The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-23
IS
 PLACED IN JA|L Forgery Charges Made Against
 Magazine Writer VEHEMENT DENIAL IS MADE
Brandenburg Declares He Is Victim ized and That Grover Cleveland's Signature to the Times Let
 ter Is Not Forgery.

Dayton, O., October 22.-As he was boarding a train for New York city here this afternoon, Broughton Brandenburg was arrested by local detectives on the charge of forgery and grand larceny. A telegram from the New York police de- partment advised the local department to hold Brandenburg. He is alleged to have sold the New York Times letter which he represented to be written by Grover Cleveland, in which the dead statesman predicted the election of Taft, and which letter is now declared to have been a 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 tonight that if his client was not re- leased tomorrow he will institute habeas corpus proceedings. In a statement to- night Brandenburg said he had the proper authority from Mrs. Cleveland and Mr. Hastings, co-executor of the Cleveland es tate, before he sold the article to the Times, and furthermore asks if it is reasonable that any sane man would falsify the utterances of an ex-President of the United States for $120. At the time he was arrested he said he was on his way to New York city to give District Attorney Jerome additional evidence. He says the arrest was made by those in- terested in offsetting the influence of MT. Clevelands utterance who wished ''to se- cure a dramatic climax just before elec- tion."
 BrandenburG's Statement.
 Through his attorney, Brandenburg is- sued the following statement:
 Ut appears that I am to be the Captain Dreyfus of the campaign of 1908. have been peculiarly alone in my fight and am still alone, in spite of the great body of support warranted me. If it does not come shall go on alone. Is it reason able that for the sake of $12O, that would have been my profit after weeks of work, any sane man in my position would have falsified the utterances of an ex-Pres- ident? Is it reasonable that when persons had seen the handwritten manuscript in my possession in March, when l pre- sented the articles for sale in March, and when I sought the proper authority from Mrs Cleveland and the co-eXecutor, MT. Hastings, before I sold a single ar- ticle that there could have been anything but fair dealing in my methods?
 Why was the alleged evidence that the document was fraudulent not produced when the document was challenged and why has it never been produced save in the secrecy of the grand jury room, when the American public is entitled to know every scrap of evidence in the matter at once? Why have my witnesses been in- timidated? Why is an indictment found. if one has been found, before my case is in? Yesterday I wired District Attorney Jerome that I had new evidence to present on Friday and as I stepped aboard the train for New York to fulfill my agree ment I was arrested as a fugitive from Justice, though my attorney, Joseph Will Hams, and I. myself informed the dis trict attorney of my purpose and desti- nation on this journey.
 This allows those who are interested in offsettng the influence of MT. Cleve- lands utterances to secure dramatic climax just before election. The entire matter,is all fitting in nicely with Colonel Watterson's plan, announced before the article was published It remains to be seen if the American public is to De Dull- dozed on one hand, while am victimized on the other"
 Habeas corpus proceedings are now be- ing brought.