The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-10
THE CASE OF MIR. FIELD.

From the ". Y. Tribune.
Mr.. David Dudley Field complained, in
one of his letters to Mr.. Samuel Bowles, that
those who charged him with professional mis-
conduct adduced no tangible facts in support
of the accusation. We have already done
something to remedy this supposed omission,
and we have now permitted a well-known and
respected member of the New York bar, q
gentleman who has had no connection with
any of the Erie suits, and who in different
kind of warfare has earned the highest title
to the public regard, to repeat in our columns
with all necessary minuteness the indictment
to which the counsel of the Erie managers is
expected to plead. The record is long one,
for General Barlow has supported it with a
careful array of facts taken from the sworn
evidence in the Fisk suits; and lest some of
our readers may have been deferred by its
length from giving it the proper attention, we
shall briefly recapitulate the leading points.
l. The proceedings by which Mr. Fisk at
tempted, in 1869, to get possession of the
Albany and Susquehanna Railroad have been
denounced by Judge E. Darwin Smith, from
the bench of the Supreme Court, as ''fraHdu-
lent" The counsel in these proceedings was
Mr.. ID. ID. Field. One of the worst of the
proceedings was an illegal eC pGrte order from
Judge Barnard, seizing 5000 shares of stock,
on pretense that they had been illegally
issued, and placing them in the hands of an
ex-clerk of Mr.. Field as receiver-this receiver,
at the request of Mr.. Fields partner, imme-
diately voting with them against the interests
of the owners, although the only pretense for
appointing receiver was that the stock was
not stock at all
2. MIR. Field was party to that hideous
bdrlesque of justice by which Judge Barnard
was brought down from Poughkeepsie to open
Chambers eD temp0Te at 80 o'clock at night
in the house of Josephine Mansfield Lawlor,
in order to remove Ramsey from the Pres-
dency of the Albany and Susquehanna Rail-
road and appoint James Fisk, Jr., receiver.
3. Mr.. Field was privy to the extraordinary
abuse of law by which the control of the
Albany and Susquehanna suits was taken from
the courts to which it belonged and kept in
the hands of Judge Barnard.
4. Mr.. Field was responsible for the scan-
dalous misuse of an injunction upon the
Ramsey inspectors in such a manner as to
defeat an election of directors at Albany. He
| was also responsible for the arrest of RAM
sey and his counsel for similar unlawful
purpose
5. MIR. Field was implicated in the outrage
! of filling the directors room at the time of
the election with mob of 'roughs' in the
pay of James Fisk, Jr., so as to render fair
vote impossible; and for his services on that
occasion he received a fee of $4,000.
6. In the case of Ramsey against Erie, Mr..
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Judge Barnard, succeeded in first tying the
plaintiffs hands with an injunction so that
he could not take testimony, and then forcing
him to trial before court which he had
good reason to distrust. Instead of meeting
the suit he procured hagitious order, virtu
ally forbidding Mr.. Ramsey to sue at all in
any part of the State or in any form, an6
thus deprived him of privilege which is
every citizens right.
Z. To facilitate the execution of this
scheme, and especially to keep the whole case
in the hands of Judge Barnard, Mr.. Field
began an utterly groundless and unjust suit
against Ramsey, and kept it on for year ol
more, when, as it had served its purpose, il
was brought to srial, only to be instantly
abandoned for want of evidence.
s. Finally, and this is perhaps the moss
serious charge of all, Mr.. Field, has made him
self an accomplice in the corruption of the
bench, by asking for infamous and illegal In
functions at the hands Of a judge whom ht
knew to be devoted to the interests of hil
clients, and by improperly and fraudulent,
removing suits from courts in which they be
longed to the tribunal of George G. Barnard
whom he himself had denounced as dis
honest.
These points must have escaped Mr.
Fields memory when he wrote to MIR. Bowles
ST was never consulted beforehand abou
any transaction whatever of these gentle
men Fisk and Could to which, so far as
recollect, any exception has been taken"
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