The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-04-05

there placed one hundred dollars in
each Of the three envelopes, aud that
he then, after some little delay, return
ed to the vicinity of the Court House,
aud after Jour O'Clock he saw the Com
missioneIs leaving the Court House,
and he called the three, House, Morri-
son and Delauder into the Carlin
House, and there in room behind
the bar room, handed to each OF
them one Of the envelopes contain
ing the money. Now, here is a cir
cumstantial narration giving time and
place and detail. These things-time.
place and detail, are the very essence
of the narrative. 1t is not possible for
the allegation of payment to be true, if
the time, place aud circumstances I'M
der which the alleged payments is
claimed to have been made are untrue.
1t appears in the most positive way,
that the Commissioners were not paid
at the time Main says he paid them, nor
at the place he says he paid them,
nor on the occasion he says he paid
them. 1t was shown in the most con-
elusive manner by Charles Doll and
| Clifford Doll, that on March 10Th, 1894.
the reading room back of The billiard
room at the City Hotel, in which read
ing-room Main swore that he placed the
money in the three envelopes, was
converted into kitchen and
was continuously used as a
Kitchen until September, and that
on the 2lst Of March the billiard room
was converted into pastry room and
was uninterruptedly used for that pur-
pose until September. 1t was, there
fore physically impossible for Main
to be on April 3rd in billiard room
which did not on that day exist. If
he was not aud could not have been
/ there, he did not make up the three
packages of money as and when he
said he did. Again: He sam that it
was after four O'clock on the afternoon
/ of April the 3rd, that he handed the
money to the Commissioners. 1t was
conclusivly shown that Mr.. Morrison
let Frederick with Mr.. Chilean in the
latter's buggy at a quarter past three
O'Clock that day; and that Mr.. House
went home at haIt-p st three O'Clock
and that Mr. Delauder was not in the
Carlln House that day. As neither of
the County Commissioners was at the
place where Main said he paid them the
money, it is manifest he did not pay
them Uhere or tOhen he said he did {;
but beyond this it was shown 10y Mr..
Maught, Mr.. Boteler and Mr.. Chilean
that from eleven O'Clock, a. m, till
long after four o'clock, p. m., on April
3rd, Main was not out of their sight
long enough at any one time to go
from Montevue Hospital to Frederick
and return. Hence it cannot be fact
that he drew the money at three
O'Clock in the afternoon or that he
could have arranged it in the envelopes
in the City Hotel at the time he said
he did, or that he either saw or paid
to the County Commissioners any
money on that afternoon at all. If the
evidence of these three gentlemen last
named be true, then Mr.. Main was not
in Frederick at all alter eleven o'clock
in the morning of April the 3rd until
late in the evening and long after the
three County Commissioners had gone
home. AS no other time or place was
named when or where the money was
paid, and as it was shown that the
paymentcould not possibly have been
made at the time or place alleged, it is
clear that the payment was never
made at all. This conclusion is reached
without taking into consideration the
explicit and emphatic denials of the
three accused gentlemen. When to the
above facts is added the clear and un-
qualified evidence of the three County
Commissioners that Main never offered
to pay, agreed to pay or did pay them
or either of them single cent, there
is no room to doubt their absolute in
nocence. 1t is no doubt true that Main
drew out of bank on the morning but
not the evening of April the 3rd, three
hundred dollars; but from the testi-
mony it is equally beyond doubt that
he did not pay it or any part of it to
tho Counfv commissioners