The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1827-03-01
To THE pIIRIIc

Bernard M'Guigen, and John Durnin,
with unjustly assailing, and most wantonly SIAN
dering, the said VIM Larkin's character. He
then proceeds to say he feels it duty he owes
to himsefand his friends to repel the unauthor-
ICED, base and unfonuded charges made by those
and expose them to that contempt
they merit. He then comes forward, honest
man like, to exhibit to public view statement of
the facts connected with the lottery case alluded
to: he requests the public to recollect the Pc
rod the Legislature granted the lottery, in 1922,
for raising the sum of 5000 dollars for the of
st Peters Church and payment fdebts over all
expenses: he then states the managers of the
lottery then agreed that one Of them should sign
the tickets, and receive the money, and pay
the przes--ths was the most substantial part of
the business, although poor Billy saysit was un-
fortunate for him, or as the setcrcated trustees
would have it, it was unfortunate for the Church
the trustees are a set Of impudent fellows, Tor
not plying poor Billy's severe loss, and not the
losses of the church poor Billy goes on to in.
form the public he sold the lottery to Thomas
Hope, who commenced to sell the Tickets; and
after the sale of the first and second classes, hen
est Billy tells the public with the most bare
faced fllschood, that he paid the church, in cash
and note. and payment ofdebts, the full amount
and upwards, say 1905 dollars. AS ne treats the
public opinion with the same inaolence as he has
treated the congregation of st. Peters Church,
we now challenge you to come before any three
or more respectable men Of the Borough, and we
are ready to meet any hour you appoint, face to
face, and if ;ol can produce one solitary docu-
ment Of a receipt or settlement for asy sum OF
money, even for one dollar, since the commence
mcnt of the drawing Of the lottery until this
day, we shall acknowledge your assertion to be
true, and ifyou cannot produce any receipt or
settlement from the trustees Of st. Peters
Church you must be the most abandoned crea-
ture upon earth-we challenge you to produce it
in forty-cight hours, you stand convicted, as
you are; so that we shall prevent you from
imposing any longer on the public. Our for
bcarancc for so long a time with you, was from
motives of charity, not wishing to injure your
character, as We would do, for any man i'll busi-
ness; but We you are the same obdnrate
and perverted wresth STILL after ell Our lndul-
gcnce to you. We point out an infamous false
/ hood on the face of the document you have set
before the public, where YOU say you sold six
classes Of the lottery 10 Thomas Hope for 500
dollars eacl, to be paid by Hope as each class
was sold You state that after the Isl and "a class
es were sold, you paid the church the sum OF
1906 dollars iii cash and note. You could not pay
ont of one thousand dollars, which you state you
sold the two classes for, you could not get
more shan 500 dollars for each class. Where
then did the sos dollars come from over the
prce of the two casscs' 50 that one might think
YOU wronged Hope, or made sham sale Of the
lottery, with an intent to t.eiraud the church.
| All, Mr.. Billy, we have documents from Thomas
| Hopes hand, which firmly prove that the
nett profits on the first class, after paying the
prizes, amounted to 1896 dollars and that the
/ profits on the second class amounted to 4765 dol
/ lars What IN unfortunate business for yoa!-
You say the third class was managed by Patrick
! fo1 r., fl,.an ptruJx
Z iSfateaem Of pa,riek Higgins.
/ ~ shall state as one oil The four managers of
! the Lottcry, sold by William Larkin, principal
manager and treasurer, who received the pro-
| cecds of the four classes Of the Delaware f.otte-
ry. intended BY the Legislature OF this State for
the use and benefit of St. Peters Church in this
Dsroueh,- that after the first and second class
es were drawn, VIM l.arkin requested Inc to
take the management of the Sd class, as he said
he was fatigucd. told him l would do any
! thing in nv power to assist the Church He
gave me the tickets, and some time after he
| came to me, with Arthur Murphy, and said he
would not sign the tickets unless Murphy and
would give him bill of indemnity, that in case
of loss in the third class, we should suffer like.
| As poor Murphy and knew nothing more of
Lottery schemes than an old woman, we signed
| the bond | now inform the public, that Will
| liam Larkn sometime after this, pulsuaded poor
Murphy to join with him and N. &. Williamsos,
and form Board of Managers, and take the
Lottery from me; which they did, and Larkin
and Tho's Hope sold it between them. After
they took the third class from me, Larkn sent
| his order to me to give Thomas Hope one thou
sand tickets, which order | hold to this day.
Al..io' he states in the paper that it was under
nv care the third class was sold. have Lar
! kn's order and Hopes receipt for every ticket
| he got from me. This is the rich harvest tho't
to save, which Iarkin acknowledges to have dis
appointed me in. He states the Sd class was all
under my care, which is false, as have his own
I order to prove it so. This order and all the do
cumcnts relative to the Lottery, gave to Doc
tor Purcell by order Of the Trustees so that, Lar
kin, every statement you made i'll the Whining
tonian is false, and inform the public that
know YOU these twenty five years, and that
have document relating to you, to prove what
! / say to be true.
PAT'k HIGGINS.
Iarkn calls MS selfcreated trustees--you
seem to forget the l3th of April 1924, when We
were the trustees, whom with the late and much
to be regretted Victor nu Pont, rejected your
rascally behaviour, and thrust yoa out OF being
Treasurer ora Trustee ever since, III the Church.
The last day we met you was in Doctor PerceiPs
shop, where you began your old trade OF black
guaring us. You know you promised that
dav, which was the Esd Of january last, to bring
up your books, and appointed thc Doctor to set
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