New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-18
ELLISON IN CHICORA, S. C.
u,s EXPERIENCES. AS TOLD IN COUNT
--..x rrosr OF MARK TAPLEY IN EDEN.

u,s EXPERIENCES. AS TOLD IN COURT
w., THOSE, OF MARK TAPLEY IN EDEN.
c.sr,.s Dtckens's story in Martin ChuSsewi'
80 .-,.,s ~ Mark Tapley in Eden was rehearsed
ns,ore Justice Beach in the Supreme Court yes
,ardav on the hearing OF a motion 10 Vacate '"o
order OF arrest upon which Edwin a. noie.
was arrested in a suit brought against MN anu
DANIEL L. Risley by William Ellison 10 recover
damages for having been induced TO purchase a
farm at Chicora, S. c. from the oeie"u""''
false representations
Ellison is the Mark Tapley OF the case ne was
IN March last a conductor on the brooklyn fies
Eanid Transit Railroad and had saved h'''e
money He was DESTROYS Of purchasing iarih Oh
which 70 spend the remainder of his days ana was
attracted to the Chicora region by glowing au.er-
,,senents Chicora was pictured as another Eoen.
1-er,,le pains wooded mountains ana crys.a'
snrings were only a few OF the advantages Oh INC
favored spot The firm which controheo 'he s"io
~ Ch,cora was the South Carolina Land ana Lum-
Der Company, OF which the uelehuoli'' 'N'' "
sole agent in New-York.
rr,iso, purchased a tract OF land at Chcora, ana
u,en, there with his wife in April last. but he al
leges that he could not find his farm even VIII"
the assistance OF Mr. Risley and MS corps Vi gu,
veyors He demanded that his money be re'urneu
and not getting IT, instituted action at law. Inc
defendant Hance. is employed In Ris'eys new"
York office in Chambers-st., and. as hisiey couiu
NOT he found here Ellison had him arrested nance
gave as security a bond OF the Lawyers ou0'!
Company and released from Luuio" o".e'
Jau His lawyer asked Justice Beach TO cancer .ne
bond and vacate the order of arrest contehui"e
that the sale was perfectly legal and BONA nue. '
the land was there. that it only neeoeu " oo
drained and that II was well worth the money
which Ellison had paid for 1t.
George Mann who appeared for Ellison. cnarac-
1erized the application the most audacious ne
had ever heard Of He said that there were people
who looked on Dickens's tale OF MARX dap app ,ah
pure nction, but II was not to De conPdds arenca
The experiences of poor Ellison. The only oergnCe
between Tapley and Ellison, he SAID, was tndt tap
lev and his friend. Martin ChuzZewit mao pousns
some land al Eden whereas whereas d nnponT,atey have
been sold by the gallon than by the acre:
more. when Rsley accompanied Eiis4 b 70 bSs Farm
he unable TO point out 10 MIN ,vd 81 ra
was and told him II was somewhere Tounu 'I r, y
Not only" said Mr.. Mann, did he sell MN "a
q, tPb,,sdelnba The day before they went 10 see
Chicora he sold him house, winch ne I staleo ea
on rollers within a mile and half of Ellison es
tate and got SO for H. Ellison to bear the ex-
pense of transpanting the four-roomea a ma, ., nv
his farm but he could find no pace 70 put H. vi"
Counsel said that when Risley could not p4inI
out the land Ellison had bought he offered MN mn
any other land of which he had the sale; lnsteau;
Ellison declined. after having seen ms 49, i -
brought his wife and his household gooGs Dack ~
New-York. AS Hance who did the puss S,, Who
FOR the firm was the only citizen OF the state VINO
could be found he had him arrested In tle dC'!Vn
brought recover his money and damages LOT tue
Mr. Mann said the whole thing was a gross
swindle and as a proof of this ne SAID thal tnS
matter had been exposed in the newspapers: anu
that Risley and his partners had not dared 10
reply 10 the charges made against them: he duutn
that only affidavit submitted on klsiey osnal
was that of citizen in this State as the prlncias
were careful not TO within the jurisdiction OF
the court. x .,,saa q, tho
acconnt Of the tribulations OF Ellison. took the
papers and reserved his decision