Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-26


First, Post This Birmingham told me 70
make up 3 story about the WOrkinFmens
Union. That is what you represent, aud that
the stand told them about the mines After
that l went TO supper. Before went to sup.
PER psl5 Hags ~ sad Haye y9H got any changer
salut no. lie said, Here, you had better
take this" and he gave me SO. lie first Of
feredme -. The next day, being Sunday. /
said wanted to get n clean shirt, and then he
gave me 80, We went TO supper, and n man
went with me. They call him BOX" His
name Is Ellen. We went with him TO supper,
and he never left me while have been here.
lie slept with me, and never let me 20 out OF
his sight. When we came from supper, Hpr
said TO Box; you had better take him 10 Tony
Pastors IheateL," and told some man there to
write letter. Who the man was ! don't know.
have only seen him once; and that letter was
given TO Box, and we went to Tony Pastor 8
and ne offered Il there at the theator. 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
the variety, before the last drama, or whatever
II was, and there ! was crOss-questioned by
Howe about the mines, and he said that would
swear to-"
., How many times have you been at the
Truth officer"
have been there all the time, might as
well say except to 20 TO the theater or to
meals or to the hotel to go to bed. Hart said
to me, " know your name is not Lindsay"
He said, "WaltOn knows your name. lie
heard 1t there in Cumberland. This Walton
through the Truth +" When / made the state
ment In court that my name was Lindsay |
knew Il was not true. Hart told me that Wal.
ton told him all about this. lie said, 81 will
pay you aud, damn it, will pay you. double,
to put him 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 90 answer in court" Post said 20 me,
ali they ask you any questions, don't have any
hesitation In answering them about this secret
organization. Just tell them you are bound
by oath not TO dtvulge any secrets. If they
ask you any questions, answer them right up
openly" Hart said: "Suppose they bring
Garfield and put him on the stand2" and Howe
said, 81 wish they would" When / came /
did not understand l would have TO do any
swearing at all. II ! had known that would
not have come. / was out of work and did not
have any money. Hart asked me how / would
like to have job In New York. l told him 1
would like II very much, ana he said, "Wel
we will not say anything about that now until
this Is over l never lived In Cumberland,
and do not know William II. Thompson. Wal
ton said he came from the Truth office, and
there Is where he brought me.
2. Who told you the story which you were
A. Walton told me to make up my own and
they got me paper in Cumberland TO study
this letter what was published, and told me to
make il up, and Birmingham told me 10 say
that belonged to the Workingmans Union.
q. Who told you il was necessary to say,
among other things, that you belonged to
a. No one; only from the affidavit I saw
printed I'm the paper They told me to swear
to this affidavit that was made out. think
that 1t was this man Walton asked me TINT.
The first time / saw that affidavit was after
leaving Cumberland in the cars. / never was
in Lynn. Never saw a person by name II. l..
MOrey. Never saw the original of the MOrey
letter until It was shown to me in court.
Never heard of the Morey-Garfeld letter un-
til saw printed copy. I think Howe asked
me II made the Lindsay affidavit and said
yes, but did not make It, and do not know
who did. JAMES O'BRIEN.
Taken before me this 10th day of Novem-
Der, 1880. u. II. MORGAN, Police Justice.