The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-06
MIR. O'SULLIvAN'S LOSS.
Four Thousand Five Hundred Dollars Gone
after "a Night In the Barrooms.

In 1864 the Chcvalicr Wyckoff offered to
Mr.. Marshall o. Roberts an old Mexican grant
to build n railroad from the head of ship nav-
cation on the Coataacoalcos river to Tehuante-
pee on the Pacific coast This means OF cstub
fishing communication between the two oceans
pleased Mr.. Roberts. and he employed tho
Chcvalier to 60 to Mexico and obtain promise
from the Emperor Macmillan that he would
not interfere with the grant If an effort to build
the road should be made. The ship in which
the Chevalicr sailed was wrecked. lie returned,
and sent as his substitute james =. OSullivan.
Mr.. O'Sullivan went. but the scheme was subse-
qurniy given up.
Eight years after his journey Mr. O'Sul-
livan began SUIT in New York against
Mr.. Roberts for sj00oO. uvcrring that
MIR. Roberts had promised to give him in
payment for his services enough stock of the
proposed company 10 yield that sum in gold.
lie presented what rurportcd to be n copy Of n
letter proposing such a rccompcnsc, and at the
bottom of which it was claimed MIR. Roberts had
signed his initials to the words. " | concur il
completed" Tho Chcyalicr Wychoir testified.
according to Mr. Roberts. that he had no recol-
lection Of such letter. The original was in n
coat which Mr.. OSullvan said he had hung up
in IA hotel and which was stolen.
sam Ward slil that he had seen tho original
Henry Hurlbuft testified TINT Mr. O'Sullivans
li'e had been endangered ny his trip to Mexico.
Mr. Roberts testified that he did not write his
Initials on such "A letter. The jury gave the
plainun 100000 and the Judge set the verdict
aside NJ contrary to law.
A second suit was Instituted about a year and
half ago. in the Snrerof Court in this city.
aint the Jury sayG 0sgllIyan verdict Of s3oq9O.
Gently. when the matter was again pressed by
Mr. OSulvan; Mr., Roberts instructed his law
ycrs. Mcssrs. Nnndcrpoel. Green Cunning. TO
settle II possible. and on Tuesday last he
learned that an adjustment had been made.
The amount paid TO Mr.. O'Sulliyan has not
been made known: but he received a check in
satisfaction Of his demand on Monday. nnd at
once converted IT into money. Tint night he
DEPOSITED S6.15O IN IN" safe oi the fIith Avenue
Iiotsl saying that he would draw II out the next
day. as he wanted TO pay n debt To- friend. On
Tuesday morpng at about ~ o'clock he drew
the money. lie got into hack and was driven
to a saloon in Fifth avenue. opposite the
s.. German Hotel. Thence he Went to the
fremont House where he has been s,nying Tor
ubout SIX months. and loft tl70. Then he dro,,
10 the Mercantile Trust Company. in the Elut-
ghle building, and there deposited about 8 800
day hr went tp the Hotel Brunswick. D.lmon-
lcos. the Holman House. the SIN lair House
Trouilh'S saloon under the southern Hotel and
oth.r places OF the kind He was seen n one
OF tn - places 10 pay $50 al one tmr for drinks
Tor himself and friends. At night he went out
from the fremont House with n gentleman well
known Il that hotel They visited lager beer sa-
iio9n on Washington $ Nar, And went from there
800 grrcnba X TO pay Tor drinks. II could moi
be- chang a there. and his friend took it hark ,c
the fremont House to got change. While there
! he Was urged 10 hting Mr.. O'Sullivan back to
/ TIA" hotel H. did So, and tho latter consented
/ 10 depust with the clerk nNc 500 grcenhH'ks
/ Then he went buck to the saloon on Washing
| ton square with his ,rirnt. ho,h aitcrward re-
turning t. Trouilh'-. At about o'clock in th'
morning his friend left him, saying that b,
| could not stay up any later.
The barkocpcfs say that OSullivan went on
OF IA" saloon about ten minutes after his irlcn,
| went away. He wh~ then alone. The nigh
House
entered tho hotel az about o'clock or halt pas
| ,. Ia the morning he came down stairs anC
reported that he had hern robbed of all his
amount taken from him at $4,000. Dcte tive,
| Dunno and l,adiord traced his movements al
/ through thc previous day. and found no goo.
| opportunity lor robbery except during tho IN
tcryal between his departure from Troulll',
| and his arrival 20 the fremont House. about ~
| hour. No trace OF him during TINS time has
been lis 'ov.rei. lnt h, cannot recolle,t VIII hlthei
| he went OF what he did.