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Show HOWARD AND NELSON. Beadle Takes Up tin a. Cudgel and Goes "After the j Ofllcial Gentry: In a late number of the Cincinnati Gazette we find a long letter on the Howard - Nelson -Gilman imbroglio. It is signed "Hanson," but statements state-ments which it contains, and its general gen-eral style, show plainly that J. H. Beadle is the Author, Ho Iiab evidently evi-dently struck a mine and iniht develop de-velop it farther, with good hopes of success. ' He takes up the twe slate-nienls slate-nienls of John D. Loo the ono fur-nished fur-nished to the New York Herald by Lawyer Bishop, and the other to the associated press by District Attorney Howard and compares them, showing show-ing a few ef the inconsistencies contained con-tained in them. He tolls how the first came to be written, and what Lee and Racbael said to him (Beadle) when he was at I K Ail. -.tfAot Ik. P.,n...ln I., 1872. Beadle, although a moat radical radi-cal Mormon eater, has no. faith in Howard, who, h says, "eannot be investigated aad cleared up an hour loo soon." He adopts the Gilman, and popular theory concerning the district attorney's conduct, and promises to Lee, reasoning thus: Lee'i second trial came on; he was convicted, and gave himself up for lost. He was greatly depressed, and much of the time in tears. Suddenly he brightened up, fell to writing very industriously; talked confidently of receiving a pardon, and assured some friends who were permitted to see him that "before bii weeks he would be at Pahriah (his Colorado place) making garden." Rachel, still with him, waa even more confident; she spoke exult-ingly exult-ingly of tbe early termination of their troubles, and her hope of living many years with Lee, on the Colorado. Thia strange confidence continued down to, the very day Lee was executed; in (act, there is evidt-nce that even when tbe bandage was placed over his eyes, he still expected pardon. Only one expl tnation of this singular singu-lar hope has b en offered that of Ed. Gilman, one ot Lee's guards ai the penitentiary. The truth of his affidavit is still to be tested, but to a Utah man it bears strong internal evidence evi-dence of being corrpct. He says that by special requeat of the United Staler atlnrndv fnr lltuh Humnor H.i-orH he, Oilman, was appointed a guard over Lee for the express purpose of miking an agreement with Lee that the latter should furnish tbe necessary neces-sary evidence to convict the other persons indicted, make a lull confession, confes-sion, and receive a pardon. Gilman made the agreement as directed. He further testifies that Mr. Howard and United Stales Marshal William Nelson came up and held long interviews with Le, and that Howard solemnly assured hiin of a pardon. Lee we tit tn work at once and wrote out a long and circumstantial confession. Mr. Howard had specially charged him te let no person whatever what-ever see it, but Rachael insisted on rending il and adttsing him from time U lime. Gilman testifies that be was present and heard the Le.es t.ilk about it, besides reading a great deal about it. This is the confession which, or part of which, Uoited States Attorney Howard and United States Marshal Neboo gave to the public through the Associated press. Lee now desired, ot oourse, to recall the shorter confession he bad given Judge Itishop, but there wa not lime bettire the date fixed for bis execution. Here followi a portion of Gilman's affidavit which has already been puV lisbed. The writer then says: Of course this called out a rather avacra ronlir frnm M...r. aad Nelson. They published and telegraphed a joint card, in which tbey charge Gilman with being a liar and a Jack Mormoo (meanest thing one can Bay about a man in Utah); that the Mormons hired him to mnkc hts affidavit; that they have also concealed con-cealed him or run him ofl, and that all he has said or may hereatler say is false. Now, they may be right on the main point, as to their own innocence, inno-cence, but in some of the points in this card I know they are wrong.' In tbe first place, Gilman baa not run away or been concealed. He is living, on a ranch on tbe Central Pacific road, not far west of Ogden, and will be in reach it the courts want him. j Secondly, it ia perfectly absurd to' say that Mormons hired him to make this affidavit, when in it ha charges guilt on Brigbam Young, and that important evidence against Brigbam Young had been suppressed. They, would never fabricate that sort of a , oase. Rather the death of a thousand thou-sand common men than that accusation accusa-tion should be made against Brig-ham. Brig-ham. And yet agaiu their slale ments against (oilman's character are knocked into nothingness by the. fact that both of them had indorsed him, and very favorably, only a little whiie before. Here ia a letter which Mr. Howard wrote to Gilman when the latter was applicant for a place in the postal department, and mark, it is written after Gilman had been made guard over Lee and after the date at which Howard ought to have tnnwn his fault, il .r, mi.iu Then comes that charmingly gushing gush-ing paper known as the "Dear Boy'' letter, in which How-ird endorses Gilman as "a reliable and competent man, and good friend of mine," and tells him to "stay where you are till I come back." Beadle then argues: "Stay where you art" mean, stay with Lee at the peiiituniiary. i Now, it slrikus me the attorney will have some difficulty in making this lotter "consist" with his card. It the letter ia true, he might as welt state, before he goes further, if he is in the habit of recommending "liars and Jack Mormons" for important positions in handling the mails. Mr. Nelson, the United Stale marshal, had thought Gilman reliable- enough foroueoflhe mus, important places in his appointment, and had indorsed him in a variety ot w-yu. Furthermore, Further-more, I know personally that if Gilman Gil-man had become a common liar, il has happened very suddenly. The writer of the letter from which we have extracted the above, says that be has evidence applicable in the case, nod we shall watch with interest tbe publication of some of this testimony. testi-mony. Ip the meantime Mr. Howard How-ard can read the verdict of as bitter an enemy of Mormons, and as bigoted a eupporter of the "liberal" cause in Utah aa ever trod the enrtb, for such isJ. H. Beadle, ' |