The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-10-08

MIR. E. G. JOHNSON has asked me in his
last issue that he calls "a FAIR Hearing"
the question: "Did you deposit 800 with
Mr.. Nye, on the day the Hinckley settle
ment was made" ! certainly have no
recollection whatever of ever carrying
that one hundred dollars to Mr.. Nye, and
the following quotations, the first taken
from Mr.. Terri's affidavit, and the second
from Mr.. Corning's statement seem clearly
to confirm my recollection. Says Terrill,
81 received $500, it was paid me by Mr..
Corning, the Sheriff, who said Mr.. Met
cali directed him to give it TO me-" Mr..
Corning states, "When the matter was
fixed up and the money paid over, Mr..
Shardon Terrill was in Nye's office with
Nye and the money going to the girl and
the expenses of Nye were carried into
Nye's office" Butt understand that Nye
asserts that handed him the money and
| will not dispute him, although as have
before stated have no recollection what
ever Of doing so, | now state as have
heretofore, that / had nothing TO do with
the settlement OF the case or with aIrang-
ing the terms.
nigh, have carried the 800 to Nye
for Metcalf, as have always since have
been with him, done the running about in
trausacting business that required it,
owing to his crippled condition. have
done, in the years have been with him
great many hundred errands, such as
carrying money to various attorneys
offices, to the banks and other
places about town, also getting mail mat
ter, and files of court, etc., and for you to
ask me to go back two years and remem-
Der transaction which II 1t took place,
was of the same character have named,
so far as / was concerned, (simply an
errand upon my part in which did not
figure as party, is simply absurd. Had
l any light to throw upon that point you
should have 1t.
Ny answer to your first question prac-
tically disposes OF the others in which
you ask my intention and also the inten
ton of yourself, Nye and Metcalf, putting
your question in varions ways. In a
transaction in which was not party and
was not consulted, You most certainly can
not expect me to explain the motives OF
men. You have seen fiji for some reason
to change your attitude toward me, as in
your former "Fair Hearing" and Other
publications, you have not charged me
personally with having been party
TO certains transactions and statements
that have been talked and written so much
about by you, wherein you claim Nye was
wronged, but in your sheet No 2, you
have made an assault upon me, charging
me with having slandered Nye, that
planned a villainous raid upon Nye,' y
that | "directed Tucker to arise in the
convention and make foolish remark,
that / "filled the air with falsehoods
respecting him, that | "caused to be pub
lished in the Wellington paper, base
and Infamous SANDER upon you, Metcalf
and Nye," before the caucuses. Without
stopping, to go through the list, you have
in short charged me with personally hay
ing done the meanest thing imaginable
every word of which you know Mr.. John
son is false, for there is not man in this
county who has ever heard me say
slanderous word about Nye or that
cliimed l had till you by your bold-faced
assertions in your last paper accused me ol
it. Any man who has seen fit to disagree
with you in this controversy has
been branded by you in your sheets with
all the villainous names you could muster
A. r. WEBER.