Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-16

na,nage our business alone. Mir Houghton, our for. nnr a agent m New York, is something like $500 in oui ueot; He never received any salary.
 e /. T. /. St'rg's reside in New York and have t sexela1 years l knew of the charter of the na.nneu Dank before it went into operafion ne. d TOT w une sale of the charter Tn October '66 thing of anv ban r1e. a. Falls Village he knew any o1 o1 the charter of the Litchfeld Bank Iwrcts tc New York, sending a copy of the cbarter ,~h,cS they refused to purchase In tune or July 1887 ahs
 lister r1, and peet so M so Ep1sy b myself Mr. HOi slOoo Tor my commission. Ithink that E |. Eosh ton was concerned with Rumsey Iswear that uo.ssL ton came to Litchfied with bonds of the MilvsuE,. ter DeHe nns M haiiroad ITO which he offered in Mir Hollis ter once TOT the SIP 900. He also showed Mr H a Iaesimiie aa of the Litchfeld Bank bills. --'
 The terms of my engagement were that should 'sis' III securing subscriptions, which did act ea sao as attorney for several persons myself took ioo snares was elected director of the bank and was connected with it until Mr. Cross,nan ,ys i. ed Presldent. At that time bills were sionad hv ~. Tn MT Crossman's name, having A poyver of :.t-~ o ney so to do l had no connection with the bank after that time Rumsey and Houghton were shs ,a nagers of the the bank. signed abort SiE0o ': ;s. september have seen bills of the LitcbieId RanL marked with the figure 5. Mr. C. E, Palmer i~ k, Eldridge street jail New York; c. T. Wie0an of New lofk, IS roofer of no responsibility. CTbc counsel remarked that these men and c,hsv. L should ask about, were the endorscrs of the Recn, paper The witness stated in regard to most of tle persons inquired about that they were not off nc, M lary reponsibiity.l Warren Beeman is not a re,l. soie s man MT. Henry Gottleb, whois in the l.sl of making notes for banks wanted to borrow j cents of me to buy blanks to make Sc. GOO of not for the Litchheld Bank on an order of Warren Be, man. He had number of notes that he had previ- ously made and that had been returned. Iwitness described these notes It was the latter part of uIv or beginning of August that met Gottlieb
 Cross Eraminotton.--L have been engaged in th;s business for ten or twelve years Sometimes bov. % haa partner and sometimes not latterly not I
 au an once Tn Wall street in 1854 have sold one or two marble quarries in this State This is tbe nrst and last bank charter that ever sold I haJ .is bank charter in my keeping for nine months be- fore found purchaser. was to receive s1O06 for tue sale. had to pay S250 of this sum to another party, and Mr. Hollister agreed to make it m to me 1 only received S450 of my 5000 in small snms [ threatened MT Rumsey at one time-when got inc last instalment of SEQ of him-to expose him if be did not pay me. l came here without any promise or expectation of pay had one interview with Mir. Moves at the U s. Hotel, New York. on Monday evening last. saw him again on Tuesday. nav my own expenses, and expect no reward
 E L. Houghton.-Do not know of any bills of tbe lltchheld Bank being printed early as the 8th of September 1857
 Beyam'n Noyes.-The first information had of the Ltchheld Bank was of the early emission of bills before the instament of 50 per cent was due I think sent to Hitchfield and got s1 bill. Jmme- datey after that the bills began to show themselves all over the State. Mir Dunham went up to Litch- field to see aboutit After his return, MT. Dunlam was unwel, and my first information about the Iapk came from Mr. Hollister. He said that some SI7OO had been issued, that most of the stock subscription was by note, and that they would issue no more bills till they could be put on good foundaton.- Mir Holliser also stated that change in the organ- izatOn of the bank could be had; that Dr Beckwith or Mr. Beers could be induced to take the presidcn- cy, and the character of the stockholders could be changed in the course of two three weeks and ar- engagements made to put the bank on lawful foun- dation. 1 told him that if that could be done I thtught the Commissioners would be satisfied.
 vi ited the bank on the 10th of April and found the state of things worse than had anticipated The result of my investigations that found on- ly little SS00O to have been actually paid in by the stockholders and their circulation to Je about $50 000 They had not conducted their business in a legal manner. l went to New York to enquire in- the character of the drawers and endorsers of their paper. I found, immediately, that Warren Beeman was an irresponsible person. and that many of the drawers and endorsers were fictitious nam mes
 The following was the condition of the bank last stated to me bv Mir Hnu1hton