The Evening critic., 1881-10-13
Thursday, October la, 1881.
IT is STATED that gen. Brady has filed in.

IT Is STATED that Gen. Brady hns filed In
formation in the Criminal Court against |
Postmaster.Geno James and the Govern
ment detectives assisting him In working
up evidence against the alleged Starroute
conspirators. charging them with CON
spiracy to suborn perjury II Is said that
information alleging similar charges will be
filed against the Government officials in be-
half of others who have been included with
Gen. Brady In the charges of conspiracy to
dcfrnud the Government. No application
has yet been made for warrants against Mr..
James and the Others named, ana the Star
route people say that this will be regulated
by future Developments Washington Cor |
respondent baltimore sun.
The distinguished correspondent of our
esteemed contemporary observes his Gus
tomary conservatism in the above announce |
ment. The Information" filed by Gen. |
Brady, charging james and his detectives
with conspiracy to suborn perjury, is em-
bodied in the sworn statement on which the
motion to quash is based, but remains for
the present incomplete in consequence of
the refusal of James and his detectives to
give the judicial authorities access to the
records of the Department which form part |
Of the evidence necessary to prove the
offense charged. Counsel for Gen. Brady
have filed motion for an order of court
compelling James and his detectives to sub
nit their records to judicial inspection.
The facts of which those records contain
documentary proof are broadly known, but
in the absence of the records themselves
any direct proceeding would be premature.
Such transcripts from the records as Gen.
Brady's counsel have been able to obtain in
spite of the efforts of James and his detec-
tivcs to conceal them, indicate that for more
than five months system of combined ter
rorism and subornation has been practiced
under the direction of Cook Gibson, Kinds
and Woodward, upon various mail contract
ors, the like of which for atrocity and law
defying has never been heard of in the his
tory of this Government.
When the records are brought to light
they will show, among other things, that
numerous contractors have been notified
that their contracts were to be annulled, in
the most arbitrary and unlawful manner;
that then, when these contractors demanded
hearing to show cause why their contracts
should not bennnulled, they have been coolly
informed that the only way they could save
themselves and "kcep in with the Depart
ment" would be by turning States evidence
against General Brady, Mr.. Dorsey and a
few other gentlemen, specially marked for
destruction by MacVeagh, James and their
band ofdetectives. Insome cases the contract
ors thus assailed have pretended to fall in
with the schemes of tho conspirators, and
have thereby saved their service or portions
of it by beating the infamous scoundrels at
their own game. In other cases the con-
tractors, unwilling to resort to even such
devices, have had their service destroyed
upon no other ground or for no other cause
than the obiter dicium of Gibson, Wood
ward, Kinds et al, whose orders, general
and special, issued to the Postmaster Gen
eral have for the last four or five months
superseded the laws and regulations of the
Post-office Department.
In yet other cases it will appear that
fraudulent or bogus claims against the De-
partment, which were rejected by Brady,
have been passed and paid by the existing
regime in consideration of affidavits or
statements made by the claimants against
Brady, Dorsey, and others. 1t is supposed
from such data as are available that the
complete records will show that not less
than 900 or $4,000 has been taken out
of the public Treasury in this manner, and
paid over to various desperate and aban-
doned persons in consideration of such per-
jury as they might be willing to fabricate
for the uses Of the conspirators.
OF course these things are matters Of
record, but so long as James and his Cocoon
spirators are permitted to conceal the
records they cannot be successfully prose-
cuted. If the court grants the motion Of
counsel for Gen. Brady, il is probable that
James and his band will attempt to resist
the order, but eventually all the facts must
come out
These are substantially the future de-
velopments to which the distinguished
correspondent of the Baltimore SIN refers
when he says that the issuance of process
against James and his co-conspirators are
to be regulated by them. We may add
that the denouement is only question Of
time.
The IRISH TROUBLES appear to be ap-
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