The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1882-03-29

titled to such thing. We learn, how.
ever from Mr.. Johnson that n paper
was presented to him 10y Remus Whit.
tinghill, father Of VIM 4. and John ID
purporting to I've statement from the
editor Of the Hcroid, certifying that We
had heard him johnson speak thus Of
the Whitlinghills. We never gave the
Whittinghills nor any one else such a
paper or certificate, or paper Of any
kind; in fact, have not seen them for a
long time, and any such paper they
may have j. a forgery, ~ far ~ il pur-
ports To he from H. or written or sane
toned by Us. We heard some years ago
Of Mr.. johnson losing Il cash drawer
with nickels and probably other money
in il, and understood that the Whit
tinghils were in Fordsvlle the night
the money drawer was missing, and in
company with some other fellows were
at Johnson's store, and also heard that
suspicion attached 10 them, but We
never spoke Of it publicly, privately or
through the paper, AMI never spoke
of anything Johnson said about IL. by
the way, we would like tn know why
the Whittinghills did not publish the
whole Of the certificate they got from
johnson. why did they publish only
u garhled eNtrart, leaving the bulk Of il
nut? Maybe they hit oil more than
they could 'chaw," when they got
that certificate.
The ten Jj,tifiOHcrs say the Whiting
and we have no reason To dispute il.
They say "thp Hc,dd man concludes
10y saying the substance is true We
did no such thing. We referred To the
Embry tragedy, and added: I'VE
have learned that death.hed confess
ion has brought out the perpetrators.
We then gave the substance OF the re-
port ~ ii come to Us We heard on the
2lst, day before publication, that
Brandon was dead, and that the Whit
tinghils had fed. We then added:
I'VE understand that Brandon j. dead,
&c." We concluded thus. This j. the
information received. IL may not he
exactly correct in detail, hut the sub
stance j." We no where and AT no
time said the report was true, and do
not now say ~. We gave the report
according Ia the information received:
correct in substance, tut did not at
tempt To give the whole report in detail
~ we had heard il. We did what we
considered to I've our duty at the time.
The report had been widely circulated at
the time We published it.. If true that
a confession had been made, or the
parties We're ia any way connected with
the crime the public had right to
know il. II the parties were innocent,
they had a right To know what was be-
ing widely circulated concerning them.
and We claim thar We did them great
favor, fur We informed them of the sub
stance OF the report and placed il in a
tangible shape to deny. We had heard
Of no denial at the time We published
the report or would have also given the
denial. 80 soon rs We heard OF the lie
NAL we used all reasonable efforts to
give publicity to that denial; such
eil"ri>. too, ~ would have been >atisiac-
tory Ia gentlemen and honorable men,
hat did not seem to satisfy the Whit
tinghill- or DR.. Il. w Brandon, father
Of DR. J. y. Brandon.
The clustering, bullying conduct Of
Or. brandon has caused quite u number
who at first believed the report false,
to suspicion that there i, some truth IN
it, and that Dr. Brandon knows it,.
Not long since a representative of this
paper was in, Canryville on business and
met Mr.. John Written, an old friend,
who proilered to aid him in getting suh-
-crihers DR.. brandon heard Of this
and assaulted and choked Mr.. Written
for it. We got the subscriber, all the
same.
DIR. Brandon tried to get up "a diff
Guilty with Captain Sandu-ky,Of Central
City, for showing the paper to some one.
It seems if We were charged with
felony, and were innocent OF it, we
would court the fullest investigation.
II these parties are innocent of any con-
nection with the Embrey crime, the
way to convince the public of ii is not
by trying to smother il out and bully
ing the people into silence, hut by q
full investigation. Let them join in n
letter to the officers Of Butler county
asking them to ferret the matter out.
Let them write To the Circuit Judge and
commonwealth Attorney of that dis
trict and ask for an exhaustive effort to
discover who the perpetrators are. Let
them write To the next Grand Jury Of
Butler county and ask that they take
the matter in hand and spare no pains
to find out who the inhuman fiends are
who burned up the En- hrey family. In
this way they may convince the public
that they are innocent, but they will
never do it by the course they have
been pursuing.
The Whittinghills in their card say
"'rhere was u down stairs room and one
up stairs" From this we conclude they
must have known something about En-
brey's premises. 1t will be in order now
for them to explain how they, living in
Breckenridge county, knew anything
of the kind of house Embrey had
living ~ to - miles distant in Butler
county.
Dr. Brandon has circulated il far and
wide that he has instituted suit against
Us for S2O,OOO, aud We have been asked
more than "A hundred times concerning