The Portland daily press., 1878-07-03

Q-When you wrote this letter did you not
hope that the person to whom it was addressed
would publish it 10 newspaper?
Ayes sir.
Q-You thought be would publish it as q pri-
yate letter written from there telling the
Northern people how those Democrats were
bulldozing you?
Ayes sir; that is just the way thsss state
ments were made.
Q-And this was meant TO have an effect
upon the public miBd and bring the admins
tration around to the support of the Packard
government?
Ayes sir.
Q-Have You continued to live in Louisiana
ever since?
Ayes sir.
Q-And it is we'll known that you were
supporter of the Packard government?
Ayes sir.
Q-Have you ever been troubled by the peo-
pie there?
A-No sir.
Q-Has Mrs. D. A. Weber or her family
been troubled since the Nichols government
came into power?
A-No sir.
Witness was then questioned by the chair
man in regard to the details of his brothers
deaf and stated there were parties suspected
OF the murder, but nothing definite had been
discovered In that respect.
Witness stated that he also wrote similar
letter to Gov. Kellogg, but not SO highly COL
oieuS uub uo ulun KNOW whether h6llOgg
used it with the administration.
Q-ls this kind of political writing common
in your part of the country?
A-Have 10 doubt there was great deal of
it.
Q-Was it not the stock in trade of the
Packard people to get up feeling in regard to
the outrages in the South in order to get the
administration to sustain them as against the
Nichols government?
A-That is no doubt in accordance with the
facts.
Witness-I have also prepared written
statement giving the details of my brothers
death, which L will read to the committee.
Witness then read the statement referred to
giving facts heretofore made public and stating
that it is his opinion that his brother was
killed because he made himself obnoxious to
the people by threatening to publish list of
the def iulting tax payers in the parish and
having previously rendered himself unpopular
by the publication of his protest, his personal
enemies took advantage of this fact. The
murder was not done by political enemies but
by personal ones.
Q-You swear to the statement you have
Just made as being the true cause of your
brothers death?
Al do. These men were his personal
enemies before.
Q-What had been the cause of that personal
enmty?
Al don't know particularly. know he
had personal difficulty with Col. Robert Ell.
Barrow, first fight with him in my mothers
store and he beat the old man terribly. This
was sometime in 1875
Witness being questioned as to when he had
seen Secretary Sherman write, said:
remember seeing Mr.. Sherman write in the
custom house either on the 18th or 10th of
November. Messrs. Garfield, Hale. Stoughton,
Sherman and others were sitting in the Giffer-
ent groups at the tables in the collectors room.
went and talked with Secretary Sherman and
read the writing he was making All the Re-
publican witnesses were taken in there to them
and it was in there they had their conferences
and talked together. While was there saw
Mr.. Sherman write very distinctly 1 looked
at him minute or two on that occasion. He
told me to go out and get my brother, d. A.
Weber, and James E. Anderson.
Q-Dd you're see Mr.. Sherman write at
any other time?
Al don't remember that did,
By Mr.. Morrison-How many voters are
there in West Feciana parish?
A-About 1000 altogether and of that num-
Der not mora than twelve or fifteen are white
Republicans.
Q-Has any harm come to the rest of these
men uD there except Mr.. Weber?
A-None at all.
Without concluding the examination of the
witness the committee at 40 went into execu-
tive session and afterwards adjourned till
Wednesday marning.