Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-09-22

Q.-One of Governor Kellogg 1
rooms A.-No, sir in one of Mr.
Packards rooms in the Custom House.
Q.-Who was there besides you twof
Al don't think there was anybody
else present when she was there.
Q-Who brought her to the room
Al can't say; somebody brought
her there. | think she had a little
child in her arms. She sat down and
asked her to tell me the story of her
husbands death, with all the particu-
lars, and | told her that all ! wanted
to know was the exact truth about it.
Q.-Was there doorkeeper TO the
room ? Al think there was nobody
by at all.
Q.-But was there u doorkeeper out
side the door? A.-That | don't
know.
Q.-Do you remember that there
was a doorkeeper for that room A.
That door communicated with another
room there was no door into the hall ;
| think that door communicated with
the next room, which communicated
with the hall.
Was il an inner room or not, gen.
tlemonY This is what Garfield swears
to. The journal says il is not true.
That is between Garfield and the
Journal, and between them | would
not know which to believe. Applause.
$50 she did not 60 from hall
into that other room before she would
get into the room where you were
Ayes; l take it that the question
of the inner room is settled question.
Q.-Was that door leading from the
outer door into this open or shut ?
Al don't know,
Q.-Who occupied the outer room
at the timer A.-There were several
Custom House clerks who had desks
behind q sort OF railing.
Q,-ln that inner room was there
anybody beside yourself? An O.
body. Some Of the other men who
were getting up statements about
other parishes came in there, but tho
room was assigned to me. [Applause,
GARFIELD DRILLING NEGROES IN PERJURY
So the question is, what did he do
in the inner room2 and that question
was asked him under oath.
Q.-What did you do? Al took
all those papers, commencing with the
protest, and read them carefully and
made careful brief of their contents,
giving the summary Of each witness
in my own way, as ! would if | were
a lawyer in the case. Applause.
There is Garfield at New Orleans
the man that asks to preside in the
chief Office Of this great Nation. There
is Garfield sitting in that inner room
in the Custom House, where the light
of day was cut of, and receiving the evi-
dcnce that turned the Parish of West
Feliciana and examining them as
though he were a lawyer in the case
and 30 he swears
When | had completed that felt o
great deal Of anxiety to see the men
who had testified if / could
1t was not enough to read the evi'
dence as it bad been fixed up for the
negroes and the whites, but it was
more than that.
81 confess | felt good deal Of sur
prise and astonishment at the revela
tions contained in these documents
That | went there with no little ap
prehension that there must be q good
deal Of lying in the papers of botf
sides connected with the election.
made inquiry and found that q con
siderable number of the witnesses
whose testimony | had examined, ant
inquired for them and procured inter
views with them. sat down will
them and asked them to tell me il
their own way the stories OF their re
lation TO the election. ] cannot nam,
oil the witnesses with whom | con
versed, but some of them l remembe
distinctly. Mrs. Amy Mitchell, q shal
have something to say about her di
rectly), the young woman whose hus
band had been killed during the regis
try or election. also remember Judg
Quail, Parish Judge, whom | exam
ined in the same way as 10 the resul
of the examination. 1t was a oonver
sation of my own with these witnesses
| draughted some interrogatories I,
draw out more fully from somo of tn
witnesses the testimony which the,
had given rather in briei and some Q
the interrogatores which subsequent,
were appended to the testimony Q
these Witnesses
Now, notice what he has sworn to
That he occupied that room, and tba
when the testimony was all handed t
him relating to the parish Of West Eel
| ciana, he examined il and the test
r mony, and he made out a list of on,
half or two.thirds Of the witnesses, an
! he sent for them one by one. He @,
> amined them, and when their testimon
, was not as full as he desired, he pr,
pared additional interrogatories, whic
went, in some cases at least, before th
/ Returning Board. Alittle further abou
=: what he did
: Q.-Some Of these aiiidavits motto
in tho West Felicana case were mad
. after you arrived in New Orlean
D Did you have anything to do wit
Q them yourself-in taking them 2 A.
s Nothing, except thatin somo instance
. as have related, prepared intcrr,
o gatories.
8 Now, gentlemen, he mentions as th
I most remarkable case in which he pr
: pared the questions for the wtnesse
r the case of Amy Mitchell, so | wi
4 read what Garfield swore to in regar
/. to that case.
Q.-As regards the case of Am
Mitchell, which made an impression Q
/. you, can you tell whether it was beiol
or after you were furnished with
. copy Of her affidavit that you had th
r conversation with herY Alt WI
J. afterward. II was the reading OF q
affidavit that impressed me, and
K asked TO have her sent to me.
Q.-I see that the affidavit appea
J.. to have been sworn TO the 30th Of N
d vemberY 7 Al advised them to tai
# o fuller statement by interrogation
}. from Amy Mitchell, and think pr
4 pounded n portion Of the interrog
, tories. The preliminary statemen
I the simple affidavit, was earlier.
i THE PERJURY CONFESSED.
! Now, gentlemen, will turn over
= page and see what tho case of An
Mitchell was. Turning the leaves
book.) She first made an afilday
: in the Custom House where she W
= examined privately by James A. Ga
4 field. That affidavit was not Il