Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-22
Mrs. jerks on the Stand.

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Mrs. jerks on the Stand.
At 10 minutes after Il o'clock Mrs jerks
was sworn, and was examined by Gen Butler.
She was asked if she ever claimed to be i'm
possession of any document which Andel son
wanted?
A. He never told me what document he
wanted until last January.
=. Did you have it?
A. did not have it IN my possession. did
not know where 1t waS-that is, the document
he wanted. He wanted the Sherman letter /
knew of the document he called the Sherman
January. Before that he wrote a letter ask
ing for the document the dead beats" had
given him in Louisiana: | always associated
some do cument that the McVeigh commission
had given hin.
Q. Did you know of any document beforetl.e
A did not think about it before last Janu-
AIRY. knew there was a document said to be
in existence. i did not know the exact place
it was. might have seen a document; I did
see document.
q. Did you have il?
A. No: not exactly.
g. How near exactly did you have it?
in my possession. did not have it any length
OF time. might have had it two minutes and
Q: Where were you when you had it two
and a half minutes?
A. In New Orleans.
q. Where were you?
A. think was in the street.
2. Who showed it to you?
O. HGDodyi HotS diG Won seti If,
A. 1t might have been handed over to an
Q How did you get that document you had
IN your hand two minutes and half in the
A. lifted it up off the table.
q. VINO was with you when you picked
A: There were several people in the room.
| picked it up of the table and had it ten min
utes in the street. l picked it up in parlor
| how ii got there.
| q. VINO was in the room?
A. A number of the visiting statesmen and
members of the returning board-Garfeld and
Hale. They were all there. After left the
hotel went down Canal street; can't remem-
Der where went from place to place.
| q. After you got the document what did you
| do with it?
A. presented it TO Dan Weber at the ladies'
entrance of the st. Charles hotel. don't know
that he was waiting for it; think though he
e sid him Dfs go to mSs hofe hMsSer
2 Did you take up any document with you
which you handed to any body?
A had little note.
Q. Who did you hand that note tor Who
| was it from?
A That's direct question.
y. And give me direct answer. From whom
| A. wish to say in the presence of this COM
! mIttee and the country at large, that l dis
| tinctly and entirely exOnerate Mr.. Secretary
| Sherman from any completely with the Weber
Anderson guarantee. If there is political dis.
| honor in it, alone am responsible for it. 1
| alone knew the outcome and the OutgO OF it.
iex0nerate Mr.; Secretary Sherman, and Mr..
| thing about it, gentlemen.
the st. Charles Hotel?
A: He did. Senator Sherman was not in the
room; he was not there. | am speaking of
parlor ''P'' OF the hotel. Mr.. Weber told me
that the note set forth that Mr.. Anderson was
not satisfied, and he wanted guarantee. Mr.
Weber said he had letter he wanted me to
take to Secretary Sherman. was on my way
to the st. Charles hotel at the time. [ met
He said Anderson was not satisfied and want
ed guarantee. At the time | didn't think
anything of the note, so l took it.
| z, What did you do with 1t?
A bit the end of it. was little ashamed
that Anderson wanted a guarantee. l thought
that the word of men OF The standing of the
! visiting statesmen should be sufficient guar
antee, without its being in wriGing.
q; Wren you got to parlor "P'' who did you
A. Several people were there, but didn't
present the letter. Senator Sherman was not
present.
Witness was then shown he copy of
| THE ALLEGED SHERMAN LETTER.
| She said she had seen it a few times.
| z. Was the letter written in 'PariOr P?"
A. 1t was The visiting statesmen were
present, but were too busy with the returning
board to know what was going on. picked
| It up and carried ii to Weber. 1 handed it to
mn him and walked away; He didn't tell me
| where be was going: didn't ask him.
y. Have you seen the document since YOU
| handed it to Weber?
| =, A. have not; No one would preserve it in
| tne inca archlves. l have never looked for that
Witness then went on to tell how Anderson
had written to her husband to get certain doc
| 9ments, but she never thought he wanted the
Q. You didn't mean that Anderson should
get that letter?
- A; Not to use unjustly. considered that
the letter belonged to the party. l don't know
put what l could have given the letter to An.
derson at any time if l had hunted for it, and
known what he wanted.
A letter was read which Mrs. jerks wrote
to. to Mrs; Weber; asking her to look for the let
when it was last seen by Anderson and jerks
when they went to the boat with him when he
left New Orleans, and in which Mrs. jerks
said she would remunerate her for it.
A letter was read written by
ANDERSON y TO CAPT. JENKs,
guaranteeing him 81, 600 if he could get posses
% sion %, Of that letter" addressed to Anderson
Witness did not vary from the statement
that she did not think that Anderson wanted
had with her husband, because She did not
think Kit it Was sSsranyy Of any Importance dIas
A. Guarantees. you know, were the order of
the day there in Louisiana. You could get any
kind of a guarantee. If you had wanted one
from the Sublime Porte you could have gotten
it.
@. Did you understand the letter which is
descril as having been in Weber's left hand
pocket as the Sherman letter?
A. Most decidedly not, for had 1 so under
stood il would not have taken the trouble to
have locked for it.
ALETTER WAS READ
written by Mrs. jerks to Gov. Kellogg, which
says: I'm regard to the Anderson affair mos
quitOes can't bite, but they can annoy Yon
will see by the within letters of Anderson that
he is not IN possession of the letter, and Won
may rest assured he tcfH neUer oct it, We have
the power to extract his fangs. He has nO
documentary proof to prove the assertion. /
want to let you know he is harmless.
n. B. looked up the letter here referred to
long ele the within was written. Pray return
TINS TO me look upon it as invioate" The
letter Is signed Agnes D. jerks"
Mrs. jerks: And it should have been invio- |