Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-05-18
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To TIE PUBLIC 81 am again compelled to
defend myself against those that would do
me injustice, and again attacked by L. J.
Rider. What have said in relation to nv
invention is TRUE. Mr.. kider labors hard
to show that have made false statements,
which be cannot do. His frst article carries
falsehood on the face of it, and his second is
but little better, "wherein Joslin denies ever
having sold any interest to Weaver" This
Il most PRlpable falsehood. / never denied
selling Mr.. Weaver an interest. What I
denied, was selling John Weaver one-half
interest. and 1 still deny it, And 1 say
invention from me. have told many Of
my friends of the arrangement between
Joseph s. Weaver, charles 8. Dickinson and
myself, and that this was totally violated by
Mr.. Dickinson; which is the truth,
As have stated before, "Mr. Dickinson
made me great promises of furnishing
man t0itA money to carry out tis experiment
aud iltrodEes II, l01ieb he failed to do" These
promises were kept up for more than 4 year,
In November or December in 1883 Mr.. Dick
insOn brought Mr.. Weaver in my shop, and
we then talked the matter over. They were
to furnish money to try it on larger scale
than the model had in my shop at the
time. entered into an arrangement with
Messrs. Weaver and Dickinson, and we
built machine in my shop. Upon the ex-
psrimena of this machine Ar. Weaver
backed out, and let Mr.. Dickinson have his
interest. Instead of these parties going 10
the expense Of this experiment, as was
agreed upon in my shop, paid One-half the
expense myself, which neither Weaver nor
Dickinson can deny.
I After this, Mr.. Dickinson and myself
built another machine in my shop, This
machine was taken into DickinsOn's gym
pSSium in the spring of 1859. Here Mr..
Dick toson commenced claiming it as his IN
yeutiOn. Mr.. Gray was called in BY Mr.. D.
to give it 8 puff il hisPaper. Mr.. Gray did
50. without using my name ssthe inventor.
This was unjust to me, as I bad been to work
at it for seven OF eight years before ever I
saw Mr.. Dickinson; and here commenced
the piratieal course Of Mr.. Dickinson, IN re-
lation to me. -.s 3t5
Now will explain the facts in relation to
thi, assignment, IS advertised over the name
os ;S;,hu 9. Grannis, which in no way effects
tbs no.if,. ,.'an I have taken to defend myself
= - -; ~, against the man Dickinson.
Io.- :. 1f- M iason had got Mr. Weaver's
" Alter Mr'Diek.f--.., ,,.I,,i,-., The rstant ns-
interest, he proposed "Asin 'uo Pa''u' %
pers come out without "SSseI ~ n:ts.. na..s-
To this had no objections. ~ ''----,-- -.
employed Mr.. Rider to copy 0e paps.s ps8s.s
without Weaver's name. Mr.. Ride. -
the papers, and so altered them as TO c. "
any machine might invent to build th,
gun with. These papers refused 70 exc
cute. Before this ordered my agent In
Washington to retain my patent for ak
months, in order to obtain patents in Europe.
This the agent failed todO. have his lets
ter stating the reasons for it.) While thess
papers were being made out BY Mr.. Rider,
the patent came out in my name only, as it
would have done according to law, because
my assignment was not an entire assign
ment. The patent law allows patent to
come out to the inventor only, unless there
is an entire assignment, which was not the
case with my assignment to Weaver and
Dickinson. But this did not understand
at thetime, and presume MessrI. WeaFsr
and Dickinson did not.
% Upon this Mr.. Dickinson commenced de-
fEming mo in an unjust manner, and de.
elared I never should make snything out of
my invention, He has been for nearly two
years carrying on an unjust course sgainst
me, and the only knovledss have had of
it is Whist have derived from the newspa-
pers and what some Of my friends have told
me. Being without money to defend my
self the only reply ! made was, that justice
always Overtakes such men, which is now
the case with Mr.. Dickinson. The course
Mr.. Dickinson has taken deprives him of ell
legal or moral claim he ever had upon my
patent. To this have the best Of legal adj
Tioa:
Mr.. Rider Dsys-" and presume the faet
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