The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-02-26
R1No's STORY.
Hi0 Arrival in 0t Louis Whero He
d Interviewed.

u Interviewed.
Reno arrived in 81. Louis on Mouda,
night, on his way to Indiana He v,s in
terviewed BY the Sc. Louis reporters, ana
this is the story he told TO the RspSbiiea'
man:
RENO's STORY.
The matter Of securing . Communication
he said, Vac 6r~t preached by State Sena
tor, about tn es weeks before Gov. Brown
vent out Of Office. He told me that there
was to be Senatorial contest, and deal OF
wire working. and ii had . mind to put
up for il, he thought he could get me Il
Communication. He askesi me how much
could put up, and l told him had Ills
in money and bill Of sale from Jaceard
for 81, 2l5 worth Of jewelry, and ! would b
willing to paw all OF j, for pardon. Find
ing that ! couldn't get . full pardon,
agreed to pay that amount Tor cVmmuta
ton to ten years, which was taking fifteen
years ID NV sentence. He said that tina,
would BE- all right, and agreed to get wha,
asked. He went to work. and ~as the
only man l knew in the matter till this
great hullabaloo Was kicked up recently.
One night, aoout the date OF the in~ugurs-
ton OF Woodson, ! vas sent for to come into
tn. warden's Office. vent, and found there
the Senator and Warden Dougherty. The
Senator said to me pointing toward Dough
erty, "well, there's your Communication"
Dougherty pulled a paper from his pocket
and shook j, before me saying. "is-, here
it is" II was just supper time, and didn't
have any time to stsy, 20 didn't examine
the paper, n l suppossd that it vas all
right, the warden having said 80. The SEN
ator then said to me. Il suppose that is sat-
isfactory," and said .yes." ] then said,
~You can speak to Gelattly (the superinten-
dent Of the stone-shoP, and the man With
whom I had deposited the bill Of sale for
the jewelry) and have him turn over the
jewelry to you" At his suggestion, j
scratched out the name Of the Senator from
the order for the money and the iewelry and
inserted the name Of John Cox. ] had been
told beforehand that q man BY the name Of
Cox Was working the case, and that it
wouldn't do to mention the Senator's name
because Of his Official position. had never
seen Cox, nor have ! seen him
to this day. now know, however, that my
vas on file in the varden's
Office for three days. and then disappeared
under these peculiarcir cumstances. You
see, in 1870, during the administration Of
Mr.. d. A. Wilson - warden, ] received
81 ,l78. and q ! had no good plsce to keep
il, / requested him to put it out 1t interest
for me. He loaned il to the Presbyterian
church at six per cent. When he wss SUI
perseded BY Dougherty he turned over the
receipts to the latter. As l learned after.
ward. Dougherty brought suit against the
church for the money and recovered il, but
I not only did not authorize him to do 90,
bot did not even know he had done il till
six months after he got the money. Well,
the jewelry was turned over BY Gallattly
according to order, and then Cox went {"
DOusherty and presented the order for my
money. Dougherty, however, couldn's
pay, and Cox sn~tched from him the COM
mutation and took it away with him. So
the senator had my jewelry, Cox had my
Dougherty had my money,
and had stesdv job for twenty-five years
TO come. Dougherty told Helatsly to strike
the CO, umutation from the files, ~ il WASH,
there any more. There was nothing more
about the Communicative till last July
About the 10th u July, Cox, thinking my
time WA up (although IN this he vas mis-
taken, for it wasn't up till six months later
wrote to my brother Clinton at Seymour,
Ind. and told him that he (Cox) held my
communication. He stated that If Clinton
would pay HIM 81 QUO he voIld deliver the
paper, and I would be freed. He alsO
stated that il Clinton doubted this represen-
tStion he would have the communication
photographed. and would send = copy "a
satisfy him. Clinton did not answer the
letter, but forwarded it to me, and ! wrsts
On answer. signing Clin,on's name, and
sending il to Clinton to b. mailed FROM
Seymour. Ind.
Rep. How did you get those letters u
and out without having them intercepted
Reno. Well, when . mans been II
there for seven or eight years be knows
hos to get things in and out without hav-
ing them interfered with, although Al
eighteen-months man probably couldn'. d.
it. However. as I was telling you. wrot'
q letter telling Cox that i would be YER,
glad to save my brother (myself) even II
had to mortgage nv farm. But l woul.
want to be sati.6ed that there Was u com
mutation in existence, and would therefor
insist on Photograph eopy. Nv idea "a
to get copy theus, and then make tn
mo.s Of il. But Cox evsdently dropped OF
The little game, and never answered the le,
ter. So nothing more Wa done in the mai
ter till my time vas out. Then / ask~
the lawyer to recommend me a good Las
yer, and he recommended n. C. Ewin,
Who proved to be IN honest, earnest lawyer
I told him my story, end that would b
willing to pay $3.50 for the commuts tio
document He wrote to Cox at st. JOt
telling him 70 come down and consult abOu
that matter, and be answered that he voul,
Bot be failed to arrive on time, and We d
termined 10 use the $3.50 in getting proc
Of the Communication, independently Of u
document itself. We commenced to tai
depoais,ons in Je6ersoo City and St Loui
and Gov. Brown depossd that the eomm'
tation was without date or term Of sentence
k.,s 81 - suk..cn>ot0v uSovad In h. linen