The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-10
THE DBNTAL OF NO AYATL,

The denials Of Mr.. Voorhees, in reply
to the center shots Of Senator Ingalls,
on Tuesday, do not avail, and only
serve to present the Voorhees, veracity
in q torn and tattered condition, and
entirely incapable of holding water. A
representative of the State Journal this
morning had the pleasure of conyers-
ing with Captain Robert w. Sill OF
Monticello, White county, Indiana,
who is visiting friends in this city at
present. The captain was at the head
of company in the FOrty-ninth an
diana, and Hon. John Guthrie, judge
of the district court of this county, and
Mr.. A. G.. Stacey of Topeka, were
members of the same regiment. Mr..
A. L. Rodgers Of this city is an old
friend of Captain Sill, and vouches for
his integrity. The captain made the
| following statement, similar to that
made to a Commonwealth reporter:
II had been at Camp Logan, at Lo-
gansport, with the boys and acting un-
| der instructions, having just organized,
we took train for Indianapolis to be
mustered in. This was in December,
| / think, of '62. was in command OF
the men. l had two companies-in all
about 200 soldiers. In those days we
went to indianapolis from Logansport
by the way of Lafayette. We were told
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four hours, for some reason which
cannot recall now. Well, the boys got
to talking about the war, the call e
which they had responded, and the
chances of the respective sides to win.
The fact that Daniel w. Voorhees,.
then a representative from Indiana
had voted against an Appropriation Of
funds of the United States to paN
union soldiers, money earned by then
i - NhnfW oOFInfrU
mentioned and voorhees, was roundly
denounced in no meaningless manner
Other acts, which common re
port had associated him with and
which tended to cloud his loyalty, werI
adyerted to, and the feeling arouse(
against Voorhees, was, putting i
, mildly, hostile. Not long before the
train was ready to pull out, the boy
were told that Mr.. Voorhees, was II
had this intelligence reached then
than they made q motion to hang him
determining to do 80, and going so IA
as to undertake to get into his car t
, secure him. The train was in motion
on its way out Of Lafayette. Iordere'
the doors of the cars occupied by tn
boys to be closed and locked. l sta
toned guards at each door and left
strict Injunction with the guards to al
low no man 10 go out.
, ''Then / went into MIR. voorhees,
car and spoke to him. / knew hin
we'll. 1 explained the situation an,
the danger which I expected to avert
He did not deny any Of the charges tn
boys had made. Indeed, he did not sa
a word about them, but, acting on m
advice, went into the mail department
where he remained until he reached In
dianapolis, where l suppose he got OH
did not see him again, and am yer
certain the boys did not see him. w
! were mustered into service and starte
! to the front soon after"
FL Captain Sill was asked if he had eye
| heard anyone in Indiana say tina
voorhees, was q member of the Knight
of the Golden Circle, which existed i
the early part of the war.
"Why," laughingly replied the cap
tain, 81 never heard it cOntroverted i
Indiana. 1t is kind of taken as a mat
, ter of course there"
, And, speaking of the Knight
/ of the Golden Circle. recall
to my mind that prior to the OK
: curence just recited, there came to on
: of the freight depots Of Indianapolis ;
: great number of boxes marked "Sun
day school books" consigned to Ger
eral Conkling who, also, was said to b
: a Knight of the Golden Circle. Coy
ernOr Morton ordered that the goods b
seized, the boxes opened and the con
tents cOnfiscated.
l was present when the order wa
5 executed, and a was witness to tn
discovery that every box containe
Colt revolvers for the knights of tn
, Golden Circle.-State Journal.
Capt. E. p. Bruner of this city wa
on another train which arrived at Ii
. dianapolis about the same time as tn
one above mentioned, and says that
conversed with some of the boys VIII
/ attempted the hanging.
D. II. Holmes of Hartford, We ar
: informed by Capt. Ike Taylor of tn;
place, was on the train at Lafayett,
: and saw Voorhees, sneak away frol
:. the car where he had been hiding. NJ
Holmes says that worse scared ma
than Voorhees, he never saw.