Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-05
Tie HaineS Case.
CoNTEMPrIBLE ASSERTIONS OF REPUBLI-
CAN PAPERS ABOUT L. 5. ATTORNEY
WHITE.

Will T.
From the Tacoma News.
This mornings edition Of the Seattle
0St-IateHigencer and the sheet pub
lished in this city that attempts to con
{, troll the Republican party here had
Il each sort Of sensational story to the
i effect that the arrest OF Mr.. Haines
: was but political dodge on the part
Territory to injure the Republican
: chances of carrying the next general
l election. They appeared particularly
hurt at the fact that Mr.. Iaines was
: arrested at , O'Clock in the morning,
. and at 3 he was on his way to Tacoma.
+ They also charge Mr.. White with be
= ing unusually cruel in the matter, and
p making his arrest as inhuman and de-
, grading as possible. Further, they al
r lege that Mr. White attempted to have
. Mr.. Haincs shipped at once across the
: continent as prisoner, in company
with an officer who came here for that
purpose.
All these charges against Mr.. White
: are false and utterly without founda-
ton. and are prompted by a desire to
let Mr.. Haines down easy.
The facts are these, as learned by
NeWs man, who was detailed to hunt
the matter up and get at the truth.
Thursday evening at s o'clock Mr..
White was sent for to come to The Ia
coma Hotel at once. He went there
and found Special Agent J. j. Craw-
ley, of the Treasury Department at
Washington, awaiting him. Crawley
is the man who arrested Gardner at
Chicago while he was sailing under the
name of Martin and is the one who
unearthed the whole conspiracy. He
had orders from the Secretary of the
Treasury to Immediately arrest Haines
and SO notified Mr.. White. Both
walked to the office Of the Pacific Pos
tai Telegraph Company, and at twenty
minutes past eight Mr.. White tele-
graphed the instructions he received
to Mr.. Munday, Assistant United /
States Attorney, at Seattle, with in
/ structions to answer telegram. At 10
o'clock Mr.. White and Mr.. Crowley !
went again to the Office to see if tel
egram had been received. None was
there and the office at Seattle was rung
up, when il was learned that from the
operator there that the dispatch had
not been delivered, as Mr.. Munday
could not be found. Mr. White then
sent dispatch to the Captain OF the
Police at Seattle, telling him to hunt
up Mr.. Munday or Mr.. Hamilton, the
L. s. Marshal, and tell them there was
an important dispatch for them at the
office. The dispatch to arrest Haines
did not reach Mr. Munday until after
midnight, although sent from here at
8 o'clock in the evening.
The other charge of these papers
that Mr.. White desired to have Haioes
taken East as n prisoner by the Mar
shall is utterly false and will not be be-
lieved by any person who knows Mr..
White, Notwithstanding the assertions
OF the Post ateHigencer and the morn
ing sheet here to the contrary.
The facts as stated by Judge Allyn
are that Mr.. White came to him in the
morning before any hearing was had
in the matter, produced to him the
decisions OF the District Court of Ten
ncssec, showing that in similar cases
the defendant was entitled to give bail
and advised the Judge to fix bail in q
reasonable amount. That this was done
by Mr.. White and the conclusion he
had come to, was telegraphed to Mr..
Strive by the judge of the court be-
fore any application was made by Mr..
Haines to be let to bail. Mr.. White
also agreed at the same time with the
Judge that the bail should be $4,000,
and the only difference between Mr..
Strive and Mr.. White was the time in
which Haines was to appear in Buffalo.
Mr.. White saying that it should be
eight days, because there was but a
short session left OF court. Mr.. Strive
asking for twelve days. The Judge fin
ally, without any material opposition,
fixed the time at twelve days.
To-day, after reading the Pr. and
the morning sheet here, Mr. White sent
tina following telegram to d. +. Lock
wood, United States Attorney at Buff
falo:
TACOMA, w. T., Sept. 80, 1883.
ney, Buffalo, N. Y: Haines has given
bail for his appearance in your court
on or before October 10th. He says he
is ready for trial. Keep your jury and
give him immediate trial because his
friends here and the leading Republi-
can papers of the Territory charge that
the prosecution of Haines is because
he is Chairman of the Republican Ter
ritorial Committee and that it is put
up by Democrats, particularly myself,
for political effect.
w. H. WHITE,
United States Attorney.
1t will thus be seen that these state
ments are false and are calculated to
prejudice the public in favor of Repub-
licanism by charging that this was II
political trick and that Mr.. White, as a
Democrat, with being the tool. In
truth and in fact he did but his duty,
his plain duty and nothing more. 1t
was unfortunate for Mr.. Haines that
Mr.. Munday could not be found by the
telegraph managers in Seattle, and to
this fact alone can the arrest of Mr.
Haines at o'clock in the morning be
attributed.
The following are the kilograms sent
by Mr.. White and the only instructions
given by him relative to the arrest of
Mr.. Haines:
TACOMA, w. T., Sept. q, 1885,
c. F. Munday, United States Attor-
ney, Seattle: Crowley; Special Agent
Treasury Department, is here. Arrest
Haines tonight and bring him here
you come up with him. Answer to-
night. w. II. WHITE,
United States Attorney.
This dispatch was received at the
Postal Office in Seattle at twenty-one
minutes past o'clock Pm
TACOMA, w. T., Sept. 81, 1888.
Captain Of Police, Seattle: See Mar
shall Hamilton and tell him important
telegram at Postal for him or Munday.
w. ii. WHITE,
United States Attorney.
This WAS received at Postal office in
Seattle at twenty minutes past 10
O'Clock P. NJ.
The following note is from the man.
ager of the Postal: "
SEATTLE, October l, 1888.
Mr.. WHITE: We made diligent
search to find Mr.. Munday, but did not
succeed until o'clock on the morning
of the 2Sth. w. ]. WALLIS,
Manager of Postal Telegraph.
Mr.. Munday was in his room, at the
residence Of Charles Mcdonald from & |