The daily gazette., 1881-11-30
WILMINGTON DEL. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER SO 1884,


me out of the fortune left me by my
grandfather. l look upon the whole
thing as the most distressing fanaticlsm
ever conceived by the brain of man.
They held the theory that if a man left
the community he would be damned. /
made up my mind that was in hell
anyway, and resolved to 60, but, as
matter of fact, went clandestinely.
Q.-Did you believe that you would
be damned il you left the community 7
Al felt haunted and depressed for
fear that had lost my eternal salvation
by leaving the community. After
went to New York, l got acquainted
with The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, and joined Beecher's Church,
and came gradually under new influ.
ences. My mind was awakened to the
fanaticism of that hole, and the scales
f. Il from my eyes. That is the way l
got out of that place.
In response to questions of Mr.. Sco-
vile, the prisoner went on to relate how
he came to be admitted to the bar. He
said that he had read law for three or
four months IN the office of Mr.. Rey-
nolds in Milwaukee, and that then Mr..
Reynolds told him to go and see Charlie
Reed, the. District Attorney of Chicago.
Reed said to him: "rake this paper to
Judge Williams, the Judge of the Dis.
trict Court, and you will be admitted
on your getting certificate of good
moral character" He went to Judge
Williams, who signed the paper as u
matter of course. "That Is the way"
added the prisoner, "that was admit
ted to practice. 1 made $4,000 the first
year in Chicago, and $4,000 the second
year."
Odd Mr.. Reed ask you any ques-
tions? Ale asked three or four
questions, and l think answered all of
them, possibly may have missed one.
HOW HE PRAcTIcED LAW.
Q.-When you then opened your law
| Office in Chicago, what did you do? A.
went around among business men
| high toned business men-and l got
| business from frst-class merchants. l
would go up to man and show him my
card and references q bad always good
refereuces) and that is the way | got
business-on my references and my ap-
pearance. [Laughter.l If merchant
SAID to me "Call in again and | will
look up my accounts,"I would follow
that man right up until actually got
his business. That is the way that
got business in New York and Chicago.
THE WITNESS BECOMES EXHAUSTED.
Q.-What was your idea in buying
the Inter- Ocean at that time? Al pro-
posed TO makelt the great newspaper
organ of the West. l proposed to put
into it the advertising patronage of the
Chicago Tribune, the RepubDcanlsm oi
| Horara GraaIav and tha q 6nternriaa and
snap of James 6 ordon Bennett. | sug-
ge5ted it to some tirst-elass newspaper
men, and they said it was brilliant
idea and they thought 1t feasible. If
had got hold OF the money 1t would hayt
been feasible.
Q-How much money did you want
| Al believe that S75 900 would hav,
3 bought up the whole concern. AmonI
others / applied to Mr.. Adams, Presi
dent of the Second National Bank o
Freeport, supposed to be worth half |
million of dollars.
{ Odd you Offer him any induce
ments? A.-Yes, told him l woult
make him Governor of Illinois.
Q.-After you gave up the newspape
. enterprise in Chicago what did you mex
f do? A.-That brought me down to thu
winter and spring of 1876. tried t,
, pick up law business again which l hat
neglected, but law business was scare
and found Is hard to get any.
! Q.-Was your lecture written at tina
time. A.-Yes, went to work and duI
it out of the Chicago public library.
, The prisoner enumerated where tn
lecture was afterward delivered, ant
frequently laughed as he repeated som
of the humorous incidents of his fail
! ures, the various times that he was pu
| off railroad cars for not paying his fare
Y and arrested for not paying his boar
bills. At other times he grew excite
r IN the assertion that in all that he di
he was, like st. Paul, engaged in th
service of G cd, and that God was ther.
fore responsible for his board bills.
: While the prisoner was giving b Is tel
s timony he was watched most attentivel
9 by all the medical experts present. A
times he showed his exhaustion by
r lowering of his voice, and 1t was in cor
. sequence of one of those signs that som
ten minutes before the usual time of ad
journment the Court, at the instance {
:, the District Attorney, adjourned,