Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-02-28

= representative, when your opponent had
Hom WE'VE to fourteen votes more than Won
had, did your"
'sYes.
=. Wines continues.-'I see Wallace R.
tne next morning (Tuesday) about 8 o'c,ock
On tne Court House steps. went mn tbere
" overthrow the scheme 10 purchase fusion
members, and prevent the organization Of the
fusion mouse, for want Of . quorum. We
went into room. Mr.. White manfred AZ
=, me now l felt about the matter of the night
Oelore, and asked if knew of some man that
you'd accept the offer. l told him that
tnooght Swan Of Mechanic Falls could he
bought" '" We
Next saw Swan at the clearinghouse.
ana told him that Mr.. White would have the
money All ready for him At the Court House."
Question BY Mr.. Carleton.-'sYou knew it
70 oe crime for person to bribe q member
OF the House of Representatives
IL did
"You were willing. were Won. that xou,
blood cousin. Wallace r. White. should nv
your instigation, be led into committing
crime:"
IF he had been my father, and had an
him. fo''N
r. II. Svv.n
OF Mechanic Falls came into the room during
the examination of j. .. White. and WAS the
second witness called.
Il came to Augusta Saturday. January Sd
and soon went to board on the corner Of
Urove and Chapel street, with a Mrs. Kali
loch. had some conversation with J. q.
hite about the attempted bribery bv Wal
iaee X. !" hite, on Monday, January 5th, late
in the evening. between ii and II O'Clock.
He came into my room and told MT that Wal.
lace R. White had offered him 81 600 # be
would give IN his certificate. and Wallace
X. wanted him to hint around and see if I
(Swan) could not be drawn into the transac
ton. Invent to the Augusta House and con-
suited with Mr.. E. II. Cove. Cove and l
went down to the residence of Mr.. NJ b.
Chase, where we found that gentleman and
Scion Chase. We concluded that il woulJ
be necessary, if they were determined 70 buy
men, to pretend TO acauiesce with their
scheme by purporting to accept money. in Or
der to lead them to think that thew had ac-
their purpose, and stop buyiug
men, and when the time came to expose the
plot
Martin V. b. Chase went to bed before this
took place. Uncle Scion thought
that Swan would be good man to act as a
catspaw for the fnsionists manor wa.
drawn up. stating the purpose Of accept;pu
the money, which Swan signed. Then the
gentleman from Mechanic Falls retired to his
couch, after LAYING a deliberate plan
to ruin Wallace r. White. and went to sleep.
perchance to dream.
Before going down to see Uncle Scion,
Swan saw Hartman, and, after few minutes
the obese gentleman from Ken
-. L
into the scheme, and make believe sell HIM
self.
The Story Of the Bribery.
Swan continues Il went up to the Court
House at 1890 O'Clock, and there met Wal
lace X. White, who said, Lets go up stairs"
We did so, and went into room on the left
showed me copy of a letter in the Lewiston
Journal addressed to the democratic and
greenback caucus, and wanted me to sign it.
He offered me $500 down and $500 at the
end OF six days; but l said l wanted the
cash all at once. l agreed to sign this letter,
10 sign resignation, ana denver up my GER
tificate. White said he did not have the
money with him, that he did not furnish 1t
personally but would go out ana get IT, ana
return IN about half an hour, and make his
presence known by giving
T"ree "sPs
on the door. He went out, and about twen-
!! minutes iater CAME riui"e uo*u S'''e
street IN sielsn' WIN ma" "hon Tuiu ho'
recognize White gave the signal. anu adj
milted him into the ROOM 1 copied the let
Ter ana reslShatioh' ana he TOOK OUT iarse
roll OF Dllls. lie SAID he thought there was
thousand dollars in the roll although he
had not counted IL. looked over
and found it all right: White told me
that ought 10 regard TINS as
One Of the Pro"dest Acts Of MY Lite.
He then asked me if knew of anybody
else whom thought he could buy. said l
thoup ht he could get Hartman ofkennebunk-
port. From the Court House went up to
the Augusta House, but did not find llarri-
man there. l saw Elliott King of Portland
at the hotel. and show ed him the money.
About two o'clock that afternoon | found
Hartman, and sent him down to see White
at the Court House. put the money White
paid me in the Granite Bank. That night |
saw him and told what l had done, and he
said that was as
Careless as He'll
to do it. l still hold this money, as belong
ing to the party who furnished it, subject to
his order. My purpose in securing the money
was to defeat the conspiracy, to prevent the
organization of the fusion house ooh, child
like and bland Mr.. SWAMP
swan Thinks that circumstances Alter