The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-29
Another Lie Nailed.

Last weeks FREE PRESS took occa-
sion to expose the alliance between
Wise, of the Recieo and n man by the
name of White who has been in our en-
ploy, which seems to have affected the
latter individual very materially, as wit
ness this weeks IlecieW. Now while
it is not pleasant duty for US to i'm
pose upon the people Il matter Of no
particular interest to them, in justice
To ourself we shall make u single
statement of facts, in abutmcnt to the
several lies White has seen tit to pro-
nounce in weak endeavOr to set him.
self right before the public. and extri-
cate his master from Il particularly I'M
pleasant dilemma.
In the first place, we went to Minnc-
apolis to engage binder, did SO in the
person of one Mr. Lamb who not being
II finisher, recommended us to White
who at the time WAS out of job. We
called on White, explained matters to
him, and he Informed us that he owned
II bindery in Sioux City which lie
would sell, telling us at the time, of
what machinery and tools it consisted.
We accepted his proposition and were
to pay for it upon delivery on cars in
Mankato. We also provided him with
half-fare transportation to proceed to
Sioux City, pack and ship the material.
When the conversation took place as
regards the purchase of the machinery
we were particular to ask him if he
oWned the property unincumbered, to
which he emphatically replied he did.
No sooner had he landed in Sioux City
than We were the recipient of tcle-
gram stating that "money must he sent
by telegram before tomorrow noon, or
bindcry will be shipped to Chicago"
This ut once made us mistrust that
White had been misrcpresenting, and to
know the true situation we took the
first train and went to Sioux City. 1t
took but brief time to ascertain who
owned the bindcry and also to find that
White had not one cent interest in it,.
We went to ii. l.. Warner who owned
a half interest, and in whom was vested
the power to sell; told him our mission
and asked him if he was prepared to
turn over the material to us on pay.
ment of 5000, and what rights White
had in the matter that we could respect.
lie replied that White had written to
him in regard to purchase Of the same
and had the refusal at $4,000, but not
being supplied with funds, he (Warner)
would not turn it over to him. Mr..
Warner executed bill of sale to us,
we paid him his cash, and had, and
even now have, the audacity to pre-
sumo that the tools and machinery be-
long to us. Further than this White
wrote us letter from Sioux City stat.
ing that he would work for $l4.0O per
week, and he dare not deny 1t, and
there never was word said about $40.
Again we furnished White half fare
transportation for himself and wife
from st. Paul to MankatO. After he
came, we arranged on satisfactory
terms how he should work and he
placed his own figures on work done
for us-charging on many articles of
bindery twice what others would ask
for better job.
The assertion made by White in the ar
ticle in this weeks Recie.c, that he wrote
us he had been corresponding with IL.
Warner, and his figures were very rea-
sonable for some bindery machinery at
Sioux City," is "A lie from top to bot
tom. He never in his correspondence
or personal conversation mention ed
Mr.. Warmers name, until after we
went to Sioux City and ferreted out his
little scheme. Why, White even told
US in Bird store, in Sioux City, that
the bindery belonged to him, that he did
not owe one dollar on it, and this is
the face of the knowledge we had CLEANED
to the contrary.
The assertion that we refuse to pay
the trifling balance that will be due
him after the work he completed has
been delivered and accepted will do to
60 with the balance Of this young
scapegoat's lies. We have had too
much and too costly experience with
work that has been turned out by him
and refused, or accepted at q very great
discount, to advance money upon work
yet unaccepted and liable to be turned
back upon our hands. The mere de-
NAL that Wise owns the bindery is al.
together transparent. Everyone knows
that, and White acknowledged to more
than one that Wise was at the bottom of
the whole scheme.
About Whites paying the freight
charges is rather tim. That he did
pay portion of them the day the
bindery was taken from the depot is
acknowledged, anu he was credited up
with the amount upon our books next
day, as the ledger will prove.
If from the above, White and Wise
can gain any consolation they are wei
come to it. We can prove what we
say, and shall do SO in telling manner
if any farther lies cmanate from White,
We will picture him out as he is, and
not the Angel he would have people
think him.