New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-05
THE $500 TRANSACTION DESCRIBED TO MR.
SOITTHWICK


SOUTHWICK.
0. Well. did you mention the fact OF tho
payment OF that money $780, TO any one else besidos
Gen Tracyi A. When, at that time
O. OH well, anywhere along about that tmef A.
Well, might have done so; don't know whether DID
or not.
O. Did you not speak 80 Mr.. southwck abou, the pay
ment n, that money! A. No Sir; not the $500 money
never did, not that recOhect
O. Did you speak to him about the payment Of any
money! A. did.
O. Which money was that A. Il vas the $1,000
money
O. when did you speak to Mr seuthwck on that sub
iecti A. Some time after-very shortly after II ~as
deposited 10 Moultons credit
O. Didn't you tell him about II the very day TWAS
deposited A. No, don't think IL was the very day
that IL Was deposited It might have been, but doDt
think IL was
o. Didn't you tell him the evening OF The very day n
was depositedf A. cannot swear that IL w's thai day
or not but it was very soon whether n was that
evening or the next evening week after dont
know.
O Where were YOU when you told ths 20 Mr. South
wicki A. think was at hts house
O. What did You tell Mr.. Southwick about wv A.
Well told him that Moulton had placed 10 his ercds
tbere shortly before 300, and that had seen pay
nents thereafter pad-charged 10 Moulton as paia TO
1T T."
O. You told him you had payments made there
aftert A. think did
q. Chareed.to T. FL" A. think did; presume I
did; don't know.
O Did YOU not tell him that Mouton had deposited
that money that very day and that he said wac 20 10
drawn out or 5000 10 be- drawn out for rbe'-
dore Tiltont A. No, Sir; never told him that ID that
way.
O. VIII you swear 10 thatf A. Yes, SIR swear that
never told him that In that way didn't
O. Didn't you tell him that or anything TO that eneetf
A. told him that that amount OF money was PLACED Ia
Moultons credit on the cash book and thought II had
come from 1lr Beecher and he thought his uncle, H. b.
Clanin, night have paid IL.
O. Did You ask Mr. southwck on that occasion whether
he didn't think II his uncle who had paid sf A. Very
likely did; think had general talk about u, amt
he said wouldn't be surprised It would ne just Ike
Uncle Horace"
O. Didn't he say-on the contrary. didn't he langh az
the idea Of Mr. Cladn paying IL, and say, lyon know
that MI C1ann would not pay anything for TIE 0odde~
Age, and he would not pay anything for thatp A. No:
knew he wouldn't pay anything for The Code" Aos'
O. That Is not the point. Did not Mr.. southvnk cay
that Mr. Woodruff A. don't think he did
O. Didn't he say that anything OF that hnd-that IN
substancef A don't recoect that he said nything Of
the kind in substance.
O. VIII you swear positively that he did mott A. viii
swear according the best Of my recollection that 10
did not.
O. That L. as positively q you care to sweari A. Yea.
Sir
Q. Do I understand. then. that you never told NJ.
Tracy of the g. 000i A. have recollection Of telling
him about IT,
O. Nor about the money transaction which occurred 40
the time the S5 900 received A. have rceoeo-
ton about It.
O. You don't recoIiect mentioning itwhether you men
toned the sum or You don't recolect mentioning
the circumstance A. have recollection Of telling
Cen Tracy about that time. anything about money
matters In the business.
odd you communicate to Cen Tracy at any time me
fact any moneys being paid after that interview on
Sunday In the Fall VI 1877 A. Altar vhen-sfssr mo
interview Of 1925
O. After the interview In the Fall OF 1872. 70 which
YOU have referred already \ have no recollection
that did.
o. You knew the money wa psid 1t the time, didpV
you 10 Moutons A. knew tAis from Moulton---
O. Well, did you know that xouiton was reeefvfns
money you informed By Mouton that he was TO
ceving money! A. Well be told me two or three snes
had received to pay Besse Turner's SCHOOL
ing. That 10 all.
O You knew about Bessefrurners bills thens =
that Monlton sAh thai he received money run -