Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1888 — THAT DUDLEY LETTER. [ARTICLE]

THAT DUDLEY LETTER.

The Federal Grind Jury Ha* the M*tt*r in Hand.—Will an Ind'ctme be Returned? The Federal Grand Jury adjourned on the Bth for a ten day’s recess without making any report of the matters that have come to its knowledge. More than a hundred witnesses have been examined. The principle interest, of course, attached to the Dudley investigation. Probably fifty witnesses have already been asked what they know of Dudley r s alleged attempt to bride voters. A copy of the letter supposed to have been written by him was submitted in evidence, and a large number of Chairmen and Secretaries of Republican county committees to whom it has been supposed copies of the letter, were sent.have been called into court. What evidence ,may have been secured is not known. The jury is supposed to have procured enough testimony to support six or eight indictments, all based on violations of the election laws. Some of these would have been reported if the District Attorney had had time to prepare the papers. As it is, no report will be made until the examination of further witnesses and particularly of witnesses cited in the Dudley case. There is a supposition that the Government has put its best licks into the effort to procure evidence against Dudley. Some of the witnesses cited are reported to have confessed, about the day of the election, that they received the letter in question from Dudley, or saw copies of the celebrated document which may become the basis of an indictment. If it can be demonstrated trat such letters were generally distributed, and if it can be shown that they were received by political election officers, and that all came or purported to come from W W. Dudley, the Government apparently believes that it will be able to make a case. It is thought that enough evidence has not yet been received to justify an indictment, but more witesses on this case will probably be summoned when the Grand Jury returns. The plan of operation seems to be to summon all of the Republican officers of county committees and to putthem on oath. The difference between wool and hair is not so great as might be supposed, says the St. Louis Gjobe Democrat, since very fine hair bears a strong resemblance io very coarae wddl; but when the infr croseope ia .brought into operation ' a marked differentiation may be observed. The surface of the hair will appear to be perfectly smooth, as though it were polished, while the- surface of a fiber of wool is imbricated, as though the trunk were covered with infinitely small scales. A hair is therefore seen to be an entirely different thing froth a fiber of wool, and a further variation is noticed in the fact that hair never curls in the way wool does. A hair—when it is curly at all—curls in long, wavy lines, and wool in short, half circles which almost return into themselves. The texture of wool is also varied by fine lines, from 2,000 to 4,000 in the inch; so, by means of the microscope, wool may be easily known from cotton or any other animal or vegetable fiber. Every kind of hair has its own fiber, , but fine human hair most nearly resembles the wool of the sheep, haying.the same imbricated appearance as that of wooL Rabbit fur is most widely different from wool, and a deer hair is almost equally so, microscopic examination showing it to be composed throughout of small cells, extremely peculiar both in form and arrangement. ‘