Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-01
KlLBOURN UNDER FIRE.
WHAT 1T COST TO FEED HIM
WHILE IN PRISON.

The Itemized Statement of the Bills
he entertained Visitors as the Guests
OF the NatiOn-A Pleasure for Cork.
hill to Talk About Good Things TO Ea,
Who Contributed to the Pool.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-The cross-ex.
animation of Hallet Kilbourn, COMPLAIN
ant In the suit against ex-Sergeant-at-
Arms John G. Thompson for $3.50. 900 dam.
ages for false imprisonment was beoun
thls morning, when the Circuit Court met.
Dy Jere W wilson, of counsel for the defense
The morning was spent in questioning as
10 the circumstances attending his i'm
prisOnment.
District Attorney Corkhill examined
the witness to show the amount of bills
contracted for the sustenance Of KilbouTn
while prisoner OF State. These itemlzed
statements showed that the meals and
accessories cost all the way from Sc to
$5o. hilbourn said he knew nothing
about the items of the bill. He supposed
Congress was going to pay that. After
reading bill for one dinner, costing
$o4 %, hlioourn was asked il his dinner
had cost that much.
Il shouldn't wonder,' said Kilbourn.
II had distinguished visitors and enter.
tanned them as the guests of the nation.n
When COrkhill had read for ten min.
utes or more the itemiZed statement of the
caterers accounts Senator Voorhees, OBJ
lected because he could not see the use of
1t. lit seems to me & pleasure for Mr..
Corkhlll," said the Senator, ''to read
about good things to eat"
Mr.. COrkhill said he thought it was
proper to put before the jury the quality
a NH
living while languishing in prison. sIt
is complete answer" said COrkhill. "tO
TOtten's opening speech, and perhaps the
only answer that will be made to it,,
As Mr.. Corkhill was allowed to pro-
ceed, Senator voorhees, took up his hat,
with gesture of disgust, remarking. as
he left the courtroom, 81 will go out and
take half ddOzen raw myself"
After this branch of the examination
was closed recess was taken. Mr.. VIII
son continued the crOss-eXamination.
Witness said that several times during
his imprisonment the officer in charge OF
him permitted him to go out with him to
walk for exercise. He walked to the
navy yards, and another time nearly to
the capitol. The night before the petition
OF habeas corpus was heard he went out
in a carriage to his home, and remained
away from Jail about three hours.
Mr.. Wilson examined the witness at
some length as to the real estate trausac-
tons of the firm of KilbOurn & Latta
The firm, he said, acted as brokers of the
Real Estate Association, who furnished
the sum of 500, 900 to invest in real estate.
Who composed this association"
asked Mr.. Wilson.
Jay Cooke & Co. put in $25, ,O0O," said
Kilbourn, ''Judge Macarthur $1,000,
Gen. W. w. Belknap $4,000, Charles A.
Eldridge, $4,000, and Gen. P. NJ. b.
Young, of Georgia, $1,000"
''Is that ALL" said Mr.. Wilson; land
was all this fuss made about that?'
"The newspapers and Others" said Kill
bourn, ''made a sensation of it. The firm
of Kilbourne 81 Latta was little too pro-
gressiVe for them-a little too active in
getting the city out of the mud"
The witness subsequently recalled the
name of Eli S. Parker, who made a fifth
man who put $1,000 into the pool.