The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-01-28

This wss also paid by check On the
Serqoant.at- Arms. Mr.. Allison got the
other divI lends sJine in the fall OF 1868 |
Mr. Allison got alarmed by the lawsuit
aud gave Mr.. Nmes receipt stating he
held the stock AS Ame>'s property. To
make a show Of buying them back, Mr..
Ames paid him FIVE cents. Some time
ago he got an envelope mailed at Du-
buque, containing 10 shares of Credit
Mobilier aud 10 Union Pacific shares
He supposed they were Alisou's he
thought he got the envelope in October
last but he observed by the post.mark
that it was mailed ia March 1872.
Mr.. Dawes, he said, bought ten shares
an. paid for them One OF the fis bond
dividend Mr.. Ames paid him about $500
the balance being retained to settle AT.
other transaction. lie also got the sec.
ond dividend In December, 1868, Mr..
Ames settled with him, and believed that
in the whole transaction the latter only
got his money back with 10 per cent in
terest Mr. Garfield agreed to take 10
shlres Of the stock, and the first two
dividends paid for the shares and left II
balance Of 1929, which Mr. Ames said
he paid him in June, 1868. That ended
the transaction, and there we're no more
payments and no conversation about the
affair till this Winter. when Mr.. Garfield
told him that he thought it was loan,
and not a dividend he got Mr.. Ames's
recollection was positive it was divi.
dend, and supposed Mr.. Garfield so I'M
derstood it when he took the check for
the money. Mr.. Garfield had never tax 4.
en- it back.
Mr.. Kelley's case, Mr.. Amcs went on
to say, was identical with Mr. Garfeld's
The same number of shares were bar
gained for, ami there was the same pay
ment Of 1929 in June, 1865 In Octo-
Der, Mr.. Kelley borrowed $3.50 from him
and Mr.. Amcs supposed he got this con-
fused with the dividend, when he testified
20 having borrowed 81 000 The money
had not been returned, and Mr.. Ames
still held the Credit Mobilier shares and
the Union Pacific stock dividends on
them subject to Mr.. Kelley's order Mr.
Scoied took 10 shares too, but paid the
cash for them. He got frightened at the
same time Mr.. Dawes did, and Mr.
Ames settled with him, and took the stock
off his hands. Mr.. Bingham's statement
, to the Committee, Mr.. Ames corroborat.
], ed, but said he paid him $500 moro thar
Mr.. Bingham stated. Mr.. j. +. Viii
sons statement was correct. Mr.. Bout
well talked Of taking the stock but did
not. Mr.. Fowler Of Tennessee and Mr.
Biyard OF Delaware did not take it Mr.
Painter. the correspondent OF The Phila
delphia Inquirer, took 30 shares aud pal,
Z Tor them
Senator Patterson had sworn that h,
had not received stock or money on ac
cunt, bat on Saturday last. the ollowul
receipts Wrie produced before the Com
mi''cc
~ A~nlNjr y Jno. - 1866
'felN,d oi O,ke- Amc, rlgntv,n huo
, died d"'''r- on ac'ount Of dlvlI,nt d.
ceivei b hiH "a, tfu tee Oi stock h..
FIR III, account,
= (@ignr). j " pArrEns ~
BJr,N. NJ q 1871
X crivei %. y &C.. Aus txi hundr,
I hare, Union Pacli railroad stock an,
SIoI IN cash on account of Credit Mo
biller stock aud there is still due on tn
y transaction thirty shares of stock in tn
j., Crrili Mph'lier Of \ ncric,, and So 0OI
y % the iuc me bonds of tie Pc f ia,i
+ f.,YI