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John Sherman's Witnesses--mr. And Mrs. Jenks

John Sherman's Witnesses--mr. And Mrs. Jenks image
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Day
5
Month
July
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Shernianhas not bencfited hiscase )y putting Mr. and Mis. Jecks ou the stand to testify in bis íav.r before the 'otter investigating comniittee. To saj hit he liad iujnreí it might hardly be correct; for when the Secrctxry of Die freasury is confronte! by a (lisgracefnl etter, and positively dcc'iues to state, indei oath, wiiemer bc bas writteu such a letter or not, bis caso iloes uot admit of mnch snbsequout spoiliog. Mr. Jenks is i polrtieian of very limted importance, formerly a petty cffl ieïolder, and of late an offiue-seeker, from jouisiana. Mis. Jenks is liis wife. fbey have been brought forward to clear ip Mr. Sherman's charactor by ezpláinng away bis allegod coi;nectioa wxlh the etter addresse j to Anderson and Weber u bis name. Mr. Jenks bad not muoh of a story to 11, and what tliero was of it wus itn)robablo to the last degree. Por int'ince, bo testiücd that be defraye,d : wife's expenees to Washington - a con iderable outlay f(?r a rúan of bis very imited mciius - without knowing the obect of her vi it. Mrs. Jenks, so to speak, serms to bc more of a man than her husbaud. She ays that Mr. Sherman did not write the etter, but that it was dictated by lier to nother person, wlio wrote it. Mrs. Jenks was an old friend of Auderon and Weber. She met Weber in tlio hv( f one day while the visiting statesmen were in New Orlwins. He had ia lis posHession a etter which he and .nderson liad addn-ssed to Mr. John herman, asking bim to put in writiug he proles be hd asado to ÜJCffl orftlly. She volnnteered to takc the letter to Mr. Hhcrman. Tbey supposed she did so. Au answer was roturuod to them signed John Shetinan. Thcy supposed - and she nllowed these two old acqnaintances and f rienda to suppose - that tho letter was genuine. At this late day hc comes forward and swears that tlio letter was spurious, and wan gotten up by her to deceiye Mr. Audcrsou aud ilr. Weber. 8he covers herself with fraud, forgery, duplicity, nnd treachery, il' her story is truc. How likely a woiaan, without any npparent motive, wonld be to do such au cocentric thiog the public will jndge. We do not supposo ttiat one intelligent person in the world will bclieve this story. If Mr. Sherman haU not previously condemned himself by his own testimony, this foolhardy attempt to palm off such a ridiculous statement as the tnith would be suflBcient to eondemn him. - New York Sun.

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Old News
Michigan Argus