Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-13

by him (Jenks) james +. Anderson tes-
titled that jerks dictated to him the affidavit
in question and swore to it before Seymour.
Notary Public. The understanding was that
Anderson was to show the affidavit to Mat
thews, and endeavor to secure jerks an ap-
pointment on the strength of it......Emile
Weber, brother of Daniel Weber. deceased,
was sworn and read written statement to
the effect that Ire had no personal knowledge
that Democratic intimidation existed I'm the
parishes of East and West Feliciana. His
brother, Daniel Weber, and James Z. An
derson, had informed him the two parishes
had gone Democratic. Influence was brought
to bear upon his brother to make his
protest, and he SEmile) had been approach
his brother to effect the signing of the pro-
test. He saw Anderson sign his protest, and
left, Judge Campbell attached the iurat to
the paper. Ii was not sworn to by Anderson.
ing statesmen, and he (weber) knew that
Sherman had given his brother assurances
which caused him to allow his protest to
in consultation with sherman, explained to
him that his brother thought his parish had
gone Democratic, and he was disposed to
take back his protest, thereupon MIR. sher-
man assured him his brother would be cared
for, and he requested that he send his
brother to him; that his brother, on the
day he. received 1t, showed him the Sher-
man letter OF assurance, and said he
had M received &c direct from MT; sherman; n
sherman, and was satisfied that the letter
was written by that gentleman. In 1877 the
fication to the Weber family, and his sister.
fn.law, Mrs. Daniel Weber, had endeavored
to find it among the papers OF her husband,
a large shoe-box. Late in the summer of 1877
he (witness) made search for the letter, and
had found it in a shoe-bo and destroyed it
forthwith. Mrs. jerks had been in no way
connected with the authorship of the Sher
man letter. Witness further stated that he
was personally cogniZant of the Anderson
Weber agreement. His brothers murder was
not done by political enemies, but by person
witness and embodied in the Sherman report,
making sweeping charges of intimidation in
the parish of West Feliciana, witness said
that he did not read the paper or he should
not have signed it; he had no defense to
make for his action except to say it was
done without deliberation. letter was here
been written by himself. 1t was addressed to
his cousin j. III. Weber, and gave an account
it the writer says: "The assassins of d. A. are
at large as yet, and officiating in the capacity
OF Nicholls's officers in the parish he lived in.
West Feliciana, and Republicans, with ter
ror imprinted on G. cir faces, whisper to each
other, who will be next? Under Govern
ment at this time in this state, administered
by Nichols and his band of assassins, and
founded upon blood, there is not and
never will be any security tor life and prop
erty. ID. A. leaves a wife and three little ba-
bies, the oldest only three years of age.
This alone would have been enough to have
spared his life had not the brutes been thirsty
for the blood OF innocent and defenseless Re-
pubhcans... Our situation in the North can
not be understood, or am sure the people
would not tolerate the state of affairs which
actually exists here. One by one our white and
Ct lored Republicans are murdered here by
daylight, and always by parties unknown.
We have endured more than our share of
wrong and outrage, and unless the General
Government come to our rescue, we must
either suffer the fate of ID. A. or leave the
State. This is a threat made against us pub
licly and without fear ID. AS wife and ba-
bies have moved from st. F'ville to Donald
sonville. have also been obliged for secu-
r-ffx 0n In tn IN n A
have abandoned all our property ana left 1t
at the mercy of the brutes. If Packard is
in due time have the assassins of my brother
arrested and punished. III Nichols becomes
Governor, and an attempt on our part to
arrest or convict the murderers is made, we
will, beyond any doubt, suffer DEATH" During
the reading of the letter Mr.. Cox examined
the witness in regard to various statements
contained therein, and the witness replied
that all statements made were vouched for
by him from information he had received,
and he then believed them to be true; but he
had since learned that he had been misin-
ferrnea- lie now pronpunced the statements
contained therein TO be false. He suDse-
for political effect; that he supposed the per-
son to whom the letter was addressed was GO
ing TO have Il published, and It would create
ard Government.
Emile Weber further testified on the Sd !:
Senator Sherman assured him in a converse
ton, that if his brother would stand by his
protest he would be protected and in comph
ance with the request of Sherman he got his
brother to go and see him. His brother subse-
quently showed him the sherman letter and
witness took il in his hand and read it. 1t
was written on a double sheet of commercial
note paper. (Mrs jerks te stifed IL was writ
ten on n single sheet of commercial letter pa
per.) Witness said it was arranged before
the election by Kellogg, Thomas G. Anderson
and Packard, to throw out the Feliciana par
ishes on intimidation afiidavits; he was as
sured by Kellogg and others that If he would
use his influence with his brother to carry
out the scheme, that he (witness) would be
returned to the Senate. He was defeat
clared elected by 600 majority by the Re-
turning Board referring to the case of Eliza
Pinkston, witness said that some of the Wis
iting statesmen had interviews with her
before she was brought before the Returning
Board; he was of the opinion that the So
called outrage was n put-up job. Witness
told about Mrs. Jenks's visit to Mrs. ID. Weber
in search of the Sherman letter, which she al
ways spoke of as such, and never intimated
that she had any thing to do with the author
ship oft. She told Mrs. Weber that the letter
was worth thousands of dollars, and that she
would pay her a good price for it. Judge
Marks, now Internal Revenue Collector ai
New Orleans, had also visited Mrs. Weber ant
requested her to make a statement that she
had never known of the Sherman letter. Al
the close of his T. stimony witness was or
dered to report to the sub committee at New
| Orleans on the 10th, where he will be cross
examined by Gen. Cox. The Committee theI
| adjourned till July 10.
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