The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-09-30

papers on the table, here are some stocko 81,
are good. The certificates of stock were oil =
themselves in paper.
Now, said he, if you will let me have ,bo..
stocks, can get the money for them. said J
would make memoranda of those stocks which
he said was good, and he must give me reee;r,
for them-he said he would call again. and
should have the memoranda and recent raod,
He then rolled up the papers in the same news
paper and tied the string around it. exceD, -.
certificates, which were left out He then ,vo,,
away, and on the 24th April, which was .ho.,.
two weeks afterward, he called again in the os.
ternoon; said he, Mr.. Burkhardt. I was :,
great hurry before, will you let me see that hun
die again | said yes. / didn't hesitate . mir,
ute to show them to him l took the norer.
down and opened them. He examined them Co.
about FIVE minutes l was in the room,
but L was not paying any particlar attep-
ton to him. During this and the first in
terview, Mr.. Hoffman had it in his power If bo
had been so disposed, to have abstracted or,
papers from the bundle, for my attention was
occasionally diverted, and had no suspicion Of
any evil design. He tied the bundle up again.
and then said, I'm done now-if you have the
certificates, | am ready to give the receipts.
then showed him the memoranda had made
which he compared with the certificates, and
then wrote receipt at the foot of the memoran
da and signed it. The list of stocks is in
my hand writing, and. the receipt and
signatures are his-a copy of the paper is
hereto appended, marked b. In all the CONVEX
sations, not a word was said of the small mort
gage and bond. / saw them when opened the
bundle for Mr.. Hoffman, the first time, and |
have never seen them since. From the oath
April, lS4S, have never seen Mr. Hoffman,
never heard from him-he has never accounted
to me for the stocks nor returned the certificates
when he took the certificates of stock he said
he would write TO me in about fortnight, or as
soon as he could do any thing with them. The
bundle of papers remained in my possession
locked mp in "A chest, from April 24th, lS48, un-
I'll some time in January, 1851, when l was cal
led upon by Mr.. Elihu Pedricl He asked me.
if had any papers of Jacob X. Boyer's, in my
possession and would permit him to see them
said yes-I took out the bundle of papers from
the chest just as Mr.. Hoffman had left them
They did not appear to have been opened in the
mean time, and nobody could have opened them
without my knowledge. Mr.. Pedrick asked me
if among them were mortgage and some bonds
given by Smull to Boyer giving as his reason
for enquiring, that suit had been brought on
that mortgage, which he thought was in my
possession. l told him had authorized no suit,
md opened the bundle; the first paper l saw,
was the paper A, before referred to, which 1
showed to Mr.. Pedrick, and of which the first
four items are the mortgage and the bonds Of
Smull-when | opened the bundle 1 had every
reason to believe, and did believe, that they
were thereon examining the papers, we could
not find the mortgage and bonds, nor any trace
Of them, and this was the first idea had that
these or any other papers, except the stock Ger
tifcates had been taken away. If Mr.. Hoffman
took the bonds and mortgage from the bundle,
on either of the occasions referred TO, he did it
secretly and without my knowledge, and can
not but say, in doing so, he committed a fraul
upon me, for l never gave my consent, and
would not have permitted it. The mortgages
and bonds are now out of my possession. No
body had access to them but Mr. Hoffman, AMI
cannot but judge and believe that Hoffman
took them. HENRY EURKHARDT.
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, April
4th, 1852. JOEL Cook, Alderman
We shall not make any remark on the above
more than TO add the following ex-
tract from HoFFMAN's own deposition, taken at
Reading, the 26th day of December, 1851, in
reference to the bonds and mortgage spoken Of
by Burkhardt in his deposition, and leave our
readers to draw their own conclusions.
Extract from the deposition of Jacob Hoffman,
taken on part of defendant, in pursuance of
Rule of Court and Notice, before Thomas D.
Smith, Commissioner, on the Goth day of De-
cember, 1851, at o'clock, z. NJ Plaintiff
and his counsel, J. A. Markland, Esq. atten-
ding, and c. Guillou, Esq, for defendant
Question.-Who is your client in this particu-
lar proceeding
Answer.-Mrs. kampmann. The mortgage
itself is in my hands, as counsel for Mrs Kamp-
mann and other bond holders recited in the
Q.-Is this paper now shown to you marked
]. II. December 26, 1851 copy of that mort
gage?
Al decline going into any explanation of
the mortgage in my hands. | did not copy Tiny
SELF and have not the original here.
The mortgage have possession of is, think,
dated the 18th March, 1929.
Q.-When was that mortgage put in your
hands
Al decline answering, for the reasons be-
fore stated.
O.-Is your only reason for declining to an
sw er my last question because the subject of it
was privileged communication
Any reasons for declining are given al
ready.