Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-22
O'BrIen, for an cannot make true answers

yoorF elf fraud, and i IS 1os nsce5saf!
N.et you should confess, for your motives
were fully apparent to all.
AS a specimen of the maEner IN wnicn
Mr.. O'Brien defends himself, the following
is decidedly interesting. Hear him
s'As for the time caught by the gentlemen re-
ferred to, it IS too silly to speak Of. You can al
vavs find men in the amphitheatre with cheap
watches that vary from secoud to quarter o!
n minute; but suppose they were night, VIVA OF
it? There were duly appointed timers who had
to sign the record in the sta1d, and can assure
Won FSpect1tor' that the time given was lus' as
they caught it,acd they areready to swear 10 H..
That Mr.. Clayson, Mr.. Pii!sbury, Mr.
Weary and Mr. Smith should be capable
of timing horse accurately Mr.. OBrIen
says sis too silly to speak Of" Ano those
cheap watches that they carry, that may
vsrv from one to fifteen seconds" The
weakness of this Is proof positive Of his
guilt. The pusillanimity OF his defence
would hang him before a Jury. And he
saws that he is ready to swear
to it," No person Witnessing his acts IN
the stand on that occasion would for a
moment hesitate to believe that he at least
s-would be ready to swear to it," But hear
'Brien brag about himself;
ssTheir accusations against Mr.. O'Blien don't
disturb that gentleman pal ,icle; he don't have
to depend on horse racing for living; he has
built up a large and fiourishing business and
his reputation for honesty and fair dealing is
too well established to be disturbed by the raw
ings OF a st. Paul kicker"
The public is already convinced that
their accusations have disturbed ''that
gentleman" to a great extent. And most
I 1 l. 10 10 i-hr
orable manner he managed 20 make race
for his own horse on each OF the
four days of The meeting, that
he does depend on horse racing for liv-
ing; Or for his profits at least, and he has
raced the horse about the country in such
questionable menner until his name has
become linked with that 81 the animal,
he being generally known is Col. Ricely
O'BrieD.
He finally closes with the following,
which is undoubtedly an untruth:
'Mr. Veasey, one of the gentlemen referred
to as having caught the time in 2:39, denies that
statement, and says he shut his watch at 2:39,
and the no ses had still several rods to trot, and
that he remarked at the time it still left the
horse in the 2:40 class"
This refers to the fourth heat, and there
is no probability that Mr.. Veasey sale it
TO it is not true.
Mr.. Veazy and the writer hereof we're
seated side by side, on the grand stand,
when the fourth heat was trotted, and Mr..
Weary, with his watch in hand, started and
topped it at the proper time, and made
the time precisely 2:39, as also did other
gentlemen sitting near US, and Mr.. Weary,
in answer to the inquiry of Mr.. Clayson
gave that as the figure. When the race
was declared ended, and the time 2:394
given from the grand stand, Mr.. Weary
and the writer arose and left the grand
stand in company, and 10 remarks what
ever were made by that gentleman in
reference to the race.
Mr. O'Brien seems to desire that it
should be known that he has expelled some
one, and boasts of having expelled the
horse Butcher jim, and imposed fine up
on his owner. The wind that there is in this
proceeding is apparent from the fact that
the horse was not entered ~ Saltwater.
The secretary, Mr.. McKusieL, took mem
orandum which authorized aim to enter
the horse in the 2:40 class, provided & pac-
ing race was given, wherein
his stable companion, the horse
Niger, c.uld be started, and
not otherwise. This was fully understood
by Mr.. McKusick, as it was also by Mr..
Dud Hersey, who was present at the time
and gave his assurance that such condi-
tions were the understanding. No pacing
race was given, consequently the judges
had no more authority or control over the
horse Butcher Jim, or his owner, than had
the man in the moor. and the board of
appeals will so decl1e. In addition to
this, an association in order to have the
power to expel q horse for non-appear-
ance, must have the entry made in strict
conformity with rule second of the amend
ed bylaws, but none of which conditions
were observed in the case of Butcher Jim,
therefore, the action of the judges at
Saltwater in reference to that horse was
without autho rity of turf law, consequently
null and void.
A late number of the Spirit of the Times
contains al article on the action of Judges
when suppcessing time. an extract OF
which I annex, in order that Mr.. O'Brien
can see himself as others see him.
"When men go into judges stand at q race
they accept responsibilities even more delicate
than those devolving upon the judges of a
of law, because they have no such array Of
statutes nor constsbalary to fall back upon
They ara court of honor, and If they are not
honorable they are worse than nothing. And
when they auction any Misrepresentation of
time, they sign their names officially, in effect,
to a felsehood, which we hope they would abhor
to do in any ordinary basin transaction. They
grossly abuse trust, and render it the right of
any straightforward man, who has, perchance,
lost wager on the time made by a horse be
cause of their Justification of the record, to
charge them with stealing his money. They do
that which we repeat, we cannot believe that
they realize that they are doing,or they could not
command, in their communities, even the
amount of respect which would tolerate their
presence in the stand as judges in a sporting
event in which many people are interested"
With this miro held up before him, I
leave Mr.. O'Brien to contemplate the con-
tempt that all who witnessed his action in
the judges stand must have for him, and
with the hope that they may, while detest-
ing his methods, have pity for his weak
ness in this his extremity.
SPECTATOR.
Elmira, N. Y, Oct. 18th, 1888.
The North Preferred for Breeding the Trot-
ter.
About year ago, after the substantial