New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-08-14
Phenix Bank Trial.


Bank of Charestown, Mass, is still before the
1liddesex Court of Common Pleas at Concord.
On the l It'll Dr. Geo. Bates, one Of the witnesses
and Director OF the Bank, testified that Wyman
was in the habit of drawing out money on de
mand and notes without consulting the Directors
that he had before remarked that Hynan
,mas the Bank and the Bank was WymGn,"
which he qualified by saying, Wyman's happl-
ness and every thing in life appeared to be bound
up in the Bank, and to be devoted to it as to his
wife and child, and would as soon have sacrificed
the feelings of his wife and child as to njure the
Bank Nathaniel Fiske, first President of the
Bank and since one Of the Board of Directors
testified to the invariable devotedness of Wyman
to the interests OF the Bank, and that he had had
his entire confidence up to the period of the ex-
plosion; he, however, never knew that Wyman
was authorized by the Directors TO loan money
Had an incidental interview with Wyman after
the Bank had decided not to 90 on, when to his
question, "Wyman, what is the matter +" the
latter replied, " cGn MT meet the Drect0rS.-
I'rc cheated and deceired them, md 1 am alone
| to blame" The examination Of AbiIah Thomp-
son, another OF the Directors, elected that WYnan
acknowledged to him in August, 1912, that he
was little short and that it was owing to pur-
chase of Treasury notes, and that when he next
met him, few days after the blow up he
asked him how il was possible for him to SO spend
the whole capital Of The Bank, and bring discrcdt
and disgrace upon the Directors He said he
Al. a.. n.
blame. Il appears that the whole difficulty has
arisen from the too undoubting confidence of the
Board in Wyman's capacity and integrity.
RoBBERY.-Elam Hurd was, on affidavit of
Edward Stevier, committed TO prison at New
Orleans on the 4th inst, as particcps criminiS
in robbery Of $4,000 in specie and $4,000 IN
property and bills receivable; under the following
circumstances
The schooner Luna, of which fIurd was mate.
was chartered by Stevier and proceeded to Cam
peachy in June last, the latter acting as super
cargo. Here one part of the cargo was disposed
of; the other. consistn- Of bread and crackers.
were considered US contraband Thus created
some difficulty between Stev.cr and the captain,
who was brother to defendant III this suit, which
the latter SAID they would arrange on shore after
taking their coffee on board. At the tine APP
pointed time they went ashore, but after some
time returned 10 the boat, where they found the
mate. By this time Steyicr was 50 overpoweyed
with drowsIncsS that he fell asleep in the boat,
and the first thing he became conscious of on
waking was, that the captain had cleared of
with the schooner, (of which nothing has since
been heard with all his (Stevier's money and
property on board. He believes the mate to have
been prvy to the robbery, and that the coffee was
drugged with some narcotic.
GREAT CENTRAL MAIL Rourr-Thc distance
from Memphis, Ala. on the Tennessee, by Holly
Springs, Ripley Tuscumba, Decatur Rome, Ga.
and Madison to Charleston, s. C. is 657 miles.
and to this City l45s. Fare to Charleston $50:
TO New York $40. This is nearer BIZ. not cheap
er than any other route. Time through, nine DAYS
SUDDEN DEArH.-Yesterday morning, VII
liam Vreeand, who has been employed by the
Health Department at Staten Island oycrhauI
ing, examining and regulating the clothing, &C.
Of passengers, went out to buy some fish for break
fast, and while in the market, in the act OF pur
chasing fell down and expired instantly.
u By 2 calculation made recently by Pgofes
olmstead, il appears that the number of death:
by lightning, reported by the newspapers dur
ing the last year is greater than that produced BY
accidents, similarly made public, arising from the
use OF steam.
i A man named Geo. Foley was found OF
Thursday evening Last IN Baltimore, lying in
state OF insensibility, from blows, supposed Of :
budgeon, on the head, producing conclusion o
the brain. No clue has yet been had to tbs
offenders.
u letter containing $500 was stolen from
the Post Office at Gardner's Creek, Niagara Co
on the 9th, and, being missed, clerk named Hi
ram S Gardner was soon missing also. Their.
is no doubt OF his guilt. He had erased the en-
try of the letter from the way-bill and books.
u Col. PRATT, of Prattsyille, Greene county
Is about establishing an individual free Bank a
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