The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-28
DORsEY's TESTIMONY.
Denial that He Ever Paid Money to Brady
at Any Time.

Denial tnaG lie Ever Patd money TO DrauJ
at Any Time.
WASHINGTON, March 27. Mr.. Ingersoll
continued his examination of Dorsey in the
star-route trial this morning He was asked
if he knew whether he had drawn any check
for 81, ,000'upon Middleton & Co. in June,
1879, as described by Retdell. He said he
had not drawn q check for that amount, but
did draw a check for 81 800 on June 81 or %;
it was given to Rerdell (The check was
shown and identifed.) The witness did not
draw the money on the check.
The court did not believe this was the
check referred to by Rerdeu.
Mr.. Ingersoll argued that it was the check,
and declared Rerdel had forgotten the
amount and the facts that he indorsed it and
drew the money. He purposed accounting
| for every check drawn by Dorsey on Middle
toms Bank. He asked leave to read the check
! to the jury.
Mr. Merrick maintained that it was not
the check referred to. Mr.. Ingersoll had
called Rerdell the pillar of the prosecution.
That was not so. If all his testimony were
blotted out, there would remain enough evil
dence to make out the case. The pillar of
the prosecution was all the evidence, and not
until they had pulled down all of it would
the structure be shaken.
Mr.. Ingersoll promised to produce every
check-every one-and to account for every
dollar. Let the prosecution consult with
their witness (RerdelD who was assisting
them; then let them specify the particular
check, and he would trace the money.
Mr.. Merrick-Why did you not produce
the stub books?
Mr.. Ingersoll-You may get more stubs
| than you want.
| After argument the Court refused to allow
the check to be put in evidence.
| Mr. Wilson moved to strike out, so far as
Brady was concerned, all that Rerdell had
said about Dorsey drawing money from Mid
dleton's bank, being at the Citizens Bank,
and going to Brady's room.
The court refused to entertain the motion
until all the checks had been offered.
The examination was then resumed. The
witness said that while it was possible he had
gone with Rerdell, on June q, to draw
money from Middleton's, he did not believe
he had. He did not go to the postoffice and
into Brady's ROOM as described by Rerdell;
did not pay any money to Brady on that or
any other OCCASION; did not draw check on
| Middleton & Co. for So 500 in June
Mr.. Ingersoll asked if any of them, added
together, would aggregate that amount.
The witness said he could not say, and
could only repeat what his clerks told him
after careful examination of the checks.
Probably for four or five days in June Rer-
dell had access to witnesses check-book.
Ill - D. AID D., Ko4z
n.ent of the contents of the letter from
Dorsey to Bosler, inviting the latter to as
sumo an interest in the business, setting out
the financial state of the business, and in
| Guiding the account of Indebtedness to IT.
j. B." The witness said there was not grain
of truth in the story; he had never written
such letter to anybody in the world and
never said that anything was to be paid to
! ST. ]. B." or any postoffice official
| Mr.. 1ngersoll then referred to Rerdell's
statement tLat papers had been taken from
his Office while he was in Jail. The witness
said he had only entered that office twice;
| Rerdell was there upon both occasions. The
| last time was upon RerdelPs invitation, after
his release from Jail. Rerdell was closing up
his office, and packed up a bundle of papers,
which he took to the witnesss house and left
there; that bundle was still untouched and
unopened, at his his house. The witness
never had key to that Office, and did not
enter it while Rerdell was in Jail.
Mr.. RerdelFs statement of a conversation
at Willard's Hotel, on July IL 1882, when
he was locked in and ordered to make an
other affidavit was taken up. The witness
said that some time in July, during the last
| trial, Rerdell tried to blackmail Bosler.
This statement was ruled out by the court.
The witness said he went to Bosler's room
at Willard's and found Rerdell there with
Boser; he was protesting to Bosler that the
allegations as to what he (Rerdell) had been
doing were untrue.
| Recess
When the examination was resumed, he
denied broadly Rerdells statements of the
conversation at Wizards Hotel, and declared
it was blackmailing scheme on the part of
Rerdell. who had threatened to have Boser
indicted and to go over to the government.
THAT COMPULSORY AFFIDAVIT
Regarding the affidavit of June, 1881, which
was read to him, the witness denied that he
had asked Rerdell TO make it for the sake of
his family, or that he had offered him any
inducement
A letter dated July 5, 1882 from Rerdell to
Dorsey, was read by Mr. Ingersoll. Rerdell
writes that he had been considering the step
he was about to take for over year; he had
intended to put himself in connection with
the government before he had been indicted,
never dreaming be was liable to indictment,
because he had only acted as an agent; but
to his cost, he says, he listened to Bosler and
refrained course he had regretted ever
since, and something he would not do again
| for any consideration; as consequence, he
| is now penniless and will be under cloud,
no matter what the result of the trial is. If
he had stuck to the government, he would
now be free from indictment and perhaps in
good position. He had made up his mind
J to go over to the government, and it is use