The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-15

don or Yiase told Opponent that the said ship Rein.
oeer wss owned by George n. Hamilton q Co. and that
sogca 70 tne mail line Of that house and firm, and
that tho hrm Of George H. Hamilton rich and safc
nm and that Hamiton's line the best line depo-
nent could oby that there other line equal
that the house Of Hamilton q perfectly
ponsibte house and any ticket issued by that house
good a. gold and perfectly safe Deponcnt purchased
and paid two hundred said ticket and on the
dag told that the ticket utterly worthless;
and next morning deponent told that Hamilton had
away that the firm of Hamilton wns utterly false and
fictitious and worthless the said ticket good for
thing that there such ship the Reindeer at the
city OF Now York. that the said Hamilton the
fences made by the parties aforesaid induce deponcnt
opurchase the d ticket and he alleges
utterly false and untrue and dcponrnt has
out " the money thus paid for the said ticket,
George r. Cook, of No 162 West street. sworn says -
He knows Henry Weldon. Wren Dinglc. and Charles
eiaes that the said three persons are connected to-
gethcr In the sale Of passage tickets California; they
have been in the habit Of scug tickets for George n
Hamilton; that Monday the 18th inst the said Din
gle 70 this deponcnt aud told him that he had
lot Of Hamons tickets for sae-,ickcts of pa from
New York California on board the ship Reindeer and
he wanted deponent to get purchasers for the said tick
cts, deponent Is runner and passenger
mission, snd sold thi, said ticket the said Aldrch;
dcponent further says that after said Aldrich had
purchased the ticket he Immediately showed to depo-
nent which is the same one exhibited ia court de-
penen, got four dollars as commission the sale Of
the said ticket.
Thomas S. Wood. Of No SO Clinton street says-Tbat
on or about one month since deponent at the instance
and upon the OF John @ Miller was en-
pioyed by George H. Hamilton then just returned
Panama clerk and servant to sell tickets Of passage
board the ship Reindeer this city to California:
dePonent engaged with full aud perfect
ing between Miller and Hamilton that all the money
ceved by deponen for the sale Of said tickets to DO
paid by depoDept Immediately into the hands of
said Miller deponent III this service unit! the 18th
inst, and from day to day sold tickets in said ilsmtons
Office (of character precisely like the atachcd)
Tor about two hundred dollars each-somctmcs for
one hundred and fifty dollars each, and paid the
money money received for them into the hands Of said
Miller dcponent paid to said Miller for tickets he
sold in ismiton's Office about the of six thousand
dollars perhaps thousand, all Of which had
received for tickets dixie the produced In COURT
passage to San Francisco board the said ship Rein
deer; Hamilton always represented himself as the
oil the said ship Reindeer dcponcn upon the autho
rity of both Miller and Hamilton always represented the
said ship Reindeer iamiltons Ship dcponent always
understood, from what both Miller and Hamilton said
that the Reindeer belonged Hamilton and he repre-
sented when he sold any tickets; dcponent says that
Hamilton had agents for the sale Of his tickets in Boston
Cincinnati the Western part of this State elsewhere
dcponcnt says that Hamitons Office is closed and
Hamilton himself is absent deponent does know
deer and has other knowledge her than such no
has received from Miller and liamilton the ship said
10 he at PHILADELPHIA
Other aiidavits taken of vctimized countrymcn
who had paid their 5000 for such spurious tickets among
them John McGrath who forth that on the 18th
March last purchased ticket as above described
for passage on board the Reindeer from George t. Ham,
on, who on that occasion represented that the ship
Reindeer belonged to him and among other false repre-
sentations exhibited model of ship which he called the
Reindeer, whereby the complainant readily in
duccd to part with his money On the above ucs
arrest for the apprehension of George Hamilton John
q. Miller, Wren Dinge, Henry Weldon, and Charles
H. fcalce who all duly arrested and conveyed be-
fore the magistrate Mr.. Weldon when brought before
the Court explained to the magistrate that he
concerned in with the person called George H.
Hamilton nor was he engaged at all in the sale of Cali
fornia passage tickets The only circumstance which
led and caused him to be incidentally mixed with the
affair from the fact of his having loaned $50 to Din
gle, on the ticket which sold to Aidrich, Dngle
having come to his exchange Office paid the $780,
deemed the ticket and sold the to Adrch Those
furt Mr. tafu A ha Av hrfue
tho magistrate in consequence OF Of other bust
ness could not 90 into hearing Mr. w. gave bail in
the sum OF 5000 Mr.. Miller held to bail in the
sum Of $4,000. which he procured, and liberated
witnesses. Charles Cook, Thomas s. Wood and Alonzo
s. Woods seyeray held to bail in the Of 81 900
to give evidence in Court When called upon. Cook
unable to give bail and therefore detained in
tody. Hamilton has fed from the city and Dnge has
not yet been arrcsted The names of the other COM
painants who have been swndlcd Cyrus Barnes
Daniel Vincent, Jacob Adrance. Isaac Bin and Simon
Bin, and many others whose names have not yet
been taken.
Charge Of Robbep.-A young man, calling himselfChris-
O'Clock by officers Collins and Conley, a charge OF
knocking down man named Matthew Proctor, of Bush
kill Pike county Pennsylvania at present putting
at No lis Greenwich street Proctor it walk
ing in Greenwich street the night in question, when
he aecosed by the accused who asked him to step
Of the piers by and he would show him
thing curious he concluded to GO but walking along
and reaching the pier he became alarmed at the conduct
Of the accused and back into grocery store where
he Was followed hy ReHseller who Knocked him down.
making Off but the cries for help made by the
brought the police 10 the spot who took the accused into
custody and found the watch in his possession. Justice
Osborn committed the accused to prison for trial.