The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-24

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recently an ernigrant to ths United Sstes of Ame-
riea, was called into the witness box and sworn
He said in August, ls49 having been attracted by
publications issued by the prisoner which stated he
had land to sell in America suit fbr persons de-
sirous Of emgrating, he 1.-THE witness) waited upon
the prisoner at his own Office, Saunders there told
hiIa the land he had to sell in poddridge coun-
-ty, State OF Virginia, and drew a very tempting
picture.of it's Inducements and Capabilities He
Called it ne rolling land said4t was very fertile,
That crops Of wheat were gySGns On it, when he
through it; that the5e were cpnsries, factories.
and laundry in operation upon it; that being part
ly settled, twas extrsmsly eligible for IN emigrant.
plenty of neighbors Aocking about, him ready to
give assistancein constructing sloghouse, and to do
other things material in giving afairstart to person
~ such circurn stances; witness having saved some
money, and being DESTROYS to was induced
~ these Representations to hpy plot Of .3S acres
Of land from the prisoner called lot No. 81 and to
pay 70 los ~ to him for it deposit of ten per
He sailedfor New York, and arrived there in Octs-
Der, 1879, having a. letter MIR. O'Connor, the
prisoner agent From 0'Connor he. and another
lived eight miles from the, land, and who was to
giys them possession. They proceeded then to
,poddridge county, Virginia, and SAN, Mr. Under
wood, who at once told them he feared they had
I been duped, like many others coming from Eng
land, by this Saunders; He took them however,
to see the land, and witness was satisfied that he
been swindled; On going to VISIT the land they
accessible; They had to pull themselves up it by
the branches, Of, trees. The cultivation of such
land was out of the question. Ihere was river,
no coliery, no foundry, or factory, within many
miles Finding himself duped and utterly disap-
pointed with his money falling him, he sought
work, and after being there upwards of twelve
months had worked his way back to Manchester
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who said, HWhat, are YOU come ..backt' Witness.
said, g Back from where7'' and prisoner reped.
" From the sfar vest y Witness told him he was.
and began to tell him how ha had been duped In
lying the prisoners counter, which had frst al
lured him to think Of becoming a purchaser, and
asked him how he could issue such lies. Prisoner
coolly replied that lies did better for some people
nova him from the office. VI .a.r.4l
Mr. Harding, solicitor, xsmined the wit.
ness on behalf Of the prisoner, to- show that if he
did not like the and allotted he could have the
choice Of other land if hs had looked after it within
certain number Of days. The witness, however
said Al the land was Of the, SANG character. and
!, MI Harding contended that this was not such q
Misrepresentation as was. contemplated by the
statute for false pretences If . man sold a horse
that was to go twelve miles an hour, and it only
went eight, he'woufd have told riie, but not such
lie as would constitute a false prptence So if q
man represented land to. be very good which was
inferior, it was only question: Of degree besides
tho prisoner was the agent OF other parties, and
:. Mr.. Msude did not think that this only
question of degree, wasit shown inevdenee that
the prisoner was the agent Of others; he opened
Office in Manchester, and sold land for the qualities
of which he vouched and it turned out that all his
representations us to its duality and as to other in
ducements, were utter Misrepresentation alto
gether ., fs f -. i; ,s,.t
: saunders here entered i into long rambling
statement, in which he said pesplehere liked some
thing level, but for his part he'lsksd billy land,
snd had bought $50 acres of 10 believing it to be
tire settlers; he had sold land to hunHreds of per-
sons Who bad never come back ana G,mplained.
); Mr.. Beswick, lpoce superintendeni, But we
have hundreds Of letters At the office from them
complaining that they have been ,Aupedin this way.
Mr. MaAde-W neither this mode ofselling land,
which Is represented as slime rolling land" and
growing rich crops Of corn, but which is in reality
sterile and worthless, is a. mere legitimate extern
sion Of the art Of putting or wflfuf fraud, will
not undertake. to determine; whatever harmless ,ness
these people may see about it, the Bench cannot
but see That great hardship is limited on these
poor people, who are induced to spend the hard
earnings OF a iite upon representations such as
were madc to this man by the prisoner, and that il
the lay will reach them SUCH fap asaught to be put
chase land-to leave HE homo, ana g5 10 America:
he was tod that it wss " fine rolling hind" grow
ing rich -cropsrand having rivsf,sasd collieries
aRa factories g epststian spsn III when no gos
work his way back again; it may ba mere pu HI ny.
but Y seems 70 us TO be casc'o niso representa-
ttsn, and very hard case isdcei;"at all events we
think IL Is a. which cuzht to .gowhere Il will
reserve full investigation ifain the highest autho
rites Lbs prisoner will stand eorpmitted to tho
next Liverpool Assizes, but We shall admi: him to
'bnii, IN Rnding two sur6tics, each III ESQ.
The prisoner here scented much taken By sur.
prAsc andiR some sexcitcmenn baeantto reiterats
has ioI mer defence, sAegisg that Tooth could have
ns4 tne ehoiee o. another plot of ground if he had
Mr.. Muude-Bdt two no,hings 90 not make :
something's and y aprearstha. the land Is Of the
'Tbere-wer no sure,es in court. and the prisoner
wssremoyedin eustS dy, = e &c! go.
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