The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-14
Men in Official Life Involved-The
Proof Incontrovertible.
JOHN SHERMAN IMPLICATED.
Preliminary Examination Had
Bound Over to Grand
Inquest.
At LARGE ON BAIL.
Trial Day in the Near Future-Full
Particulars in Chapters.
AN ALLEGORY.1
By a Minneapolis Detective.1
CHAPTER II.

information received from the spy they
had set upon the track of the Ohio sena-
tor. He had, it was well known, traded
largely upon the military reputation of
his brother, the late Gen. VIM. Tecumseh,
who, as union soldier had won military
renown in the War of the Rebellion; he
had, too another brother, a United States
district judge, C. T. Sherman, who was
allowed to bank on him for a ten thous-
and dollar fee for his influence in aid of
corporations Honest John, we all know,
was long, long years, chairman OF the
senate finance committee, and he had the
Ohio ''idee" reduced to a financial demon
stration. 1t was well known, too, that
when Honest John Sherman entered pub
lie life in the congress on salary OF $4,000
per annum, that he was very poor man
out of a job-that he had no other visible
means of support, and that now he was
reputed to be worth two and half mil
lions of gold dollars
The general public is wonderfully for
getful, but it was remembered that in
past years, the congress had as members
many eminent statesmen who had enter
ed public life poor, and served many long
years, and retired to private life to lie
down in their graves leaving their fami-
lies only the bare necessares of life. The
name of Adams, of Wilson, Webster, CAL
houn, Wright Benton, Clay, Douglas
Lincoln, Seward, Chase Stephens,-all
dead. leone to the memory as examples
of these. Alas, alas their official seats
are now empty in all that gives character,
and craftsmanship, and integrity to pub
IL -Sp1f hac
love of gold love of country Woe worth
the day. But even now to suppose that
John Sherman. professed honorable SEN
ator of the United States, and that the
dead Massachusetts representative whose
memory was revered by his constituents,
had foully murdered the kind and good
Mr.. Nevada, was quite out of the range
of reason. Nobody would believe it
among the possibilities of human nature,
to even breathe such a charge would be
SANDER so vile that it would smell to
heaven and startle all hell from center to
circumference. His admiring constitu-
ents in Ohio baptised him as Honest
John Sherman few turned up their
noses at this title, and sneeringly asked
where his millions in gold came FROM
but they got insults for reply. But even
these impertinent people were not pre-,
nared to believe that he was murderer,
and yet they had read that Macbeth MUIR
dered Duncan, his confiding guest, that
the III. Richard murdered the two sons
of the ". Edward,-that the Duke of
Clarence was murdered in the Tower by
this same Edward that John-anOther
John,-murdered the poor boy Arthur,
the rightful heir to the throne of En-
gland,-yes, they knew that murders in
high life stalked through al the pages of
L. Ill - tod &1p%
there are more henious crimes than muir
der. We read with horror of the crimes
of Bender,-of the murder of DR.. Cronin,
of the assassination of Catherine Cling,
of the long list of victims of the fiend
Holmes,-of the murdered associates of
Durand, slain at the Threshold of Gods
altar. These are but crimes against the
laws, against Society,-their commits
sion involved no breach of great public
trust, and the effect was but local and
personal. Not so with the crime of treas
on to a sacred trust which aims at the life
of the state. With success, in it's culmi
nation society is overthrown, and muir
ders are not only committed in Gods tenn
pies, but the temples themselves are over
thrown, civil order is OverthrQwn. Such
was the intended aim of Arnolds treason,
and though he failed, his guilt is as deep
ly fixed in the universal human mind as
are the roots of the Rocky Mountains in
the body of the earth. If it should ap-
pear from further developments, that
John Sherman had been one of the con-
spirators who had lured to his death a
great public benefactOr, using his official
position as fulcrum, then indeed would
he sink beneath the level of Bender, a
Hayward and a Blixt; mankind would
unite in declaring that it was aught but
the concentration and essence of the
most consummate and eXecrable wicked
ness, involving every meanneSs and every
crime of which man can be guilty; ngrat-
itude hypocrisy, perfdy, perjury and cor
ruption; base betrayal of trust, cow
ardice and shamelessness, the deadliest
enmity under the mask of friendship,
treason to home and country and the
Dissertation Of every human ideal of good
Up to this time it had only been clearly
established that the last time Mr.. Nevada
had been seen, he was in the company of
Messrs Sherman and Hooper at the room
of the latter, in the early part of 1873
Nothing now remained but to wait and
trust to the old adage that murder would
out if in fact the object Of search had
been put out of the way. The public
mind, however was not at reSt,-neither
was the spirit of Nevada,-it was float
Ing TOuuu Tie WOIlU, anu lllS WUIlu WAS
perturbed,- the distant Indies, Australia,
the toilers of Europe, the miners and
herders of the great West of the North
American continent.-the farmers of the
boundles North West,-the cotton spin
ners of the East,-the cotton producers
of the South,-all was turmoil; men with
the key to the great store house of Nature.
where was corralled the products of sweat
and beggared toll, cried through their
organs and on the rostrum, peace
peace and plenty, but there was neither
peace nor plenty for the evicted tenant,
the mortgaged farmer or the hopeless
bankrupt
The ghost of the murdered Nevada
would not down. it was floating round
the world
A few months after this Sherman inter-
view, washington turned out sensation
al event The annex to the hosiery
which Representative Hooper had occu-
pied prior and up to- 1873, had been torn
away to admit Of an improved structure,
and in excavating for a new foundation,
the left side half of human body was
exhumed The half body had been wrap
ned up in copies of the Congressional Rec
ord. and the whole enclosed in a large
double bag or sacks, securely tied with
rome and buried several feet beneath the
Aoor. The examination showed that the