New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-26
MR.. MOULTON's CONNECTION WITH WOOD
RUFF & ROBINSON.

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must hurry on. Gentlemen, it was said OF
the great naturalist Agassz that ii you would give aim
single bone of any animal of which the race was ante
diluvan and extinct by applying TO it the powers whch
God has given TO man and which science has developed
that single he could reconstruct the entire
animal In Of the Mouton type there are 80 many
bones that cannot take time 20 deal with each, Dt
will take single bone here and there to enable you 10
see whether YOU can reconstruct the animal Of which
that is vital part This is either true man or
liar Which, Take a single illustration, which occurs TO
me at the moment without referring TO my notes.
On the brief crosse Examination which was permitted TO
make of him. and which was compelled 70 abandon on
OF the then condition Of my health TOOK occasion
ask him how he had been member or the trm OF
Woodruff Robinson, and whether that was aperInahent
connection The question asked at random for In
formation upon a fact to which was myself ignorant
With some hesitation he acknowledged that he was no
longer member of the original firm all its branches OF
business but there had been subdivision OF
the business, and he was now, ana mad Deen
from the 1st of January, member OF the
mercantile department OF that business WHICH
was subordinate as distinguished from the other
which connected with the great commercial pros
perity your city asked him whether that was per
manent connection. It connection OK indefinite
duration r. no time fixed for its dssoutOnP None"
Now that was a matter of comparatively minor mpor-
lance but this thought it important to conceal
from you the fact that even his own partners had aid
their hands upon him. He deliberately swore and the
examination was midway in january that on the LIST
of January there had been separation OF the TWO
branches of the business, and that from that
time he had been member Of the firm Of
Woodruff & Robinson, a continuing partnership OF in
definite Duration and there ii stopped. That was true
false and whether true or false he knew IL 10 nap
pened that when jeremiah p Robinson was brought by
them the stand occurred to that clearheaded and
far-sigted lawyer who by intuition 10 know even
the truths which unrcvealed. to ask Mr.. Robinson
the question when Francis D. MOutOn ceased to be
a member Of that firm. This witness. you will
remember il the uncle OF Mrs Moulton this is
the old partner OF Franklin Woodruff this is the man
who comes 20 swear 10 all his conscience will per
nit in aid OF this cOntToversy-which involves the
honor and the reputation Of his nephew the husband 0f
his niece But he is an honest man. "Our partnership
1st OF January IN pursuance OF an agree
ment made something like year ago" The time has
Significance. gentlemen. II you remember, that WAS
about the time when the last Of the matchmaking at
tempts were being made. 1t ceased then; TO take
effect at a future day. The day came. and at
the instance of MouOn, the day was postponed.
Finally came the lst of January, and with
that Jeremiah p. Robinson and his partner
would no LONGER consent be linked with this man in
their general business, but at his solicitation land you
have no doubt it was in view OF this trial. which it
then thought would be concluded within month";, there
was an extension OF the time OF the final dissolution in
respect even TO the mercantile branch of the house until
the lat OF February and Jeremiah 7. Robinson swears
that they had the lst OF January into formal
agreement that from and after the st OF February that
partnership all its branches should be forever at an
end. Which OF these men hcsf No man who knows
them both will doubt that IL IS Francis d. Mouton.
There Is one bone OF the animal