Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-23
BRANDRNBURG SAYS
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Dayton, O., Oct 2S.-As he was boarding . train for New York city yesterday Broughton Brandenburg was arrested on the charge of forgery and grand larceny. A telegram from the New York police department ad- vised the local department to hold Brandenburg. He Is alleged to have sold the New York Times letter which he represented to have been written by Grover Cleveland, In which the dead statesman predicted the election of Taft and which letter Is thus declared to have been for gery. Brandenburg was locked up in the police station, as the amount Of his bail was not fixed. It was said by his attorney last night that if his client was not released to-day he VIII institute habeas corpus proceedings.
 In a statement issued last night Brandenburg says he had the proper authority from Mrs Cleveland and from MT Hastings, co-executors Of the Cleveland estate. before he sold the article to the Times and further more asks If 1t is reasonable that any sane man would falsify the utter ances of an ex-president of the United Staes for $120. At the time he was arrested, he says, he was on his way to New York city to give District At torney Jerome additional evidence. He says the arrest was made by those interested in offsetting the influences of MT Cleveland's utterances, who wished "to secure dramatic climax just before election"
 Through his attorney, Branden- burg issued the following statement:
 Tt appears that I am to be the Captain Dreyfus of the campaign of 1908. I have been peculiarly alone and am still alone in my fight and though ready to welcome the great body of support which the facts war rant me, if 1t does not come l shall go on alone.
 "Is it reasonable that for the sake of the $120 that would have been my profit after weeks of work, any sane man in my position would have falsified the utterances of an ex- president of the United States? Us 1t reasonable that when persons had seen the handwritten manuscript in my possession in March, that when sought the proper authority from Cleveland and the co-executor, MT Hastings. before sold the single article that there could have been anything but fair dealing in my methods?
 "Why was the alleged evidence that the document was fradulent not produced when the document was challenged and why has it never been produced save in the secrets of the grand jury room, when the American people is entitled to knew every scrap of evidence in the matter at once. Why have witnesses been intim- dated. Why is an indictment been found, if one has been found, before my case is in?
 Yesterday I wired District Attor- ney Jerome that I had new evidence to present on Friday and as stepped abroad the train for New York to fulfill my agreement, I am arrested as fugitive from justice though my attorney, Joseph Williams, and my self informed the district attorney of my purpose and destination on the journey.
 This allows those who interest ed in offsetting the influence of MT Cleveland's utterance to secure dramatic climax just before election. The entire matter Is all fitting in nice with Colonel Watterson's plan announced before the article was published, 1t must be discredited by any means It remains to be seen if the American public is to be bull dozed on one hand while I am vic- timized on the other"
 Habeas corpus proceedings are not being brought.