“‘I do not come to destroy you,’ I replied, ‘for you are already destroyed!’
“Then drawing from his portmonnaie-book a big bundle of bank-notes, which he said was worth one hundred dollars, he said: ‘I will give you all this money if you will leave by the morning train and go back to Chicago.’
“I answered him: ‘Though you would offer me as much gold as this room can contain, I cannot do what you ask.’
“He then seemed exceedingly distressed, and he disappeared. The next morning Peter Spink requested the court to allow him to withdraw his accusations against Father Chiniquy, and to stop his prosecutions, having, he said, found out that he, Father Chiniquy, was innocent of the things brought against him, and his request was granted. Then the innocence and honesty of Father Chiniquy was acknowledged by the court after it had been proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln, who was afterwards elected President of the United States.
“(Signed) PHILOMENE SCHWARTZ.[[F]]
“I, Stephen R. Moore, a Notary Public in the County of Kankakee, in the State of Illinois, and duly authorized by law to administer oaths, do hereby certify that, on this 21st day of October, A. D. 1881, Philomene Schwartz personally appeared before me, and made oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is true, as therein stated. In witness whereto, I have hereunto set my hand and notarial seal.
“STEPHEN R. MOORE,
“Notary Public.”
[F]. That lady is still living, 1886, and at the head of one of the most respectable families of Chicago, residing at 482 Milwaukee Avenue.