Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-12
tive. | did not know anything pos.

w.. itlst titt loIlOWS.
"a would trust them for $1,000"
In answer to interogatory No. 10,
DIR. Stewart says:
81 bought some spirits of q. w.
lyman. Am not positive as to the
number of barrels; think it was i'm
the ncighborhood of ten or fifteen. /"
Then follows inrcrogatory 90, in
words as follows:
"When was that, and what did You
pay for it ?"
Ans.--"'ro the best of my recollec-
ton it wos in April, 1872. / don't
rccollcct what / did pay for it,
These admissions corroborate the
statements of Edmcnds, Lyman and
Clark, and show that DIR. Stewart
actually did write letters of recon-
mcndation and got part of the goods
which he says he don't recollcct how
he paid for and Lyman says he never
did pay for, except about 800; and
just what l charge him with doing in
the promises. The next thing find
in the record, is the day book kept
by O. w. Lyman & CO., during the
time they were in business, show
ing charges to different parties regu-
larly from March % to April 90. 1872.
The first charge in which is March
25:
ID. w. STEWART, DR..
To Z barrels of whisky, | bar
rel Jamaica rum, Dbl. bran
dy and | Dbl. of gin Si01 81
March 90, to 5 bbls whisky. E. 22I.62
April 20, to 3 bbls. whisky. 92.7S
Making total of. .$SOS.7l
This book closes on the Doth day of
April 1872. Next find that on the
government register, kept by o. w.
Lyman, in which all the LIQUOR
boughtand sold by o w Lyman & Co.
were registered, all the barrels stated
in the above account, properly regis
tered, corresponding in dates. kind,
and quantity sold to ID. w. Stewart !;
also on the 3Oth day of April (the last
item Oh the book,) sold to d. w.
Stewart, two barrels of whisky, one
A and the other As gallons, which, at
one dollar per gallon, would make
$500, making total of 1897. Il.
Next find in the record that o. w.
Lyman in his examination makes the
following statement. In answer to
interrogatory 100 he says:
CDR. Stewart, Byron Clark, O. w.
Lyman & Co. got theirs at cost and
in answer to interrogatory l29, he
says 'that DIR. Stewart paid me some
money--about $780,"
lntcrrogatory 132-IIow much old
liquors did you get of him in pay
ment?
Ans.-None the same as none.
got little or 5 gallons.
And in another examination Of O.
w. Lyman l find the following state
ment:
"Cross Interrogatory will YOU
explain what you mean by paying
DIR. Stewart about $500?
Ans.-Dr. Stewart got some liquors
of me to about the amount of $500,
which he was to pay for in old liq-
TORS. l never received the liquors
from said Stewart. because / had no
demand for them up to the time
sold out TO Clark. or up to the time I
was thrown into bankruptcy, and
since that time did not think | had
Il right TO the goods"
The next thing find that Lyman
turned the whole stock that was left,
over to Byron Clark under purport-
cd bill OF sale, on the Both day of
April, 1872. Again there was a letter
on file as evidence in the case OF q.
w. Lyman g. Co. in bankruptcy,
marked No. is, and identified by q.
w. Lyman as having been written by
him as follows:
lnterrogatory No. l3-Will you
examine the letter here shown you,
marked No. Is, and state whether you
wrote the same, and in what year?
Ans.-Ics, sir: / wrote The letter in
the year 1873, in answer to a letter
received from NJ. Edmonds. The
substance Of this letter was as follows
OTTuMwA. Iowa, May "A, ISL.
r. Edmonds, Esq: DIR SlR-Yours of
- date at hand. With regard to
the money you wish me to send,
will say that | havn't got dollar,
and am out of business, so you see
where am. Byron Clark and ID. w.
Stewart have got il all, and wont
pay me. ] will tel you how we can
get some money by having them to
pay. | have already spoken to my
attorney about it, and if l blow ON
them they will have to pay all my
creditors.
There is l6 other letters of o. w.
Lyman, and a vast amount of other
evidence taken in the cases, which
shows that the firm of o. w. Lyman
NJ f.rh 4,
parties comprising the firm,) was in
business just thirty-tivc days, from
March 18th to April 30th, 1872, and in
that time they bought on credit
$l,j53.05 worth of liquors, and never
paid one single dollar for it, and
that it was bought with pre-
meditated design and intent to
deirand all persons who might
be induced to credit the firm. How
far DR., Stewart is compromised by
this evidence, leave to the voters of
Wapcllo county to judge for them
selves. AS for myself, with all due
Difference to thc opinions Of the hon
orable gentlemen who signed the
statement in the last issue of the Dem
oerotD | am fully convinced in my
own mind that DIR. Stewart got in the
neighborhood Of 5000 Of the proceeds,
which he ought to have paid or sur
rendered to the creditors of o. w.
Lyman 81 Co.
In placing these facts before the
public, | may be permitted to say that
| have no malice, hatred or ill-will
against DR.. Stewart, but finding a
persistent determination on the
part of some of the would-be lead
ing Democrats of Wapello county to
make it appear that the statements /
have made are false, in self-defense l
have been induced to place before the
public some of the evidence which
supports me in my convictions, and if
any one is not satisfied with what /
have given them, the record is in the
office of the Clerk of the United States
District Court at Keokuk, which they
can examine. Also copies of portions
of it are in my office for examination.
A. w. CASTOR.