The Portland daily press., 1885-09-11
j.. wINsLow JONES.
Opposition to His Discharge In In
solvency.


A hearing has been in progress in the In
solvency Court the past few days, in regard
to the petition for the discharge of j. Wins
low Jones in insolvency, before Judge Pea
body. There are number of directors to
the discharge including the First National
Bank of Portland; Addie M. Barker, admin
istratrix of the estate of the ! late Volney
Barker; Jonathan ingalls,; CumherlandIBon
90. and Spofford & Jewett. There are
eighteen specifications of grounds of Cppesi-
ton on the parte the objectors.- These are
that he fraudulently omitted from the sched-
ule of his assets and concealed from the
assignee the following st7sQe1i r:
First-A note of A. M. Benson for ss2642s.
Sec0nd-A share of stock in the corporation of
j. WinslOw Jones g. Co. owned by him. ~ - !
Third-A sum OF money standing in his name in
L the Maine Savings bank, OF $104.74- -.
F. CEbayenpprt i the Connecticut MUTUAL Lie
Insurance Company, with the assignment of
same to Jones, for the amount Of $500.
Fifth-A claim and award of referees sn his
favor against j. b. Lincoln of Boston amounting
to $500.
Sixth-Certain letters patent consisting Of the
process of canning meats, for churn for Knife re-
moving green corn from cob, cutter head for re-
moving green corn from cob, for machines for the
Seventh-Certain books relating to his estate
and business the ledger, cash book and journal
of J. Winslow Jones s Co. Qimited9 in which. re-
were kept during 1880 and 1881. W.
| Eighth-His letter books, in which were copied
letters written by him in 1888, and in JAN, Feb.
Mch. and April, 1884 and press copies of letters
written during that period by him
Nnth--That having on the 9th of February,
1885, acknowledged that one Alfred Jones had
proved against his estate in. insolvency false
debt of $fJ,75197, and did not disclose the same
to the assignee within 80 days after such knowl-
Tenth.That being a merchant and trader at
SAID Portland from lst of January, 1888, to the
tD16th of May, 1884, he did not during said period
keep cash book or other proper books of account
= Eleventh-That in the course of his examination
ordered by the court and taken in said proceed
ingS, he has sworn falsely in a material matter,
viz: That he did not know what had become of
the books of the corporation of j. Winslow Jones
CO. Hhited ana eaab sneg contained no ac
Twelfth-That he has sworn falsely in his ex-
animation in stating that he had no other bust
Jones, ~ Cos aimited) during the years of 1880
that he had no private business of his own from
the time of the failure of said corporation of j.
Wipslow Jones & Co.. Qimited) which was on or
nencement of proceedings in insolvency, May is,
1884. s.gg
Fourteenth That he swore falsely in stating
that during the years 1882, 1883, and that part
Of the year lSS4, prior to commencement of such
proceedings he mad no letter books in which he
kept Ln6 aetteF press copies OF letters WRITTEN Dy
/ him preOpieS of said letters
Fifteentli-That he swore falsely in stating that
he had no letter books containing letter press
copies of letters written by him during the year
| 1884, prior to commencement OF these proceed
ings and kept no copieso the letters during that
time. q
Sixteentf-That he swore falsely in stating that
sundry copies of letters produced by him were all
the copies that he retained Of his correspondence
failure Of %nseW
Co, oimited) andthe time of commencement OF
4 these proceedings. vits s't.l ss.el
| Seyenteenth-That he fraudulentlyf omitted
from the schedule of his assets two notes Signed
by f. 9. Davenport for the sums of $4,000 and
S267. 25 respectively with the intent thereby tC
defraud his creditors and prevent the same from
coming to the knowledge and into the possession
| Egllteentfl-.That he fraudulently omitted Ger
tain policy of life insurance on fhe1ife of &C
Davenport, issued by the Connecticut Mutual
| Life Insurance Company, of the sum of 81 1850
Davenport to said Jones, with intent thereby t.
| defraud his creditors and prevent the same from
coming to the knowledge and into the possession
III. D. Hadlock, Esq, appears for j. Wins
low Jones; Symonds & Libby, Strout &
Holmes, and Snow & Payson appearing fol-
| the creditors,
William PlHowe Joseph A. Burns, Col
A. NJ. Benson and Fl. M. Sylvester gave tes-
| timony, in addition to numerous dispositions
| in support of the allegations of the creditors
| In behalf of Mr. Jones, Mr.. Hadlock in
troduced the testimony of S. G. Strout, Fl
| w. Gage and F. S. Strout, of the firm o.
Strout, Gage& Strout, who have acted al
| counsel for the firm of j. Winslow Jones &
| Co., limited Their testimony contradicted
that of the witnesses for the directors
and the allegations charged.
l. Arguments were commenced Wednesday
and continued through yesterday. Mr.. Had
| lock argued that the allegations of the cred
itors were disproved by the testimony. AT
the adjournment of the hearing yesterday af
ternoon, Mr.. Hadlock had reached the eight
| allegation. The hearing will be continued
at O'Clock this morning. r.