The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-01

tnc alol general had any COuG ieUCe. |
ilolmoad did not regard tll, conversation /
as an attempt - hrihe him, and ~ stated
I put, as matter OF fact, 10 approach
= juror IN that wAy Is lust Us repre-.
henslole as to oiler him money.
IL Is Infamous. The real question
and only question really in the case is.
whom was Fail acting fOts Was be acting
for the goyrnmen, or for the defense Sap.
pose Il turned out thar deiendaNs Wrre
| paying Fall $40 day and the department
| ot Justice nothing would il DE possible "a
make any human being believe ne was act |
ing tor The department OF Justice Wells I
admitted the department paid him $40
DAY, and the supposhion is he was al work /
for his employers AMI without some posi-
I i've testimony 10 the contrary We are com.
| PEELED To believe he did what he did for the !
department of justice, lie says was en-.
gagged by tae edepartmcntaBd worked for the !
| denartment, that Il was his business 10 find /
whether any Jurors had been approached,
andwhethera jurors could be approached, /,
and no objection was made by the depart.
ment to this kind nt business. Ii had been |
charged hundred times that after Fail |
was discharged on the lIlh of July he was
/ re'employL under the nAme OF H. Hul
and he was paid $500 for information fur.
nlShed in the criminal prosecution and he
received money under the name of T. llll.
On the Ath OF October, Fall being some.
what uneasy in mind, wrote a letter to Mel.
son as follows; Jim ! am told that the
government Will abandon the attempt TO
show that bribed the Jury for the defense,
and also that you and nribed Jr. Brown
ing the Lang case, don't believe
you gave Brown accent and will stand by
you; II II comes I the worst shoud The
government abandon me, | shall expect
your earnest support, ANA You may be as
sured shall not let you suiler llr anything
you have done for the government. though
II the government arrests me ii will be an
act of persecution, rs yau we'll know, and
must fight il to the better end did wha,
was done tor the government. Yours truly
\. y Fall. ! ara Contcnt after this TO
leave the public to decide whether Fail was
employed by the department OF Justice or
by the defendants, There is a secret service
fund in the department of Justice. ON the
Isl OF last July y fund Of $4,000
was appropriated for the proseou-
tion of crimes, Tor the investigation
official acts, rcords, etc, became available.
1t VIII not do to say the government had
no money, these arrests have been made
) these charges have been Illuminated agains,
Jurors for the purpose of the inauguration of
: 4 reign OF terror in this district SO
that the next jury will be afraid to acQuit
The most shameful outrage ever perpe.
: trated in this district is the arrest Of vii
, liam Dickson, the arrest based wholly
upon an affidavit by Bowen, the very man
who endeayored 10 corrupt him. The de-
partment of justice endorsed Bowen by
/ arresting Dickson; that department, so
} ashamed at first at having appo uted
r Bowen that II agreed to throw the respon.
, sibillty OF his appointment upon Secretary
: Lincoln, now accepts Bowen as truthful
and competent witness, and with the tes.
= timouy is williuA, TO wreck the reputation
= OF an honest man, No American
| can read TIE report of Wells
, without feeeing Inundated by
:, the admitted ACTON of tho department OF
Z Justice. The department of Justice should
9 not act the detGetiye or spy or tempter, or
$ when the department is charged with hay.
o ing acted Illegally and improperly Il
4 should not investigate il itself, butt should
|. open wide its doors and records and invite
scrutiny of tAe Torldn
QuAr S2SE COMPLICATIONS.
G The collector OF customs Mt Corpus
c Christi, Texas, has been directed 10 use all
y Efforts to pass the mail at pena, railroad
e station between Corpus Christi and Laredo
e 1t has been detained there by the action Of
}. county authorities Of Texas. Under the
:. laws that state the county Judge may
F. organize quarantine This was done
o early IN the season, and in ConseQu,n, @
e whenever the treasury department removed
l. its quarantine, the county authorities re.
s newed 1t.
II THE TRIAL oF A. q. soTrLpo,
$ indicted for the murder of his brother, NJ,
5 Soledo, at the Republican Office on the Oh
i of March, 1882, was continued in the crimi
$ nal court this morning before Justice
t Wylie. The requisite six men to complete
& the Jury were secured without much
I trouble. Eleven are white and one colored
i the latter being local Methods, minister
r District Attorney $. y. Taggart opened for
j the government The defense reserved
$ their opening. After the examination of n
G number OF witnesses the court adjourned.
TREASURY NOTES
G The estimated reduction in the public
l debt for October Is about SO, ,22i 900.
/. The amount of 3 per cent. bonds
!. issued In exchange for - per
= cent. about $1,000, 600 leaving $ll0. .1j2 900
: uncalled 81 cents outstanding exchange.
: able into PER 3's nj option ol holders
PERSONAL.
$ II is probable President Arthur will re-
= turn to Washington Thursday John &.
Cowic, of Iowa, has been appointed chiei
clerk OF the secret service division OF the
! treasury.