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Show lOTTER INVESTIGATION. TUB NEW ORLEANS ESD. New Orleans, 1. Packard mad no reference in the interview with Sher mn to Weber and Anderson, but ; -iily talked of the intimidations in tluir parishes. Was not then certain that tbe result uf tho couut would be such that unless theme two parishes were thrown out, he and the Hayes ' electors would be defeated. Ue tOuught, merely as a matter of opin-! opin-! ion, that it was necessary to uet those two parishes. He did not believe the board went into section to achieve any auecial results previoujly arranged. ar-ranged. Cnarlt'S Hilt who tjok the second pet of returns to Washington, testified testi-fied ihat tliey were not signed by tho electors when he went for them to the state house. Brewster and Kellogg afterwards Bigoed them. Met Suer- man in Washington when he delivered the returnB to Ferry. tSher-mau tSher-mau said that Packard must be inaugurated in-augurated and the party would stand by tboae who did it. Did not kuow whether Jcflrian and Leviaaee were in New Orleans when witness lett for Washington. Paid bis own expenaes on the trip and never waa repaid. William ri. aeymour, commis eiooer of deeds, testified that he knew Thomas H. Jeuks. He identified his seal to tbe document docu-ment which, upon being read, proved to be an afhdavit that Mr. Jen its waa commissioned United States marshal for Eial Feliciana, Augut 9ib, 1S70, lo tmcoeed James E. Anderson, who otlecnirily desired to go back, but reauy uiu not want io return. i ui affidavit oonliuuce further, that de ponent knows personally that Kellogg desired that nobody go there a dep uty marshal, to the tnd that uo elec tion be held there; further, that th( election was conducted f-u;y anc peaceably; that both Anderson anc tbe a Hi ao t witnessed that election and upon their returning to New Orleans p ere urged and persuaded tt sign a protebt auaiUHt the validity o ibe election, it being represented tr them that it was uecets wy eo to dc in order to save the state for Hayef Hnd Wheeler. They finally Bigned the document, partially in blank, which was afterwards ti led out by parties unknown. This nlfidavit wa made May llib, 1877. Adj-iurned. |
