The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-28

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The following affidavit, filed by the sign
er in Pulaski County Thurs lay morning,
explains itself:
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
PULASKI COUNTY, 90
|, Theodore Kitte, do sOemnly swear
that the statement in THE DAILY CAIRO
BULLETIN OF Thursday morning, June
goth, 1854, relative to Senator Hogan, of
Mound City, Illinois, wherein said paper
says that was made drunk and, while
IN tins condition, was taken by Senator
Hogan before Justice Of the Peace and
induced to make an affidavit in which |
accuse Alex. Milburn and Others of having
committed the crime" ETC., is wholly false
and not true, as l made SAID complaint
without the knowledge so far as know of
senator Hogan, and that Senator Hogan
mas never asked me to make any complaint
| Whatever against any one whOmsOver and
that SAID article so far as my being drunk
at the time made said complaint is false,
as | was duly sober and | was never in
| duced by any one to make said complaint
| against Alex. Mllburn, but made it of my
own volldOn on information and belief
| That have never had any conversation,
either directly or indirectly, with Senator
Hogan since the hanging of Nelson How
ard by mob In Mound City; save once
which was the next day after the hanging
OF said Howard, when said Hogan asked
me about said hanging, but never asked me
to make any compalnt. THEo. KITTLE.
Subscribed and sworn to befored me this
June eth, 1884. J. A. WAUGH,
County Clerk.
The statement quoted in the foregoing
document, and which it is intended to con-
tra1ict, was not made by The BULLETIN
originally, as some way infer but Was
made by Kittle himself to not less than
twenty different men, responsible citizens
Of this city, and was published on his su-
thority.
kittIe does not say in his affidavit that
ne did not make the statement attributed
to him in THE BULLETIN of the Goth; and
he does well not to say that. He does
well, We repeat, NOT to swear that he did
NOT say to any one here, that she was made
drunk and while in this condition was
taken by Senator Hogan before Justice of
the Peace aud induced to make an affidavit
accusing Alex. MIburn and others of be.
ng members of the Nelson Howard mob"
ne does well NOT to swear that he did not
'ay to any one here, that Senator Hogan
lad told him that he Hogan intended to
un for office again in fall and that he would
1--WE him (Kittle) $500 for Information
esding to the discovery of rlen oers Of the
Nelson Howard mob; he dos we'll NOT to
wear that he did NOT say, that Senator
logan had shown him roll of green.
Jacks and said, in substance, "Kittle, you
AN make all this by disclosing the names
# men who were connected with the hang
NJ Of Howard" he does well NOT to swear I
hat he did NOT, for several hours Thurs
lay evening, amuse a crowd on lower Com
nerclal Avenue by singing little original {
loggerrel in which he represented Mr..
Hogan as being on his way to Springfield
o get $500 for him as tie reward offered
by the State for the sp-
prehension Of the eighteen Nelson Howard
mobbers he (Kittle) claimed to know;
he does well not to deny under oath that
lie made all or any of these statements, and
more, too, Of similar nature, for if he
had done so we should have been under
the necessity, somewhat painful necessity,
we must confess, Of sending Mr.. KittIe to
the penitentiary for perjury.
We can produce in to-morrow's issue a
dozen afidayits from as many different re-
sponsibIe men, affirming that Kittle not
only made the statements above quoted,
but made them repeatedly and openly.
But there is no need Of doing this--at least
not yet. In the foregoing affidavit, Kittle
does not deny that he made the statement
He only denies that the statement is true,
and thereby swears that he lie when he
made it.
Its fortunate for Mr.. Kittle that it is
not so preiudicial to ones liberty to lie, as
1t is to be guilty Of perjury; but if Mr.
Kittle hadn't rctracted his lies under oath,
he could have drawn very little consolation
from this fact, for lying such as he has
confessed to is also punishable, under the
laws against SANDER and libel. There is
no doubt that Mr.. Hogan s innocent Of the
charges made against him by Kittlc; and,
'lnce there has been no personal Ill will be-
tween him and Kiule, the only motive the
latter could have had in making the stale.
ment was to bolster up his scheme with A
show OF authority, so as to render it more
formidable in the eyes Of those whom he
sought to intmidate. But he failed in his
Infamous scheme utterly failed and if he
gets out of it without having more than this
to complain Of, he will be fortunate, indeed.
For the present We have nothing more to
say,