Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-02
The Star Route Jury Case.


After report in the first edition OF the case OF
Arthur Payne, the alleged star route jury nxer.
| hearing In the Police Court, was closed, the
crosS-examinaton or Juror Brown was continued
MT Davis endeavored. by the cross-examlnatlo
| TO show that the witness statements as made In
his affidavit given to Mr.. Moore ana his later am
davit varied consderab bly,. In the earlier afuavit
ne stated that he could not give the contents OF
the agreement presented to him, and In the later
statement he gave the substance Of 1t. The wit
| ness was questioned on this point and others
| rather sharply. There was some apparent diver
slty In the statements as to the interviews with
Payne-the witness having. in his earlier affidavit,
made no mention OF any conversation with Payne
after July LIST until July 4th The witness said he
meant by the singular noun conversation" all
the Sd and 9TH OF July. The court having asked
Mr. Davis what he proposed to show, Mr.. Davis
represented in Browns later testimony as having
cloth.
THE COURTS QUESTION AS TO HOW THE JURY
"Mr. Witness" said the court, during lull In
the examination, show many OF you voted TO ac-
"Three, your HONOR
"Three What thre=?" inquired the court
"Mr. Dickson, MI. Holmead and myself, said the
"What these men did then to get you to con-
Wet led you the other way?" said the judge.
mo. Sir" said the witness, with a chuckle.
"The evidence, your honor" said Mr. Davis, sled
him the other way"
We'll" said the court 81 wanted to get his view
The witness, on redirect examination, said
Payne had not tried to persuade him to sign the
he (Brown) would sign it, but IL he signed It he
lPayne) would make a hundred, or two hundred,
DETECTIVE MILLER ON THE STAND.
George o. Miller, detective officer OF the Me-
tropolitan police, was next called to the stand by
MI Wells His duty was, he said, TO go where he
felt like; he had no particular beat; his duty was
to detect crime and bring criminals to justice He
was SO engaged on the LIST of OCTOBER Witness had
not known PAYNE fOrty day3 He him
on the corner of 9th street and the
nue. with Charley Jones about the latter part OF
september. Witness thought he had made an APP
ponIment with Jones TO meet him there. Jones
was to give him some Information to the effect
that Payne had approached Brown through Fall.
Witness told Jones that he would like TO talk
With Payne. He saw Payne about the
statement till he could see counsel Witness did
not not ., re, remember 11,er having had any con.
counsel except Major Rlchards, s'1 prior r0u to
going to Col fngersols house. Witness went
with Major Richards to Ingersolls house and met
Payne there on Sunday, the LIST OF October. The
witness gave in substance the statement made by
Payne at Ingersolls house. which was afterwards
formulated into an AFFIDAVIT.
Mr.. Wells asked the witness II he had made any
report of that conversation to his superlors?
The witness said he had not; he had stated to
Jones what had been said. Witness brought Jones
into the case. Witness had not reported 1t to any
officer OF the United States or OF the District gov
"Why did you report 1t to the other slider" asked
MIR. Wells.
because" Sa1d the witness, VI had more conf
dence in them than had in some other people"
"MOre confidence In them than you had In your
SuperforS?" asked Mr. Wells.
"My superfors." said the witness, "were not in
vesttgating this business have right to 1nves-
tigate and report to whom choose. ffelt it to be
my duty to report this to people who thought
would prosecute these people"
"You did not report it, Ihen," said Mr.. Wells,
ITO any one on the government side, but reported
1t to the other Side?"
"YeS, SIR"
"Were you paid by any person."
"NO. SIR"
After some questioning the witness said: 81 am
personally friendly with Senator Dorsey and Col
1ngerool." The witness declared that he had re-
cetved no compensation or promise or compensa.
ton. He expected to have expenses he had in
CURED paid, and some OF them had been paid. He
had volunteered his service. When he had any
Information in reference to this business he re-
ported 1t to Mr.. TOtten, Col Ingersoll or Mr. Will
son. He met them very often during the trial and
gave them Information.
'That was Information against the govern
ment?" said Mr.. Wells
sit waS!" said the witness with a laugh. 81
thought it was information to detect crime"
MIR. Wells called his attention to the fact that
this was during the trial, before he saw Payne.
The witness said he had heard OF the attempt to
approach Brown long before he was working up
Information against Fall