The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-31
TngersOII's Review.

Washington, D. c., 3O.-Col In
gersoll has prepared his review OF
the reply to the report of H. Wells
investigation of the star route scan
dai, with his prediction catechism,
led MIN to put his idea in the form
OF questions and answers. The doc
ument Will be published on Wed
nesday, but the colonel talked freely
about 1t to a correspondent and gave
mere idea of what he had pre-
pared. Wells report, he saws sub
stantlates what he urges regarding
the efforts of Fall, Foote. Hoyne,
and Nelson to corrupt Brown, or at
least to induce Brown to enter into
a crrupt agreement, for the purpose
OF which, according to Fall. was to
ascertain if Brown was colruptible.
but more than this, Wells report
involves Messrs. Merrick and Kerr
II the efforts of Bowen and Brew
ster of Cameron, which is more
than the Colonel charged and more
than ne believes to be true, Bowen
claims that Dickson tried to be
Dribed, attributing his first interview
with Dickson to accident on Dick
sons solicitation, and the second
interview to Cameron. The latter
unloads the responsibility by saying
that MeSsrs. Merrick and Kerr ad-
vised him to meet Dickson and talk
with him. If they were guilty of
sending Cameron to talk to Dickson
after being told that Dickson
wanted to sell himself to govern
ment. they committed the grossest
improperly and he could not
believe they did it, or that
they will rest under the impu-
tation. The fact that Wells put
that in his report looks as if the
thing got them out of the case and
himself into it. As to the charges
against Dickson, the colonel SAYS
Bowen is not to be relied on at all,
and the department of justice alter
nately repudiates him, and offered
him as truthful witness. The
other charge on Which Dickson was
arrested was that of McNeilly that
he violated the instructions of the
court and read to the jury the
statement of BoWen's attempt
at bribery. The colonel justifes
him in doing this. Judge WYlie
made some remarks about the jury
bribery that were calculated to give
the impression that defendants were
acting corruptly. In view of that
fact it was only fair that Dickson
should let the jurors know that gov
eminent had been trying to intlu.
ence him; that Dickson should try
to get a personal interview with tn
| encouragement, and that Bowen
should undertake to arrange the in
terview, stamps the whole story as
a lie according to the colonel. In re-
ply to the intimation that the de.
Tense employed Dickson to put up a
job on government, the colonel said
it was prepoSterous, because
Dickson might have been hired
to hang as a juror for one tenth
of the sum that would be required
to get him to go to Bowen and enter
into criminal negotiations with
him, Fall" said the Colonel was
discharged according to govern
ment for reporting that some of the
jurors could be induced to vote
for a conviction if he was
authorized to offer a clerkship.
McNeilIy had a father in the employ
of the navy yard before the trial.
Since then he had a brother EN-.
ployed there. McLanG, since
the trial has been appointed
to a clerkship in the agricul-
tural department. McCarty, sine
the trial, has been given en-
ployment at the government
asylum. Doniphan had a daughter
in the treasury department before
the trial, who had been promoted
since. and he also had a son in the
government printing Office dur
Ing the trial on the temporary
roll, and he has since the trial been
put on the permanet roll, though a
large number of discharges have
been made from the Office. Fur
thermoTe,Sit is stated that since the
trial that Olcutt, who was all broken
up financially, has recently bought a
house and paid $4,000 down on it,
and Tobriener bought $4,000
hOuSp also D9Vinp son 00O cash on if.