The daily gazette., 1878-07-03
SECOND EDITION
The Sherman Letter.
The Original Document De-
strOyed.
THE BROTHER OF THE MURDER
ED WEBER SWORN.

ER swEARS THAT The SECRETARY
OF THE TREASURY WROTE OUT HIS
PROMISE AND THAT HE HAS SEEN
AND HAS READ IT-MR3. JENKs' EF-
FORT TO SECURE IT.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-Thomas G.
Anderson, Capt. jerks, James Anderson
and Emile l.. Weber were onthe witness
stand in the Potter Committee-room to-
day. The first named repeated his pre-
vious testimony, that he had seen no one
sign the election certificates while in the
Governors Office in New Orleans. The
second affirmed that he had never made
an affidavit similar to the one submitted
in evidence before the Louisiana sub
committee yesterday and printed in the
Press of this morning, while the third de-
clared that jerks had sworn to the docl-
ment. Weber read prepared state
ment substantially to this effect: He had
been actively engaged in Louisiana poll
tics from 1868 to 1876, and intimate with
Kellogg, Packard and almost every promi
nent Republican in the State, and was
fully consulted and trusted by them in
party matters. In rs it was determined
to allow the election in East and West
Eeliciana go by default, with the inten-
ton ofbeing then thrown out by the Re-
turning Board on the ground of intimida.
ton. After the vote, Anderson and ID.
\. Weber (the witness brother) stated
to him their belief that the two parishes
had gone in favor of the Democrats, and
that there did not exist sufficient ground
for protest in either, and expressed their
determination not to make one. OF subse-
quent events the witness said
In regard to the agreement between
James K. Anderson and ID. A. Weber,
here STA e that l personally know that
such an agreement was entered into and
Was substantially the same as has been
presented. My brother was murdered
March I, and his murderers have not " t
been discovered. In the issue of the
Ledger, of which he was the edi'or pre-
vious to his death, he threatened to
emanatiDg from The S ate Auditors
Office, and that is supposed to have SUP
Piled the immeda cause of his d, alh
and to that extent might suggest its au-
thors. While consider this threat the
immediate cause of his assassination,
do not believe that iC would have oc-
cured it he had net made tie pre- test
which deprived the pe ople of their votes
aud thus placed himself in such a posi-
ton that his personal enemies were
encouraged to make this numerous as
SAUL. The people of beth parties have
denounced he acr. In the Sherman re-
port appears a purposed affidavit from
me as United Sta es Supervisor, contain
"a mewhaL sweeping allegation Il III
tlMidalion in the parish of West Fell
cana
L declined when requested to make an
affidavit on this subject, to do so. This
paper was subsequently prepared by l..
b. jerks, and without reading or exam
lining it | signed it. l performed no du-
ties as United States supervisor, and
should not have signed the same if 1 had
previously read it. did not swear to it,
but the jurat was attached by the COM
L
have no defense to make for my action
except to say that tt was done without
deliberation. After the death of my
brother his widow took charge of all his
papers and books and had them sent to
her fathers residence at Donaldsonville,
and their contents were not examined un-
til the summer of 1877. The paper
known as the Sherman letter was a sub
ject of great mortiticatien to Mrs. Weber
and myself, and several times search was
made for it for the purpose of destroying
it. Late in the summer of 1877, exam
ed the papers, found the letter and de-
stroyed it.
The same reasons that IInpelled us to
seek for that letter for its destruction,
induced me to keep silent as to its dis
covery, as the best and easiest way to
have the matter disappear from public
notice. Mrs. jerks V sited my sister-in-
law in summer of 1877 and urged her to
hunt for the Sherman letter. Mrs.
Weber declined to do so or to give her
any information whatever. About the
9th OF May she brought letter from
Gen. Sheldon, Offering to pay Mrs.
Weber's expenses to New Orleans and
Washington iu connection with the Sher-
man letter and theatening, in case she
did not come, to have her arrested and
forced to go. Mrs. jerks and her fus-
band have always called the paper the
Sherman letter. Tom jerks, in fact, has
claimed that his association and co-ope-
ration with Anderson was such as to give
him an equitable right to some of the
benefits that were supposed to be EN-
braced in 1t.