Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-02-06
WA. WAPELLO COUNTY, IOWA THURSDAY. FEBRUARY g. 1873

| viously paid you $l,OO0? A. Yes
including the bonds sold for him.
G. What would be his profit if he
had not returned yon anything, pro-
vided it was Cancelled at the time? A,
He paid me $27l, and received 5000.
that was all. s,,4
@. You do not know whether he
returned you that sum by draft Ia
| New York or not? A. do not
think he did. s..4.g
By the Chairman-Did you under
stand that this contract between you
and this sale OF stock to Mr.. Allison
was really rescinded and put an end
to-? A.. NY idea was that be did not
want to hold any Credit Mobilier
stock after the suit was commenced,
and proposed selling IT back for a
nominal sum; something like that.
A FIvE-cENT TRANSACTIONS.
@. What we want to get at is
whether this was real transaction--a
real sale OF it to you; did you so un.
derstand it? A. / did not.
@. How did you understand It? A.
understood it to go just as he was a
mind to have it.
I 9. Did you pay him anything7 A.
think l did.
O. How much2 A. do not re.
collect; some small sum; mere nu.
merical sum.
@. Did you throw downs five.cent
piece, or something like that? A.
Somewhere in that neighborhood |; not
very big sum.
@. What want to know is wheth-
er this transaction between you and
him had any real significance at all, or
whether 1t was mere sham? A.
think the amount OF It was that il the
lawsuit with Mr.. McComb should
amount to anything he would not own
the Credit Mobilier stock; that he
could call it mine or his as he pleased.
BY Mr.. Mcrrick-Do / understand
you 70 mean to convey the idea that
this form of sale for five cents, or what
ever it was, mere nominal transac.
ton, and that you considered yourself
really as still holding the stock in his
behalf? A. I guess the receipt
gave him was that he was to hold the
stock for me at the time the money
was paid.
@. Was it understood between you
that in case the suit should prove dis
astrous, you would be the holder OF
that for him2 A. That was my
impression.
Q. Il was therefore device to
avoid his being responsible for your
lawsuit? A. think it was mixed up
with these malicious charges of bribe-
ry which are made in the suit OF
McComb, which are the origin of this
scandal.
@. Do You mean that Mr.. Allison
demurred at the pecuniary RESPONSE
bility which might be involved in it,
or some charge of impropriety? A.
Some charge of impropriety, l sup.
posed; do not know his ideas any
further than that.
g. He sent check on New York
with the certificate; was there any
such check sent? Did you ever re-
ceiye check from him? A. Yes
sir; but that was in another matter.
q. What was that? A. An oper.
alton went into with him i'm 1865, in
Iowa, in the purchase of the stock and
bonds ofa railroad i'm Iowa.
Q. And the check you received
was to close that transaction? A. II
was on account of that transaction.
@. Had it any reference to this
money paid to him as a disidanl7 A
No, sir.
@. Have you any recollection OF
belief that that was ever repaid to yor
in any form? A. No, sir.
The following memoranda from
which witness testified in regard tc
Mr.. Allison was here placed in cyi
dence:
w. r. A., Dr., 1868.
April 24-To 10 shares C. NJ. oi
America stock, $1,000.
$47.
Total, s1,047.
June 10, lS6S-To check, $500.
Total, $I,674.
Credit. t
1863, April 24--By dividend of o.
P. bonds, so per. cent, $500; and 81
per cent, S776.
April 24-By cash ofhim, S27l.
June H--By dividend received foI
his account, $500.
Total, $l,647.