Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-24

The RECENT ALLEGED FoReERY-The wide
publicity that has been gwen to the report of the
| proceedings connected with the arrest OF Mr.
Henry W. Baldwin of Shrewsbury, upon a charge
of forgery preferred against him by MI William
M, Bicktord of this city, has caused the whole
subject of Mr.. Baldwin's business connections
with Col. Scouler. late of the Boston Atlas, and
more recently of the Cincinnati Gazette, to be
matter for general comment, for the past few
days, in all business circles where the parties are
known Na
Both gentleman have many friends, and warm
ones, too, not only in Massachusetts, but in the
West, and while those of one party can readily
believe that their friend is a much abused, wrong.
ed, and even swindled individual those of the
other party are equally confident that the char.
ges preferred against him cannot be made good
that Baldwin, and not Schouler, is the injured
party, and that Judicial in vestigation will fully
establish the innocence of Baldwin of the crime
of forgery. and show that, so far as he was con-
cerncd, he had acted the part of friend to
Schouler, and, by the receipt of the check Of
$4,000, had only come into possession of what
was honestly his, as payment for moneys actually
loaned to Schouler when the latter was in great
pecuniary need, and for Schouler's. proportion of
expenses incurred in behalf of the firm
We shall not pretend to decide upon the mer.
its of the case or express any opinions as to the
matter in issue. As we have before said in the
investigation before the Police Court, Mr. Bald
win made no defence, and the evidence il the case,
synopsis of which we gave at the time, being
purely &c pafte, it should be received with all the
allowance to which such statements are always
entitled. There are, however, certain alleged
facts in relation to the affair, which some of the
friends of Mr.. Baldwin think should be set right,
now, and as we have given previously some.
what lengthy report, based upon the statements,
furnished us of the examination before the Police
Court, of circumstances which seemed to bear
hardly upon the accused we very cheerfully state.
that facts have come to our knowledge, in the
shape Of documentary evidence and the state.
ments Of reliable persons, which go to show
that Mr.. Schouler was not induced by Mr..
Baldwin to sell out his interest in the Cincin-
natl Gazette, for the purpose of uniting in
the commission business with him, but that MIR
Schouler was compelled, by the imperative press.
OF other circumstances, to relinquish his hold
upon the Ga=ette, and that he solicited aid of Mr.
Baldwin, in disposing of his interest to the best
advantage.
The friends of Mr.. Baldwin are also equally
confident that the proposition to form a copart-
nership for the transaction of a commission bus.
mess did not come from Baldwin to Schouler. but
from Schouler to Baldwin, to whom. they saw, the
yuoe I'D Ito1 g.
times. In regard to the check Of two thousand
two hundred dollars, which it is alleged that Col
Schouler gave to Mr. Baldwin, and for which the
latter had not accounted, Mr.. Baldwin's friends
are equally confident that he baldwin, had new
er received from the Colonel any moneys, checks,
os drafts oil any form or nature, as was stated in
our report of the case, in the Spy of the 18th,
but that, on the contrary, Col. Schouler, since
October, 1855, has been and is now indebted to
Mr.. Baldwin for moneys loaned and liabilities in.
cuned on account of the discharge Of Schouler's
Indebtedness to other parties
AS to the allegation of forgery to which Mr.,
Baldwin was held to answer, and which is to be
submitted to judicial investigation, we have
nothing to say, for that should be left where it 49,
and where it will undoubtedly be decided Justly
by twelve honest men, upon the law and the evil
dence; but as the other matters alluded to above
will form no part of the case in such judicial in.
vestigatlon, we have thought proper, as an act of
justice to MI Baldwin, to recur to them as we
have done, well knowing that some of our read
ers may have been biased, improperly perhaps,
IN their opinions, by an account given upon testi.
mony submitted only upon one side of the case,
and we cannot but express the hope that such
journals as have copied from our columns the first
report of the investigation before the Police
Court, will do Mr. Baldwin the justice to copy so
much of the foregoing as will illustrate the ad.
age that "there are two sides to every story"
and also to show that many of those who know
Mr.. Baldwin best, believe him to be man s'more
sinned against than SHINING" eaaa