Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-18
Every stroke of the Maui Driving the
stones from Under his Frail Castle
Several Witnesses Examined.

New ORLEANS, July 17.-Several wit
nesses were introduced to prove the bad char
acter Of Hiram Smedley, who testified a few
days ago that he had seen Joseph W. Jones
sign Weber's name to the Anderson Weber
agreement; that no one else was present: and
Jones Is now dead Ex-Chief- Of Police Loan
testified that he knew Smedley; would not
believe him under oath. Ex-District- Attor
ney Beckwith testified that he had refused
Smedley as juror on an important case. be-
cause he didn't think he should be trusted in
such position. Several witnesses testified
that they would not believe Smedley on oath,
and to his general bad character. w. Fl.
Seymour, notary public, contrad1cted the
statement made by Smedley, in his testimony
few days ago, that he Smedley had told
the witness Juratt that the Anderson w eber
agreement was false, and says he never had
any conversation with Smedley.
John y. DuIa, COlOFed,
of West Fehciana parish, testified: | was
parish judge in 1876; was invited to resign,
but did not resign; made an affidavit before
the returning-board charging intimidation,
violence and murder; made statements on
information received from others.
The cross-examination by Governor Cox
brought out the statement from Dula that he
had been daily in the company of E. l.. Weber
for the past week, and that Weber had
offered witness FIVE hundred dollars and the
d
teacher If witness would follow his (Weber's)
example, recant the affidavit before the re-
turning-board and deny the intimidation in
the parish; Weber said he was all right now,
that he had made an arrangement with those
who opposed him, and he thought he would
now be safe anywhere; he had acted wisely,
and advised witness to do the same thing and
place himself right before the people of the
parish and State; witness promised Weber
he would follow his example, but his con-
science would not permit him to do so; wit
ness believed that Armistead and Duncan,
who testified yesterday, had been paid by
Weber; understood that money was put up
by a gentleman from New York; three or
four weeks ago Dula was promised place in
the custom house; witness received tea
dollars from Weber yesterday and thirty-five
dollars to-day; was to receive the balance
after testlfyIng; said this was the only bri-
berry case that he had ever had anything to
do with; thinks it doubtful if colored men
can trust themselves when there is money at
stake.
y, III. st. Martin,
of st. James parish, who was appointed
deputy sergeant alarms of this sub-com-
mittee on the recommendation of E. l.. We
Der, testified that he was present In Weber's
room when the interviews mentioned by Dula
took place; Weber and | room together; we
are very intimate; when Dula first came,
Weber was not In; Dula and ! talked of
Weber's testimony, and Dula said he believed
that there was money in it; he said Swasey
would 90 along with them. but that he
wanted two thousand dollars; Dua said that
if he could get fifteen hundred dollars, he
could manage Swasey, Dula giving witness
to understand that he was going with Weber
on the same line of testimony; never heard
Weber offer Dula any money, but Weber
borrowed ten dollars of witness yesterday and
thirty-ive to-day, which was paid TO Dula
by Weber, Dala remarking that he did not
receive it as Il brlbe but as loan.
T.. l.. Weber
recalled. Heard the testimony of Dula to-
day; his statement that | attempted to bribe
him Is false; admitted loaning Duia the
money as stated by s.. Martin. Testimony
was introduced to show that Seymour. mo-
tary. and L. b, Jenks were acquaintance.