, 1888-10-11
STRAIGHT GOODS.
Let us Have Square Figures With
out PreyaricatiOn.
Afidavits Which Show Up An Or
CAMS Misrepresentation.
WillfuI BIunders of a Big Amount
in Five Items.

~ " pOihbo W "bhSh IL AE<AobHh
wishes to direct public attention. The
first of these is that the editor of the Sun
feels the most bitter personal enmity
against Mr.. Stoll, and the second (Which
grows out of the frst) is the utter and
outrageous disregard for truth which the
Republican organ displays in this fight.
In a case of this sort THE LEADER does
not intend to content itself with simple
assertions that what the Sua has pre-.
viously said is untrue, but it intends to
prove its case to the satisfaction of the
general public without regard to party.
In the first item quoted by the Eddy
street paper the witnesses fees are set
down at Sc, 53S. Here is an affidavit
covering this point:
Office of the Clerk of the District Court
First Judicial District sitting in and for
Laramie County, Wyoming Territory,
Cheyenne, Oct. 9, 1888.
Walter Il. Stou, Esq. Prosecuting Attor-
for Laramie County.
DEAR SIR-In reply to four communi-
cation of the Sth inst, | respectfully state
that after a careful examination of the
records of this Office, 1 find that the
amounts allowed by the clerk of the court
as compensation to Witnesses and jurors in
the case of the Territory VS.. Harry Pat
terson, are as follows, viz:
FIRST TRIAL.
Amount allowed wit
Neutrality-suspicious.. s3,73l so
Amount allowed wit
nesses second trial. 1928 so.
Total for witnesses in -
both trials............ $ ,025 co
The twelve jurors en-
panelled in the first
trial served fifteen
days each at 50 per
day per iuror.........$360 90
The twelve Jurors en-
paneled In the sec
ond trial served four
teen days each, and
were allowed for
their services......... 5l9 so
Total jury fees........... $40 so
Total amount paid wit -
nesses and the jucors
IL both trials.......... 6,905 10
L, huhc 4uulllu, SlcIh VI tue duONe
named court, hereby certify hat the
above and foregoing statement of the
amounts paid to the witnesses and juries
in the two trials Of the Territory VS..
Harry Patterson are correct, and in full of
all compensation paid the witnesses and
iuries in said trial, as the same appears in
my Office.
In witness whereof l have hereto sub
scribed my name and affixed the seal of
said court at my Office, in the City of
Cheyenne, this 9th day of October, A. D.
1888. LUKE MURRIN, Clerk.
By j. R. WHITEHEAD,
[sEALl Deputy Clerk.
From the FOREGOING affidavit it will at
once be apparent that the Sun places the
witness fees at 1902 40 more than the
clerk has done. The fees of the two
juries it places at 1920; the clerk swears
they were 1879. so, a difference of $40. so.
The Sun alleged that Mrs. Brown re-
ceived S205 for her services as stenogra-
pher. The appended affidavit will show
it overstated the amount by Sl54.60.
sTENoGRAPHER's FEES.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 9, 1885,
Fanny R. Brown, being duly sworn says
she performed work on what is known as
the Patterson case tor Prosecuting Attor-
ney Stoll; that such work consisted in
taking the statements and transcribing
them of twenty-one witnesses and writing
up one affidavit; that this work was done
Immediately before the first Patterson
trial that aside from this work she has
never performed any other work at all in
either of the Patterson cases, except what
she has done in the private Office of Mr..
Stoll and for which she was paid by him
personally that tor the work she did,
as described above, she charged the usual
rates that stenographers charge, and put
in a bill against the county for such work;
that the bill so put in was for $50. 40; that
this amount, $50. 40, she was paid by the
board Of county commissioners that the
board of county commissioners have never
paid her any other sum whatever for any
services performed in the Patterson case
that she has never received or asked for
the sum of $205. 90 for any services per-
formed in the said Patterson case.
FANNIE r. Brown.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
9th day OF October, A. d. 1888.
SEAL. j. G. PRATT,
Notary Public.
In giving what is claimed were the
official figures the San asserted that
special attorney fees were involved to the
amount OF $500, The appended affidavit