Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-01
EXPOSURE OF A SwINDLING
TRANSACTION.

1t is not often we trouble the public
with our own private business, but there
is a matter in point in which not only
ourselves are pecuniarily concerned, but
in which the storekeeper, the hard-work-
ing miner, and other people who labor for
a living are interested. The matter to
which we refer is briefly this: There Is
mining company here in Gold Hill known
at the Mary Ann. Their present ofhcerS'
through their Secretary, A. D. Brooks
some time ago contracted debt OF SsS al
our Office, which they failed to pay; anu
after waiting, after repeated promises 10
nav, we were compelled TO sue thein'
They confessed judgment, and L. DuIAe :.
,ho nrs,;5snt of the company, agreed II
r,ocaed;nes were stayed, to settle up the
;rdsmen. in "a day or two" Proceed
nos were accordingly stayed for eight or
nine DAYS, and as Burke's promises
amounted to no more after the judgment
than they did before it, We took steps to
enforce our claim. But, presto another
new Trick was sprung upon US. The de-
fendant appealed from has Osrs confession
of juGqme,,t Now, it is a well settled
ruling of the higher Courts that an appeal
cannot be taken, either from party's own
default, or confession of judgment; but
Justice Robinson, either through igno-
rance of the law, friendship for the appel
lants, or want of due consideration of the
matter at issue, granted the appeal to the
Civil Probate Court, Notwithstanding there
were certain other informalities in taking
the appeal. of which Justice Robinson
was aware. The papers were sent up,
and on motion Judge Ferris very properly
dismissed the appeal. \ certificate to that
effect was sent TO the Court below on last
Monday. Burke, president of the company,
again promised to pay the money in day
or two, if proceedings were stayed. -Four
days were given him to pay the pitful
little sum of one hundred dollars for the
MARY Ann company" As We consid-
cred We were triAed with, as we certainly
were, an order was given for the issuance
of an execution, which was accordingly
done, and placed in the hands of officer
Began. VIII the public believe it. when
we tell them, as we now do, that E. Burk,
thepresidsqt, A. D. Brooks, the Secretary,
and B. Henry, trustee and superintendent,
were mean and dishonest enough to pay
that judgment, with costs, in green6ack' :
Certainly they did! They wilfully and
deliberately cheated US out of fifty dollars
on a debt contracted on coin baSis-the
only manner in which business is trans
acted among HONEST men in Gold Hill.
For the small and insignificant sum of
fifty dollars these officers have bartered
away the honor and credit Of the Mary
Ann mining company in this community.
All, the officers of the Mary Ann pay
their obligations in greenbacks! We
wonder whether they will now pay of the
workmen who have been toiling in their
mine for months-and to whom they are
heavily indebted-in greenbacks: But,
these new-style Observation-Disclosures
.nis-managers of what has heretofore been
.o,s;dara5 ON bnnOrahle comDanY are
welcome to the fifty dollars blood money
out of which they have wronged US and
ours-deIberately flched from our honest
earnings. When the public shall hear the
last of iii; will be perhaps year hence