The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-29

after much consultation an arrangement |
was finally entered into, March, 1879, by |
which witness took one-third OF the routes, |
about thirty in number, and paid Peck and |
John Dorsey $4,000 each; employed Reer. |
dell TO attend TO these routes, some time in |
April, 1879, but he retained his position in |
the district government until May, 1879, |
Reerdell took general charge Of the routes; |
he was NOT instructed to open any books; |
there was no occasion for IL; witness had |
his OWL books; Reerdell did keep a route |
book, hut witness did not see it until yesr |
afterwards. Witness described his move. |
ments in detail during 1873, 1879
1850, and subsequent to the |
division OF the routes; witness made
an arrangement with James Bosler in rela- !
ton to routes; could not say whether the |
arrangement was made here or in New |
York; Reerdell remained in charge OF the |
routes after that arrangement; witness |
never had any connection with routes held |
by Miner ana Vale after the division; |
never realized any profits from them, and |
did not see Miner and Vale after that until |
the beginning of this action; witness recol- |
lection in regard to his thirty routes was |
that in some cases drafts were given to him |
| covering the entire contract period, and |
| other sub-eontracts We're given; Reerdell |
also held some sub-contracts; was in
| Washington ON April ), 1878, |
| date OF the Chico Springs letter.; never
saw AndreX W. Moore but once, and did
not know him; III July, 1873, Moore was at
| witness house.
lngersol read from Moore's testimony
his statement OF his interview with Dorsey
about mail service.
| Witness declared he never had coayer.
sation of three words with Moore in the
world; his statement was a lie made out of
whole cloth; witness gave checks to Miner
in April, 1878, bat did OF know whether
or not they were ever intended for Moore;
perhaps Miner had told him something OF
that KIND, but withess did not remember;
the $500 checks which Moore said had
been given him WAS given to Miner, Peck
II Co.. nearly all sof Moore's statements
concerning witness We're denied in the
broadest and most emphatic terms;
witness did not fecollect that he had
ever been requested to help Miner pre-
pare bids; Nine stopped at witness
house, as his guest, during December, 1881,
and had use OF thesupper office; If Reerdell
did any work for witness at that time it
consisted only OF writing a few letters,
when he called atlthe house during the
evening; witness pad nothing to do with
the preparation Of proposals on that mem
orable night as testified TO by Reerdell the
only grain of truth in that story was the
|
Boone's house for i box of papers, witness
reason for taking such an active interest in
the success OF the hhsiness and for sending
Reerdell out to help John Dorsey start the
! Tongue River rpute was to protect
friends who had become bondsmen on con
tracts from the disastrous consequences of
failure of any OF the routes in reference to
Reerdell's statements that he had been in
structed to establish side post-otlice on
the Tongue River route, witness said that
il was utterly untrue; his statement was a
falsehood, nor was 1t true that he had in
structed Reerdell &c build a station on that
route, solely with tie view to expedition:
did give Reerdell some letters Of introduc-
tion to prominent persons, but did not re-
member saying anything about petitions.
A. Il. Boone, II. l.. Carpenter and James
J.. Calan appeared as Witnesses before the
grand jury to-day, IL is understood that
charges have been preferred against j. b.
Colegrove and John l.. French, Bradys
CHIEF clerk, while the latter was second as
! ! sistant postmaster general. 1t is alledged
that Colegrove under-bid Other contractors
for service on certain star-routes and then for
consideration threw up service so that tenn
porary contracts might be awarded by
French Mt exorbitsnt figures TO other per
sons. 1t is expected that presentments
will be made by the gzi9d jury, 49,.
Witness had no req Pctlon of ever filling
up the ailadayits connected with routes
Some Of these papers were presented to
him by Ingersol. He said: "a can't see
| am sorry TO say. He also denied having
,, instructed Reerdell to fill in aifadavis
Other conversations sworn TO by Rcerlell
were denied in toto. The Smith and Jones
mem Hdum was produced. Witness
! said yositlvely: 81 n yer gave
that paper to Reerdcll ut any
time or any place. or for any purpo,e to
any human being Vi Jhe world. am speak
ing OF the papei IS entirety gave items
III she liret Fart o. a.. yei,sr - Wilher II.
' Kellogg this bo0k-keeper), TO make the en-
tries on the 10Th OF January, 1897 WIT
/, ! ness then explained the nature oft, saying
they included $1,000 to Peck and $1,000
to John w. Dorsey. lngersoIl, addressing
the court and counsel said Dors Y had
books extending over two years, concerning
many people. lie did not want to bring them
; into court for reasons entirely outside this
: case. II the prosecution would agree upon
man, or If the court would appoint TWO
, men to go over all the books, they might
bring into court any account which John
Dorsey or Peck or Miner were connected
with III business from 1877 to the present
time,
Bliss replied that at the threshold they
, would be met with the question, what are
l Dorsey's books ~ He preferred 10 stand by
= the rules of law.
The court said that 1t could not make
such an order, even II the offer had been ac-
,, cepted. lngersoll added that Dorsey had
about 10000 pages of letter books, legal,
8 political and personal, He would make
u the same offer in regard TO them
l. Court TO Bliss)-"Do you accep,?n
Bliss--"No SIR
Merrck-"It they will bring In the book
= containing the entries of William Smith we
e will read them TO the jury"
o Ingersoll-"lf had the power | might
=, evoke from the chaos of perjury the two
red books, but as have not such power
= shall not.
5 The court remarked that the Argument
- was not within bounds.
Ingersoll declared that he was enjoying
: himself.
The court replied that he had no right 10
enjoy himself at the expense of others.
, lngersoll produced another batch OF
checks, and offered them in evidence.
r The court rejected the oiler. Ingersoll
; excepted, although he did not believe that
f, they would ever get to bill OF exceptions
in this case.
/. The court, referring TO Ingersoll's offer,
upon the credibility of witness testimony
He might have drawn the money from
other banks than those included In the
offer. Only a general statement would be
} admissible.
Witness said he kept no account OF money
received from the government; sums were
placed to his credit, and would be shown by
his bank books; never had n conversation
with Reerdell about the "Smith aud Jones
memorandum IL was not given to him
tReerdelD but to Kellogg; that is, the
upper part
Ingersoll then made the same offer In re.
, gard to the stub books that had been ma de
before In relation to letter books, but Mer.
rick positively refused to agree to the
proposition. He said the defense had been
notified TO produce the stubs, and did not
do II. Let them accept the consequences
The offer was perfect farce. Counsel ex-
changed some rather sharp remarks. but
the court cut the discussion short, charac.