The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-20

course 10 De pursued WIN parCleS I'M
plicated IN the affair. They take
with them the register of the Queen
City Hotel to show the presence of
Henry l.. Walton in Cumberland on
the 4th and 9Th instants, and also
testimony as to the Robert Lindsay
affidavit. They claim to be able to
prove that on Sunday, October 3lst,
VIM. M. Price sent to the National
Democratic Committee the substance
of an affidavit, to be signed by Rob-
ert Lindsay, at the time he was
searching for Robert Lindsay. That
on November 1st ole Michael Cron-
ley of Pompey Smash, was requested
by an agent of Price to 60 before No
tary Public J. S. Humbird, nephew
of Canal Director Hulnbird, to say
that he was sent there by Price, and
that he would sign paper. Crowley
claims he was told that the paper
was mere acknowledgement Of the
receipt of campaign money. The
paper WAS produced and ne signed
the name of Robert Lindsay, but de-
clined to make oath to anything,
which, of course, made the affidavit
useless. Afterwards he asked his
friends what it all meant. David
Lynn and others say they can sub
stantiate this. Your correspondent
saw Humbird, but he declined to say
anything about the matter. He
would not deny that such a thing &C.
Cured, and his reply TO half dozen
questions was, 81 will say nothing
aueut it " Later on the same day
one Frank Brady, of this county,
was requested by friend to go be-
fore Squire Harrison, with paper,
to attach the signature of Robert
Lindsay to it. and make oath to it,
he being told that it amounted to
nothing. He went before Squire
Harrison, who states that the paper
was in the handwriting OF Price.
Brady signed it and made oath to it,
as requested, without knowing what
it was. The affidavit, it was claimed.
was sent to the National Committee
in New York. After the election,
Price, it is stated, wanted to get out
of the transaction, and received cold
ly proposition to send Lindsay or
come to New York himself, Walton
was therefore sent on here. He did
not meet with warm reception from
Price, but the National committee
wanted Lindsay. 1t is proven that
O'Brien, who as J. Murphy, stopped
at the st. Nicholas hotel on the same
day Walton stopped at the Queen
City hotel. Price says he had moth
ing to do with Walton; was too busy
to speak to him, and knew nothing
about O'Bren. He denies pointing
out O'Brien to Walton and says that
the latter must assume the whole re-
sponsihility Of taking O'Brien to
New York, and coaching him-if
such thing was done. Persons
working the matter up say that after
Crowley and Brady failed to become
parties to the transaction, and as the
National committee demanded Lind
says presence, O'Brien was procured
to personify him. Mr. Price was seen
this evening; he will publish on
Tuesdays lengthy statement to prove
that he had nothing to do with o.
Brien while the latter was in Gun i.
berand on the 4th and 9TH instants,
and supplements it with affidavits to
show that Re was busy in court on
those days, and that he was at home
and with other people in the evening
He positively declines saying any>
thing about the Lindsay affidavits.
He will speak of them at the proper
time, but says that time has not vet
arrived. He refuses to say how he
came to prepare the affidavit and
what his conversation was with the
supposed Lindsay. He is positive
that the Lindsay who swore the affi-
davit is not the Lindsay.O'Brien in
New York. The man came to him
and represented himself as Lindsay,
and that is all he proposed to say
about it now. He says he is sur
rounded by enemies. who propose to
ruin him by getting Others to swear
falsely against him. Col. Johnson,
w. r. Griffith. M. Reid and others
from Cumberland have been in New
York all of last week, and were in
strumental in securing O'Brien's
confession.
CUMBERLAND, November 15.-
There is every indication at this
writing Il o'clock A. NJ that Walton,
or whatever his real name may be,
will meet his punishment. 1t is
shown that he arrived in Cumberland
on the same train with O'Brien, and |
after making study for two days of
the mining regions, left on a train