The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-14

| time to my personal knowledge
| O. Have you any reason to believe that any moneys
bank bills other evidences of debt property
any description paid out or transferred or In any
way removed from the bank within that time except
A. No, sir; not to my best recollections. I was in
the bank all the time during the usual business hours
from the Sd to the 11th of July.
| q. Were you in the bank on the 10th of July?
A Yes; was here in the morning and until O'CLOCK
in the evening. did not do any thing in the evening
| q. Who else was in the bank that evening after
| business
| A. All the clerks about, to wit MIR. Hills MIR Jen-
kips. recollect no other clerks. The cashier and
| MIR. Knower, clerk and q Mr. William MCPHERSON
the errand boy, were also in There were other per-
SOM in could not remember who not any of them
| positively
@. Were there any of the officers or directors, or
stockholders depostors Of the bank in the bank
after bank hours on that afternoon or evening
A. could not specify how many persons there
| 9. Who, according to your best information or re-
A. think Mr.. Edwin Croswer and Mr.. Thaddeus
JOY may have been in as for any body else have no
| sort Of recollection of anybody.
Q. About what time do you think that you saw
| Croswell or Joy in?
| @. Were either Croswe or Joy in after dark?
| A. Not to my knowledge.
@ Were either Of them in after o'clock in the af-
| ternoon?
| A. Not to my knowledge.
| G. What is your best impression or information
whether they either Of them in after O'Clock!
A. have no impression or information about It,
@. Where Joy Croswell when in the bank
that afternoon after banking hours in the evening.
A. In the cashiers ROOM the Office, presume the
cashier was with them nobody else to my knowledge
@. What were they doing in the cashiers room or
A. don't know.
@. Have you no knowledge or information direct or
Indirect, what they were doing there?
G. what time did they leave that place last, as near
you recollect or judge?
A. have impression of 1t whatever.
9. What part of the bank were you in at that time
A. At INV counter in the room.
@. Did you 60 out of the bank leaving them in or
did they go out of the bank leaving you in =?
A. think it was before dark last knew of their be-
ing in the cashiers room, in the bank any where.
q. What were you doing at your counter at that
| time
A. Figuring, to balance my cash It was after past
o'clock think can't recollect or give any account
Of the time of day quit my desk at that time when
trying to balance my cash
G. Who was in the bank last that evening" that you
recollect beside yourself?
A. Mr.. Jenkins
@. What time did MIR Jenkins leave the bank that
A. At about nine o'clock.
@. Were the candles or lamps lighted?
A. The gas was burning.
@. What was Mr. Jenkins about up to the time he
A. Did not seem to be doing anything. Mr.. Jenkins
and myself had went out about O'Clock to supper and
| returned about quarter to nine.
@. Was anybody in besides jenkins when you re-
A. Mr. Hill; nobody else.
O. Have you no knowledge or information about
whEt done in the bank after bank hours that after
noon or evening, except what you have stated?
G. Was it usual ocsurren nee for the clerk or officers
others connected with the bank, to be in the bank
after the bank hours, as late as nine o'clock
A. When there was work to be done it was usual
G. was there work to be done on the evening of the
10th Of July, that called them here to your know
| ledge?
| A. Yes
@. What was it
| A. The balancing If the books for the day. making
remttances New York forwarding packages to our
western correspondents western banks, and our mis-
celaneous business can't specify all now that was
| tie priucipal, suppose.
| O. Did the business SO transacted that afternoon
and evening" according to the usual course OF bust
| well and JOY?
| A. No sir.
@. Did you know what they were in the bank for?
O. Had there been any of the clerks or officers, or
connected with the bank, in the bank after
bank hours during previous to the 10th Of July?
q: was there any one there on the evening of the
| A. Not to my knowledge-that was Sunday evening.
q. Was there any one there on the evening OF the
| A. was there the sth?
@. Do you know who else was there
A. No distinct recollection. The cashiers Mr. Hill
Mr. Jenkins and myself of the directors to my
knowledge. know of no business that was transacted
y ds. on
| Sth, to my knowledge.
G. Had you at any time previous to the said 18th
Of July any knowledge or Information Of any OF the
@. Who are the directors?
| A. John Reyes Paige, president, VIM j. Fryer
Thaddeus Joy, S. w. Hoag, Elisha N. Pratt, Archd
Mcclure Henry T. Messck, Edward Artcher, Theodore
Ford, Charles Van Benshuysen, Cyrus Hawlsy, Edwin
| July 14-aft dinner.
@. When you absent from the bank, and wher
| did you return in the month of July
A. was absent from the morning of June 81, unit
the morning Of July 80 Monday was in the bank
| 1t was my impression all day.
O. was you familiar with the cash transactions, il
relation your cash accounts from the time you cam
| home until the 14th Of July
| A. To the bert of my recollection was.
O. On the morning Of the llth when you came int MT
| the bank, were Thaddeus Joy and Walter JOY In th
| bank do you recollect that!
O. Do you recollect that they were in the bank tina
A. do not recollect positively. am not positive
@. Do you recolect Of their standing at the end o
the counter in the bank when you came by with TN
money drawer or papers to bring 1t into the cashier
room?
@. Do you say positively that you have no recol
lection of Thaddeus Joy and Walter Joy being in tn
A. To the best of my recollection do not know
that they were.
q: Do you recollect Walter joys receiving an!
packages Of money from the eth to the 18th Of July!
A. do not. to the best of my recollection.
q. Is that your memorandum OF entries OF cash
and is that your cash book (quarto bound, sheep
A. It lie, and acknowledge that it !: my writing
The star refers excess Of cash Of $4,000 Their
was Q mistake Of $4,000 in the footing
| O. Have you been in the habit since you wer
teller in the bank of receiving sums OF money OF per
sons for getting notes discounted!
A. TO the best of my knowledge never did.
q. Have you ever received money from individual
who had notes they wanted discounted, for gettn
the m discounted while you were teller Of the bank!
A. Yes have. have sometimes discounted note
myself at a little over the interest, Of my money
To the best Of my recollection it Is at least yea
since received a fee in that way.
q. At what rate did you discount!
A. have no remembrance of any particular rate Q
interest.
q. Did you ever discount note in that way afte
the bank had declined discounting 1t?
A. To the best of my recollection never did.
q. You say you have received premium for dis
, counting. Where was the money obtained which 20
gave for them!
A. II was either my own or that Of my friends.
O. Did you never have funds of the Canal bank 70
the purpose Of discounting notes for which you ha
| obtained premium