The Trinity journal., 1856-03-08
The Missing Books of Adams q Co.
Their Recovery---$loo00 offered
Marshall North for them.

IUeN were sthCu uP AZ " SNj ~ .
completely saturated with water the writing
is still legible
The Ecening Bulletin Of the 2Sth ult in
speaking of the recovery Of the Books, says
Marshal North proceeded to North Point,
anG from the hillside had pointed out to him
the house where the books were concealed.
He went to the door with Officer Stevenson,
and after reconnoitering the premises, broke
open the door, and both entered, pistols In
hand and cooked. Not living soul was to
be found. A search was made, and betlceen
/ the mattresses of tie bed cere foumd TWO BOOKS
rery uet and lciM the c0rerS torn off!
/ SAM said North to Stevenson, you sit
here on Mas mattress, with your pistol cooked
and don't STIR ercept TO defend tie books, until
come back 2 Down went Sam, very glad
TO have a little rest on so soft seat, after
his tramp over the hills, and there he was
sitting in the same position when North re-
turned.
Ten THOUSAND DOLLARS we hear it said,
can be had by Marshall North for the Books,
but North has them safe in his house with
Sam sitting on Mem and his six-shooter
abom. Sam won't stir till North comes to
bring the books to the Court room.
We have examined the Books and find
them them to be the General Cash BO0k and
/ General Ledger, which We stated some three
or four months ago in the Bullet,n were mis-
sing They are thoroughly saturated and
the covers off THE acru1ng IS hgtJis and
there are the Ment,cdl VANS dust and l. G..
W00ds dust accounts On, YOU HOUNDS !
The day of retribution is approaching
From the same paper Of the 29th ult. we
take the following, under the caption Of
Those Books Again ?
| Last night we were at Mr. Naglee's Office
until nearly eleven o'clock, oyerhauIing the
General Ledger and General Cash Books of
Adams & Co. Both are in good state of
preservation. The Ledger is not even wet
in some places in the centre of the book so
that, allowing for the thickness Of the coy
erS, and the manner in which they were pack
ed in the sack, the books could not have
been in the water a very long time. The
Cash Book though thoroughly saturated, is
perfectly legible, and we doubt if these books
can have been in the water over a week at
the furthcst, and possibly not over 48 hours
THE HOUNDS have mutilated the Books,
and the very pages that would bring Mr.. Co
hens deyiltry to light have been taken out
but however smart Mr.. Cohen mag have
thought himself, he has not entirely destroy
ed the evidences against him From the
General Cash Book have been torn out all
fhe p0ges contaaniag the entries of the 22d of
Ee6fHary! The leaf on which the deblt side
OF the cash commencing with the 22d Feb |
ruary was written, would, on turning back
represent the credH side of the Gay before
and thus in destroying the whole of the 22d
February there has also been DESTROYED that
part Of the work of the work of the 2lst
which was on the opposite SIDE of the leaf.
In speaking of the Post Street Lot he
says:
In the index to the General Ledger we
last night found written, Our 5O-yara lot
583, page 1885, but on turning to the Led
ger page 186 IS missing Now, who tore
out that page 1876 if this scoundrel Cohen
did not? What object could any body, but
Cohen, have in destroying that page, which
proved his lying when he affirmed that this
lot 5S3, corner of Post and Stockton sts
belonged to him ? Cohen knew he lied! He
knew we Swore to the truth when we related
in court the conversations between him and
ourseIt, wherein he, Cohen, had said he in
tended charging no c0mmisa0nS 10 Adams a.
Co. far making The trade for them
That nice young man, Mr. Henry Van
Ealkenburg, the Gold Dust clerk, has not
had quite stirring up enough yet to meet our
wishes. This Mr.. Van says he can do
great deal of business in the gold dust trade
on thousand dollars We don't doubt it
= After the failure, Van had
fine house and lot at North Beach, and
dourisheS about with carriage and pair of
horses, and cutting up splurge generally,
none of which, it appears, he induged in
before the failure. Van s,cearS hard. Germ q
butwe think he has hardly got through with
all he knows Another thing
which strikes us as remarkable is, that tho
Van was called up at o'clock in the morn
ing for the express purpose of taking an ac
count of the Gold Dust entrusted to b;S