Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-19
Mr.. Wilson Manifests Little Inter
est in tho Matter.
1T IS NOT A CHALLENGE

order to show that there had been oppor-
tunity to make a forgery based on the
Wessie Brown letter said that the Wessie
Brown letter had been in Mr.. Stolrs pos
session for weeks.
Mr. Stoll Immediately demanded to know
whether Mr.. Wilson meant to insinuate
that he had forged the letter or that he
had been a party to forgery. Mr. Wilson
did not make a satisfactory reply and Mr..
Stoll declared that this was a matter be-
tween them to be tried in another court.
During the recess of court that followed, IL
appears that Mr.. Butterworth talked with
Mr.. Wilson and when court reassembed
Mr.. Wilson made a statement disclaiming
any intention of implying that Mr.. Stoll
had forged or procured the forgery of the
letter. Mr.. Stoll. who is now in New York,
has given out there for publication a letter
which he addressed to Mr. Wilson on the
10th. and which shows he was not salts
fed with Mr.. Wilson's retraction.
Mr.. stolrs Fiery Letter.
In this letter he says:
knowing that Mr. Butterworth had
spoken to you during recess had reason
to suppose that you would either make a
full and unconditional denial of any pur-
pose to insinuate that / had been a party
to or cCnnived at a wrong, and utter
some words expressive of a sense of re-
greet that language had been used from
which such purpose could be presumed, or
else that you would have the manhood to
stand by what you had said not in the
heat of discussion as you would have the
world believe. but in cold blood. with an
evident and well-planned purpose to cast
stigma upon my character.
Il am sorry you were not gentleman
enough to do the one thing or man enough
to do the other
The low estimate which you seem to
place upon character, as manifested by
that which you yourself have developed
did not show the LOT
that which a gentleman always does when
he has inadvertently given offense and the
ccwardly instincts of the cur which seem
to have predominated in your nature did
not give you the courage to face what you
krew would be presented to you.
Upon the reassemoling of court your
language was as follows:
Gentlemen OF the jury, II is the ex-
perience Of everybody that in the heat of
discussion and in the presentation of facts
he probably conveys impressions thai he
did not intend to convey. had no thought
of insinuating that Mr.. Stoll had forged
that letter, or that he lad procured IL to
be forged. 1 disclaim any purpose of charg-
ing Mr.. Stoll with such a crime. / had
In my mind to suggest to you and to show
to you how easy II Is for these things to
be done; how easy 1t is to get the hand
writing Of another and from that hand
writing to make an imitation or perpetrate
forgery
From this 1t will be seen that the only
irsinuation which you disclaim is that 1
forged a letter or procured IL to be forged
or that you purposed to charge me with
such a crime
But Immediately you say to the jury
that your purpose was to suggest to them
how easy the alleged forged letter could
have been manufactured from material
which you said l had in my possession !;
from which statement your evident purpose
was to convey the impression that this al
legged crime was at least committed with
my knowledge II not with my sanction.
Vr.rv- A%ro4 %lArx H. a.
to be. contains no word indicating any
sense of regret at having said that which
you knew had deeply wounded me, and
therefore 1 must decline to accept what
you have said as q proper apology for the
offense committed.
LAS two days have now elapsed and
nothing further has been heard from you.
1 am compelled by that feeling of manhood
which was iI stilled in me by brave
father. whom i have SO recently laid to
rest, and by that sense of duty which
owe to wife, children, brothers and friends
at home. to say to you in plain language
first, that you deliberately stated what you
knew to be untrue when you said to that
jury and to the world that the letter in
question was a forgery.
MY reasons for stating this are that
the astute mind, which is not wholly In.
compatible with the character which you
have shown in this connection, could not
possibly reach any other conclusion from
the facts which were known to YOU even
II the handwriting itself was not absolutely
conclusive Of the genuineness of the docu-
ment.
Second. You knew that the 'wessie
Brown letter did not come into my possess
sion until five months after the letter in
question was found by Mr.. Worthington on
the files of letters in Breckenridge Shell
by's office in Lexington. Ky. You might
also have ascertained, had you taken the
trouble to inquire. that had no connection
with this case for months after the letter
In question was found by Mr.. worthington
You knew facts totally inconsistent with
the possibility of that which you have IN
simulated: your conduct is, then, culpable
beyond expression.
You are a much older man than I.
has for gray hairs, wherever found. makes
II impossible now. after what have re-
ferred to above, to take that cnly means
OF redress left to a gentleman when an
ton of a court. is made against that which
to you Is but little, but which to a gentle
man is more than life itself
This you have done deliberately, mali
ciously and for a manifest purpose
Il ther efore take this, which seems to me
TO be the only proper course left open to
me to express to You the contempt which
l have and which l believe all good men
have, for a man who under such eircum-
stances could stoop so low and to further
say that an examination into your real
character satisfies me that such things as
this are but the natural impulse of your
nature.
II believe that the country at large and
more especially the members of our honor
able-but by you Observation-Disclosures
should be warned against you, and the
danger which is ever hanging over society
while you are at large and your real char
acter is so comparatively little known.
In conclusion, permit me to say that in
the trial of this cause you have in this
instance at least stated things which you
knew to be false; that you have connived
at, If. in fact you did not yourself advise,
yourself a coward in not standing by your
deliberate statements and demonstrated
your lack of decency by saying enough to
save yourself thrashing without any at
tempt to take away the sting cansed by
your infamous conduct"
Mr.. Wilson Seemingly Indifferent.
When Star reporter found Mr.. Wilson
this afternoon he was busily preparing for
argument in a contested land case which is
being heard before Assistant Attorney
General Hall of the Department of the In
terror.
The reporter said: Judge, is 1t true that
you and Attorney Stoll going 20 ngno
want to know what weapons will be used?'
Tut, tut" said Judge Wilson, don't
talk to me about such nonsense"
But you have received letter from Mr.
Stoll. in which he seems to almost threaten
your life"
II don't know anything about It." said
the judge, in a way which indicated that
he didn't care very much about the matter
and wasn't in the slightest way scared
The reporter got the idea that the letter
had been received, but that Judge Wilson
ha rdIy considered II sariouSly opd lid not