The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-16
HON'S SHAKEN FAITH.
Will Put No More Conf
dence in Railroad
Princes.
BUT TRUST TO THE CHANCELLOR.
Mr.. Barnes Told Them Pretty Tales,
and Now Wants a Hundred
Feet for Sixty.
BUT TRUST TO THE CHANCELLOR.

| iAAdstSty III SuduCtVy IllIHiu VI. T.
See is now engaged in taking testimony
in the suit which the Mount Zion Sanctu-
| ary has begun against the Jersey City
and Western Railroad, as the branch Of
the Lehigh Valley across this county is
known. Mr.. Reon Barnes. President Of
the road, purchased sixty feet of the
Sanctuary peoples land for his road, and
they had such perfect faith In their fell
low men that they allowed Mr.. Barnes to
do ali their business for them in the mat
ter
Some time after the sale the company's
engineer came along and st k ed off sew
enty-ei9ht feet which they claimed The
company had bought.
The railroad people refused to make
restitution, and the Mount Zion people
retained Mr.. Mingo ]. Currie to file a pill
in Chancery 10 recover the land. Messrs.
Collins and Corbin represent the railroad
company.
The first witness was Mr.. Robert jack
son. Secretary Of the association, who
testified that In June, 1880, II gentleman
| called upon him and gave him his card,
upon whicn was engraved "Reon Barnes.
| President of The Jersey City and
Western Railroad" He said he wanted
10 buy strip of land sixty feet within
Git Sduct udTy leuCt uue. I16 pdCeu IL OH
and pointed out where the line wonld
| terminate IRON the fence line. Mr..
| Barnes offei Ell $1,000 for the property,
and stated tnat he would remove the
buildings TO any point they should desig-
| nate, remove the shrubbery and leave
the grounds in as good physical condition
as he found them.
MR.. BARNES AND HIS OFFER
Mr.. Barnes said that he was authorized
| by the company to ,ffer 81. 600 for the
| property and asked Mr.. jackson what he
! IhoughJ it was worth.
| Mr.. Jackson replied that IL it was left
| to him individually to sell he would ask
$4,000 for 1t. Mr.. Barnes ridiculeu that
and sait that if the company would
| give $4,000 for 1t he would give
| IL 200 out OF his pocket, making S. 900 in
all. The Sanctuary finally agreed to sell
| for s. 900, aud when the contract of sale
| was brought TO the officers 10 sign they
objected because the description called
| for one hundi ed feet instead of sixty.
| Mr.. Barnes explained that by saying
| that all his purchases were made that
| way, 100 feet being tne right of way, and
| witness understood that the Sanctuary
| was selling only sixty feet from its fence
| line
Some time afterward Mr.. Barnes called
| with Il lawyer to close up the bar:ain.
He had a deed bu; the officers declined TO
| sign that AS it also called for one hundred
| feet and Mr.. Barnes made the same ex-
| plauation, saying that the extra forty feet
| represented the width of Canal avenue
| and reiterated his statement that only
| sixty feet of the SanciuMy's property y
| would be taken. Mr. Barnes urged them
to sign, and sail that if they didn't
s,,ooo would wtould :, ooa cost II. them a,so from rom
| from the towpath and in taking the one
| hundred feet for the right of way the
| company would take forty feet of Canal
| avenue and sixty of the Sanctuary land.
PRESIDENT HANCOCK AND HIS FAITH
Mr.. Martin d. Hancox, Presl deul vi the
Sanctuary, told about the renets of his
faith, and said that they were peculiar
people iu the sense that the Lord said he
would made them a peculiar people. Mr.
Hancox then went on to say:
1--WE are not litigious people and
would ra her suffer wrong than defend
ourselves. nad there been only fonr or
five feet taKen of our land III width by
two hundred in length aud twenty
we would uvt have said anything about
it or have commenced these proceedings,
but when tue amount OF land taken
seemed to be SO great as eighteen feet,
by TWO hundred aud twenty ieet, and as
we were the custodians aud trustees of
Fathers work, and as others are
Interested in the cause of Christ and in
this work which we repre- sent, why, after
much prayer. we were led to believ We It
WAS the Lords Will Tor US to comineu ce
this suit to recover the land 80 unjustly
taken"
MOUNT ZION STATION.
Witness aisu testified that among the
considerations with which MIR. keon
Bunes sought to dazzle the Sanctuary
into selling him the land. were promises
that the road would put q
station on the properly, which would
De called Mount u un;" that
QUE OF their your z men might be put into
the ticket office; that Il re0ate wouid be
allowed upon all pa Sengers going to
Mount Zion and that some Of the offic RS
of the sanctuary should have free
passes.
at was so many years since we had
anything to do with Dn >iness," Mr. Han
cox continued, THAT we did not employ
Counsel but placed implicit confidence In
Mr.. Barnes, and he told us
that as he employed his lawyer
by the year, he would transact all The
business tor us. We acQuiesced in every
thiug he did We consented to his act
ing for us in every respect. We gave
him aut horty to go ou and act for US.
He even had Il seal made for us. The
co upauy hal no SEAL"
Mr.. Hancox corrulorated Mr. Jackson's
testimony To the Effect thit the Sanctuary
only intended TO sell sixty feet east of its
fence aud had no idea they had sold any
more.
MAYOR FAkR B,ATEN AGAIN.