The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-01

paniss 20 bear part OF IT,
Did you ask him what he'd had TO
promiss?'
4 did not"
Weren't you interested in finding out
II any Of that money was used a. grease''
well. l had my suaptoioas.
You understood that was his method
OF doing bLsinessl-
Iwouldnt want 20 Eay that
You thought that Il was necessary 20
get q man OF Hamiltons type TO do what
you couldn't dol-
4 did
A letter was produced Of May ?. which
read:
Please deliver check to bearer. our
and signed Andrew Hamilton Il was
! IN a letter OF Buckley's addressed 90 Mr..
WILCOX, Buckley writing: The enclosure
Judge Hamilton requested me to hand
you, and thinking you would ike 20 see
i before seeing me l send Il herewith.
l will be around Tomorrow
STRANGERS NOW.
Mr., Wilcox said that he had tried to
get hold OF the representative OF the
National Surety Company, the Lawyers
and the Fidelity and Casualty Company.
but had been unsuccessful. In one letter
read ha wrote 10 Hamilton: This COM
pany II ready at once To fulfil its obi
D
have. Il attended 10 at once rather than
| plecemeal.
Finally he sent to Hamilton a check
| for 8.too. OF this amount the American
Surety Company contributed sS.e7e. the
United States Guarantees Company sac
and the lawyers Surety Company S37I.
Asked whether he ever saw Hamilton
| again he said:
AS a result Of the situation that arose
ne and ! parted and ! never spoke to him
IL appeared that after getting this
check Hamilton importuned WILCOX for
a thousand dollars more. In reply to a
question from MIR. Hotchkiss MIR. Wilcox
-aid that Buckley had bothered him sew
Buckley once ON Broadway in 1900 and he
started to talk to me about IL. I told him
that ! was annoyed the way Hamilton
had acted and that wouldn't talk about
1T
0KSE WOOD WAS AROUND.
There was a short note Ia the files shown
signed e. -. Wood II read:
Check for A. II. 70 be mailed 20 A. n =
Mr.. Wilcox said that he thought some
body had called At his once and left the
memorandum and that was how IL was
lett IN the correspondence file.
DO you know Mr. Wood?'
don't know him at all
Mr.. Wilcox said that he positively re-
fused 20 pay the extra thousand dollars
and that Hamilton and Buckley kept on
demanding it.
i Dill 1T ALL ALoNY.- SAYS HAMILTON
Finally Hamilton on June :. 1901. wrote
him this letter:
MT DEAR Mr.. WILCOX: Passing through
on my way to Albany I ind your letter
which has been forwarded here Its con-
tents surprise me My optnii on that all
Of the companies should share docs not
alter the fact that the expense was cennitely
known to and distinctly assured by you
Wholly through my interference the Ma
tional came In they did. what occurred
during my absence being the detail Of
time and method Of doing IT, I did say
TO you that rather than have the matter
fail after we had gone 80 far and made our
promises. that in order not to have them
broken ! would cut myself OF This was
before nnal action was taken and its ac-
ceptance distinctly by you before the Ma
tional had agreed to help. I shall be very
busy from now until my departu re-. too
busy TO call or discuss the matter II the
services rendered. balance 81 .OOO-let IL
pay h-h it does not there Is an end OF
the matter Yours truly.
1NDREw HAMnroN.
MOST REASONABLE CHARGE, WRITES
BUCKLEY
Still Mr.. WILCOX didn't paw and Ham
iltonhad TO sail abroad without the money
leaving u 20 Buckley 20 collect for him.
On July 10 Buckley wrote the following
letter:
DEAR Mn WILCOX I have word from
Judge Hamilton. dated Rome. sth instant.
vising me that you did not pay the bal
Ance on the o. 600 due on account Of bill
rendered | am sorry to learn this a. I
told the Judge you informed me you would
settle with him for the balance due in an
other way and expected Of course you
had done 80. the failure Of witch j. en-
barrassing I feel sure that with your
experience and knowledge of the sery ICES
rendered you know the charges made
by Judge Hamilton are most reasonable.
and therefore will be most grateful " you
will send me check 70 Judge Hamilton
order for the balance due. 80 that / can
deposit same 20 his credit here and so settl.
| up the matter Trusting this will ind you
well and with best wishes TO yourself and
Mr. Wilcox. believe me. very sincerely
/ yours. WTLLIAMH BUCKLEY
4 never told Mr. Buckley any such
thing said Mr.. Wilcox.
REPEAL BILL TWO YEARS LATER.
( The sequel OF this incident came IN
4 1913. It appeared from the correspondence
Buckley IN the meantime having failed
/ 20 collect the bill Of his friend Hamilton
but not forgetting Il. In 1908 a bill was
pat IN repeating the Krmn bill Mr.
hotchkiss wanted to know IL MIR. Wilcox
suspected that any OF his friends OF the
year before were putting up job on hun
I ITS evident that l suspected some
body. he replied
/ Buckley on February T. 1908. wrote Mr.
WILCOX as follows about the bill:
DEAR Mr. WILCOX I Was much pained
! whan I called you up At your once on Fri.
| day 10 learn that you had been so seriously
H. but Was glad that the worst was Ovei
and that YOU were on the improve. | my.
| self have undergone a siege. being con.
valescent from a severe attack OF typhoid
fever which overlook mo about the middl.
| Of October. what 1 desired to confer will
YOU about was regarding the within bill
I am reia bly, Informed that the Governor
would like to see IL passed a. well Hs Comp.
troller Grout. lsarn that the Nationa
are ready 20 JOIN TO protect their interest,
| with you and the lawyers. which actor
must be done at once. Kindly have who,
ever IL taking care OF your affairs confer
With me with reference to the matter Re.
GREETING that am obliged TO intrlds upos