New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-17
ALLEGED SHINDLE IN MEMORANDA
STOCK.

Emee Goulard resident Of No. Il President street
Brooklyn recently appeared before Justice Connolly and
preferred charge Of swindling against Henry Wells
President OF the New-Granada Canal and Steam Nayi
CATION Company Of Eew-Yort; Perez j. Avery, Vice.
President; james A. Regina, Treasurer; Moses Star.
buck, Secretary; Henry s. Wells, Joseph o. Frost
and VIM. E. Rollo, Directors, who "obtained from
him through their agett, treasurer and accomplice,
James A. Regina, the delivery of deed Of property
belonging to the separate estate of his wife, Char.
" lotte Goulard which had been previously bought
" by Regina for 81 800, to be paid in cash. and of
which, according to the order of Regua, the deed
" had been drawn and executed in favor of person
named Martin John Kane, on the 25th Of February,
and ntrusted for safe keeping TO the witness till pay
" ment." That On the day last named, Regina called
for said deed and after receiving it, instead of making
payment In cash, he gave to witness several bonds of
mortgage Of the above-named Company, repre-
seDtng them to be Of value far above the
amount to be paid, and promising to redeem
them in few days by paying IS, 900 cash. He
stated further that he was man of property; owned
more than 500 600 worth of unncumbered real estate
had large interest in the above Company to which
he had advanced more than 800 900 in CASH that the
Company was Stock Company, chartered by the
State Of NewYork, that all its capital had been paid
in and that was rich and prosperous; that the Com.
pany owned the Canal for sixty years and millions Of
acres alongside Of it, beside several warehouses &C..
on and IL also three steamships for which Regna
said he had paid in cash. for the Company, $50 O0O
and big dredging machine for which $25 900 more
had been paid; that the tolls the Company sved
mounted to $40, 600 per month, &c. Regina further
requested him to call at the Office of the Company No.
Wall street, and inquire of his associates "if these
things were so;" that the witness did call at said
Office and there assured by every one them and
especially by Perez J. Avery, WIN. LAvery Henry
s. Wells and Joseph o. Frost, "that these things
" were 80" and that Regina had told the truth.
Witness further states that he subsequently de-
manded Of Regina return Of the deed or the 1000
which was to have been paid for it, but was refused
either and that he has since asceraned that each and
ell fthe above representations false and known
TO be false by all and every member of the Assoca-
ton; that the said Company illegal organiza-
ton; that the stock fraudulent spurious and Of
value, and the bonds were of the same stamp, and
were secured on property which the Company never
owned; that he was wilfuly and malciously defraud-
ed by the said parties and induced by their false repre-
sensations to deliver to the said Regina the Decd and,
further, that the Company bankrupt Company had
been organized by fraud and most of the partners in
dividualy were bankrupts that since that time it was
discovered that they were then involved in a large
amount of frauds perpetrsed in the International In
iurancs Company Office the Globe Mutual Insurance
CompaDy's Office, of which they were, some of them,
Presidents Vice-Presdents, Trustees and employees,
and some ofthem have been arrested for their alleged
rnisdeeds The witress therefore asked that they
might be arrested and made to for the offense
with which he now charges them. Justice Connolly
issued warrant for the arrest of the parties accused
seven in NUMBER and they were taken into custody
by officer Sweeny of the Lower Police Court, and
qured to appear the morning of the 23d instant for
examination.