Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-23
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FUF years 45 N85 Dr-A known tuat Their
was bad blood between Dan VOORHEES, ans
Bayless W. Hanna hat the cause OF &. haI
always been misunderstood. A ss%A
many persons have ascribed IL % poiitfca
jealousy, while another class have beaI
equally certain that it came from each
eag9ing the good looks or oratOrical pow.
ers OF the other But all these conlecturei
are wide Of the mark, and We feel bound
70 give TO the world this long concealed
secret.
When John Brown raided Harper's Ferr,
Dan Voorhees, and Bayless Hanna were Law
partners, and Ashbel +. Willard was Gov
ernor of Indiana. They were all Demo
Gratis and friends. Governor Willard's
brosher-in-law, boy OF twenty, named
Cook, was one OF Browns raiders, and was
captured by the State of Virginia. The
Governor was notified OF the capture of
Cook, and determined to make a respecta-
ole legal defense for him. He employed
Voorhees, e. Hanna, who were 70
proceed at once TO Charleston. Virginia.
Voorhees, being az indianapolis, started
East with Willard on the first train, and
Hanna was telegraphed TO follow. The
Governor and Voorhees, reached Harper's
Ferry, and at once mounted the stage for
Charleston. A few hours later, the train
bearing Colonel Hanna arrived, but too
late for the stage, and the great orator
found that he would have some three hours
TO wait Now Bayless was always a Demo
crat, and though he was employed to de-
fend an Abolitioast, he was always ready
to gather in material for his speeches in
Il
mined to make some striking features out
the very cas- he was enga red in. So he
started out ani soon succeeded in pur-
chasing one o. The desperate pixies which
the Brown party had carried; and then he
scooped in a copy OF 'Hslper's Impending
Crisis" work only to be found in the
hands of nti-slavery people.
Shortly after the stage came in and
Colonel Hanna went up to go out to
Charleston. By this time suspicion had
pointed TO the strategetic Democrat as
member of the Brown party, and the
officials finally decided to call him to ac-
,ount. He was very gracious, and in
formed the gentlemen who he was; but the
on Z hair, the pike and the book seemed to
,ont adic5 the statement.
After cons ltation between the officials
Mr. Hanna was informed that be would
lave to go to Charleston under arrest, and
f Mr.. Voorhees, AMI Governo Willard
Identified him it would be all right. With
smiles, Mr.. Hanna told them it would be
Ill right, and that he would willingly ac-
,ept the conditions.
When the stage reached Charleston, Mr..
Hanna learned that Voorhees, and Willard
lad gone to the country to dine with Hon.
Charles J. Faulkner. The officers refused
% so out in the country, but finally al
owed Mr.. Hanna to hire man to take
note out to his friends. When the mes
,enger presented the note it at once oc-
:urred to Voorhees, to play joke on
Hanna, so he wrote on the back of it tha
lie did not know any such person as Bay.
ess w. Hanna an1 expressed surprise tina,
he note had been sent to him. The mes.
! ,enger returned, and the indignant officers,
ceiling that they had been trifled with, at
,nce locked Colonel Hanna up with the
| Brown party. About two o'clock the next
morning Voorhees, and Willard returned
20 town and were ho-rifed to learn tha.
Hanna was in jail, but they determined to
| larry out the joke and went over to tie
! III. IS IheV hpprOacuei Vne jan door
! }ayless greeted them with a piiiful ap-
peal: Say, boys, think this joke has
/ gone too far already; get me out of here"
! Both Willard and Voorhees, looked aston
he'd, and declared that they had never
aid eyes on Bavless before and returned
. their hotel. Bayless set up an unearth-
howl, and showered all SORTS of male
iictions upon tha devoted heads Of w Hard
lnl Voorhees, until tho inmesss took ref
lge in their coils, declaring that Hanna
vas a madman. The uproar tteacted the
Sheriff and aroused all the people IN the
immediate. neighberhood. un5il Willard
md Voorhees, CONCLUDED they had all the
m they desired. an scn5 for the Sher-
R. explained the matter. and Bayless was
'eleasod. Voorhees, tried to explain the
Joke. but the cursins that Hanna gave him
S SAID u be still echoing through the Vir-
ginia hills From that time TO the present
hat night in Virginia Jail has rankled in
he bosom OF Baylsss Hanna, aud has Kept
alive the FIRE of his hate for the Tall Syca-