The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-23
The star Routes.

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their color, being color blind, as he
said. His books contained no en-
tries against VIM. Smith or Samuel
Jones. He would have remembered;
took the book from the Office at any
time
Robt. G. Mullins Of Brooklyn was
next called. He had occupied q
ROOM with TORY at 145 Broadway.
1ngersoll pointed to Rerdell, who
sat facing the witness and enquired,
if he had ever seen him. He replied
in the negative. He never saw the
man take a book away from the
rooms and never saw any books,
such as described by Rerdell.
He had combination of the
safe; it contained no such books.
He was in the Office every day in
June, 1881, barring Sundays. Rere-
dell would necessarily have passed |
within fouf or five feet of witness |
when passing into room Eve; there |
were no account books in the latter |
outside Of the safe.
CrOss-examined by MerTick-If
Reredell had come in as he said, |
witness would have remembered
his face to certainty. Was posi-
tive he had never seen Reredell be-
fore meeting him in the court room.
Chase Andrews, of this city, was
next called. He said he went to
New York June Is, 1881; upon re-
turning he saw Reredel at
the Jersey City depot. The
latter had no book under his arm
he did not have valise in his hand.
They travelled on the same car to
Washington. To Bliss--Saw Mr..
James in car in conversation with
Rerdell, believed a man came int
the car and called for ReTdell.
Wilbur F. Kellogg testified that
he was Dorsey's private secretary
land boOk-keeper from the summer
of 1872 until the fall of 1879. In
1879 Rerdell lad desk in the same
ir0Om with witness. The Only books
kept by Rerdell were in small
memorandum book of Office ex
penses, and large mail route book
covered with white canvass. If
| Rerdell kept any other books wit
ness thought he would know it.
There were no red books, as far as
the witness knew; witness sent his
own books to Dorsey at New York,
and suppose Toney closed them up.
: Rerdell made no entries in those
books, nor did any one else, but wit
ness; had often seen Rerdell write
and very frequently seen him try
to initiate Dorsey's handwriting, his
signature, ETC., several times. The
Smith and Jones memorandum was
1 exhibited to witness; he examined
. it carefully and said: Nov, l would
Z not want to say / never saw thil
4 memorandum before; but these frs
: items l remember; Dorsey gave mt
. in memorandum to make in the books
|. which l did, with the exception Of
. the entry of $10,5OO.
II IngersOll then asked who wrote
!. the entries. 1 should say the drs
8 tire entries were in Dorsey's hard
= writing (reading) 5. w. D. expense;
Q cash; ana the " ords, Accounts
cash, loaned Dorsey and Peck" looE
like DOrsey's handwriting. AS tt
the rest, l do not think any of it /!
n DOrsey's handwriting below thu
!, cash. Dorsey was not at Chico
;, Springs. A letter was shown to thu
o witness, who was sure it was not il
: Dorsey's handwriting. He gener
. orally spells very correctly, said tn,
!, witness; still, Dorsey was not a
. Chico Springs at that time, ant
= could not have written the letter.
al Merrick conducted the crOss-ex
l. animation. Witness said he Ia,
n been employed in the postofiice de
partment from 1875 to 1880; though
Senator Dorsey's influence helpet
him in getting the position; wa
70 appointed from Arkansas but ha
n never seen that state; came from
=. Vermont; resigned because he ha
! been requested to; there was no de
% ficleney in his accounts, that ha
n been made good by Dorsey an
n himself. Became addicted to tn
=. use of liquor and had been forced
r. resign for that reason. Merricl
- took up the Chico Springs lette
~ and made sharp crOss.examins
h ton which resulted in sOmeWha
~ shaking the witnesses testimony o
AZ that point. He was not prepared t
. say positively that it did not bea
70 Dorsey's signature, but it did nC
"a look like it. The misspelling r.
IL ferred to, said witness, was "RiC
n del " instead of "Rerdell." Otht
q letters were presented with a rathe
unsatisfactory result, and finally til
court exclaimed: This man dot
net know his (Dorsey's) handwri
at ing" As the ross-examilatiO
In progressed the witness answer
ct became more cautious and no
# committal, and he disclaimed al
e. intention as an expert in handwri
he ing. He said that with the exec
o. ton of a few entries in b
az books, he had nothing
a. do with Dorsey's mail bushes
al could not remember when he mac
a the first entry. Supposed Rerdt
mr. was employed to look after Dorsey
n, mail routes; but made no inqui
he at the time. When it came to dat
he the witness memOrywas equally u
-as certain, so the court remarked
"a. was not worth while to press e
N. quiries for it was obvious the W
no. ness had no recollection Of dat
ar Witness said he knew Peck We
ars well, but could not recollect that {
fv ficially as a notary public, acknOv