The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-22

4, s.ATUR DA MORNI,
The Commemorative Attorney here exs
hibited to the witness the following paper:
500 0OLloO. 55.. d,
Thirty days after date promise to pay
TO Albert w. Bailey or order, without eft-
set, one hundred dollars, negotiable and
payable at the First National Bank OF Viz
ginia. &. ST. s.
balance of signature torn off. Y
Endorsed !" A. w. BAILEY.
&c. 81. PAeE,
tsBy 7. JErT DAVIS
Endorsement by bank officers:
"6513, R.S. SAHxAY, 1G04 June"
Witness said :: IthInk this is one of the
notes be gave me. Before he agreed to pay
my commissions he asked me again II vas
determined TO 60 on with the escheat.
told him "yes, but will shield you all I
can.' / was always disposed to befriend
the accused; he has no better friend than
me, and have told him so good many
times. In reply he said: "Well, If you
push matters wen have to prosecute the
suit" I told him that then / would.
prove the note q forgery. Chahoon said ::
"What reason have you for saying it
Is a forgery?" told him that I had
STEMS to compare 1t with, and besides.
Bowden had pronounced it q forgery, and
Sanxay had first pronounced it aswfndle,
and then, when suit was brought. failed to-
make plea in defence. told him that
all together it looked very like forgery,
and that any jury would pronounce it a
forgery. He then said: "Well, suppose
we must pay you your commissions" He
said "we," not III" Since this matter
has been before the courts I have asked
Chahoon frequently to 60 before the grand
jury and tell where he got the note and all
about it. thought he got it from johnson.
Bowden said it was put in his hands by
johnson Sands ?'' Yes," he replied, "bIIt
Bowden says he viii deny that now" ] re-
joined that could prove that BoWden said
so. He studied. but made no reply.
Cross-examined by Judge Crump: i
think Bowden told me that johnson Sands
placed the note in his hands for collection
before Chahoon came to Richmond. or be.
fore he (C) knew anything about it. My
| first knowledge of this matter was acquired
as escheator. Mr. Chahoon asked me TO
continue the case from time to time until it
| wore out of the minds Of the people, and
then let it go by default. He afterwards
asked me to pocket the verdict, and I, told
him would, but did not. He said If I
would let it go by, he would get Judge
Bramhall to pronounce judgment against
me, and the judgment was entered while i
was not in court. Chahoon was appointed
Mayor before the sale occurred, if remen-
/ ber rightly. remember that one day while
I was talking with him Judge II. G. Bond
came up and congratulated him on being
Mayor. I did not have chance to do
much towards getting him that appoint.
ment. | got up 8 petition to General
Schofeld, but never presented it.
" hen told him that T knew of no way to
drop the Haunstein matter, he suggested
once that no witnesses be summoned. ]
told him that wouldn't do at all. He then
said the case might be adjourned from time
to time. He pushed me about dropping
the matter after he was appointed Mayor,
as well as befOre-eyen within the last year.
once offered to return the money. He
said he thought he had paid enough to have
the matter abandoned. When I urged him
to make clean breast of 1t before the grand
jury ] said: "Chahoon, d-n it, you must
thave known that thing was a forgery" He
replied, "At first was as innocent as you
are, but after l got into It ! couldn't
stop" was appointed eseheator at
i
Captain Cook, United States officers.
Chahoon told me he drew the declaration
and brought the suit, and that was oil.
told him he must have got 81 900, for he
had given his receipt for that amount. He
replied that he signed that receipt in
blank, and not dollar had passed through
his hands except the fee of 5000 or $3.50.
When he first spoke to me to keep the mat
ter quiet the only reason he assigned was
that 1t might embarrass his claims to the
mayoralty. did not ask him how far he
lparticlpated in the affair.". When l asked
him to tell me aiI about it, wanted him to
tell where he got the note from, who
Thompson was, where Gleason was, and
what he did with the money. don't re-
member telling Col. Parker that my evi-
dence would not hurt Mr.. Chahoon. I
| did urge several prominent Republicans
not to make the nominations known until
| the day before the election or this affair
would be brought to light. Chahoon once
asked me to go to Gen. Wells's office and
tell him the jist Of my evidence. | did go
and tell him the substance of it. He said
that he had heard that he had been convict
ed on my evidence, and Gen. Wells wished
j to know what that evidence was. He said,
too, that member OF the grand jury had
told him every night what the evidence be-
fore that body was. he told me this last in
DR.. Mills's Office. never received the
greater part of it. What received was in
notes, checks, and money. The checks
were on the First National Bank, and pay.
able to bearer or his own order. think ]
had one note for 800, one for $40, and one
for $50. He gave me the S10G.note on one
Sunday evening after he was appointed
Mayor.
r. :. TEMPLE ELLETT EXAMINED. & -
Temple Elicit examined am clerk o
the Circuit Court of Henrico. The papers
exhibited are the record in the Haunsteir
case. The following receipt is in the band.
writing of johnson Sands, except the sigma.
ture, which is that,of George Chahoon:
| cHAHooN's RECEIPT.
No date.)
"Receiyed of r. D. sanxay, special com
missioner, the sum of forty-nine hundred
] and ninety.six 94-100 dollars In part salts
faction and discharge Of the judgment OBJ
tanned in Henrico County Court, at Marct
term, 1867, in favor of VIM. Gleason, as
signee of JDo. W. Thompson, against Rich
ard d. Sanxay, curator of the estate o
Samuel Haunstein, deceased.
lSignedl GEO. CHAHooN,
attorney for VIM. Gleason,
! assignee of Jno. w. Thompson"
The bill for the sale of the properly Ii
satisfy the judgment is In the handwritin!
tof Mr. Chahoon, except some interlinea
tions, which are in the writing of MIR
Sands. 1t is signed " william Gleason, b.
George Chahoon, his counsel" The deere,
is in the handwriting OF Mr.. Sands.
never saw Chahoon in court about th
case. A decree was issued for the sale Q
tHaunstein' real property, and R. ID. Sanxa,
appointed the commissioner to sell. Th
special commissioner was required to Civ