The New York herald., 1879-10-31
AN ALLEGED PLOT.
Startling Charges Against The Counsel and
Friends Of a Convicted Murderer.
iMPUGNING GUILTLESS MEN.
Secret History OF the Costly Re-
trials or Orlando Greenfield.
[Dy TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
SYRACUSE, N. Y. Oct. 80. 1879.
Three times tried and twice sentenced to be
hanged Nathan Orlando Greenfield, found guilty OF
the crime of wife murder. under the ban of
death and awaits his execution which, bT the direc
tion of the Court is to take place in
this city Friday, December II. An endeavor
is being made to secure another and the
fourth trial for the condemned man. over
900 have been expended in the three trials. ana
the county of Oswego. which has been compelled TO
pay this enormous expense is lowering on the verge
of bankruptcy in consequence or it, 1t may DC sai'
without exaggeration. that nc murder case III Tue
State OF New York ever attained as much ceieori'y
this. Parties from almost every State east OF the
Mississippi were connected with the trial as witness
ses.
NEW REVELATIONS PRETENDED.
During tho past few days interest in the case OF
Orlando Greenfield has been revived by the pubca-
tion of ALLEGED revelations made in Lafayette, Ind
which charged the murder Of Alice Greenfield upon
Royal and Alden Kellogg and George Hines. and de-
rlared Orlando Greenfield. the prisoner to be inno-
cent OF the crime. These alleged revelations pro-
duced marked effect upon public opinion, which
was divided the question of Greenteld's inno-
cence or guilt. The substance OF the Indiana
story that old lady by the name
or MlIly Drake, VINO was sa1u 10 De tne motner VI
Alden and Royal Kellogg. has stated to reporter
that the Kelloggs confessed to her that they and
George Hines killed Mrs. Greenfield. first having
committed assault upon her person and then
numbering her to cover up their crime. The lead
ing journals of the country have published the
statement made by Milly Drake and the opinion has
gone abroad that Greenfield is innocent of the crime
for which he has been twice convicted and that the
guilty parties had at last confessed the truth.
HISTORY.
Mr.. John j. Lamoree who has conducted the case
for the people in all three Of Greenfeds trials made
important statement to the HERALD correspon-
dent to-day He gives the secret and unwritten his
tory Of the case explains the manner in which the
scheme for preparing the anonymous letter was
concocted and tells story which has never before
been made public. Mr.. Lamoree's statement is as
follows
.In the first place, Miy Drake. the old lady, who
is reported having been interviewed by the Ind
lana reporter, is not the mother of Royal and Alden
Kellogg. On the contrary, Mrs. William I. Olney,
of Michigan City, Ind, is their mother. There is
such person Milly Drake residing at Lafayette.
She is aunt of the Keloggs. In the
statement of Miss Drake it is stated
that Royal Kellogg at the time of the murder OF
Alice Greenfield resided on farm adjoining that of
the Greenfelds. This statement is wholly untrue.
Royal Kellogg dlu reside ABOUT mile ana quarter
north of Greenfield during the first two years subse-
quent to the murder.
IMPLICATED.
Neither of the two Kelloggs were connected in any
manner with the tragedy. No pretended to &C.
them of being parties to the crime until after
Greenfield had been convicted of the murder OF his
wife the second trial and had been sentenced to
death. At that time Royal Kellogg was visiting his
mother. Mrs. Oney, at Lafayette. Ind. and Alden
KILL i1al he 0f fhe hnp p1iciIe
Neither Royal nor his brother Alden were ever
arrested tor any offence until about the Oath day Of
October. 1877. at which time Greenfield being under
sentence of death. both were arrested upon COM
plant of Judge Huntington senior counsel for
Greenfield upon the charge of having murdered Alice
Greenfield Miily Drake stated that the Kelloggs
Hines stole Greenfelds watch and gun and $50 in
tbe theney facts uH clearly estabished by the evi
dence of Greenfield himself show that
his watch stolen three weeks before the murder
was com mtted, and that Charles Grinnes, a cousin
OF Greenfield, stole it; that Josiah Hilton, neigh
Dor. impaired that fact to Greenfield at about
nine O'Clock the night OF the murder, and
that the murdered woman confessed to Green
field the night about twelve o'clock that the
statement of Hilton in regard tho stealing of the
watch was correct. and that Grinnes had the watch
i'll his possession. Greenfield himself has sworn
that he discovered the loss of the watch many DAYS
before the murder committed. SO you that
The alleged statement of Mly Drake in reference
the stealing of the watch is utterly false.
GUN.
"To show how utterly groundless is the charge
that either Kellogg Hines any one but Greenfield
murder perhaps / should state that early July
II, 1877, / obtained ciew to the where
aDonts OF the , gun On @ ,nat caloa Eay, more tSr,
the gun found, one George Hopkins informed
Colonel Woodbury. ana myself that the gun was in
the hands OF the Greenfelds and was about to be
brought out and used as newly discovered evidence
on which to obtain trial for Greenfield. and.
while declining give further evidence III relation
to it, that he himself had seen it. Hop
kins advised to Charles w. Paddock
with an assurance that he would tell all about the
,gup n
net Charles w. Paddock and learned from him that
the gun was then in the house OF Richard Green
Ged, father of Orlando; that some three or
tour weeks ago before this interview, while
he Paddockl was passing the house of Rich.
Of Orlando, and who is jointly indicted
with him tor the murder. called to him from the
piazza. Paddock left his team standing in the road,
went to the piazza and was interrogated by Betsy
Ann with reference to his ability to identity
The gun as the one owned by Orlando.
field and Orlando that they intended shortly to
call him tpaddock) to identity the gun. and that
they should probably so call him to their as
sistance at Pulaski, on July 10, at which time mo-
tion for a trial to be argued Mrs. Green
field then there stated to Paddock that they had
the gun in their possession 1t will be remembered
thnt this interview must have taken place about the
middle of June, 1877.
Paddock further stated on July II that two weeks
prior thereto Just at night he was visited person.
ally by Judge huntington, counsel tor Greenfield,
upon substantially the same errand-nanely, the
identification of Greenfeid's gun. Judge Hunting
ton gave Paddock TO understand. as he stated that
the gun had been found and was about to be pro-
duced in the role of newly discovered evidence.
which he hoped to make available upon the
motion for trial. These facts were
embodied in affidavit subscribed and sworn
to bv Paddock, which affidavit has since remained
in my possession. The joke of the whole matter
lies in the fact that the gun was not brought out
upon the motion for new trial, then pending. but
withheld until the October following. and then
the date OF the hnding OF the gun fixed at period
fvc weeks after, the time that Paddock ana Hop
Lins had impaired these iasts to me in the manner
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