The Hartford herald., 1880-09-29


the room where you were?
A-Grs.
| take il that the question of the in
ner room Is IA settled question.
Q-Was the door leading from til,
outer door into this open or shut?
A don't know.
Q-Who occupied the outer door al
the time?
A-There were several custom-houss
clerks who had desks behind a sort ot
railing.
y very little more, gentlemen, about
these rpnm-:
q la that inner room was there any
body hut yOurself:a
\ Nobody.
He was asked whether there was any
body in that inner room but himself
and lac says no. Not that there was M
inner room, hut there was no one i'm the
inner room but himself. Some of these
men who were getting up statements
abou. other parishes came in there hut
the r'"rn was assigned to me. Ap-
plause. There you have il AN inner
room reached only by passing through
another room from the public hall, and
y Garfield, and he occupied il, and re-
celvcd the witnesses there. IA | will
proceed To prove. So the question,
What did he do in the inner room and
that question WAS asked him under
oath.
Q-What did you do:
Al took all those papers, commence
ing with the protest, and then read
them carefully and made briefoftlIeir
giving the summary of eacl,
witness in my own way, as | would il
| Were IL lawyer in the ease. lap
plause.
THERE Ii GARFIELD
at New Orleans, the man that asks to
preside in the chief office of this great
nation. There is Garfield sitting i'm that
inner room in the cIlstOm-hOuse, where
the hight Of day and the Judgment of
the American people was cut off, and
receiving the evidence that turned the
parish Of West Feliciana, and examining
them rs though he were Il lawyer in the
ease, and 81 he swears: "When I had
that ! felt IL great deal of
to see the men who had testi-
fled if | could" Ii was not enough to
read the evidence as il had been fixed
up for the negroes and the whites, but
il was more than that. al confess felt
"A great deal of surprise and astonish-
nent at the revelations contained i'm
these documents. That | went there
with not II !ittleapprehensiOn that there
must Ike
GOOD DEAL OE LYNN.
in the papers of both sides connected
with the election. made inquiry and
found that II considerable number of
their witnesses were in the city. | made
Dut "a list of perhaps one-half or three
Iourths of the names of the witnesses
whose testimony | had examined, and
inquired for them and procured inter
views with them. | sat down with
Them and asked them To tell me in their
)wn way the stories of their relation
10 the election. l cannot name all
Ihese with whom conversed, but some
Df them | remember distinctly. Mrs
Amy Mitchell II shall have something
- say about her Directly, the young
woman whose husband had been killed
Turing the progress of the registry of the
-it'tbth. stiNO ittiakitt
1 parish Judge, whom L examined in
he same way, las to the result of the
Mark this.l As To the
'esult of the examination; of course it
Sas entirely unofficial, it WAS Il conver-
'atiOn of my own with these witnesses.
drafted some interrogatories to draw
mt more fully some OF the witnesses the
estimony which they had given rather
n brief, and some of the interrogation
Is which subsequently were appended
% the testimony of these witnesses"
Vow, notice what he has sworn to:
That he occupied that room, and that
when the testimony WAS all handed To
lim relating to the parish Of West
he examined il and the testl-
nOny, and he made out list of one
lalf or two-thir,is of the witnesses, and
he sent for them one by one. He eX-
Imined them, and when testimony was
lot as full us he desired, he prepared
additional interrOgatories, which went,
u some cases at least, before the Re
urning Board. This
COMES REALLY VERY CLOSE
round the Journal and Garfield.
The summary i'm the testimony in the
,ise of West Feliciana was prepared by
ne." \ little further about what he
lid:
Q-SOme of these aflidavits | notice
n the West Feliciana case were made
fter you arrived i'm New Orleans. Did
'Ou have anything to do with them
-Ourself i'm taking them?
A-NOthing, except that i'm some i'll
tances, as l have already related, l pre-
jared interrogatories.
The next witness was George Sway
zee.
Q-Do you remember talking with
lin?
A-Ies, sir; | do remember talking
With Swayzee. think interrogatories
we're prepared for him after my cOnver-
alton with him. / don't think | pre-
Jared them, but there was "a brief affi-
lavit in the case that | read. talked
With him, and then after that these i'll
errOgatories were filed. In the print
ny, they were printed instead of the
'riginal | talked with Swayzee. 1 saw
lis testimony Was not very full, and
Ifter my conversation with him inter-
ogatories were propounded to him
tO bring out his evidence i'm
ull, and that evidence, in answering
he interrogatories, was the evidence of
'wayzee that was printed.
The next man, Napalus, l remember
we'll, for he had IA very striking story of
having been partly hung, and having
,een dragged with u rope around his
leck. He was one of those to whom
were propounded after
he filing of the first affidavit. Now,
he mentions as the most re-
case in which he prepared the
questions for the witness, the ease of
Amy Mitchell, 50 | will read what Gar
ield swOre to in regard to that ease:
Q-As regards the case of Amy Mitch
II, which made AN impression on you,
AN you tell whether twas beforeor after
iou were furnished a copy of her afii-
iavit that you had this conversation
with her.
Alt was afterward. IL was the
'eading of the affidavit that impressed
he, and | asked to have her sent To