Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-02
SHERMAN TO HANCOCK
EpistIes That Called Forth the
Carondelet Letter.
WHISKY RING REVELATIONS
A Preachers Sad PI'ght--Drunk at a
Fashionable Summer Resort
Sherman Versus Arthur.
MAUD S. WITHDRAWN


The New Evidence that Confirms
Zen. Isabcock's Guiit-Ex- District
Attorney Dyer of NJ. Louis Pro-
nouncing the Letters Published by
Gen, Mcdonald To be In HnbcOck,s
Handwriting.
ST. LOUIS, August 27.--Colonel u. 7.
DYER, who was United States District
Attorney during the whisky trials, aud is
n leading Republican and enthusiastic
Garfield man, has just returned from
Colorado. lie says iii An interview with
the Past Dispatch to-day
''I have seen General Babcock'l hand
writing on "A number of documents during
the progress of his trial, and | have no
doubt that the letters you published were
in his writing" The Colonel here referred
to the printed fac.siniles which were
spread before him by the reporter. mo
one" he confined, could deny that that
il Babcock's characteristic hand. | was
convinced that these letters were In exis-
tence, and | tried hard to get them, but
il was of no use Mcdonald had them too
well kept"
'And the production of those letters, in
your Judgment, would have been followed
by conviction and punishment ~
eyes sir Why they are damning.
Look al this for instance" and Col. Dyer
pointed to the letter signed Horace Hunt
ington, reading over the words, Steer
your ship in the storm-any one could do
il in the calm" with peculiar emphasis
"Now, that il the writing of Gen. Bib-
cock, and its nleanng IL intelligible to the
fueblest intellect. Mind rou, have been
anxious to see those letters TO convince
myself that was not doing Gen. hancock
an injustice by prosecuting him. On that
point am tOlerably we'll satisfied.
1.-The General had close shave as it
was, did he notI'
"Yery close. | think there was evi.
dcnce enough TO convict produced at the
trinl, but | am satisfied tina. Judge Dillon,
before whom the ease was tried was i'm
pressed with the idea that Bnbcock was
AN innocent gentleman who had been
overreached and trapped by Mcdonald and
Joyce, and his charge to the jury was such
that acquittal followed. | have reason to
believe that he has since modified his
opinion
"What did YOU think of Babcock 8
visits TO Mcdonald in jail after his ac.
quttal y "s5. =.
"Well, sir, after his counsel had been
holding him up rs the dupe of that de-
signing and bad man, Mcdonald, and
alter he had been posing in that charac-
Ter before the jury, it was little iucon-
sistent that ha should have made that visit.
An innocent uou would have KEEP, away
from those who had wronged min SO
deeply. | will say this Of his visit 10 the
iail. Had he gone before the verdict was
rendered, and had the fact of his going
been presented to the Jury, in all proba
bility the result Of the trial would have
been very different from what it was"
Had Mcdonald gone upon the witnes.
stand and told the story about Grant ther
that he tells now, what would have
happened 2"
mo one can say 1t would have simpl,
heen the uncorroborated statement Of
Mcdonald against the President"
Speakinp of the Mcdonald interview
NTH ;,rant and Br;stow the Colonel wa,
asked: .'If Bristow would corroborat,
that interview now what would yo,
believer
'That it would give a strong color o
probability to the interview with Grant.
"And necessarily to Grants conuectio,
with the rinp?"
81 do not sny that. only know. as
r.mnrked before, that | have never fount
n shadow of Testimony implicatipe him,