Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-12-13

about two o'clock, ard Samuel Ralst0n,
ST., testified 10 the same thing.
Il sin; TO tell 81 ca one tbi0g-that Of
all tie papers which pnblishsd the ttsti-
mOny not Que shOaed NE aDy favor l
have e tie o. many Of TEEN. and of hua-
dreds OF esrJrs made IN printing the tssti-
nony, only one was ia my favor, and It
didn't amonnt 10 anything
Baker then continued To talk about the
Gaze, becoming more aud more earnest
and excited until the tears came in his
ey Is seain, end for on instant bis emotions
overcams him, hat he Gained down again
aod seid emphstcaily;
em sure this thing will al come out
right in the end, and il that man il che of
the guilty parties / wish he bad been on
lis death bed when he made that state
meut Az 1t is one can't tell whether h
is telling the truth or only wrote the let
ter to create sci alton.
"Thers is one point about the letter that
struck me more forcibly than ans thing
else, and that is the statement about the
papers being placed in tie stable. How
ever, that point l cannot explain to you.
No one on Gods earth knows OF it tu.
/ Col. Arnett, myself aud the guilty
man, and if Col. Arnett CLOSES TO
explain ii to you he can do So 1t will show
you that the man who wrote the letter
either tells the truth or he was a witness OF
what transpired Nothing in reference to
the one dollar bill and the silver change in
the msnger ever came outiD the evidence. "
Blker read the letter so hurredly thai
he skipped several points, such as the state
ment that the man who WAS said to have
committed the murder had been killed,
and the request tha. a copy Of the letter be
sent to the Chicago papers.
WHAT COL. ARNETT SAID.
A reporter met Col W. W. Arnett, OF
counsel for Baker, yesterday, aud said
Colonel, what do ycu think Of the
Baker letter."
81 tell you, 4" said the Colonel, thought
fully, ~ have been very ssriously impress
ed by that letter. l believe the writer
tells the truth, and that the facts will all
come out in due time"
as there any special statement of fact
in the letter which inclines you TO the be-
lief that i. is trut?'
ayes, there il. lam speaking now, out
aide of my general conviction OF Bakers
innocauce. The writer Of the letter refers
to the pare found ia the trunk, and
which ne save were thrown IN the stable.
Ga the trial of the case, it was conclunvely
shown that the papers were found under
the fence. Now here is the convincing
thing: The papers were thrown in the
stsble, for Van Baker fund them there,
aui they we're also found under the fence
by one of the Witnesses, for Baker put
them there "
"How did that come abOul?'
"Just this wsy, and you are the only
man, Outside Of Baker and myself who
knOws Of the fact: the morning. the muir
der wss discovered Baker went into the
stable. There he found the papers lying
in the stall, as the writer of the letter
says. Bakers FIRST impulse was TO show
them, bnt before doing so, it flashed upon
him that his statement would not be ac-
cepted, aud that it would be set down as a
trick Of his, aud might 20 against him, so
be thrust the papers under the fence, and
said nothing about the circumstance
When he told me, advised him TO keep
the matter to himself, and he has done
So"
"B ker could not have written the REG
IsrER letter?'
"NO, indeed. Depend upon it, he
had nothing whatever to do with it,"
as any step being contemplated by
counsel for Baker,"
ayes, we are preparing the case for the
Uaited States Supreme Court"