Wit.
a j. ~ Hagens, attorney of New Orleans pr
a. pared the affidavit in the Custom House
1876, of Donald Swasy, in the duly prescribe
g manner of making up atiidavits, by questio
}, ing witness and taking down his stat
l. ments. The witness honestly and fairly
!, duced to writing the statements made by W
- nesses. They were not influenced, to
SC knowledge, to make statements that were n
~ true. | furnished list of witnesses tn
d were summoned for the Howe Committee,
IA Guiding those whose aiiidavits | had pl
~ pared.
- l.. F. Bsugnion, Supervisor of Registrat
III in West Baton Rouge, testified regarding &C
at versations with Weber, showing that Wei
to was afraid to return to West Feliciana Pari
to after the eection also that he had been
W formed that Senator Alain (colored) had
IL ceived g., 900 for having the names of seve
to electors omitted from Republican tcke
at which were furnished tO voters of the par
as Oscar Holt, of West Baton Rouge, meml
~ ~~ of the Packard Legislature, testified Il
90 Alain furnished the ticket with the names
ed several electors omitted; also that Baugni
told witness that Alain had received 50 900
emitting the names
A Close Shave.