Q. "Where did you reside about the 24th day of December, 1870 ?”

Ans. "I lived in West Hamilton, Butler county."

Q. "Where were you on the day and night of the 24th of December, 1870 ?"

Ans. "I was in Hamilton, Ohio."

Q. "Are you acquainted with Thomas McGehean, the Plaintiff, and were you acquainted with one Thomas S. Myers, late of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, and now deceased ?"

Ans. "I know both of them."

Q. "What did you hear Thomas McGehean say on that day, namely, on the 24th day of December, 1870, in reference to Thomas S. Myers, and what did you see him do to said Myers, and relate fully all you know about` the death of Myers, how it was caused, and all the particulars ?"

Ans. "I did not see him do anything that day, and did not see him at all in the day time. I took a walk with McGehean that night. I don't recollect anything he said at all about the death of Myers."

Q. "What did you hear McGehean say at any time after the death of Myers about his death ?"

Ans. "I can't recollect of anything."

Q. What did you hear McGehean say at any time before the death of Myers about causing his death ?"

Ans. "I don't recollect of ever hearing him say anything."

Q. "Did you not testify against McGehean when he was on trial for the murder of Myers, in Warren county, Ohio ?"

Ans. "I was there and testified."

Q. "Do you recollect what your testimony was, on that trial?"

Ans. "I don't recollect it now at the present time." Q. When did you see McGehean last before this

time?"

Ans. "I haven't seen McGehean for about two years." Q. "Did you see an overcoat belonging to McGehean on the 24th day of December, 1870 ?"

Ans. "I did not see an overcoat, but saw a little sack coat."

Q.

coat ?"

"What color, and in what condition was said.

Ans. "I can't recollect."

The reader will perceive how entirely at variance the present statements of these men are to their former ones.

Mr. Sohn has also taken the deposition of Joe Myers and Dr. Cyrus Falconer. With regard to the former, it is Mr. McGehean's intention, at no distant date, to have him arrested and tried upon the charge of perjury.

Another of the depositions taken is that of

Barney Hafertepen, a Dutch shoemaker, who testified at Lebanon, on McGehean's trial. He was then and there sworn to tell the truth, but it now appears from his own statement that he did not tell the truth at that time, or else he is telling more than the truth in his deposition in favor of Mr. Sohn. The following was his statement at Lebanon:

McGehean

"On the 24th of December, 1870, I stepped into Lingler's saloon to get a ten dollar bill changed. was there and changed it for me. My shop is next door to the saloon. I was in my shirt sleeves. McGehean said to me, 'Come and go along, the boys are going to have a fuss.'"

Here he stops. Mark, he does not mention the name of Myers. But now the probability is Mr. Sohn or some of his friends have said, "Barney, what a fine amendment you could make by adding to your testimony the words, "With the Myers boys," and Barney being of that charmingly obliging disposition which is always open to pecuniary consideration, does this, and his deposition. now reads, "McGehean said to me, 'Come and go along, the boys are going to have a fuss with the Myers boys. McGehean accounts for the conversation that passed between him and Hafertepen in the following way:

"A few days before the night in question I heard a violent quarrel between Steve Cone and Sam Van Camp.

This took place on the north-east corner of the Courthouse square. Their quarrel attracted quite a large crowd. Cone held a knife in his hand. Van Camp said he did not wish to have a fight on the street, but would have it out the first opportunity. At the time Hafertepen speaks of, Cone was in the room with a great many others drinking and playing cards. I took one of the men who were playing cards to be Samuel Van Camp, and thought, as soon as he discovered Cone in the room, that he would put his threat into execution, and a fight would ensue. Hafertepen and myself drank beer together, and then I said, 'Let us go out, the boys will have a fuss,' meaning Cone and Van Camp, and with this I left the house."

Mr. McGehean's attorneys have taken the deposition of James Daugherty, Conrad Jacobs and many others, and they all testified to the fact, that John W. Sohn was Vice President of the indignation meeting, and did all he could to incite the mob against McGehean. Sohn, in his answer to McGehean's petition, states, under oath, that he took no part in the meeting whatever. In doing this he adds perjury to the list of his other misdemeanors.

CHAPTER LI

REMARKS ON THE CHARACTER OF C. L. VALLANDIGHAM-HIS ELOQUENCE AND POWER OF CONVICTION HIS SOCIAL QUALITIES— THE FRIENDSHIP THAT EXISTED BETWEEN HIM AND THOMAS MCGEHEAN-HIS RETURN HOME FROM EXILE WHEN NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR-THE NEW DEPARTURE-THE REMARKABLE 17TH OF JUNE.

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HE portrait of the eminent counsel of Thomas McGehean, who sacrificed his life in demonstrating Governor McBurney, his theory of the death of Thomas Myers, by a shot from his own pistol, is an appropriate adornment of these pages.

When some future historian, unprejudiced by influences of the present, writes the history of our Civil War, prominent among the illustrious characters of the epoch will be Clement L. Vallandigham.

The age of a great national conflict rarely gives to posterity a just criticism of its events. The impulse of humanity is that upon which passing incidents most generally impress themselves. The exercise of deliberate and unbiased reflection, comes with the slow hand of time. It would be difficult now to decide whether in the distant future, men, who like Mr. Vallandigham, proclaimed for peace and reconciliation, are not as worthy the rank