The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-09-10
NJ R. HAYES IMPLICATED.
THE MISSING LINK IN THIEF CAS-
SANAVE'S STORY,

NAS0S - - 0ASA4
How the fraudulent President Interested
Himself in His Louisi.
H. .. ana Ally.
Thousand Dollar Contribution to the
Hush Fund.
sHELLABARGER's TELL TALE LETTER
80 TO SHERMAN.
e When Cassarave, the saddle-color.
ed Returning Boarder of New Or.
leans, gave out, recently, bis CORES
pondence with the Fraudulent Ad.
ministration, relative to the payment
of his attorneys fee, he kept back
the trump card of the pack. The
paper which betrayed more than all
the others combined, was withheld
by this sharp President maker, as a
sort of reserve to bring the Hayes
gang to time in case they should
hang back with the balance of the
money. 1t was not the intention of
Casanave that this tell.tale docu-
ment should be made public unless
the frauds from whom he is extract.
ing money should attempt to cheat
him and leave him in the lurch, but
the Post got its grip upon it, and
consequently the public gets the ben
eft Of the complete exposure. AS
was shown by the recently published
interview with Casanave, he came to
Washington for the express purpose
of making the Administration raise
the moneyto pay the claim against
his property in New Orleans. The
attorneys who defended the Return.
ing Board accepted the assurance Of
those thieves that their fee should
be paid. They performed their duty
faithfully, and succeeded in saving
the scoundrels, through whom Hayes
had been made President from the
penitcntiary. Having accomplished
this, they demanded their well-earn-
ed money, and were practically told
BY the Returning Doartlcrs to get it
ifthey could. They sued for their
fee, and Casanave's livery stable was
the only property belonging 10 the
quartette of rascals that was not OK.
ecniion proof. Casanavc came to
Washington TO urge his claim, and
the letters he wrote and received
have been published. He received,
as he states in his interview, assur-
ances that the money would be rails
ed. He believed. in these, promises,
and while waiting for them to be full
filled received the following telegram
from his brother:
New ORLEANS, La, I
Aug. IL, 1921
G.. Casanave, Washington a
Keeper at the stable; contents adver-
tised to be sold Saturday, 18th; what
am to do? # p. CAsANAvE.
This dispatch alarmed Casanave,
and be Immediately rushed to Judge
Sbellabarger, the legal adviser Of the
Administration, to whom he had been
referred.
"Look at this, Judge, he said, as
be exhibited the telegram. "My
property will be sold in three days
unless something is done, and l cam,
wait any longer. That money must
be raised" s 1921
Judge Shellabarger adjusted his
spectacles, read the dispatch over
and said to Cassanave: "You sta,
here till I come back; I'll 60 see The
Secretary" (Sherman.)
| That was about 2 o'clock in thu
afternoon of the 10TH, the date of tn.
telegram. In an hour or so Judge
Shellabarger returned and told Casa
nave that it "'would be all right
that the money would be sent to hi'
Office that afternoon. An hour Of
two later Webb Hayes entered Judge
Shellabarger's office. and gave him ;
$1,000 in national bank notes, saying
his father had sent it and that wa,
all that could be raised just then
It was too late in the day to transact
any business Involving the paymen
or transmission Of money; SO Shella
1barger told Casanave ia 60 home ant
sleep soundly, as the matter woult
be arranged, and his property savet
early next day For the purpose o
ATTENDING to this business, Judg'
Shellabarger arrived at his Office ear
~ next morning, 1.-THE 18th, ant
found Webb Hayes there awaiting
him. He at once accorded Webb