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Show THE MOBXlyq EXAMINE!! UMTS SECPET svelation by Dr. Theodor R. Timby Never Before Made Public. T7 JHtily discus talc to the question whether John Bruwn wa not. practically insane when be Hied to free the slave. Tha gen- eral opinion 1 that he was insane, la much as to his there that has never been cleared up. Theodore Buggies Timby of Brooklyn believes that he can throw new light on the matter. lTp to the present time story has never been printed. Before telling Dr. Timby's story it he is so as to js well to recall who is give weight to his narrative. He 2 and lives at 1U1 Lafayette avenue. He is an Inventor of note. His friends assert that to him and nut to Ericsson belongs the credit for the invention of the revolving turret for warHe ia still active. ships and forts. He received within a few weeks patpower ent for the development of slung lines which are said to be revolutionary. He is as vigorous as the ordinary man of CO. lie has been connected with the public affairs of the country fur more than sixty years. He was the intimate friend of Millard Fillmore, Martin Van Buien,1 William li. Seward, Jefferson Davis, Edwin M. Stanton, and was a as chme acquaintance of such men Henry Clay. Lewis Cass. Silas Wright, Daniel Webster, Henry W. Longfellow, John 0. Whittier, George M. D&ilas, Caleb Cushing, Abraham Lincoln, General Commodore Vanderbilt and feis . Grant. So valuable baa been his services to hla country that on April 24, 1890, the leglalature of New York in Joint resolution asked congress to make in- :c r..;:ht as BiBTiVE slaves that Impelled him to act. That wa the leuara ho warned 10,11. lie wa a man of iiii-and not f reason. and he swallowed ilu bait. King said that all this wa nothing mure tliau a pint. Whether Kiug had any pan in it, he w..uld never tell. All that Dr. Timin know about that i Kings remark to the effect that sumeiic.es he felt thu the weight of the entire rebellion rested on bis shoulder. The plan, evidently, wa t. get some man of Browns reputation, fresh from his widely known encounters in Kansas, to commit some overt act that would arouse the South to rebellion and would unite it. Such a raid a Browu would make would accomplish that remit. King said that Browu wa a riupu of these men. In view of all this and in view of Fred Browns assertion that his brother was as sane as any man ever was and also Browns own statement, "1 expected assistance, but not from von-de- r hills." Dr. Timby thinks he is justified in his belief that John Brown nut only was not insane, but that he was tricked into his raid by the south for the purpose of uniting the south in rebellion and dividiug the north. Dr. Timby has had peculiar reasons of his own for not making this story public before. Sustaining, as he did, confidential relations with scores of the most, conspicuous even of the civil war days, he has fell himself Justified in keeping silence until now, because of certain personal matters. He told the Story last week to a Bun reporter who had called to talk with him about hla acquaintance with many of the great men of the past In thia country, and he gave full permission to use it, reserving to himself his reasons for never revealing it before. HISTORY WRONG ABOUT TECUM-SEII. sec-rectl- d d 1 .1,. !. ;.t Mil j.evil 1j ti.c t ni. cxplu.te t.e t r- tv.ry m.i.i eEcjjoil out for bimsrit toil h.ij ilieu iu the wo:k loi-trust to for; one tj 40; if. Ciiojicg Ii tftifit t. the plan attentively. and thou sjj.i: "1 think that is the most imiuarti-cabl- e evt-- r hrsi'd of. IJpj Jhen I'usMtiir vest amsy. l.ut with-- it tow weks he f.t.ni.iyi that nrry pan to sl.fc ihe A lhcrn,ai if . an.l lias the credii for cntii'a'iug tbe TlilBY'3 REVOLVING TURRET. A to Dr. Tiiul-y'invention ct the turret fur the monitor, it is poititeil out that Ericsson never claimed the credit of it tor h!niMir. although he did nothing 10 correct the geuersl idea that ha wa its inventor. It is oaly wltliiu two years that the navy has awakened to the truth tluil Ericsson waa aiutpiy the engineer of the monitor and not it inven'or. On March II. ItKL. Secretary Loug wrote that Dr. Tinthy's claim "is 0 much at variance with the accepted version of the origin of the Monitor that the matter is worthy of investigation in order that Jusihe may prevail. The facts are that Mr. Tlntliy fiel a caveat in the Patent Office In t alk-- 1 nyion on Jan. 18. 1843, for this iiinvt. In the spring of the same year he still to Caleb Cushing, then Miuisnr to China, a model of hi turret, with a pilot house on top and not with one In front, aa was the case with Ericsson's Monitois Interfering with the range i f the guns. This arrangement, if the pilot house showed that the turret wa to be ojierated on a vessel with a low freeboard. In 1843 President Tyler and 1:1s Cabinet, on their way to the celebration over tbe completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, stopped In the City Hall ia New York to Inspect the Timby model. Dr. Timby took out his paleut on the revolving turret on Sept. 3t). 1882. The records of the Patent Uffire prove this. Ericsson never got a patent for his plan of the Monitor, and never sought one. As additional evidence that Timby wae tbe inventor, the Winslow, Griswold A Bushnell company, that built the first monitor, paid him 1 royalty of 5,000 for that vessel and $5,000 for each of two others which it constructed proof that they regarded Timby as the inventor. The Government built sixty-eigh- t of these turrets, but never paid Timby a cent for hla Invention. Tbe Patriotic League of the Revolution has taken the matter up. and the result is that the Court of Claims now haa before tt a claim of 8500,000 on behalf of Dr. Timby. This revolving turret waa used by Russia in her defences at Cronstadt, Count Bodiaco having secured tbe rights to use it from Dr. Timby, and by Prussia In her defences on the Moselle. Dr. Timby was at the cornerstone laying of the Washington Monument and at the ceremonies marking its completion. He saw Sam Patch Jump over the Genesee Falls In Rochester twice. He smiles today when he thinks of Bewgrds remark to him: llmby, you couldn't eat strawberries from your garden without dividing them with n friend." lie knew all tbe Dona partes that have lived in the last forty yean, and one of his acquaintances that be values most, whom be met In Paris, was with BergL Hubert, who guarded Napoleon's gnve In SL Helena for nineteen years. It Is asserted that Dr. Timby first suggested the plan to blow up Hell Gale, adopted later by the War Department, to Commodore Vanderbilt. He Is simply filled with Interesting reminiscences. In appearance Dr. Timby la an old He is smoothly school gentleman. shaven, has a striking fare of great firmness and a straight mouth, indicating intense determination. Hla eyes are gray, with n glitter and light that betoken great int elligeuce. His forehead is high and, in se a nautical term, has S pronounced overhang. His voice is resonant, He has only a alight stoop to his shoulders. His hearing Is not quite so acute aa It wae in hla early (lays. Otherwise he Is hearty and vigorous, and ha shows hla strength by going on with his Inventions. He has n vein of deep sentiment, shown in his writings. He has receivo. ed several doctors' degrees from His great purpose In life, a he aaya In his book, was "to better the condition of the race by advancing the art of national defence to a degree that would discourage aggressive war by making successful invasion o vestigation as to the authorship of the revolving turret, so as "to do ample justice and vindicate the genius that contributed so largely In rescuing the country 'from a grave peril Dr. Timby baa another story of Induring the darkest days of Its exis- terest to historians that haa never tence. been published. It relates to the noted Anything coming from Dr. Timby is Indian chief, Tecumaeh, defeated by therefore entitled n respect. Here Is Qen. Ilarrlsun at the battle of Tippehis story nbout John Brown:: canoe, and supposed to have bees The next summer after John Brown killed In the battle of the Thames was hanged Dr. Timby met Fred above London, Canada, by Richard M. y Johnson. Dr. Timby dues not say that Bruwn, a brother of the Johnson did not kill Tecumseh, hut agitator, and said to him: "Tell me, Mr. Brown, what you he says that If Johnson did it was think about your brother. Was he not at the battle of the Thames, but Insane? before that fight and at a place about Fred Bruwn replied: sixteen miles from London. Dr. Tim-by- s reasons for this belief are these: "1 can only aay this, that if there ever was a man sane aa other men Along in 1832 a farnmr named Wiland even more sane than the ordinary liam Cornell came from the region near London, Canada, auS purchased a man, he was John Brown, my brother. When pressed for an explanation of farm in-- Steuben county, N. Y., adbis brothers nets, Fred Brown could joining the one on which Timby lived no, more account for them than any as a boy. Cornell was a devout, upright man and soon gained the reuti 3 else. He was In the dark. Dr. Tindiy got no light from him spect of the neighborhood. He said that as a boy, in the days as to his former frlend'a acta, but Fred Browns statement made a pow- of the war of 1812, he lived with his father on a farm about sixteen miles erful Impression on bis mind. from London, and that one night n About two years afterward Dr. Timgreat party of Indians on the move In was one conversation earnest by in war camped in his fathers cornday with bit friend Senator Pomeroy and of Kansas as to John Brown, and the field. His father had n grist mill and senator waa telling of a farewell In- a distillery, and in the early morning terview with Brown In Jail just before the Cornell hoy fllmbed stealthily to the roof of distillery to see the he was hanged. They were In the Indians catch the their ponies. cell in the presence of the Jsiler. They were In great hurry, word havSenator Pomeroy was much depresscome that they were being pursued ing aliwere ed and there loug periods of enee. Bruwn was sealed facing the by the Yankee soldiers. They moved east. There waa a long line of bills out in haste, but before they went they visible to the north on Browns left set fire to his father's grist mill. They hid not been gone more than At last, breaking one of the periods of alienee, Pomeroy, his voice filled three minutes when Tecumseh came in aight all alone. He shouted that tho with svmpathy, said: Yankees were after him, but told Co"Tell me. rnells father that he had remained beBrown waa silent, and again Pomehind to pul out the fire in the mill. roy said: A moment Inter Tecumseh disap"Teil me. around the point of a hill. AlLooking at the jailer and with peared most Immediately a company of solBrown great deliberation, said, quiet- dier, following the Indiana passed raply: "1 expectd assistance, but not from idly and also disappeared around the hill. There was heard a sharp crack, yonder bills, pointing with hla left band toward the range that was visible. crack, and then more soldiers went by. He would aay no more In the pret After the army had passed up the ence of the jailer. He clearly meant, river Cornell and his father went to however, that It waa not from the see what tbe shooting meant. About north that he expected assistance. half a mile away they found TecumCoupled with what Fred Brown had told Dr. Timby of his brothers san-- - seh dead with bis head toward a little spring, where he had crawled after beHy this story by Senator Pomeroy ing shot. As Tecumseh waa n friend of still more convinced him that there him was some other motive than a fanati- the family the senior Cornell gave regrave and a burial, where hla cal madness behind Browns raid on amains ant supposed to rest today, the slave, states. Further light came a year or two later when Horatio King, about sixteen miles below where the of tho Thames was fought who was postmaster general for one battle recalled this story later Dr. day In Buchanans cabinet, and who when Timby he met In Washington an acnever let any one forget that he waa woman, a friend of some of the late postmaster general, told complished the best known men of the time. 8he a remarkable story of Dr. Timby. came from near London, Canada. King was more or less prominent He told her of CorneUa story about in 'Washington duriug the &vil war Tecumseh and she said she had often days. He attached himself in a social seen n simple stone to Tecumseh 's way to Dr. Timby, who waa known memory about sixteen miles below the as Stanton's close friend and scene of tbe battle. The books all say generally also a friend of Lincoln. He saw Dr. that Tecumseh was killed in battle and Timby atouist every day. He waa a that Johnson shot him. geulal man, and finally he remarked Dr. Timby has never had time to Into Dr. Timby: the Cornell story itersonally, vestigate "Do you know tint someumes I think but he is convinced that Tecumseh was the weight of this entire rebellion not killed In battle, and that if Johnrests upon my shoulders? son shot him It was at this turn in the Then in confidence be told Dr. Timroad near the Cornell farm. by this story, refusing absolutely to PREDICTION ABOUT THE reveal any names, but convincing Dr. TELEGRAPH. Timby of lta truth. Dr. Timby's reminiscences cover a King said that brfore John Brown wide range, lie was n warm friend of tuaiie hla raid he was waited upon y Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, in the north King wouldnt and was present when the first mestell where, but intimated that It waa sage was flashed over the wire from in Kansas by a delegation of SouthBaltimore to Washington. He was tbe ern slaveholders, men of great promman present whose name waa youngest inence in the south. They represent- sent In the message. ed to Brown that the south was sick In n book Dr. Timby has published of slavery and would be glad to get recently, giving his theories of light lid of it aa an institution. and heat, together with many of his They said that all that waa needed poems and philosophical thought!, be to fearless says that after all the others present accomplish thia was a leader. They told him that the best were asked to give opinions as to tbe iitcn of the south would instantly folfuture usefulness of the great Invenlow such a lcfcder. They tion he said: discussed plana to foment such a risi"The time may come when with It ng. Kl.ig even intimated that all a man may sit in his office hare and the details of the Brown raid were whisper to n man on the Nile.. settled. "Hear, hear! said some one. "Take This southern delegation painted In thia young man to the madhouse." Dr. Timby adds: glowing colon the great place in history a man would occupy could he free "Well, men all over the world have the slaves In such a movement. They been for many years whispering with said that he would become one of tbe men on the Nile, and the young man great captains of the world. He has not been taken to the madhouse would be known as the foremost liberator of history. PLAN TO BLOW UP THE ALBEMARLE. The secret delegation, made up of In addition to the revolving turret, upon men, played Brown's vanity and appealed to hla another of Dr. Timbys ideas was put aeal on behalf of tbe slaves so seductto practical use in the civil war. la the ively that the spark they set kindled destruction of the great Confederate sn intense flame In him. Brown ram Albermarle. told Secretary in them and in wbat they had Timby had often id to him. Blanton that he bad n plan tor blowing vessel as the Albemarle, and He pictured himself marching from up aueh with Harpers Ferry to New Orleans with Btanton became much ImpressedBarkWest band of freed slavea behind It. He finally called in William known generally as the Run. with all the leading men of the er Cushing, h welcoming him with open arms daredevil of the navy, and sent him to talk. "bis victorious career, and, In the Dr. Timby to said his plan was simply Dr. Timby be saw himself the greatest end of a long '"nqueror In tbe worldl history. 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