The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-18
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TO THE PUBLIC.
Under the above heading Mr.. Jas Wood has seen
fit to publish. in the Picayune of the 10th and 18th
inst Card, with appended Certificate of three per
sons, whom he introduces the public as Account.
ants
have neither taste nor leisure for newspaper con-
troversy with this person, but the burden of his
publication is the reiteration of the false and ma
licious charge which, by untruhfu representatic ms
and secret and ex parte statements, he induced the
Grand jury to present against me- before which body
I had not the privilege of being heard | deem it
| proper to state to the public in reply
| l. hat the matters referred to in his card and
touching the truth of my testimony, as given in the
case of AL en- vs. Wood, in the Fl tn District Court
| were fully investigate in the Superior Criminal
| Court, in the of the State VS. C. a. Allen in
which cass not only all the witnesses possibly cogni
zint of said matters, and including the prosecutor
James Wood, himself, heard but also all the
accounts exhibits, books, and evidence bearing on
| the question were fully examined and canvassed:
and that said Judicial inve stgaton conducted under
the eye Of the pre- siding Judge of said Superior Court
resulted in the rendition of an immediate and unhesi
tatng verdict eff Not guilty. by The jury of honest
and intelligent citizens who had been empanneled
and sworn to try the issue Of n guilt
?. That upon said trial, rendered to the prosecu
ton the issue of my personal character for truth and
integrity, and tTium hantly sustained the same by
he concurrent ttstim ny of numerous citizen called
to the witness stand from the honorable pursuits of
life and that the State and private prosecutor James
Wood, declined said issue, anu did not attack
3 That upon said trial also distinctly rendered to
the prosecution the isl of the character of James
Wood, for truth and integrity, and proved, by five
vii of tra
and unimpeachable veracity, that they had each |
known james Wood long and well, that they had had
dealings with him, and that from their personal |
knowledge of him and of his reputation they each |
would not believe James Wood on his oath; and tn
ISSUE blghting and desolating to him as an indivd
ua he also declined, although present in court the
personal witness of his own sh me and humiliation
a. That the begging and apologize statements of
James Wood, IN said card that he not actu ated
by malice nor impure motives and his assumption
OF the role of witness for the State' in which his
card would have the public believe he innoceny and
appeared, do not comport with his
conduct, IN employing Mr.. r. King Cutler as private
with his fulsome laudations of what
"a terms the explicit, concise, and eloquent argu-
mem" "a Of that attorney, (Which argument, in the
opinion OF intelligent auditors who blessed with
patience to hear him through contained unmanly
uhPAoicSsiohdi dpp3aiS W tne pre1uuce5 OF the |
urors-unmanly, because the defendant had not |
he right to reply to him, and unprofessional, be.
outside of the issues of the eau e nor do thew
omport with the terms of the card now under con.
Iteration and his reiteration therein of the false and
nalic GUS charges which have been judicialIy met |
Id overtDrown by me. l(
But do not refer to the result of that cause |
lone as my vindication and that there NAV be no o
beg leave to state that James
Wood while acting as cashier of tie Brook Rice
ill, mani pulated the funds of Allen Bros so
5 to make himself falsely appear as creditor for the
mount named in his card
To accomplish this he deposited all moneys re- | c
sived from tbs firm lin vi laion f the partnership
rtlclee) together with such moneys as 1 could
orTow on my personal credit, in his name. This
;meved he paid out the funds thus realized but in
, sense hiss with checks signed by him personally,
Id drawn against said deposits and now iourishing
nd checks, before said three accountants they :;
iWi Eureka, in beautiful accord, and, upon their
msy certificate James Wood asks the public to L
cept as true his untruthful statement of my guilt
In conclusion, dismiss this subject with ample az
'ology to my friends and the public. The issues F
tween Mr.. Wood and myself by his selection flor 81
has decline all other reference are before the of
bunals of the country, and their decision conf G.
ntly await.
Meanwhile adopt the Duke motto 81 AM HERE
d remain, respectfully,
COLUMBUS II. ALLEN.
New Orleans, July IT, 1875. iy1o 1t2p
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