The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-20

| bllbb bk6S6 Dup6TS were A5cOTuIlR
signed ON the Goth, and taken to Washington
on the same day, they are not the papers you
signed2
Al am not travelling on any hypothesis
now. am telling facts, You ask II this is
nay signature, and state emphaCtcally that
Mr.. BlacRburn~But Mr.. Hill, who took
these papers to Washington, has testified
that they were signed In the, morning, and he
left with them for Washington at 30 on the
evening of the twenty-ninth Of December; &C.
cording to your own showing, If this man
Arrieux was killed on the 27tb, you were in
Donaldeonville on the 10Th.
Al have nothing to do with the testimony
of other people.
Mr. Blackburn then questioned witness as
| to the time Of his stay In Donaldsonville.
Witness could not say. The morning he ar
| rived two men, who have since been convicted
OF the killing, were arrested.
| Mr.. Blackburn then examined witness fur
! Their about his conversation with Mrs. Weber.
| Nothing new was elected, excepting that
witness left the house with the Impression
that Weber was interested in the party in
! Washington, and that during the time elaps-
| ing between his (wttne6s) first visit and his
second that e. l.. Weber had advised her not
| to give the letter of authorizations
In reply to questions witness said that he
could not see any improperly In bringing
| Sheabarger into Shernans office because
he did not know the purport OF Anderson's
visit, and thought Secretary Sherman was
/
manner in which he pleased. Anderson was
| introduced to Mr.. Shellabarger, but was not
advised that he was Sherman's counsel, but
| that he was counsel was published in the
| Washington papers. / do not think that I
told any one that l had not gone for Mr..
Shellabarger. / am not positive. | am not
In the habit, however, of saying things that
are not so, excepting in joke. will say, how
ever, that after the interview the Washington
Post came out with double loaded article
about it, and all the papers took it up. | was
run to death about the matter by the report
ers, and / did everything / could to shake
them off, and | have no doubt that there are
twenty reporters who could swear that told
| them that knew nothing about it, / do not
| think 1t probable that | should have made
such Q specific statement as that never went
after Shellabarger, and am almost positive
| that / never said that | had letter from
Shellabarger stating that had not come. |
| might have made IL at statement, but donot
remember TO have made it.
| To Mr.. Cox-My visit to Mrs, Weber was on
the sixth of February.
| Mr.. Cox here read an extract from letter
of Weber dated the same day, stating that
Marks had come up to see Mrs. d. A. Weber
in hurry about the Sherman letter.
Witness said that he did not go up in hur-
ry, and that he said nothing about the Sher
man letter. At that time he knew nothing
about the Sherman letter. Weber had never
said anything to witness to lead him to believe
| that he had any knowledge of the letter. ]
first heard of the murder Of Arrieux from A.
j. Landry at the Cont Hotel. The murder
occurred between and o'clock in the even
| ing. think Landry told me of the murder
IA the evening; 1 am positive that I signed
must be in the time at which / went back.
To Mr.. Blackburn first saw the state
ment in the Times about the woman in Wash
| lngton, in Donaldsonville. | cannot say pos
itively that was not in New Orleans the day
preceding my interview with Mrs. Weber. l
do not remember to have gone from New Or
leans to DOnaldsonville within forty-eight
| hours preceding the interview. | did not say
| that ID. A. Weber had told me that he had
such letter as the woman In Washington
claimed to have. 1 believed that AndersOn's
frequent visits to Washington were in the In
terest of DR.. Darrall. who was
A CANDIDATE FOR COLLECTOR OF THE PORT
OF NEW ORLEANS.
suspected Weber from the time of the inter-
view, and lost confidence in him.
Mr.. Blackburn-Well, If you had no con-
fidence In him how is that you, on the twenty
seventh Of May, wrote to him for names of
witnesses and information as to what they
could swear to2
A.-Well, / suspected him Of nothing evil,
but did think he was connected with this
party in Washington and wanted to bulldoze
the administration into giving him an office.
Some two or three weeks before l wrote this
letter received one from young friend of
mine, telling me that Weber wanted to hear
from me; that he would do anything he could
for me, and that II / wanted letter he had
he would send it. paid no attention to 1t.
The way | came to write this letter was
this: Mr. Wilson asked me who was @ good |
man to furnish him q list Of names of wit |
nesses Of East Feliciana. | told him 3. l.. |
Weber, and at his request / wrote l did not |
get Weber's answer to my letter through Mr.. |
John Sherman; | am not positive, but do
not think did.
Mr.. Blackburn then examined witness as
to statements in his letter. Witness said he |
spoke.of an appointment for Mrs. Weber be- |
cause she had asked him to secure her the |
place of postmistress. He spoke of Weber |
getting an appointment because witness had |
been asked by young man named Jacobs to |
get him (Weber) a position. Weber himself |
never asked him to secure him one. ] was |
satisfied that he would get the appointment, |
and that Is why | asked him II he had got it. |
He was positive that Mrs. Weber and E. L. |
Weber would be summoned as witnesses be-
fore the Potter committee, and that was why |
he said it in his letter, but he was not told by |
either Mr. Shellabarger or Mr.. Wilson, his |
partner.
Witness in this examination got terribly |
mixed up in dates and had finally to state |
that he could not fix dates, that he had come
direct from his office, and had not time to
look up data.
Mr.. Stenger here presented witness his oath |
obtained from the Auditor; the date was De- |
Cember 3, 1876; also presented copy of the |
record in the case against the men charged |
with the murder of Arrieux. The date of the |
murder as set down in the record was De-
cember 81.
The committee adjourned until 10 80 o'clock
this morning.
TEXAS.