Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-24
Siofensai Of tAe .4ccosnfs o joan B. 7S,s-
bcriake aud Robert X Rondotph.
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Lieutenant Robert n. Randolph rates that the
= smouut Of money received by hini, loft by Mr.. Tim
berlakc vas upwards OF eleven thousand dollars, oil
tho amount Of which he has . private instrumentation,
6nd that he never rcccived from these who countco
the money, or othcrs, any inventory or n'enorandnm
ofthe amount Of money or public property lef by MT.
funbcriakc. His memorandum IL dated 3lst
March, 1879 This money he paid awsy in the dis
charge vi Mr.. Timbcrlake's debts. All the men dis
Charged n: Port Haiicn aud entered upon lumber
lakes pay roll /, were paid out Of this money. All the
mon discharged therc, wero discharged upon Finn
bcrlakes paysfoli. Nc paid other debts Of Timber
lakes n Poe, Mahon, but does not recollect tn whom;
hs account current will show. Undertakes money
was ali exhausted At Port Mahon, and to pay off the
ships bills, he had to borrow a thousand dollars at
Port Hahon Of the Dutch Consol. All the papers
If Iimberlake, Yubiie and private, were mixed ioge-
Their aud were put in the iron chest. On the ARRIVAL OF
the ship IN Bus on, he packed all these papers IN q
trunk, which hc brought TO W a~shlngtun, and delivered
tot Watkins Fourth Auditor. He afterwards, IN
company with MIR. ONeal, selected tho private pa
pces, and gave them to Or. ON,al. or Mrs. Timber
lske, he does not reco!lect Which. Mr Timberlakc's
private Iccount book, a square book covered. With red
morocco he gave to Mrs. TimborIako. himself. He
? saw none of the private letters; they were putu p in
several packets, tied with red tape, aud scaled, and
were endorsed private lc;tere, in Mr.. T,mberlake's
band writing. lie knows nothing OF MIR Timber
iake's seal, except that he had one-ncver saw it
among his papers that he recoHects.
lie Rad nothing I" do with Timberldke's slops; he
ucTer used or issued any of them. They were all
surveyed and returned 10 the public store a. Boston.
Mono Of Mr. Timborake's debts q; Gibraltar were
paid out Of the money left by hun; they wore all paid
out Of money drawn from the agent there
He knows nothing in relation to the mutilation Of
Mr. Timberlake's letter book: he docs not recol!ecl
ever TO have seen II among no papers.
Timberlske's last book. 10 which he kept the OH
GERS private account. be has no recoliecti.n Of ever
seeing. He cannot tell vhat has become of It.
No inquiry was made of him in relation to Timber
likes money or properly, by the Fourth Auditor, or
aQv OF his clerks. At The settlement of his accounts.
and he does not recoicct to have heard any thing
ab ut u; nor was the cxis.cnc' of any Inventory ever
mentioned t" HIM IN The Office Nor did he ever
hear In the office Of any private letters from Major
Patton, or Others, found among the papers OF Air.
Timberlakc.
Thus far this statement was made in the presence
OF the Fourth Auditor. Second Comptroller, and
omm0do Patterson, taken down by the first named,
read 10 Lieutenant Randolph, aud by him assented
to as correct, on the 18th of February, 1890.
Gu the 18th, Lieutenant Randolph called on the
Fourth Auditor, and IN reply T. a question, state ID
that none of Mr.. Undertakes private stores we're
sold by him.; that the chest containing his goods was
nailed up at the time of hts death, and not opened
until the snip arrived in Boston. WHARF they were
opened snG sold by order IF the Navy Depart mcnt.
1t E. a. F Valletie states that, afer the death
Of Nj. TInbefiake, he received a verbal order from
Com. Patterson to have inventories taken of all prop
erty lett by him on board. public and private; he gave
to MIR Randolph, and he thinks Mr.. Amasa Paine,
Mr Lord, and probably Mr.. Normsn, directions to
take the Inventories, and at the same time gave Mr.
Msnds,pa tho key Of Mr T.mborlske's iron chest,
which he had received from Com. Patterson; inyen-
tones of Mr. rs clothing, and certain articles that he
had purchased I r his wife and family, were gwen TO
him, V~alette) which he now produces; he did no,
see The inventories OF Dir. Tim6erlake's money slops,
and stores, but h, always understood that such were
taken, and surpassed that they were in The possessiun
OF Mr. Randolph. and u copy forwarded to the Bourth
AUDITORS Ot6ce A memorandum of the amour, Of
noney vas gwen TO hun, winch he gave to Com
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There was a consider able amount of gold in the iron
chast, and there were TWO boxos OF Spanish dollars,
said to contain tw" thousand dollars each, and ano-
thcr box, part OF which had been used. He recol,ects
that mt. Randplph told hum one Of the boxes fell
short twenty dollars. Mr. Randolph recently told
him at Philadelphia, that there were upwards o! clc-
ven thousand dollars Of the money.
There vas q large chest containing shirts, vests,
ahd other articles, belonging to Mr.. Undertake,
which was delivered to Mr.. Randolph, and kept open
by him for sale ofthe articles, IN charge of ar Nor
man; and Mr.. L. had also, at the time of his death,
aNvarle OF small stores for sale to the men OF board,
all OF which were delivered to Mr. Randolph None
OF these were included in the inventories produced 10
him, nor does ne know that they were ever accounted
for lie can form no opinion OF the value ofihese ar
ticies' ne has no knowledge, nor did nc ever hear
on board that DIR Randolph paid any of the sums
entered on Timbcrlake's payroll. closing on th. 8ist
March, 1873. nor did be hear of DIR Rand lpl's paw
rag any debt wta'eyer of Mr Timbet.ake's at Port
Mahon. He does not know what WIS don. with q
"N6 '""N' -" "ohcy Iet ny MI lIm0erluRe
on public account.
Aiiof Mar Timberlake's papers, public and private,
were lei. IN the care of Mr. Randolph. He thinks
De saw, before the ship arrived in the United States,
packets u popers tied up and marked private, but
soes not reoollect whether they were under seal or
not he had IN oval brass seal engraved for Mr..
Simberiake, about a year before his death, will, his
initials upon 1t, but does not know what became Of
u. MRS Eaton recently told ham she HABIT He
pas 90 knowledge that Randolph issued any of Tim
benske's siops, or any other, after Yimberlnke o
death; 1t Is not usual for the men, IN the ls,ter par, of
cruise, to dpw many slOps. Stops might have been
ISSUED without his knowing It lie was very intimate
with Mr. Timberlake, and much attached 10 him.
he never knew or suspected HIM guilty of aiy want
OF integrity. He rever knew of his renting money
to any person IN the United SIa,es. he knew no
thing about the disposition male of Mr.. Ike 8
alops at Boston having left the ship before Ihey were
some carpets aud other articles were found s,osced
away a'ter the ship arrived at Boston, which were
no, incinded IN the Inventories, and that they we're
delivered to Mrs. Timberluke
de has no recollection Of eser ouen,n1 n q, sa.,u