The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-09
A Complete VIndicaGlOn.


SENECA, Sept. %, 1874.
Hon. Samuel Lappin has been
confined to his bed for several
weeks, with inflammatory rheuma-
tism. His physician has pre-
! scribed absolute rest, and will not
allow him to read the papers nor
talk on political subjects. He is
still in blissful ignorance of the
Toorback charges manufactured
against him by the Kansas City
Times, and copied with greedy
gusto by opposition sheets in this
State. The Times, with its usual
unfairness to political opponents,
copied such portions of Walkers
petition in the Lyon County Court
as seryed its purpose to make out
damaging case against Lappin,
and gave great prominence to that
portion of the petition that told of
contracts having been stolen from
his trunk in New York, and by in
ference charged Lappin with steal
ing them. Had the astute Times
man read the answer of Lappin and
Scra1iord, on file in the case, he
would have found copies OF the
Identical stolen (?) contracts
marked exhibits A, B, g, and ID, as
large as life and fully as natural,
signed and sealed by all the parties.
With their usual carefulness in bus
mess matters, Lappan and Scrafford
kept copies of the contract at the
time they were made out. Walker
himself could not deny their genu-
ineLess. In fact, they rested their
case OH these very contracts.
There are four of them-one for
each county in which the Walker
lands, held by them, were situated.
They are all worded alike, and
contain a full description of the
land for the county.
To show the nature of the con-
tracts, and how much interest Lap
pin and Scrafford would have had
| In their destruction, / subjoin a
verbatim copy of the contract in
regard to the Lyon County Lands.
Ii is marked
EXHIBIT G.
"Know all men by these presents
that we q Samuel Lappin, Amanda
&. Lappin, his wife, and Charles G..
Scrafford, Justiana G. Scra1Terd, his
wife, of the county of Nemaha and
State of Kansas, have this day con-
tracied with and bargained TO sell
to Thaddeus ii. Walker, of the
county of Shawnee and State afOre-
said, those lands situate in the
county of Lyon and State of Kan
sas, and bounded and described as
follows, to-wit: Here follows a
description of each tract of land
held by them in Lyon County. !
Upon the following terms ana con-
ditiOns, to-wit: That if the said
Thaddeus ii. Walker pays, by the
first day of May of each year after
the same are levied, all taxes which
may be assessed or levied against
said lands, and upon the full pay
menL by said Thaddeus Ii. Walker,
his heirs or assigns, to us, or our
heirs or assigns, of the sum OF
forty-one thousand five hundred
and seventy dollars, al 1870, on or
before the 18th day of June, A. ID.
1870, we agree for ourselves and
our heirs and assigns TO sell to said
Thaddeus ii. Walker, his heirs OIL
assigns, the above described lands
and execute and deliver to him, or
hem, a good and sufficient deed of
special warranty against any incum-
brance accruing since the date Of
our title therefor. But If the said
Thaddens ii. Walker, his heirs oil
assigns, shall fail to make the pay
ment as herein before provided for
to be made by him or his heirs oil
assigns, for the period of nine
months after the same, as above
provided, is made payable, then
this contract shall become null and
void, and all interest and right il
and to said premises claimed BY
said Thaddeus IL. Walker, or any
: person claiming under him, shall b.
, determined from that day and i
p is further agreed that if the saiC
Thaddeus ii. Walker, or any per
: son claiming under him, shall, afte
:. the expiration of said fixed time TO
q payment, and before the expiration
of said nine months thereafter, cleo
: to complete said purchase by pay
e ment as aforesaid, then that upol
. all payments due on said 18th da
y of June, 1870, there shall in add
a ton thereto be added interest at tn
a rate of one per cent. q month for a
time until payment, and said Thad
} dens ii. Walker hereby accepts thi
re instrument on the terms hereof, an
agrees to abide the performance c
the conditions.
II In witness whereof we have here
re unto set our hands and seal this IN
o. day of December, in the year EigI
teen Hundred aud Sixty-eight.
s. seal SAMUEL LAPPIN,
8. seal CHAs. G.. SCRAFPoRD,
m seal AMANDA G. LAPPIN,
seal JUsTIANA G. SCRAFFoRl
ID seal THADDEUs ii. WALKEl
Is do not wish to cast any imputi
- ton on Mr.. Walker, now that q
honorable settlement has been mao
w and all parties are satisfied. Or
ne thing is certain, as any body can 81
who has read both sides of the cas-
that If It was the interest of eithr
A. party to keep the contracts out I
es court, it was him and not the d
:; PENDANTS. lie commenced his 50
on the superstition that neither Il
n, contracts or copies of them were
N, existence, and set up the plea
"A usury Ia HE petition, supposiI
iu that nothing but the old cOntraC
n or copies of them made at the tin