The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-11-03

JIM FISK MEETS His MATcH.-The Legsla-
ture and Courts OF New York have proved but |!
supple tools 10 Fisk's hands. By the aid of |
Iammany he has stolen railroads and embar- !
raised the finances Of the very nation with |
impurty. But now comes Helen Josephine |
mansfield, IA not too reputable woman. with
whom he has at length quarreled, and writes
ire following letter, which ought to make even
so brazen a scoundre as Fisk blush:
JANIS FISK, JR.
Str:-YOu and your minions of the Fri.
Railway Company are endeavoring to circnIate
that am attempting to extort money fra.
you by threatened publication of vonr nr;n van
letters to me. You know how shamaf,1i,,
false this is, and yet you encourage and .,d -
Had TINS been my intention, had a whole
trunk full CT your interesting letters sou y.
which L would blush to say had rece;veJ 9 9e
you were not wholly devoid of all decencv and
shame you would do differently knowi1a ~
you do, that when your own notes to nv orders
are prought INTO the courts, your letters ac-
knowiedging your indebtedness to me, YOU will
appear all the more cOntemptible and coward
~. You are no sooner apprised of nv proceed
ings against you than am served with an in
junction order requiring me to surrender I'm
all the letters you wrote me, and prohhit;nr
me from talking about them This indaoS
looks to me like Field" movement worIhH
| the great and distinguished Erie LAWYER. Ia
you in your sale moments imagine that will
red
perjury ia swearing to these Injunction nanars9
| (and to the credit Of New York am glad to
say you were obliged 10 get them in Brooklypl
| Unfortunately for yourself, know too we'll The
many n Grlmes you nave psrpetrated. Was it
negro boy, Richard r. King, also my cook,
and bribed them to peEiure themselves to aid
you In your viliainy? have the sworn proof
OF what tell you, and more. You surely re-
collect the fated Black Friday-the gold brok.
ers You gave orders to to buy gold. and then
| repudiated the same, because as you said they
had no witnesses to your transactions. There
was one recollect in particular. son of Abra-
| ham, who had the courage to swear ont an at
tachment against the Grand Opera House for
what was justly due him, and how you and
| Jay Gould ruined the poor victim by breaking
up his business, and having him arrested and
imprisoned for perjury. And at the time Won
premeditated this crime, you well knew he held
your written order to buy gold, and you were
the perjurers. You are aware, in the papers
| you served on me, you swore to what was wick
ed and false, for it was only few days previous
thereto you sent Mr.. Hnbbell to offer me in
JUDGEMENTS to give you an order on the Hon.
| Peter b. Sweeny for my original affidavit and
your letters to me, which documents Sweeny
| got possession of. as they compromised him and
other Tammany magnates in the division Of
the Erie Railway plumber. But positively
refused to give the required order. Knowing
| your dolngs, as do, do yeu wonder object to
yeu and your minions practicing the same
upon me?
1t is an everlasting shame and disgrace that
1 you should compel one who has grown I'D with
you from nothing to the now gre at Erie I'm
| pressario to 60 to the courts for vindication
of her rights, which you refuse to adjust for
reasons which you too well know. 1t is only
four years ago since you revealed to me your
scheme for stealing the Erie books; how YOU
t | fled with them to Jersey City, and remained
, | there with you nine long weeks; how when
you were buying the Legislature, the many
: anxious nights passed with you at the tele.
s | graph wire, when you told me it was either a
| Fisk palace in New York or a stone palace at
Sing Sing; if the latter would take cottage
| outside It's walls, that my presence would make
your rusty irons garlands of roses, and the very
stones you would have to hammer and crack
appear softer under my influence. You Sc
cured your Erie palace, and now use your
whole force OF Erie officials to SANDER and in
. jure me. 1t is indeed heroic, and worthy the
hero of the memorable 18th of July last.
write you this letter to forever contradict
all the malicious, wicked abuses you have caus-
, ed to be circulated, and at the same time fully
state that / am Wiling to leave all matters in
dispute and diference-and forever settle any
further controversy-to our respective counsel 4,
| Samuel G. Courtney, Luther r. Marsh and
William A. Beach. If they cannot agree, 1
am willing William M. Evarts shall decide be-
tween them. However, only make this pro-
posal to place myself in the proper light and
| spirit.
If you feel your power with the Courts still
, supreme, anu Tammany, though shaken, still
still abba to protect you, pursue your own in
clnation. The reward will be yours. I am,
with what respect you are the best able to
| iudop HELEN .T0sEppINr M ANcFyrTn