The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-11-03
1W0 INTERESTING INTERVIEWS,

ONO OF VI hlch SnOws tho Deep Interest
John o. Pendlston Took In "Soeiug" n
Democrnt.c Witness.
From tic Official Rtport of n. Ttsiimonv OF j. D.
Brookorer, Dtn'9crafc Judge Of Eiectijn in Vet.
.a County. r, .p--a :. -'E
lie [Robertson] then said he would
call the Register up, which be did by
telephone. When they answered his
call he told them that that man Brook
over that had made the affidavit in Satur-
days 1NTELLlGESCER was in his Office at
that time and that he said the affidavit
as published did not contain all he said.
He Robertson told them that. said
that had been asked when l gave my
first affidavit, If there might by any
possibility have been moro than those
two tickets scratched and that said
there might possibly have been, but that
1 did not remember OF seeing thcm.'
Then I went into the clerk Of the peni-
tentiary's office and was there probably
ten or fifteen minutes talking with him
when the telephone rang again and some
person in the Registers office told Mr..
Robertson to ask me if | would care to
be sworn to that statement. [ told him
/ had been sworn to it once, aud had no
objection to be sworn again. Then Mr..
Burley swore me to the truth OF the
statement, but I did not intend this to
be separate Statement, only to fill the
vacancy left in the original affidavit,
neither did I intend to contradict the
original affidavit, rs Tie original a0idari!
was true"
The Robertson referred to by Brook.
over ia Edward Robertson, now State
Labor Commissioner. He was chair.
man of tho Pendleton.Grady meeting
held Saturday night, October %, in the
Grand Opera House.
pENDLEroN WANTED TO SEE llIf.
Asked whether ho knew Ben Earn
shaw, Brookoyer said he did ;lthat Earn
shaw was President OF the County Cour
OF Wetzel county saw him in Wheeling
last Friday week ago lin March, 1889
Quesuon-What conversation, if any
trtlid you have with him? ,a.s7-i
Answer--He asked NE If l had me-
John o. Pendlcton. told him l hat
not to the hest Of my knowledge. II.
said he would like to take me up te
Pendleton's Office and give me an intro
duction. told him ! would like very
we'll to make Mr.. Pendleton's acouaint
ance, but that it was no further from
Mr.. Pendleton'g house to my house thar
from my house to hiB house. He Earn
shawl further said he had seen Nj. Pen
dleton that day and that he Pendleton
wanted to make my acquaintance. Ht
said he did not think OF It until Robert Nc
Eldowney, one of Nr. Pcndlcton's attorneys
called lis attention 10 lhs necessity Of ii
EarIshaW>iurther said that CIV. Akin
sous men was out in our county noH
(meaning Wetzel county, taking .den
oeitions and tearing up things generally
I told him l was in ahurry, and couldn'
70 then. Earnshaw sa.d it would be te
my interest to ePendleton that he wal
! In position to make 1t to my interest
and wanted me to meet him Earnshaw
at the pcstoiiice in Wheeling, W. Va, a
5 o'clock that afternoon. ! told him j
/ got arouud against tha. time could 6,
will, him, but did no. see anything NOR
OF EArnshaw since. /
| @ Questionr-What do you think his Oh
ject was in approaching you in thi
manner? 4. s. & "
ADsser-I think there could hay
been but ono object, and that was eithe
10 buy my silence in Ills matter, or TO Undue
tmeio tell something that tras not true.
Quest;cn--ls tnisthe same Ben Earn
shaw that was President Of the Count.
Court of Welzel county, ". Va, durin
the progress Of the recount OF the rot
on Congressman for the First district 0
! West Virginia case in Wetzel county
dur..rr the month Of November, lSSS?
Answcr-The very same man.
This is also the Sane Ben Earnshav
who put OF the recount rom time 7
time until the Job had been done. ~.
| John O. Pendieton has never under
taken to overthrow this testimony. FL
does not even seem TO bs aware ha
there 10 such damaging and conclusiy
testimony against him. i..5
| D.