Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-31

OF gettlng the Dallas and Baker City route
expeolted, when he suggested a reduction
OF the bid. Did not believe he knew any,
thing abuut the expedition at that time.
Wltness had no knowledge of the spoiIed
ola spoken OF by Boone. Id said the gen
tleman would have TO ask Miner about
that.
Merrick-Will have chance?
Answer-You Will.
The Court-You are Iavinr ont q c,ood
deal of work for u.s.
Davidge-They called for the defend
ants, your honor.
Witness said il a bid had been spoiled
and a new one returned with Peck's sigma
| ture within a few minutes, some one else
must have signed; witness did not. Did
not know whether or not Boone told him
to keep john Dorsey and Miner away, be-
cause they were stupid and interfered with
| the business. Did not think the remark
would appeal to the persons named. Ex-
planning his reasons for taking an active
part IN the business after July, 1879. wit
ness repeated what he had said upon direct
examination about protecting bondsmen,
| and added that he endorsed notes for a
partner to the amount of $4,000 which
! had been used 10 secure certified checks
| for deposit in the postoffice department.
Ii they had failed to put on service, these
notes would have come back upon him.
The notes were given to the Vermont Ma
tlonal bank of st. Adams, and Second
National bank of Santa Fe. The witness
then related how Peck and Miner had failed
IN their attempt to get bondsmen, and
how he finally induced George Evans
to go upon their bond. Peck's failure had
been caused by ill-health and inability to
attend to business, otherwise he might have
secured any amount of bonds. He could
not now recollect his reason for not men
tlonlng Peck's name to Postmaster Hay
cock, his Intimate friend, when he sent him
blank bonds. An apparently personal
letter from John Dorsey to witness was
acknowledged by the latter to be genuine,
but" he said, Il don't see how it got into
this case.'
Ingersoll-Mr. Reerdel kept it as
voucher. Laughter
| Merrick-There seems to have been a
distribution of papers between you and
some of them should have been in the Gus
tody of the other. In the letter John
Dorsey says he is glad that Vale has
bought out.'
Witness said his recollection was that he
wrote his brother that ''Vaile mad cut him
out" and that John Dorsey had in1sunder-
stood it. He could not have said bought
out" because it was not so. When witness
returned to Washington in December he
found Vale had fled the ub-contraets.
Questionable was trying to swindle
the whole party, was he not.
Answer don't know that Rs was. was
annoyed at the time, but afterwards saw
that he could not have done otherwise than
file sub-contracts to cut off drafts. Wit
| ness had not seen that letter since he sent
it to John Dorsey. He was pressed to pro-
duce the letter or state its contents, but
waving his hand he said, II have no recol-
lections of such little rubbish as that
Merrick-We have to look in rubbish to
find certain things.
Dayidge-And you don't find them
here?
Witness supposed that the letter pro-
duced by Merrick, from John Dorsey, had
been stolen in 1878, but declined to say
who stole it.
''YOu mean Reerdel, don't your inquired
Msrrick.
A contemptuous laugh was the witness
only answer.
Merrick repeated the question, and the
witness said Reerdel seemed to have been
we'll pleased with the letter. He refused
to return an answer any more definite He
| innocent, and attached no Importance to
the question.
Merrick-You don't seem to attach i'm
portance to any of my questions.
Witness don't know as 1 should. I
think that nobody else would. Witness
SAID h e had examined his letter books, that
they were much mutilated, that some one
had gone through them. and Quilted out
about 600 pages. He had seen some of
the pages since then IN this trial. The
books were now at witness, house, but had
been offered under restrictions in evidence
in the court, and rejected a few days ago.
Merrick read in evidence a letter to
! T. J. Brady, dated March 4, 1879, signed by
the witness for Peck and John Dorsey.
Dorsey says that being duly empowered to
act for Peck and John Dorsey, he protests
! against sub-cOntracts on file in the name
of H. M. Vale, and demands that they be
Cancelled after April l, and that no sub
! contract be fled upon their routes except
| those in the Indian territory, unless under
! power of attorney.
Gid you not find out when Clenden-
min wrote you that they were unlawful!'
Il made no inquiry" Witness said that
! he directed Clendennin to send the bonds
to d. j. Adams.
"No, gentleman
SIS not a postmaster a gentleman"
"Sometimes.''
Witness continuing said that Adams was
the editor of a Democratic paper in Ar
| kansas.
"Why did you send them to him?'
Il had my object"
care you in the habit of sending things
to people without an object?"
Il did not send them; Clendennin did,
Witness acknowledged that another batch
of proposals had been sent to Ex-Governor
Hadley. He thought Hadley was better
qualified than Clendennin to judge of the
legality of the bonds, and he made them.
Merrick inquired of witness if his rea-
son for imposing secrecy in the letter was
not to prevent its being known that he
Dorsey was engaged in the business.
He answered that he would let the letters
speak for themselves. He had no answer
to make in addition to what he had already
said.