The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-07

see = You recognize this signature as yours
ANT see 1T this is one of the receipts you
si2heI When Gibbs left the money with you
YES. sir; this is my handwrite.
Y Ihir Is one of the papers you signed
When Gibbs left the money with you?
A This is one of the papers.
q Gibbs left the money on Sunday?
A. On Sunday.
.. What was this dav with reference to
the day he started for Texas?
A. think he started next morning.
Q. Well, the evening before he left he
paid you the money?
A. Yes, sir the evening before.
you, is it?
A. No, sir, this is not the one.
e. Where is that receipt?
A. do not know-either mislaid or lost.
y Have you made search?
A. | have
y. Were the two alike?
A. They were alike-duplicates.
y. I GU say that the receipt which he pre-
sented was endorsed?
A. 1t was, sir.
=. Explain to the Court what you mean
by endorsed?
A. Well, sir, l am positive that it was
endorsed on the back or front of it. My
impression is that it was endorsed on the
face OIL.
q. What was on the face?
A. A. G. Packer.
. Had you ever seen or known Packer
before that?
A, never had seen him.
y. When the Lieutenant Governor pre-
sented that paper did you read it before you
entered the bank?
A do not recollect, sir, if did or not.
L know | read it before | paid the money.
l read it to see if [ could see the names.
knew it was receipt, and it was Barren
tines pardon.
Q. You knew it was your receipt, and
that you received a pardon for Burrentine
when you paid out the money?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What led you after receiving the pa
per from him, to go and get the money out
OF the bank? Was it because you read the
paper, or because OF what he said that made
you 60 to the bank?
A | am not certain. l do not recollect
whether 1 had seen the pardon.
Q | am not talking about the pardon.
a. Well, what he said.
Q. What did he say?
A. He said he had the pardon for Barren
tine, and he wanted the money for Packer.
and [ went and got it. They were his
words.
Q. When you received the money from
Gibbs what instructions did he give In re-
gard to it?
a. He gave me instruction to pay it to
A. G. Packer whenever he brought the par
don.
Q He gave you instructions to pay to
Packer; but you did not pay it to him, did
you?
Q. You paid it to the Lieutenant Govern
4. Yes, sir.
Q. You were notified what the money
was for?
a. Yes. sir.
~ ~. 4 ID i
A. | did not.
@ Did you know anything of the gen
uinene>s of his name on the face or the
back?
A. No, sir; knew nothing about it.
@. You required no proofs from the Lieu
tenant-Governor when he presented the
paper?
Q. Wen, now, were you instructed by
Gibbs to pay the money TO Packer, or to the
person who presented that paper with
Packers name upon it!
A. do not recollect If anybody else's
name was mentioned.
O. Would you have paid the money to
any body without bringing the pardon?
A. No, sir; both had to come together.
@. What did you do with that pardon?
A. don't recollect how long | kept it
maybe one week, or two weeks, before L
gave it to his father, Henry Barrentine.
you paid out on presentation OF this receipt!
A. Yes, sir; this very money.
Q. Had you any other deposit there!
A No, sir; no other.
O. Did Lieutenant-GOvernor Davis live in
Columbus at that time?
A. Yes, his family lived there
O. When did his family move there?
A. | do not recollect. His family was
living there, and he had bous hit residence.
Q. Was he living there at the time that
Gibbs left the money with you?
A. | do not know.
@. Did YOU see him in town that Sunday
that Gibbs gave you the money?
A. No, sir.
Q. Did you see him the day before, Sat-
urday?
A. | do not think | did.
Q. Don't YOU recolect that on that even
ing the Lieutenant-G Governor and Wylie
johnson passed you in a buggy?
A. don't recOllect.
Manager Barksdale: desire to offer this
proclamation as evidence:
OPFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATED
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. !
I. James Hill, Secretary of State, do GER
tify the attached transcript of a proclama-
ton reward of $500 for ThOs. III. Barrentine
and Wallace Dpwsidg is true and correct
! copy of the original now on file in this Of
| flee.
Given under my hand and the great seal
of the State of Mississippi here
seal of unto affixed, this 18th day of Feb
| STATE. ruary, 1876.
JAMES HILL,
| Secretary of State.
PRoCLAMATION-$500 REWARD.
| Whereas, 1t appears by information re-
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