The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-09
RERDELL W.. DORSEY.
RerdeII ExpIalns the $4,000
Check Business.
Dorsey CaIIs Him Liar. and
Bedford Denies.


statements to a Star reporter con-
corning the Bedford check matter,
which explains the relations of Dor
sew and Rerdell. The statements
are to the following effect: In the
latter part of August or the begin
ming of September Of 1879, Rerdeli !
was sent for by banker. He went
to the bank and there was shown to
him a check, dated, he thinks, some
day in July, 1879. The check was
for $1,000, payable to j. B. B.,
or James b. Belford, or,aS he thinks,
to bearer, and signed by S. W. Dor
sey. The check had a number of
endorsements, showing that it had
passed through several banks. The
writing and signature Were SO ir-
regular and in such bad ink that he
had doubts about its being genuine,
and therefore desired Rerdell
to give his oDinion about it. Rer-
dell examined the cheek and said it
had undoubtedly been written and
signed by S. w. Dorsey, but he
must have been drunk when he
wrote it. The check was paid. S.
w. Dorsey returned to Washington
about the LIST of October, 1879. Rer-
dell informed him of the doubt of
the check, and what he Rerdelll
said to the bank people. DorSey's
reply was: No; was not drunk.
[ wrote that check in the cars on
my way to Denver, and that is why
it is so badly written. A few days
afterward he gave the check back to
Rerdell to make up his mail account.
A stub of a $4,000 check was here
marked J. B. B., $4,000 mail, and
Rerdell charged that to the mail ac-
count as directed by Dorsey. Rer-
dell says the check book Will show
that he is telling the truth. and
there is no other way to verify the
statement, as no bank records the
name of the payee of check. He
also says the men at the bank must
remember about it, and the entries
of the checks of August and Sep.
TENDER will show one sum of $1,000
charged against Dorsey. The gov.
eminent could not offer this testi.
mony because you cannot corrobo
rate a witness on collateral matter
and besides the court ruled thai
Rerdell's testimony relative to Bel
ford, whether the check was glveI
to Belford or nOt,waS a matter Rer
dell had no interest in. Afterwards
! from a conversation between Dor
Sey and others, overheard by Rer
> dell, he came to understand tina
: Dorsey, BelfOrd and a crowd 0
, friends, were on train going west
1t was proposed to play game wit
' cards; Dorsey was one of the play
/ ers, Bedford was the stake holde
) and cashier for the crowd. Dorse
: lost nearly al the money he had an
e in settlement with Bedford or Oh
winner TO whom Bedford tranSferre
Z a check in settlement, Dorsey wa
shrewd and charged his loss t
mail and thus generously permitte
: Bosler, sBrady, Vail 81 Co., t
: share his loss. The above state
e ment of Rerdell has thrown som
: light upon the transaction and in
5 terested parties are having live!
time among themselves.
Ex-senator Dorsey furnishes fo
publication the following card:
To The associated Press:
! | am informed that you sent t
! the country the villainous falshoo
), that appeared in the Star to-nighr
e as a statement of RerdelTS. TIL
$ Associated Press, being supreme il
: it's sphere, l am forced to appeal t
= it and ask what l say be place
= beside what the perjurer says
Is II never saw Bedford on til
, cars. | never played a gam
:; of cards with him, nor in his pres
n ence, or at any time. | never CAV
/, him a check of any kind whateve
:. for any purpose in the world.
never met him in my life except i
Washington, or in Denver and the
only socially. Rerdell says, l wa
Is here IL October 1879 and he spOk
r tC me about the check. | was nc
Il here any day after the 18th of JULY
70 1879, till about August 1880, and /
x the meantime l had not seen Re-
i dell. This story is one that flow
n from the mouth of self admitte
: periurer and thief. Rerdell neve
d kept book for me, never wrote
line in book fer me, never made
charge for me, and never had
checkbOOk of mine unless he stol
4 it No check, no stub of a checl
- no entry of any name or characte
Ie ever existed upon which to has
l. this infamous lioel. RerdelPs stat,
Y ment is the natural outgroWth {
the usual infamy of transmitte
e power, and fairly represents it.
q (Slgned) S. w. DORSEY.
# Judge Belford in conversatio
:, tonight, fully confirmed all that e.
r, Senator Dorsey states conCernin
the check story. He said he nevt
rode a foot on any railway in CON
pany with Dorsey, and never playe
q. a game of poker with him in b
,e life, and never saw the check d
4 cribed by Rerdell. The whole sto1
d, he said, WAS entirely false from b
n ginning to eud, in so far as his nan
le WAS connected with IT,