Litchfield enquirer., 1873-06-19

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 ments It Is there asserted. that I an worth $50. 900. accumulated within ].
 comparatively short period of tiine," and
 insinuated that this amount was obtainel I dishonestly from the New Milford Saving.
 Bank. My estimate of my property is as l follows:
 Real Estate in New Milford, S5. .30( l S7.OOO in Railroad Bonds, value 6,50( $S,OO0 in Bank Stock. valne 9.65( Connecticut Bonds, IO(
 S350 in U. $. Bonds, value 40(
 Deposited in Savings Banks, 2.65l Money at Interest, 1.5O( Cash and Book accounts, about, 1,50( Total. s27.60 This is all except little household and office furniture.
 If the writer of said article desires te verify my estimate, if he will call on me will gladly assist him to do SO. Of the above property. I inherited from my rela- lives 8, ,500. ask those who know me, and know my habits of economy, after twenty-seven years hard labor, twenty. three of them at my profession, if I have accumulated more than even a lswyer in moderate practice should have done, and if it is any evidence of dishonesty? I never owned at any time as much as five thousand dollars in U. S. Bonds; what I had changed few years ago into Railroad Bonds, and the few U. s. Bonds now have, purchased since If George H. Noble stated that ever pos sessed between s2O, GOO and S3O, ,OOO in U. s. Bonds, he made false statement.
 The New Milford Savings Bank has paid six per cent for several years, and has a fair surplus. It has been the GUS tom to keep the principal part of the cash funds of the Savings Bank on deposit in the First National Bank of New Milford, in the official name of the Treasurer. What private funds I deposited. were de- posted with the funds of the Savings Bank and in the official name of the Treasurer.
 The Commissioner said they should not be kept together, and, at the examination in March last, the amount belonging to the Savings Bank was left in the official name of the Treasurer. never gave up six thousand dollars to the Savings Bank out of funds that claimed to be my own, nor any other sum. I always claimed that as there had been substantially no losses, the bank ~aa entitled to a =fsslanoez of ss-aka that would make its assets equal to its liabilities. It had that amount at the time of the examination by the Commls- sioner, and it has it now. The Commis- sioner made the liabilities, and conse- quently the assets of the Savings Bank, January 1st, 1873, between one and two thousand dollars more than my statement; the difference being caused, principally, by errors in footing The Commissioner considered my system of keeping the books improper and faulty; suppose it was. fthe books are kept as he desires nQwl but every depositor has book in which were entered all his deposits, and any neglect to enter the same on the books of the bank would not benefit the Treasurer, because, when the depositor's book came in, the mistake would appear I have never knowingly omitted to enter deposits or interest received. If any such payments have not been entered, I am, and always have been, ready to rectify the omissions, and shall use my best endeav- to find ogt sgch mistakes. I have never knowingly taken or used, in any private business, any of the funds of the Bank. have never, for myself or the Bank, pur- chased or dealt in, speculative stocks, or bonds, or any such investments. This Bank has been my especial charge and I would not wrong it. have labored for it since it's organization, and have largely aided its success, and, now that it is in 8 position to pay its Treasurer fair salary, I am reluctant to believe any one has g heart bad enough to attempt by these wicked, false and malicious charges, to destroy my characters. with the intention of thereby obtaining the place Inow hold. I believe that no man with whom I have dealt can be found who will impeach my integrity. I say to the depositors in this bank, that the institution is sound; it's funds safely invested; and that there-is no danger of loss to them. I ask them to give it the same generous confidence in its management, that they have shown hereto fore.
 In conclusion, MT. Editor. ask you to publish the name of my assailant, I mean the nan to whom MT. Noble is said to have made the statement you published, so that we may meet face to face, and those wko know us both may decide be. tween us.
 JOHN s. TURRILL. |