Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-16

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For years it has boez known that shs<s
was bad blood between Dan Voorhees, ans
Bayiess w. Hanna. but the cause Of hai
always been misu nderstood. A ss~&
many persons have sseribed 10 % politScz
Jealousy, while another class have beeI
equally certain that it came from each
snyying the good looks or orstorical pow.
ers OF the other. But al these conjectures
are wide OF the mark, and We feel boans
10 give 70 the world this long eonceAiss
secret.
When John Brown raided Harper's Ferry
Dan Voorhees, and Bayless Hanna were Law
partners, and Ashbel z. Willard Was Gov
ernor OF Indiana. They were all Demo
Gratis and friends. Governor Wizards
brother-in law, "a boy or 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 10 make = respscts-
ble legal defense for him. he employed
Voorhees, & Hanna, who were TO
proceed AZ once 20 Charleston, Virginia.
Voorhees, being at Indianapolis, started
East with Willard on the first train, aad
Hanna was telegraphed 20 follow. Tho
Governor and Voorhees, reached HArper's
Ferry, and AZ 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 Bayiess was always u Demo
crat, aud though he was employed TO de-
fsnd an Abolitionist, he was always ready
70 gather in material for his speeches in
the next campaign; in fact he was deter
mined To make some striking features out
oi the very case he was engaged in. So he
started out and soon succeeded in pur-
chasing one of the desperate pixies which
the Brown party had carried; and then he
scooped in copy of Helpers Impending
! Crisis" a work only TO be found in the
hands OF anti 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 q
member of the Brown party, and the
officials finally decided TO call him to ac-
count. He was very gracious, and in
formed the gentlemen who he was; but the
ong hair, the pike and the book seemed TO
sont adict the statement.
After a consultation between tho officials
| Mr.. Hanna was informed that he would
nave TO 90 TO Charleston under arrest, and
| Mr. Voorhees, and Governor Willard
Identified him it would be all right. With
miles, Mr.. Hanna told them it would be
all right, and that he would willingly ac-
I ,ept the conditions.
! When the stage reached Charleston, Mr..
Hanna learned that Voorhees, and Willard
lsd gone TO the country to dine with Hon.
| Charles j. Faulkner. The officers refused
% go out in the country, but finally al
| owed Mr.. Hanna to hire a man to take
] iote out TO his friends. When the mes
enger presented the note, it at once oc-
:urred TO Voorhees, to play a joke on
! Hanna, so he wrote on the back Of il thai
( le did not know any such person as Bay.
ess w. Hanna and expressed surprise that
he note had been sent to him. Tho mos.
ienger returned, and the indignant officers,
ceiling that they mad been trifled with, as
,nce locked Colonel Hanna up with the
Brown party. About two O'Clock the mex:
morning Voorhees, and Willard returned
. town and were horrified to learn tn Ia,
Hanna was in jail, but they determined 10
,arry out the joke and went over TO the
all. As they approached the Jail door
Bayless greeted them with a pitiful ap-
ZEAL Say, boys, / think this JOKE has
gone too far already; get mo out Of hers. "
Both Willard and Voorhees, looked aston
he'd, and declared that they had never
aid eyes on Baylcss before and returned
a their hotel. Bsyless set up an unsartA- =
Y howl, and showered all sorts Of male
hctions upon the devoted heads of Willard
and Voorhees, until the inmates took ref
Ige in their cells, declaring that Hanna
vas a madman- The uproar attracted the
sheriff and aroused all the people In the
Immediate neighberhood, until Willard
and Voorhees, concluded they had all the
un they desired, and sent for the Shsr-
II, explained the matter. and Bsyless was
.eleased. Voorhees, tried to explain the
Joke, but the cursins that Hanna gave him
= said TO be still echoing through the Vir-
ginia hills From that time TO the present
hat night in Virginia jail has ranked Ia
he bosom OF Bayiess Hanna, aud has kept
alive the fire of his hate for the Tall Syca-
more.