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THK HT.flPo-AFFIDAVITSFrom Two Police Officers atsiLouisville.Which Completely Back up Constable Jack Richie.In His Statements About the Arrest of3£r*. Vancleave.n-n-raorIt* Always Better To Tell The Truth.36irIS1-3rs-rt3-aalaieafLe--01The Democrat is a newspaperwhose mission it is to give the news even if it causes hearts to ache at times by its publications. We haveat no time taken sides in the Vancleave scandal except to raise our voice in behalf of law and justice as applied to those who seek to commit backmaii, one of the greatest of all crimes. This crime the Democrat has insisted, must at allI r .times be punished to the full extent of the law, and every good citizen, we are glad to know, is with us. The conduct of James Magill in the escape of the Vancleave woman has been lightly touched by the Democrat, and that gentleman has no cause of complaint against us, as we haverepeatedly stated that we did not accuse him and that we wanted absolute proof before we condemned him. The Democrat has done its best to be fair towards Mr. Magill, as our readers will testify, and even now we do him the favor to draw it mild, as we have no disposition to add to the embarrassment of one who already has burdens enough to carry. When Magill returned from Louisville, Ky.,icf(i1ttt3I3c3c11£sfi€cEItiI1Ia3carsatvQwhere he had gone in search of the sni)I1bbVancleave woman, his paper came a out on Wednesday morning Nov. 17, I assigning various reasons why he (Magill) had not captured the woman. I ^ Magill stated in his paper: I“Her description had been telegraphed to the chief of police by the s sheriff, and Detective Rosenburg was tl detailed to be on the lookout for her. aShe arrived in Louisville on the J., V M. L and took a hack and was a driven to a boarding house on Tenth hand Jefferson streets, where she en- E gaged a room and went out in search n of work. The officers got on her E track and soon had her in custody, n She was taken to the central police station, where she was found by Jack tl Richey, who, by representing himself as the sheriff of Shelby county, ob- N tained the prisoner and brought her to this city, telling big stories about how he captured her. QSheriff Magill returned last night 5' from Louisville, having obtained the above information from the police. The chief of police of Louisville said 111 he would not have turned the prison- ta er over to Richey if he had not rep- *3 resented himself to be the sheriff ofShelby county. Richey came back here Monday with the prisoner and is m blowing about how he had captured P(her, when in reality she was arrested by Detective Rosenburg, and Riclfey hi was not even present when the arrest was made.” afWhen Constable Richie read Ma- ^gill’s statement as given above, he ^ authorized the Democrat to say to R the public for him that Magill was sa lying and attempting to mislead the ^ people, and we so stated for him in this paper. Mr. Richey insisted that his own story was the true one and ar that he would furnish affidavits from °froacsaqituarfoathitythAithe police officers at Louisville which would back him up and prove MagilPs statements to be a batch of bald-faced lies from the beginning to the end. Mr. Richie on WTednesday sent to Louisville for affidavits which he received to-day and wrhich will befound below.He furnished the originals to this paper with a request that it was due him that their contents be given to the public, that all might read for themselves and know who had been lying and who should be condemned. The Democrat is pained to admit, that these affidavits place Magill in a disgraceful light before the public. They completely riddle him and skin . him from head to feet. *- ?aWe had hoped that when these affidavits arrived they would furnish in “. some way, a loop-hole through which Magill might escape, but they are drawn up so strong and tight as to ^ make escape an utter impossibility. ^ They .make up one of the most complete cases of doubling a man up in a box and nailing the lid down on him that either ancient or modern history records. Coming in the shape of j To sworn statements; from disinterested parties and from Magill’s own wit-nesses, they absolutely demolish him and leave him standing before his lalt; friends and the public a disgraced and ag ruined man.se,twer,. diiOffice of Chief of Police, ( an Louisville, Ky., Nov. 18th, ’86. \ toMr. Jaaper Richey, Constable ShelbyvlHe, In--diana: ^Deab Sib—In reply to your favor of the 17th, I wish to say that a great tii injustice has been done you in the an article published in the Morning to Times of your city, Wednesday No- a ^ vember 17th, regarding the capture of the woman, Vancleave. I send you affidavits of myself and Patrol-H haman Joseph Rosenburg. I also send ®t£ the telegram received by me, sent by you. I also wish to say that Sheriff Magill arrived in Louisville the morn- I .a £ ing after your departure (on Thursday, November 16th). He was shown your telegram and after hearing a description of you, seemed per- pa;fectly satisfied and left The above coiIwiPObeea]
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Shelbyville Daily Democrat
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 19, 1886
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