Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1879 — THE CINCINNATI CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION. [ARTICLE]

THE CINCINNATI CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION.

Thomas Shay testified on the 9th that the body of Harris' affi lavit was in his (witseas') writing; be never saw Harris before he took the affidavit; followed him to where he lived to find oat something about him; be came to witness' office with Jim White and Mike Farrell; James Eagan was brought to the ©flic a by Torn McDermott sind Pat Malloy; witness took John Oook's affidavit in the Court-House: no man was paid for making affidavits; gave Eagan money for the loss of his time; J. 8. Harris dictated the facts in his affidavit and witness wrote them; when witness did not know a man personally be relied on the men who brought him; Francis told witness he was at the SI Is on official bnsihess; also told witness after : election, in Major Blackburn’s office, thnt he got his man in on election day. and made 8283; Major Blackburn has since said that he had no recollection of such a conversation: witness did not knpw what became of John Scott's affidavit; didjjot forge his name; he signed the affidavit himself; witness' office and residence had been robbed tsrq or throe times since tbe affidavit were made. ._. v —. ~-_L Jamra L-. Baffin wassworn,sod testified to the good character of Golcher; witness said be g*Ve Pickett fifty dollars to work for Batterwortb; gave Rim the same amount in 1876 to help Bay-Tbe-letters that had been reported by the witnesOee were-received. Among them was a letter from District-Attorney Richards to John F. Follett and other memorialists. The committee then