Daily Republican., 1882-10-16
1nLRD EDITION.
mONE BRIBERY.

serI"uv Charges Against the De-
ma, umenG Of Justice Affecting
attorney GeDerR nj Br eWSGeF.
WASHINGTON, October 15.-The Post
OF morrow morning will publish an
interview with Colonel Robert Inger-
a Il, tmbodying q numter of affidaVits,
When he makes public for the purpose
of SHOW ing that several of the jurymen
in he Scar route trial were corruptly
g. pruacOed by employees of the Depart
meal of Justice, and that these employ
es II, II ally reported their proceedings
frOm dag to day to the Department or
sou,r other officer thereof. The first
affiuavlt given Is one made BY William
KLox Brown, one of the Jurors on the
12u list, as follows.
County of Washington, District of
ColuM William Knox Brown, be-
ing duly sworn, says that he was
juIyman in what is known as the Star.
route case that during the trial ofsaid
Case one Arthur Payne's came to ati-
ants house and left note saying ne
wished to see aesant. Attiant after.
ward saw said Payne, and Payne said
that man asked him if he could say
anything that he wished, and that ne
had told the man that he could say
anything to this affiant. Payne tnen
took out q paper and handed it to attl-
ant to read.
The paper was an agreement with +.
H. Fall, to be signed by attant, TO the
effect that it atiaut and Thomas Mar
tin, also one of lhe jury, should vote to
convict the de'ei OaEtS III the star
route cases, or if atfiAnv- vote or that OF
Martin should hang the .lary then al
fiant was to receive $25OO. At1aht
read the paper and then said to Ar
thur Payne Il am going according to
the evidence. Fall is damned rascal,
and you both can go to h--l, and
shall vote in accordance with my CON
victions." Arthur Payne said that
Fall was lawyer and had his office
on D. Street. WILLIAM X. BROWN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of October, A. D. 1882
Seal. }. FOLMsTEAD, Notary Pub
lie.
Then follows the affidavit OF Thomas
r. Foote, a resident Of Washington un
til July last, and now OF Newark, n
j, Mr.. Foote sW ears that he was pres
ent when Fall en-. ployed Payne to cor
rupt the jury and that Fall gave him
(Foote) to understand that he was en-
ployed by the Government and that the
Government would furnish the money
Next comes the affidavit of James A
Nelson, of Washington. he sWeart
that Fall told MIN that he would soeI
be employed by the Government as
special detective in the Star. route cases
that he went with Fall to the Attorney
Generals Office, where they met Brews
ter Cameron, who told Nelson he woulC
be placed on the roll at $50 per month
his duties being to watch the jurors
He was asked by Fall to see if tn
colored jurors wo1ld vote to conVic
Dorsey.
Mr.. William r. Laws swears tina
Falls approached him end endeaVore'
to employ him to obtain evidence tina
one of the Star-route jurors had accept
ed bribe in another case, and to max
an argument in case the jury could b
broken to induce one or more OF then
to vote for convicting the defendants
so that the worst that could happe
the government case would be dlt
agreement.
Juror H0lmead swears that durin
the second week of the Star.route tria
Mr.. Fall came to his house TO see hiu
alleging that the visit was at the il
stance of Attorney General Brewste
for the purpose Of ascertaining whetht
he (Holmead) knew of any attempt
by the defendants to corrupt the jur!
Holmead told Fail he knew OF no sue
attempt.
Edward Taylor, employed as detec
i've by A. B. Newcomb, a private ageI
of the Department oftJustiCe, recit'
that he heard Brewster Cameron prom
ise Fall $4,000 for evidence that the d.
fendant had been endeavoring to bril-
Jurors, and gives details of attempts
Fall to corrupt Holmead. An afidav
of Foreman Dickson is also introduced
the substance of which has already bee
published.