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

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question: Ifyour version of the matter
is orrect how Is it that the one hun
drcd dollars that was returned to you
and Me,calf was divided between you
AMI crcdte to Hinckley on attorney
fees instead of being used to pay the
costs and expenses for which II was in
tended when the money was paid to
Mr.. Nye? When Mr. Nye returned the
one hundred dollars to you it became
your duty, ii YOU are correct in your
statement OF the matter, to use it as Mr..
Nye would have used it had he retained
it. Instead of doing this, you credited
the whole of it to Mr.. Hinckley as a
portion Of your fees, thus admitting as
clearly and plainly as any written ad.
mission or spoken words of yours could
do, that the money was not intended
for expenses or costs that the attorneys
for Mr.. Hinckley had agreed to pay.
The facts a that long before the $lOC
was returned, more than month be-
fore, all costs and expenses, Corning's
and all, were adjusted and settled by
NJ, tcalf & johnson and the 800 still
leit intact, in Mr.. Nye's hands; not o
dollar expended, no demand for the
return of any portion of it, and the
attorneys for Hinckley were greatly
surprised when it was given back To
them.
Again, If Mr.. Nye received the money,
as he now states, for proper and legiti
mate purposes, why should he have had
to return it? Why did Judge Hale
compel him to return it? Why did moi,
Nye insist that it was unjust to require
him to return it? Why did he not state
that he had taken no bribe, that the
money was not for his own use, but
1hat il was held by him to secure some
expenses and costs that were perfectly
legitimate and that the defendant ought
TO payP Instead of such course,
however, he hastens with the money tc
Hinckley's attorneys with the simple
explanation, al have had q talk with
Judge Hale and do not want to keer
this hundred dollars nor any part OF
it." If Johnson is correct in his state.
Dent, when the money was returned
and on rearing Nyc's explanation Of
his reasons for returning it, johnson
should have replied. "Ihc Judge i.
wrong. There is no more improprieiy
in your paying these costs and eN.
penses than there is in our doing so. y
MIR. Metcalf could not. OF co.irse. pur
sCe this course, for he has never
claimed that the monev was raid to
MI Nye for any other purpose thar
for his own expenses, nor has he evei
pretended that he knew what these ex
penses consisted of, or what they az
gregated.
Again, in the first issue of the "Fah
Hearing Mr.. Johnson introduce.
Terrill's affidavit to prove Nye's igno
rance of the terms of settlement, unit
the same was made. We luote:
$50 far ~ know Mr.. Nye knew
nothing about this settlement until the
terms were all agreed upon and the
matter closed up
At the top of fourth column, fourth
page of firsti of "a Fair Hearing
Mr.. johnson uses the following Ian
guage; "All this (the settlement of the
case and the payment OF the money
was done without the knowledge oi
consent Of Mr.. Nye, and however Il
may be characterized he is not respon.
sible for II"
He further states in the same column
$50 far as am informed, and verify be
lieve, the first evidence Mr.. Nye had o.
the matter was after arrangements had
been made with the wife OF Hinckley
and the other parties had all been com
pleted."
Mr.. Nye states In the sixth column
OF the secon' page of the same issue
"No money was paid to the father o
the girl in my presence, or to my knowl
edge, in my oIlice. | knew nothing OF
the terms of the settlement between
Terrll and Hinckley until they were
all agreed upon and fully determined,
aDd then all ] learned was that Mrs.
Hfnckley was to pay TerriIl five hun.
dred dollars and to pay all costs and
Now, how do the foregoing state.
ments and many similar ones that are
scattered through the various publica.
tions for which Mr.. 4. e. johnson Il
responsible, harmonize with the facts
contained in the following statement
signed by ex-Sheriff CorningP
Mr.. CoRNING's STATEMENT.
"Nye asked me what thought about
settling the case and told me the propo /
sitions that were made some three OF
four days before the settlement: said
live hundred dollars was going 10 the
5irl and they were to pay my costs
and George and L. &. were going 10
get their fees out of tho defendant.
'-'When the matter was fixed up and
he money paid over, Mr.. Shardon Ter.
Ill was in Mr.. Nye's Office with Mr..
Nye, and the money going to the girl
Ind the expenses Of Mr. Nye was car
led into Mr.. Nye's office. | got my
oes few days afterwards by check
rom L. e. Johnson.
(SignedD II. +. CoRNING."
"a lie has no legs and can not stand"
IRs. HISoKLEY's VERSION OF THE SET
ELEMENT.
Not long since, lady friend. and rel
tive Of Mrs. Hinckley forwarded 10
ler "The Truth Stated" written by +.
}. johnson. From that letter she OF
'oursc gathered the fact that there was
. controversy about the settlement Of
he case in. which she was so deeply
Interested. Her eye fell upon the foi- |
owing paragraph in Mr.. Johnson's