Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-07
THE "COPARCENERs."
The authors of the Cipher kilograms 4s.
ranging Their Plan of Defense.
/ New York Tribunel

New York Tribune.
| Several of the men prominent as leaders
IN the cipher conspiracy are now in this city.
They have been holding secret consultations.
it is said, with view of arranging defense
with which to appear before the Potter COM
mittee. @. W.. Woolley, of Cincinnati, has
been in the city for several days. Col. Pei
ton arrived from Montreal on Friday, and
Senator Barnum, of Connecticut, came to
the city on the same day. Smith M. Weed,
of Plattsburgh, arrived yesterday morning.
Manton Marble and Samuel j. Tilden are
also in the city.
| They all decline to talk on the subject, or
discuss the nature of their proposed defense,
but an intimate friend and business associate
of one of them said last night: sMr. Tilden
will ask to come before the Potter commit
tee, and he will declare his ignorance of any
thing regarding the so-called conspiracy.
The other persons implicated will also relieve
Mr.. Tilden of any blame in order to allow
him to be the next Presidential candidate on
the Democratic ticket. They will deny that
the translations made by the Tribune are
correct, and will produce a key that has been
meaning from that furnished by the Tribune.
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and escape themselves"
A consultation was reported to have been
held last night by the 'coparceners'' at pri-
vate residence up town.
That Col. William T. Pelton, the nephew
of his uncle, has returned to this city from
his Canadian retreat is substantiated by the
evidence of the eyes of one of the highest
officials of the general government, who was
on the Friday morning train that brought
Mr.. Pelton home. Several Democrats, in
the Manhattan club and out of it, say they
believe he came back on Friday, but disclaim
all knowledge of his present residence. If
he is stopping at the Gilsey house, the clerks
have been instructed to keep the fact a
secret.
At Mr.. Tilden's law Office in Wall street,
on Saturday, no information could be OBJ
tanned which amounted to clew. Mr.. Til
denis servant said that Col. Pelton was 'not
stopping at Creamery park
81 can't tell you anything about Mr.. Pei
toms return,' said former officer of the
Democratic national committee "The last
heard from him he was at the Windsor
hotel, in Montreal. His daughter and a lady
relative were with him. They had been
passing two or three weeks making tour of
Canada
10 you know whether Smith NJ. Weed
visited Col. Pelton in Montreal?''
81 don't know that he did. When heard
that Col. Pelton had gone to Canada, like
others, perhaps, wondered if he had left
the country to place himself beyond the
reach of any committee. He could not afford
to do that. 1t would be construed as con-
fession of guilt
At Manton Marbles residence, No. 532
Fifth avenue, inquiries for Mr.. Pelton were
unavailing. It is a theory, however, that
Col. Pelton has taken refuge in Mr.. Marbles
"ark, !" and that the hatchways have been
closed and battened down. 1t is thought to
be the plan of the members of the cipher
plot to keep away from Mr.. Tilden's person,
while arranging for their defense, as it is
said to be apopular fallacy among them that
such course would place Mr.. Tilden little
higher above suspicion than his letter left