The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-01
ANGERSOLL INTERVIEWED.
The Vile Scandal Gr0w5ng
GreateTsD Daily.
The Dirty Business which One
Department of Government
Is Handing.

Department of Government
Is Handling.
Washington, 31.-CoIonel Robert
G. Ingersoll has been interviewed
on special counsel Wells report in
the star route bribery case. Inper-
soil says: l have read the report
and I am very much obliged to
Wells for making it. He has corr0b-
GRATED my statement in many par
tlculars and has furnished so much
evidence of its absolute Truth that
l feel under certain obligations
to him. charged that Fal was
employed by government at $40 a
day. Wells admits it, that Nelson
was employed at $50 a month:
Wells admits it; that both these
men were here because Fall said he
and Nelson had bribed Brown in a
former case. Wells admits this. I
also charged that Fall employed
Foot, and chat Foot broughG Payne
to Fall, and that Fall got Payne to
offer Brown $4,000 for his vote.
Wells admits this. The only differ
ence between Wells statement and
my own, up to this point, is as to
the form of the written agreement
Fall wrote for Brown to sign. an
the evidence taken together
shows without one shadow
of doubt that Fall was EN-.
ployed by the department of Justice,
and that in the interest of his en-
plOyOr Fall endeaYoredl to corrupt
Brown. 1t is admitted by the de-
partment Of justice that Fail not
only made improper proposals to
| jurymeD, but he carried his i'm
pudence to the extent of making
an improper proposal for the de-
partment of jnstice. Wells sub
stantially admits that Fall did 90
to HalmeaG and did tell him that
all the other jurors were under the
ban Of suspicion and that he, Hal
mead, was the only juror in whom
the attorney general had any con-
fidence. Halmead did not regard
! the conversation as an attempt to
bride him, and so stated; but as a
matter of fact, to approach a juror
IN that way IS just as reprehensi-
bic as to offer money is infamous.
| The real question, and the only
question really in the case is: For
whom was Fall acting? Was he
acting for government or for the de-
! Tense? Suppose it turned out that
the defendants were paying Fall
SO a day and the department. of
justice nothing, would it be possible
to make any human being believe
he was acting for the department of
Justice. 1t is admitted the depart
ment paid him $40, and the suppo-
sltion is that he was at work for his
employers, and without some posi-
| tive testimony to the contrary we
are compelled to believe he did
work for the department of justice.
He says he was engaged by the de-
partment and worked for the de-
psrtment; that it was his business
| to find oat whether any of the
j jurors could be approached, and no
objection was made by the depart
ment to that kind of thing. 1t
had been charged hundred times
that after Fall was discharged on
the 18th of July, he was re-employed
under the name of F. Hill, and he
was paid $500 for information fur
niShed in a criminal prosecution
and he received the money under
the name of F. Hill. On the oath
of October Fall, being somewhat
uneasy in mind, wrote a letter to
Nelson as follows: "Jim, I am
afraid government will abandon
me and say l tried to bride the ljury
for the defense, and also that you
and l bribed Brown. I do not be-
lieve you gave Brown cent and
will stand by you if it comes to the
worst. Should government aban-
don me l shall expect your earnest
support, and you may be as
sured I shall not let you suffer
for anything you have done for
government, though government
arrests me. 1t will be an act of
persecution as you well know, and
| must fight it to the better end. ]
did what was done for government.
Yours truly (signed) T. H. Fall"
am content after this to leave
the public to decide whether Fall
was employed by the department of
justice or by the defendants. There
| is a secret service fund in the
department of justice. On the 1st
of last July a fund of $25,U0O was
appropriated for the prosecution Of
crimes, for the investigation of
official acts, records, etc. and be-
come available. 1t will not do to
say a government had no money!
These arrests have been made these
charges have been fulmigated
against the jurors for the purpose
of the Inauguration of such reign
of terror in this district, that the
next jury will be afraid to aquit.