Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-10-07


all signed the other but places LEFT blank for
nlled up with the sum Of So, 900, and which wa
disposed OF by means OF the same Madison at s..
er cent. advance. Thiswas disposedofby means
OF power Of attorney executed by said JOY i'm
the name Of George sheriff. With this advance
OF 81 per cent. he purchased the ship Justiana.
commanded by Capt Joy. The outfit and
pairs cost fl 900 more. Other money was loaned.
and letters of credit were purchased on Hughes
~ Duncan, OF Liverpool, and OF Keller x For
man, or Baltimore, in favor OF his mOthsr. The
,l1stians was an American ship, built at Nor
FOLK, and was $50 tons burthen. His father told
him these blank certificates would be the means
OF making him independent. His father per
suaded him TO negotiate them for him. (hs
rather, and he tyoung Tomkins) was 20 have no
interest in the monies arising from the sale OF
them. unless his mother and sister, for who's.
benefit he principally acted, should think proper
10 purchase vessel, of which he might 20
captain. JOY was his broth-r-in-laws ami
his real name was Charles Harrison. aud
MAS son OF Thomas Harrison of Salter's
Hall Court, Canon street, London, an attorney
by profession. He (Tomkins) married a daugh-
ter Of Thomas Harrison in Liverpool in lslO;
loaned Harrison t100 of the money procured
for the certificates, for which he took his note on
interest, payable in Il months. He LETT Liver
pool in the Justiana, and arrived in New York
where he was arrested.
Harrison sfso made a statement 70 Judge Liv-
ingston, which corrOborated the confession of
James Tomkips. The judge afterwards pro-
ceeded to Philadelphia, where
TONKTNs THE ELDER
was confined, and found him very reticent de-
nying all knowledge of the transaction about the
distracted blanks He owned 10 having a son
named James, who followed the sea, but had no
knowledge OF his sons business In going TO Eng
land, or OF having any business connection with
him. He confessed that he was in Baltimor,,
when his son sailed for England, but did not
think his son filed up the blanks in the certfi-
Gates.
An affidavit was sworn by Joseph Nourse set
ting forth that Charles Tomkins did, on or about
the Soth Of October 1900, utter false certificate
OF per cent. stock for al 600; that he received
the sum Of 1858 therefor on the 2ith tiay OF
January, 1901, well knowing the same 70 be
false; and on divers times since, SC, sc. ON
this afhdavit warrant was made charging him
in both criminal and civil suits. He was brought
before Judge Livingston, by whom he was com
mitted, TO be taken 70 Baltimore and tried where
the offence was committed.
In a letter from A. j. Dallas the United States
Attorney of Philadelphia. to Mr.. Nourse, at
Washington, he says: " On the 18th instant old
Tomkins was brought into court TO be COM
mitted. Awful TO tell,
THE SONS KxAMINATIoV CONVICTED THE
FATHER!
The old man kept a good front till his sons
examination, taken before Judge Livingston, in
New York, was read-that moment he clasped
his hands together, and his countenance changed
A great discovery, but il is a horrid picture of
the umes-the father seduces the SON and the
son convicts the father! We have had nothing
Ike this since our revolutionary war. i wish
our Itch Tor extensive commerce NAV not de-
stIOF moral reCUtuOe In our Atlantic States
SEARCH WARRANT
was issued TO the marshal OF Maryland district
TO search the house Of Charles Tomkins for the
blank certificates, by Judge Scott, chief Justice
OF the Court OF Oyer and Terminer, and some of
the distracted blanks were found, with many
other papers and letters from his son, all going
10 show his connection with the act, especially
certificates.
Tomkins and his son were taker TO Balti-
more, and convicted at the trial that same year,
and Harrison, alias Joy, was detained at Phila-
deiphla to be tried, where his crime was commit
ted, OF forging the power of attorney.
Mr.. Nourse and Michael Nourse, with num-
Der OF other clerks, and Thomas Sheriff, of BIa-
the trial, which resulted in the conviction of
both the elder and younger Tomkins.
BOTH FATHER AND SON
toovnr xesT s 20 me- teIons prison, bStin the
PRESIDENT John Adams, on the condition tina
they assign the property held by them 10 the
United States, which was done, the government
recovering most OF the amount lost; and making
stock abroad.
Joy was held for trial as accessory, but on the
recommendation of the leading men at that time
Mr. A. j. Dallas, the United States attorney, en-
tered nofle pToseqni, and he was set free, and
soon after left the country. This action was also
approved by President Adams. What became
OF James Tomkins is not known, but from
AN IMPUDENT LETTER PROM roMKISs
the elder, TO Joseph Nourse I'm the following
year, u II presumed tnat TINS exposure Of his
rascalities did not quite crush his spirits. In
this letter he charges Mr.. Nourse with having
had his tTomkins house violently broken open,
and his trunks ana desk ransacked; his private
papers taken away and detained, much TO his
inconvenience. Also, charging him with deny
ing in his testimony that he ever gave any di-
rection on the subject of issuing the eight per
cent. stock, while he (Tomkins) then held a
written order of his on that very subject; that
he likewise endeavored TO influence the jury by
saying that as clerk in the department he was
prohibited by law from dealing in public stocks
reminding him that such restrictions as related
10 the clerks were taken of, but retained on the
heads OF departments; charging that he (Nourse)
had purchased, sold and negotiated in q variety
OF ways, as the public records would show; that
IN private circular TO the London brokers on
the subject of negotiation of stock for them,
contracts were entered into by which large
emoluments accrued to him; that in his contracts
with Barring Bros. q Co., respecting the trans
ierlng OF Louisiana stock for them. he received
one dollar for every transfer, and from the vast
number IL must have been of great emolument
exclusive Of the advantages of free postage:
that his understandable taking OF property from
hlm finishes his persecution of him, and IL sat
isfaetion Is not given, he (Tomkins) would pre-
sent legal application for it through another
source.