Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-28

Alley and Mr. Duncan agree to proportionately
share the risk of note to be given BY Judge
Underwood for his proportion Of the purchase;
in the conversation with Mr.. Alley, at which he
should not bid against him. his language was,
I'VE having purchased your judgments. you are
no, 70 lor will not) bid against US" and further
dtronAnt satin not.
Deposition OF ,john p Robinson. Being un-
able u effect postponement of the sale of the
property under the contiscation act, | went to
Washington and Dane, Balderston and myself
proceeded t. AleXandrn; hid an interview with
Judge Underwood by whose decree the prop
erly WAS contiscated, and urged q postponement
81 the sale, which he refused. He said however,
that If the property WAS sold under the decree
ri coniscation, he would like to buy or have his
wife buy, ne having no money of his own to
purchase with, one of the houses for his own
use, and he thought the parties buying under
the conhScatlon act would pay US something for
our judgements TO obtain amore perfect title and
make 1t more secure, if the sale under the con-
tScatiou act should be set aside. He said that he
should advise in his own case an! other parties
to pay us fifty per cent of the amount of our
claims, and perhaps We could get more than
that on. of the parties who might purchase, II
the property did not sell very high. He advised
us to see Mr. Chittenden and learn if we could
make All arrangement with him to purchase our
judgements in connection with Others who might
bid Oft the property. We had all interview with
Mr.. Chittenden, who saidit would be impossible
for him to be in Alexandria in time to make the
arrangement unless the sale was postponed, but
he wrote letter to Judge Underwood asking
him to put off the sale until he could come to
Alexandria and confer with parties us the Judge
had suggested. This letter was handed to Judge
Underwood before 10 o'clock, and the sale WAS
postponed until later in the day, The property
was sold by the Sheriff under the direction Of
Mr.. Alley chiefly, and think he WAS the prin-
cpsl purchaser Mr.. Alley told us that as ne
was the purchaser Of our judgements we must
not bid againt him. There was apparently no
competitor among those present for the purchase
of the property. As we were going from Mr..
Beachs office to the place of sale Mr.. Alley
said to me they mi ght wish to have some piece
Of the property struck off to me- and when one
of the parcels was struck off by the auctoneer,
in reply to an inquiry, WHO is the purchaser"
Mr. Alley gave my name, but l nade no bid,
and had nothing further to do with it.
Deposition Of. Francis Dane.-Mr. Robinson,
Beach, our attorney. he wished us to go with
him to Judge Underwood to try and get the
sale of the property postl oned in which our at
tachments lay, advising us, it we could not get
the sale postponed. not to buy the property un-
less we could get it for sum equivalent to the
is TO say for nominal sum, as he called it; that
he could not have any question that the decision
of the court upon the confScation act could not
be sustained. We had an interview, all of Us,
on the 1ollOWlnS uaS, allu u[Seu Vic ouaBe W
make the postponeincnt, which he declined to
do. =
On the 10th of May, we proceeded to Alexan;
dria, there met Mr.. Alley and Mr.. Ames, and
transferred the judgments, with all the right,
title, and interest on the claims on which the
judgments were founded, to John b. Alley,
OaEes Ames Samuel Hooper, and W. A Dun
can, Mr.. Duncan informing me that d previous
arrangement had been made with Mr.. Alley and
the parties who purchased at the contiscaton sale
to pay their proportional share of the judgments
in our favor; and by that means they would
have 81 double title SO that if one should fail
they would be able to hold on to the other. In
Mr. Ames' own words, he wanted these judg::
ments to plaster over the property. We attended
the SALE which took place about two hours later
than the time advertised. The property WAS
sold and bid off by Mr.. Alley in different par
cells, each house being sold separately. There
were some bids at his request; but as far as
heard, the last bid on each piece of property was
msdc by Mr. Alley, after he had requested others
to bid Previously to attending the sale, Mr..
Alley insisted upon our not bidding on the prop
crty, rs he had bought our claim.
Zone Of these parcels was the property TOR
which McEeigh is now sueing. 1t was con,
vryed to Mrs. Underwood by the Sheriff and
j. Il. Alley as assignee of Alley.