Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29
Real Facts Given.

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Then. reyerting to the statement of Mr..
Barnes. MI. Tiilman continued:
Real Facts Given.
1.-THE statement OF Mr.. Barnes is the White
House statement in effect, the Presidents
statement. because this last letter from him
was written in April after his nomina ton.
and when 1t was understood at the White
House that the man was on trial or that
there might be trial of him. Therefore. ii
was made as plausible and the defense was
presented in the best possible light.
Having given what Is the version of the
occurrence of the people of the White
House. substantiated by Mr.. Paine. who was
in the Office when the occurrence took place,
l want to show what actually took place
have claimed from the first which L have
always said on my responsibility as q
which am still ready to prove by as rep
utable men as there are in this city, and dis
interested rather than interested. men,
Mr.. Tiliman then had the statement of
Mr.. James II. Price of the Washington
Times. newspaper man and a witness of
the White House Incident read. that could
be proved by at least three other newspaper
men to be correct.
Mr.. Prices statement is as follows:
Coming in from lunch at 1 O'Clock. !
noticed In the general lobby near Mr..
Loeb's door, a lady. whom l afterward
found out to be Mrs. Minor Morris sitting
very quietly, evidently waiting to see one
Of the secretaries. I entered the press
room and engaged in general converse
ton with three newspaper men who were
In there. The door to the press room is al
ways open. and as the hour was near the
Presidents lunch hour everything was I'M
usually quiet in the lobby. Very suddenly
we heard a loud exclamation which sound
ed like oh. no. no; don't do that All
OF US jumped to the door and entered the
main room where we found a secret serv-
Ice officer and Officer Frech in the act Of
pulling the woman out OF the chair In
which she was sitting.
Prior to this we had heard no loud voice
and l am positive there was no boisterous
conduct. A word spoken above an ordinary
tone would have reached our ears very
easily. Then men pulled the woman to the
door, where Officer Murphy relieved the
secret service man. Their object was to
get her to the guardroom. just opposite
the treasury building. To do this they had
to carry her down the path leading to the
basement of the White House and through
the long corridor used during the recep-
tons Before going twenty feet Mrs Nor
ris fell to her knees. but was jerked to her
feet and dragged on. Before they disap-
peared from sight she must have fallen six
eight times. Just before disappearing
through the archway leading to the base
ment a negro man Charlie Reeder,
the Presidents footman, rush out and pick
her up by the heels. The last I saw of
Mrs. Morris she was being carried Off like
a sack of salt, with the negro at her feet
and her dress hanging above her knees. !
went around to the guardroom and saw
Mrs. Morris literally thrown into an await.
ing cab
Did She Shriekp
mr.. Barnes" said Mr.. Tlllman. three
times in his last statement. speaks of Mrs.
Morris as having shrieked; shrieked at the
top OF her voice: shrieked her refusal. AS
soon as she was on the outside OF the office
building she sat herself on the ground
And again he repeats the denial that a
negro had anything to do with it. He does
say that he did not see the ffnality before
the woman was carried into the driveway
under the White House but states that the
two officers who were carrying or dragging
her had told him that they did not have
time for accurate observation. Yet whether
or not there was a negro mixed up with it
would have been found out In ten minutes
by asking either one of the three news
paper men who stood in front of the eX-
ecutive office and watched the cruel and
miserable performance.
Mr.. Paine says the tone of voice and
manner of Mrs. Morris drew the attention
of the people in the reception room, that
Mrs. Morris did not scream until after the
policemen took hold of her.
''Mr. Barnes says she had shrieked three
times. twice before they took hold of her.
SO there is a contradiction here among the
witnesses for the defense. Mr.. Paine says
after getting out of doors she dropped to
the ground in sitting posture. Seemingly
they tried to protect her clothing. c. H.
Murphy. the man who helped Frech to
carry her after they had gotten her to the
doorstep or dragged her. as 1 will prove.
says she sat down in the mud
And he states as a fact, which Mr..
Barnes could have found out without going
any further, that the negro draped her
clothing about her feet.
Policemen Shield Each Other.
q" Her clothes were ruined caused by sit
ting down in the mud says Murphy. The
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