New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-13
THE COURTS.
FISHs TRANSFER OF PROPERTY.

TESTIMONY ny GRANT WARDS FORMER CASHIER.
Lawyers +. n. and F. S. Bangs sat at one end
OF Referee Coles table yesterday and Cashier George f.
Spencer Of the late firm OF Grant Ward at the other
Near by Lawyer stephen g. Clarke. the counsel OF
James d. Fish. At the instigation Of Assignee
Morris they were trying to IND out
what right Mr. Fish had on December
OIL 1888 to transfer to his sons and relations six in
number property at siIth-ave and Thirteenth-st,
Thirty-fourth and Fifty-eghth sts. and the Harlem
ouainted with the ns OF tho books, M he had
been in, around about and among them for year a.,
ssting Receiver Davies in getting at their true inward
He first told OF the -four notes which Flsh ana
Others PIT IN as capital IN hs frn when u was Ue@
asked Lawyer Bangs sr. as ho mopped MS brow Being
thought IL might have been the other way; then those
notes would have been regular daisies.
After dead silence Mr. Spencer took up the ancient
bietorv Of te Fisb ami Ward INSTRUMENTATION patent
and said that December II, 1883 the firm had OUT
TO 600 That debt had afterward been metamor-
phosed into another debt with new notes and loans Inc
contract profit business was Immense. Among those get
ting profits on the contracts were Mr.. Bingham, Fred
crck BILL Zeno X Pcase, A. H. Graves benjamin FISH
Mr.. Bangs-J. Nelson Tappani A-No; he dealt direct
Csshier Spencer then told how Ward generously made
good these profits when he gave check representing
them Sometimes he put mp from ais own private ~
count; then be would put up" checks 10 FISH 70 make
good Fis's profits and 10 reimburse others. Thus no
paid the profits 70 those mentioned Although the notes
and loans aud outstanding obligations generally were
naid bT new loans tie business was a losing one from
February 90 1850 until matters got bad that money
taken from loans 10 pay the interest IaointlSs o
$4,000 900 were result The first notes IN this Kind
OF business issued February 2s lss2 and the
profit credited IN these entered In April. lse2
SIR Bang.-By what process In keeping books were
the profits arrived al Al dou't know There we're
large profits according TO the receipts according 70 mo
books there were none There checks OF profits
MIR Bnngs-Do You know whether the profits were cal
cuated ON true or false basis, or was u Az zone ar
bitrary A.-somc were made according TO certain
rates aud some arbitrarily ono contract OF SI2OVVO
f fhs Soo Pso"' Oh ''O'O''' ~ ''''' ;" We"
Mr. Banss-Do you know Of any arthmctical process
leading 20 such n result Al do not 49,.
Mr. Bangs-Do you know the aggregate value Of the
assets Of Grant & Ward A.-Abont $4,000. ,,
Mr. Bangs-ls there a class Of people who have claims
on receipts for profits profit arrangements A-fes
rive at There l. no record ~ thcm the books The
only ones found old ones in Warts desk Tie total
loaned go hat he balance of OBLIGATIONS. Including the
spcalcd contract business, is between sfOooOOo and
S5OOOOOO.
POSITION or 4 WOMAN ABOUT TO Re KISSED
Referee James r. Byrne sat in his Office yes
teay nj 40 20 broadway and took evidence IN favor OF
Prank j. Campbell who seeks absolute divorce from
Cassandra W. Campbell. Campbell Is travelling actor
engaged with Evans & Hocy's 'Parlor Match" Com
many ON November >. 1877 he was attached to Harry
Fnoch's Theatre In Philadelphia and was married the
same year 10 respondent Mr.. Campbell was then hand
some brunette age twenty-five and her gaycfy aud good
looks did not suffer any because she was widow The
following year they came ~ NeWYork and took house
~ No @65 West Twenty -nrsst., part OF whch thcy
occupied and tho rest they Jet 90 furnished rooms.
Among the dodgers Arthur hc' who WORKS IN n
parssoI and umbrella mandatory Il brofdway ana
tanai-at Niece j. vidOwer. use thiry-four. aud has
one little girl Mr. Campbell says that lie Is now living
with Mrs. Campbell lu FOrty-hrst-sL
Boatrce Alien kolr. OF No. 40 Vest sixteenthat' FUR
nishcs the remainder Of The story Tor the asseed nus
band She lolgcr also 20 TIE house and after rs
Howell had become the laudlgdy Mt. Campbell went on
the road with his company and VT CamP9en remalneu
- a oigcF. She saw Mira Campbell In Mcticc's room
several times and occasion he was bent over her
on the sofa as II kissing her.
The referee-Did he kirs her
The wtn.ss-Wel, the lady was IN the samo position
thar would assume myself II gnlng TO be kissed
fLnughtorl McGcc paid her for some robes che had
made for Mrs Campbell and aftcrwari went with that
lady To Long Branch where they stayed days one
time Mr. Campbell found MCGEE IN his wife's room and
there ensucd y row. IN when Mctice was defeated.
Samuel Dre.baoh, of No. ll2 Eighlh-aye., book
keeper IA The Western Union said that lie met the re-
spondent at private thcaiTicals IN house In West
Erhtcenth-sL: william Hatch aud William Titus were
also in the company aud they adjourned 10 oyster
saloon AZ Eighthavc. The witness
then gave compromising evidence In regard to tho
duct OF Mrs. Campbell,