Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-04-11
A CLUMSY LIAR.
What John ?. DunnIng Their
Principal Witness SAYS.

immediately as the APPEAL could not
at once lay it's hands on the necessary |
data to convict Mr.. Lennon, not only
Of barefaced lying, but classification Of
the crudrst and clumsiest kind:
The News Of Friday says:
Say Samay. Do you remember
when the Associated Press kicked
you off their pay roll? And do you
remember the letter they wrote con
corning you and your we'll developed
incompeteucy. The reason you We're
fired was thai you were unreliable,
USED the association for your own
purposes AMI because The association
didn't care to pay toll on the rot you
sent down. In the Arlington Hotel,
during the fight, J. P. Dunning,
Manager Of the Associated tress, told
the writer hat above al! things he
wanted nothing to do in a business
way with Sammy Davis.
The APPEAL editor has in his pos
session a letter from John P. Dun
ming, Superintendent Of the Associated
Press in San Francisco Of date Of
May 10th 1895. From this letter we
make a few extracts as follows:
"To my knowledge you have never
been the correspondent Of the Ass0-
ciated Press in Carson"
Not having !een in the employ Of
the Associated Press, We are at a loss
to understand by what authority we
were bounced. 1t happened, however,
that during the Mint scandal, for
some reason or another, Mr.. DunniDg
wired the writer to send him some
dispatches which We did. To his let
ter Of May Mr.. Dunning refers to this
as follows:
Il was in Los Anf when it be-
came necessary for u tain some
matter from Carson ard to the
Mint scandal, and l a telegram
to you asking you to send US matter
which you very kindly did. and what
you sent that night and for several
nights afterwards was entirely salts
factory, and We did not regard it as
garbied il the least, and [ have never
he ard Of anyone else SO regarding il.
l appreciated your efforts ia he mat
ter. Yours Truly.
JOHN P. DUNN1NG.
This letter can be seen by anyone
who desires to inspect it, Mr.. Lem
mon included.
Now if Mr.. Dunning talked as con-
hdentially as he would have people
believe, why did te hounce Lennon
so soon after returning to San Fran
cisco. The fact Of he mater is that
William Davis, q brotner of the writer
was for some time the Associated
Press agent, and when he left Carson
a couple of years ago to go to Stock
ton, he turned over the agency to Mr..
Lennon, who was very anxious 10
secure it for the small pittance which
it would throw in his way. The Ap-
PEAL Office had assisted him in various
ways at different times, as its cOmpos-
itOrs felt rather kindly toward him,
and had given him several odd lifts.
When the Mint matter came up Lem
mon was entirely at sea as the detail
was so large mat it dazed him, and
q night he applied to the writer for
help and begged for a copy Of the
complaint against Jones. He was
given it and said he might loose
his place il he missed such an i'm
portant item. He was given a proof
sheet of he complaint. out he did MOI
appreciate the favor, returning in hall
t an hour be called at the office when
the editor was out, and said he had
permission to get other proof sheets.
The printers turned til N over to him,
s%upposing be vas telling the truth,
and the writer coming in a few mo-
ments later learned of his dupIicity
followed him to the telegraph office
and took the proofs away from him.
5 just as he was filing them with the
operator.
= He was told never to stick his head
In the office again as it had no use fol
be. This statement can be amply
substantiated by several parties who
who were present when he obtained
the proof sheets, which the APPEAL
had wired some hours before.
This is the matter characterized as
rot which the Association didn't care
{ to pay for. Yet he regarded it as
quite good enough to sneak into t
office AID obtain by false pretense tc
palm off as his own to his employees
1t is not surprising that his method
Of operating led to mia discharge.
War at Hand.