The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27

you have alluded to one payment ot$5 600
Have you furnished any other money to
& 1se parties? Al have furnished at
least $4,000 beside the $4,000.
Q.-Tc whom did you pay that moneys?
A.-TC Mr.. Moulton.
On various sums? Ain various
sums, partly in cash and partly IN checks
Q.-Have you any of those checks? A.
| have several. don't remember how
many.
Q.-Where are they? Al have some
OF them here--one Of June %, 1871 drawn
on the Mechanics Bank, to the order Of
Frank Moulton, and Endorsed in his
handwriting and one of Nov. 10, 1871,
payable to the order of Frank MoultOn
and indorscd in his hand writing !;
and one of May 20, 1872, to the
order of f. d. Moulton, and also
indorsed in his handwriting. Each Of
these that are marked "for deposit" across
the face have been paid,
Gas nearly as you can recollect, how
much money went into the hands of Mr..
Moulton? Al should say I have
paid $1,000.
Q-To what use did you suppose that
money was to be appropriated? Al
supposed that it was to be appropriated to
extricate Mr.. Tilton from his difficulties
in some way.
Q.-You did not stop to inquire how
or why? A.-Moulton sometimes sent
me note saying:"I wish you would send
me your check" for so much.
Odd you usually respond to the
demands of Mr.. Moulton for money dur
ing those months? Al always DID.
@. Under what circumstances did you
come to pay the S. 900 in one sum? A
Because it was represented to me that the
whole difficulty could be now settled by
that amount of money, which would put
the affairs of the Golden Age on secure
footing; that they would be able to 90
right on, and that with the gong on of
them, the safety of Tilton would be assur-
ed, and that would be the settlement OF
the whole thing. It was to save Tilton
pecuniarily.
Q,-Were there any documents shown
to you by Moulton? What did he show
you before yLu made the payments? A.
It was the result ofintimations and general
statements, and finally said to him, II am
willing to pay $4,000" I came to do it
in this way: There was discussion
about that paper Mou!ton was constant
ly advancing money, as he said to me, to
help Tilton. The paper was needy. One
evening was at his house. We were
alone together in the back parlor, and
Moulton took out of his pocket letter
from -. 1t was read to me, in which
the writer mentioned contributions which
the writer had made to Theodore. ]
understood from him that the writer OF
this letter had given him some thousands
OF dollars down 10 cash, and then taking
out two time checks or drafts, which, as ]
recollect. were on blush paper-aithough
| am not sure of that. There were two
checks, each of them amounting tc
one or two thousand dollars more, an0 ]
should think it amounted in all to about
six thousand dollars, although nv
memory about quantities and figures is tc
be taken with great allowance, but it
proudccd the impression in me that the
writer had given him one or twosthous.
and dollars in cash down, and, as the
writer explained in the letter, it was noI
convenient to give the balance in none,
lat that time, but that the writer had
drawn time drafts which would be lust
as useful to him as money, ard Moultor
slapped the table and said: "That il
what call friendship" and / was stupid
and said, Eyes, it was" Afterward
when | got home, and thinking about il
in the morning" Why" said J., "what
a fool! I never dreamed what he ment.'
Then I went to him and said to him, 81
an willing to make contribution and
put the thing beyond a controversy
Well, he said something like this "That
he thought it would be the best invest
ment that ever made in my life" l
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