The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-23
IN
JAIL At DAYTON
Man Who Sold the Alleged
Cleveland Letter Charged
With Forgery and Larceny.
TO BE TAKEN TO NEW YORK
PRISONER MAKES LONG STATE
MENT ASSERTING INNOCENCE.

Dayton, O.. Oct. PAS he was boarding
a train for New York City here this AFTER
noon Broughton Brandenburg was arrest
ed by local detectives on the charge OF
forgery and grand larceny. A telegram
from the New York City police depart
ment advised the local department TO
hold him He is alleged to have sold to
the New York Times a letter which he al
legged to have been written by GroNer
Cleveland, in which the dead statesman
predicted the election of Taft and Whlch
letter is now declared to have been for
gerry. Brandenburg was locked up, as the
amount of his bail was not fixed.
In a statement issued tonight Brandon
burg says he had the proper authority
from Mrs. Cleveland and from Mr.. Hast
ings co-eXecutOr- of the Cleveland estate,
before he sold the article to the Times,
and furthermore asks If il is reasonable
to suppose that any sane man would RAJ
sify the utteraEce of an ex-presldent OF
the United States for S120. AT the time he
was arrested he said he was on his way
to New York City to give District Attor-
ney Jerome additional evidence. He says
the arrest was made by those interested
in OffSetting the influence OF Mr.. CleYe-
lands utterances, the object being ito
secure dramatic climax just before cleo
ton"
Through his attorney, Brandenburg is
sued the following statement:
1T appears that I am to be the Captain
Dreyfus of the campaign of 1905 1 have
been peculiarly alone and am still alone
in my fighte and though ready to welcome
the great body of support which the facts
warrant me, If it does not come, l shall
go on alone
rs it reasonable that for the sake of
s120 that would have been my profit af-
ter weeks of work. any sane man in my
position would have falsiifed the utter
anees of an ex-president of the United
States? Is ii reasonable when a person
had seen the handwriting manuscript in
my possession in March that when I pre-
scented the scheme for the three articles
for sale in March, and when / sought
the proper authority from Mrs. Cleveland
and the co-eXecutOr, Mr.. Hastings. before
l sold the single article. that there could
have been anything but fair dealing in
my methods? Why was the alleged evil
dence that the document was fraudulent
not produced when the document was
challenged, and why has it never been
produce 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 intimi-
dated? Why is indictment found, if one
has been found, before my case is in?
Yesterday 1 wired District Attorney Je-
rome that 1 had new evidence to present
on Friday, and as / stepped aboard the
train for New York to fulfill my agree
ment l am arrested as a fugitive from
justice, though my attorney. Joseph Will
liams and myself, informed the district
attorney OF my purpose and destination
on this journey.
This allows those who are interested
in offsetting the influence of Mr.. Cleve-
lands utterances to secure a dramatic
climax just before election. The entire
matter Is all fitting nicely with Colonel
Watterson's plan, announced before the
article was published. that il must be
discredited by any means 1t remains 60