The daily gazette., 1880-12-06
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tells you on the stand that it is worth
about 5000, and yet he tells you in Il
same breath that he decided 1t away for
$4,000. Now something is wrong. If
lie did that and enabled Myers to palm
1t off on the community Mr.. Money as
sists in perpetrating fraud-if fraud it
be. 1t NAV have been fraud at Dela-
ware City but unless they show it was a
fraud here at the time they attacked 1t,
and at each of the days they so attack
us it wont help them to show that Geo.
B. Money and James Henry were run
ming fIaud.
The truth is just this; after all this
fustian and abuse, after all the cry of
fraud, originating in the Every Evening,
going back to the Every Evening, and
covering up the Every Evening, burying
this editor beneath his own filth, this
cry of fraud has no single basis except
this: that they had some worthless assets
in their concern, but that don't make
| fraud. Why l have no doubt each of
the banks of this Stale to-day can show
us great number of promissory notes
| filed away that are not worth silver.
But because they have III their vaults
some worthless assets does 1t make them
a fraud? If they are substantial and
| have sufficient to meet their liabilities.
| We admit that the Dupage county land
is a worthless asset; but it is only $780,
90 in over 100000. The Dauphin coun-
| ty land moy not be worth as much
| as we claim. But let us see-Mr. Bird
made an admission last night that 1 was
stuck with that they had statement tf
| the Ferrees testimony and knew what it
would be at the trial. If they were not
| men of the highest credit they could
have brought some one here 10 have
| broken down their character. But they
| did not. Mr.. Fortenbaugh their witness
says: 81 am familiar to some extent
| with the value of land in Jackson town.
| Zip" and yet he never saw the land un-
| I'll 1878 when at MI. McCarrell's in
| stance (the lawyer of the Every Even
| ing) he went up to look at it, and the
second time, not sure that he could find
| it he took a guide with him to locate
tue land of which he comes here to fix
| the value. Mr.. Fouenbaugh they said
was a member of the Pennsylvania Leg
islature and counsel then spoke of our
legislators saying that it was the pride
of little Delaware that her men in Office
had been pure and untainted. l wish
could say as much Of the Harrisburg
Legislature. / remember not many
| years ago when there was Democratic
majority in the Legislature of Harris
burg and Simon Cameron bought the
United States Senatorship. Well Mr.
Fortenbaugh is member of the Penn
sylvania Legislature-L don't say of thai
Legislature-God forbid. l care moi
l l. ial n
have seen the biggest fools in the high
est places and have seen wise men oc
cupying humble stations. MIR. Forten
baugh says that he lived at Halifax. II
miles from Broad Mountain, and ba
been a seller of dry goods and grocerle
all his business life-does that give hin
any peculiar qualification to Judge o
The value of land? Mr.. Spayd in hi
deposition said he had been collecto
of taxes in jackson township, and wa
therefore presumed to know. Ii lik
the tax collector in Philadelphia he SIT
in his Office all day he does not sho'
| any special qualification to know til
value of land. Mr.. McGann tells you tn
only special qualification he shows is thi
he has cut off about 6 acres of wood tht
was 65 miles nearer to the railroad tina
our tract that is only l ! miles away froI
: the railroad These two other men VIII
went and examined the land one snow
day, went there about ten O'Clock an
came away about three.-Mr. Pierc
and Mr.. Pennington-whoM Mr.. Pierc
saws, walked up the mountain, aero:
the top of the mountain, aud then wall
ed on one side OF the mountain and the
down the mountain. Mr.. Penningto
has never been within $50 miles of th
place before and never heard of it an
says frankly he knows nothing abol
the value of land up there in Pennsy
vania. lhey mus. be hard driven
prove the value of the land.
Our witnesses on the Dauphin count
land, the Ferrees, were subjected to th
most searching cross-examinationsa an
stood 1t maufully, and. d.better witnesses
| never saw upon that stand or fairer mel
Leantler Ferree said, al have known tn
land for 18 or 90 years., ,Urlah E. Ferre,
"I reside in Millersburg, Dauphin O.
Pa; have resided there for II years; al
| nving now ABOUT ten miles of the Broa
Mountain tract; prior to moving to MI
ersburg l lived within two miles OF
have known the land at least 20 year
am very familiar with it; have bee
over 1t frequently and in every direction
4 Am familiar with til
value of timber and mountain lands /
Dauphin Co." Musser was the loves
and put the timber at S49,0 900, timbt
and land at 500 900, and the others fixe
tie value at about $4,000. Is there an
fraud there? Mortgages on this Ian
came to our hands II assets and we sho'
sou to-day that it is of value. In th
there is no evidence Of fraud about /
No man pronounced that fraud exceT
somebody connected with the Ever
Evening office No man has said it WI
a "rotten fraud" except this man (Croa'
dale), and we have showny You by the re
| port of the insurance committee tina
they do not report II fraud. We hav
shown by Mr.. Carpenter and others tina
they considered it solvent, and by tn
report of Mr.. MoFee that it was not
fraud and he licensed II as solvent col
poration under the laws of Delaware
He bfs put in this court plea of no
guilty, which means he didn't do IL. MI
Bird says he has done God and mau
service. Mr.. Bates says he was warrant
ed by the report of the committee ant
the rnmors spread over the land; AM
therefore there was no malice; 1t was
/ meritorious act and reflected credit ant
lustre upon all this mans after life. Doe
he tell you, like mau, by his pleas
"Y es, did do ~? No, he says l didn'
do IT," 1t would have been manly il
Wm. T. Croasdsle If he had faced 1t lik'
man-"Yes, did 1t. L did it for jus
the reason my counsel argued here, 4
was a proper and legitimate act and as {
public Journalist l was bound to do it,
/ would not then have said he twas 1