The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-11

sell, the gentlemen would not deny th,
genuineness OF their signatures.
HAlsTEAD's CONFIDENCE.
Representative Moore, Of Ohio, tes
titled that no bad told Mr.. Halstead tha
he doubted the genuineness OF James E
Campbell's signature. Mr.. Halstead hat
insisted that the signatures were al
and had shown him the photograph,
copy Of the paper 10 convince him be
sides referring to contract 1000 US al
ably drawn document. The collatera
facts, Mr.. Halstead urged, established
thegenuineness Of Campbell's signature
However, II 1t appeared otherwise his
plain duty would be To make the truth
known. In the end he convinced wit.
ness that the paper was genuine. asF
John L. Pfau, OF Cincinnati, told OF q
conversation he had with Wood after
his releas0 from prison. Wood had re-.
marked that nobody whose name was
on the paper had had him arrested and
that he had TO stand the brunt OF the
whole business. In answer to witness,
Wood had said that Gov. Foraker and
Mr.. Halstead believed the paper to be
genuine. Witness told this 10 Mr.. Halls.
lead, who said OF course he believed 30,
Wood had further said to witness that
they were contented with Gov. Foraker
and never expected to trap any more; :;
that they never expected to trap Hal.
stead. Wood said that he TWood1 had
been made the innocent tool to trap
Foraker. He did not say who had used
him rs tool, but when witness sup.
gested John Mclean and w. G. Camp.
bell, he acknowledged that he was not
far of. 2. ~
To Mr.. Turner. witness said he believ.
ed that Woods exact words were, ITO
catch Foraker" Wood had outlined
the plan to be have Foraker publish the
paper, then come out and prove it to be
forgery and crush Foraker, 49,
Wood said he did not see that until
the thing was over. and he was the limo.
cent tool, for he had no intention Of
helping to annihilate Foraker. In an
swer to further questioning gu the point
by Mr.. Turner, Mr.. Wilson, witness,
said his understanding OF the matter was
that Woods had failed to. get an original
paper for Mr.. Mclean aud then had
drawn up forged copy from memory,
which he had supplied to Governor
Foraker. Mr.. Mclean knew this, so
witaess gathered from what Wood said,
and was inst waiting for Governor For.
aker to use it TO expose the forgery. y
.N HADDEN RECALLED
Lewis N. Haddeu was recalled for
cross examination. To Mr.. Grosyenor
he said that on June % he told Cover
nor Foraker that he believed this was
written evidence that Campbell, Butter
worth and Mckinley were financially
interested in the ballot box hilll. Had
not testified before as to his visit to Mr.,
s. Wood because he had not been asked.
There were gentlemen at the table who
knew he had paid Mrs. Wood money
and he expected to be examined about
it. 1t had slipped his memory at the
time bu. the evening OF tho day hs tes.
tilted before the committee hc recalled
it aud told Mr.. kurtz TINT he
was surprised that he had not been
questioned on that point. Governor
Foraker knew OF it. He had expected
the examination to be continued the
next day, hut the committee had adjourn
ed for two weeks. The witness was
about to explain that he had no motive
to conceal payments Of money to Mrs.
Wood, but Mr.. Grosvener cut him of
on the ground that his statement was not
responsive 10 the question. This led to
u little spat between Mr.. Grosvener and
the chairman, who insisted that the
witness had right to make his state
ment. The committee was appealed to
and finally Mr.. Grosvener was al
lowed to proceed with the cross-
examination. Mr.. Grosvener referred
to Mr.. Halstead's statement that Mr..
Hadden had told him he knew nothing
about the paper. Witness told his YER
sion OF the interview. Mr.. Halstead had
expressed his conviction that the paper
was forgery and asked witness to tell
him where the paper came from. Wit
ness repeated what Wood had told him,
which Mr.. Halstead said agreed with
what he had learned. Nh. GroBvener
wished to know why witness remained
silent four weeks and let the crash come.
He replied that Governor Foraker and
other people knew it. Mr.. Grosvener
remarked that he was just about to
leave the stand here before he referred
to il, A1jourppd till tO-mnrrow