The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-25
= WELLINGTON, o.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25 1880.

money!" He said: The Truth will pay you
through me-" So after we arrived thcrc they
examined me.
"who examined your
First, Post. This Birmingham told me to
make up story about the Workingmen's
is all you have got to do" and when 1 got on
the stand told them about the mines. After
aat per Hars @ess sad you Sot any Change
said, NO" He said, Here. you had better
take this, ;, and he gave me $40: He first Of
said wanted to get a clean shirt, and then l.
gave me $40 We went to supper, and q ma. "a.
name is Ellen We went with him to supper,
and he never left me while have been here
he slept with me, and never @ ie. me go OUT .pt OF
said TO Box: "You had better take him 20 Tony
Pastors Theater." and told some man there to
i have only seen him once; and that letter was
given to Box, and we went to Tony Pastors
and he offered it there ut the theater. We Sc
cured two tickets and went In. Hart told me
to come back soon that Howe would want to
see me. We came back after the first part of
it was, and there 1 was cross-questioned by
Howe about the mines, and he said that would
do. He said: THAT is all you will have to
How many times have you been at the
well say, except to go to the theater or to
meals or to the hotel to go to bed. Hart said
II He "s, Said, IVA a@Slton % knows your name. He
heard it there in Cumberland. This Walton
ssa e
ment in court that my namc was Lindsay
knew it was not true. Hart told me that Wal.
ton told him all about this; He said, II will
to toy p1t ut him i in % a hole" They asked me il |
knew where Main street was IN Lynn. said;
mo; know where the main street is" and
Post and Hart said, " That is just the way for
you to answer in court" Post said to me,
hesitation in answering them about this secret
organization. Just tell them You are bound
ask You any questions, answer them right up
openly" Hart said: suppose they bring
Garfield and put him on the stand2" and Howe
did not understand 1 would have to do any
swearing at all. IL had known that would
mot saTe OF ofk %e sHd qd
like to have a job in New York told him l
would like it very much, and he said, "Weii,
this is over" never lived in Cumberland,
and do not know William H. Thompson. Wal
ton said he came from the Truth Office, and
there is where he brought me.
q. Who told you the story which you were
A. Walton told me to make up my own. and
they got me a paper in Cumberland to study
this letter what was published and told me to
that belonged to the Workingman's Union.
Q. Who told you it was necessary to say,
among other things, that you belonged TO
a. No one; only from the affidavit I saw
printed in the paper. They told me to swear
to this affidavit that was made out l think
that it was this man Walton asked me that.
The first time saw that affidavit was after
in inik Lynn. % Never % saw "a a person by name H. L.
Morey. Never saw the original of the Morey
letter until 1t was shown to me in court.
Never heard of the Morey-Garfield letter un-
til / saw a printed copy. l think Howe asked
me IL made the Lindsay affidavit, and said
yes, but did not make II, and do not know
who did. JAMES OBRIEN.
Taken before me this 10th day of Novem-
ber, 1850. b. 7. MORGAN, Police Justice.