Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-04

murder in the frst degree and sentencedto
be hanged. The supreme court granted
him new trial, which was to have begun
the latter part of this month.
DR.. Graves letter to the public WAS
given out this evening. The following is
| q verbatim copy:
"To the public:
"In the spring of 1891 made the trip
to Denver actuated by desire to appear
before the grand jury to do all in my
power to assist in solving the Bsrnaby
mystery.
ARRIVING in Denver my lawyers refused
to allow me to 60 before the grand jury. 1
soon found myself indicted for murder.
Surprised, astonished. I said to my law
thing, for truly had nothing to do with
the death of Mrs. Barnaby.'
Il little dreamed what was In for me.
did not know what can be accomplished
by political influence, influence with
money and q man to play the prince
with his wife's money. The district at
torney, at this time, was Ky Stevens, a
young leading politician, ambitious, full
of devilish schemes and cunning, q man
who never has hesitated to do any kind of
dirty work to advance himself and who
L
west as his tools.
cat the trial which followed we found
Everything completely and absolutely I'M
der his control, the reporters, the baliffs,
| the honorable judge and the jury. Since
| the trial we have learned that no man was
Eput on the jury unless he had first agreed
DO favor Stevens.
promises of political preferment and
| value received were freely offered and
taken.
'Forty years ago a man named Perrin in
Connecticut, and nay father had some trou-
BILE over some land The con worked him
| self onto the jury and paid the old debt in
| full, after the usual manner of such men.
This I did not know until long after the
trial. l am informed that since the trial
| some of the jurors have received political
appointments from Stevens and others are
professional jurors, getting upon tho jury
in cases where he always wins his case.
These things are we'll known in Denver.
"What chance did a stranger stand
against Stevens backed by such a judge
and purchasable jury. Conrad boosted
that he expended $65, 900 among detectives,
witnesses, judges and jury. He always
omitted to remark that the money be-
lopged to his wife and that he was playing
for a 100000 stake.
1.-The supreme court of Colorado in the
most emphatic, scathing and bitter words,
pronounced the trial unfair, unjust and
illegal and ordered new trial. My law
yers have found since the trial that So, 800
was paid out to one witness. They have
the afidavits of numerous men that they
were sounded as to whether, in case of
their being summoned by jury, they
would favor Stevens aud this was done by
Stevens bailiffs.
The jury were under charge of one Of
the worst villains on earth, who went to |
the theater and around town with one of
the jury. For months and more I Ian |
euished in Jail clamoring for q trial. until |
villainous things which appertsined to the |
former trial and I have not told him. |
Stevens in the meantime had advanced to
be acknowledged as the supreme political
boss, and controls to day most of the
judges They dare not decide against him |
and to grant motion for new trial was |
deferred and impossible bail demanded,
which the hard times rendered impossible |
to furnish, and have been forced to re-
main in Jail throughout the sultry summer.
I must confess that my spirit Is broken |
down.
ga new district attorney has meanwhile |
been appointed, but he does not count. |
Stevens rules the more and the new one |
hobs serenely as he is ordered, the same as
the Judge. The people are indignant, but |
what can they do with this octopus.
cat the present writing Stevens has gone
east to coax one of the commissioners
Denver with a trunk full of lies, after |
having properly worked the papers. He |
will then cajole and deceive the commits |
sioners and probably induce them to fur
nish him funds to commence again his |
nefarious prosecution.
CHOW I am tired of this whole business. |
They have exhausted me; Is 1t strange that |
I think 1t useless to continued
''If 1t were fair, standup legal fight | |
would have some chance and would stand |
up to 1t, but 1t is not fair, 1t Is as foul and |
dirty an affair as ever disgraced the court. |
The whole power of the court is in the |
hands of Stevens aud his nature never al |
lows him to deal fair. He is a sneak and
always works by methods which gentlemen
abhor and despise.
ST am informed that this may be con-
tinued for an indedaite period, that may
be dragged through mud and mtre and
tossed here and there.
"Now I am tired of it. I have freely |
expended fortune in fighting them. !
But the courts will compel me to expend |
more.
"What have left will go to my noble |
little wife and my poor, suffering mother.
There is one way can stop the expendi- |
lures. And ! repeat what I have always
said publicly and privately:
"Upon my solemn Masonic OATH, l, I. |
Thatcher Graves, did not have anything to
do in any way, shape, manner nor deed
with the death of Mrs. Barnaby. 1 write |
this knowing what the future will soon |
have in store for me.
"The people will believe, pity and sym
pathizs with me.
~ leave little Ky Stevens to the people |
of Colorado. Please take care of him.
T. THATCHER GRAVES, III. D., |
Harvard University"
Attorney I. N. Stevens has prepared a
long statement to the public defending his
conduct in the Graves case and giving out
the new evidence secured on his recent
trip to the east. The most important had
the following letter for basis:
CANTON, Mass, May Is, 1893.
"Mr. Stsvene:
whether what I am about to write
about amounts to anything or not l do not
know. It may be only very remarkable
coincidence and 1t may be more. One
Sunday afternoon during the month of
ing room of the Park Squ ara station of the
Old Colony road, Boston, when a man came
up to me and asked me If could not write.
Telling him yes, little bit, he eaid If l
| would write note for him he would
give me a quarter. l consented, but
did not want the quarter, which he
made me take after writing the note.
What wrote was exactly the same, word
for word, as what was sent with the bottle
of whisky to Mrs. Barnaby. 1t was writ
ten on block of white paper, should say
about two and half or three by six
inches, which he took from his pocket, and
I wrote with lead pencil. Whether
should recognize the man or not sgain do
not know, but I have a good idea of how
he looked. 1 mentioned the occurrence
when got home, but as never read up
the case I never heard Of
similar note being ssnt with
bottle, until member of the family
asked me If I remcmbeIed 1t, and asked
me to repeat 1t which I did. That was
month or six weeks ago. Now 1 am not
looking for q trip TO Denver or anything
of the kind, but thought I would writo-
and tell you about 1t and then I would feel
satisfied that I had done all that was
necessary for the present at least. am
willing to make an affidavit of this or do
any thing you say, and whether this infor-
nation Is of any use to you or not I will
be pleased TO hear from you in regard to 1t.
remnin varv frulv vours