Cedarville ought to have had as many mails as the other points between, according to the order, but they were going to supply it only once a week. .
As a matter of fact, gentlemen, this letter was written on the 22d of October, 1878, and at the time the letter was written the mail, according to the contract, was carried only once a week on that route, and consequently Cedarville would have had exactly the same mail as any other point; that is to say, once a week.
Page 556 of the record shows that three trips a week were put upon this route to Loup City with a schedule of thirteen hours, but not until the 10th of July, 1879, nine months after this letter was written.
On page 4609 Mr. Ker, in commenting upon an affidavit on the Toquerville and Adairville route, reads from the evidence of John W. Dorsey, citing page 3945, and ends at this question and answer:
Q. It was done so entirely, was it not?—A. It ought to have been so.
Now, let me read you the balance:
Q. Was it not so done?—A. No, sir.
Q It was not?—A. No, sir.
Q For whose benefit was it done?.—A. He—Meaning Rerdell—stole five thousand dollars on that route, or very nearly that—four thousand nine hundred dollars on that very route.
Q. When did he steal that five thousand dollars?—A. About a year ago or a year and a half; I do not remember the time.