Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-28
REERDEL'S TREASON s!

His Confessions Under Cross Examine
ton Place Him in a Sorry Plight = He
Admits having Betrayed Bis COmpan-
ions while Fattening Upon the SpOiIs-
LngersolI's Questions Developing q Vast
Amount of Treachery.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-CoI. Ingersoll
continued Reerdels cross-examlnation in
the star route case this morning. Witness
said the papers stolen from his desk con
ia ned the names, number and present
and prospective pay of each roata operat-
ed by Dorsey. One of the columns was
headed "T. j. b." 33115 per cent. and the
figures set down in that column repre-
sented the percentage of pay upon the
routes.
Ingersoli-What was it for?
Ans.-You viii have to put your client
on the stand to answer that.
Witness did not know, and could only in
fer what it was. He never practiced i'm
itating Dorsey's signature in Kellogg's
presence, nor did he boast to that gentle
man that he could sign Dorsey's name so
like the original that it was hard to distin-
guish the difference. The day after Vale
testified in the last trial, witness went to
VIM. Lilley, lawyer, and told him he was
ready to go on the stand for the govern
ment and rebuff Wales testimony. He also
| notified Dorsey OF his idea. When witness
got out of jail he went to Lilley, who re-
ferred him to Woodward. Witness wrote
| out a statement which Woodward
considered incomplete, and promised to
| see him at later date, and in the mean
while witness was to collect his papers
Lilley told witness he thought he could get
but no government officer ever made any
such promise. Witness again met Wood
ward in November last at Hartford, Conn,
and made a very full sworn statement.
Woodward paid his expenses.
Witness said he told Blackburn if
the court allowed him four challenges
he would challenge persons to whom
| the government objected. He endeavored
to carry out that agreement, to show good
faith towards the government. lngersoll
asked witness if he called good faith sit
ting with co-defendant and working for
the government. He replied he consid-
cred it good faith to. the government. In
ger5oll inquired of witness if he had not
demanded money or fees of some kind
from the government. He answered that
he had requested an allowance of $4,000
for counsel fees. Witness borrowed $40
from Vale about week before no took the
stand. Vale did not know he was to tes-
tify. Reerdel paid. His share from one
route was to have been $4,000 per annun.
Mr.. Davidge moved that the court allow
the defense access to the papers referred
to in the examination of Reerdel, and 1t
was ordered that that they be deposited with
the clerk.
Mr.. Ingerson asked witness if he had not
written and published an article in the
Star, intended to lead defendant to be-
lieve that he was not going on the stand
for the government in this trial.
After several evasive answers witness
finally said it was written only to
throw the public off the
track. Witness acknowledged having
sent bills to Williams on the 10th of the
present month, requesting him to get $40
from Vale for him. Speaking
of the meeting between Bosler,
Dorsey and Brady at Chamberlain's
club house, witness said he did not see
Brady, but understood they were to meet
him there. He remembered the time Au-
gust, 1880 because Dorsey gave him
telegram, not connected with this case, to
send to L. p. Morton. Witness copied the
dispatch, keeping the original for vouch-
er; had the copy now. No effort was made
to bring out its contents by either side.
Adjourned.
In reference to that portion of Reerders
testimony to-day wherein he said he had
undertaken to challenge jurors at the be-
ginning of the trial in the interest of the
government, counsel for the prosecution
declare that they knew nothing of the affair
at that time. Mr.. Blackman corroborated
this statement.
Mr.. Merrick said the question of using
Reerdel for the prosecution was matter
considered by counsel and it was
not until the night before
his appearance as witness that they de-
termined to accept his services. Even
then it was expressly stipuloted that he
must rely solely on the mercy of the court.
Mr.. Kerr called attention to the fact
that the prosecution, if so inclined, could
have allowed Reerdel to go OF the stand
and nolle pros sed the case so far as he
(RserdeD was concerned.
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