Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence of Witnesses (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...go up alone? A. No, there were a number of other gentlemen with me. Q. Do you know them? A. I do not remember them now. There were a number of them went up in the interest of Rochon. Q. Did you have any conversation within a day or two after this interview in the Government Offices with Mr. Baxter about repayment of money A. Never in my life. Q. Or with Mr. Whelan' A. Nor with Mr. Whelan. It is only recently that I heard of this three thousand dollars (S.S.000) in the Press, I saw it first from the Empire, and then the Gazette. Q. And you had no conversation with Baxter or Whelan? A. Not any to the best of my knowledge and recollection and I have a very good memory. Your Honor, this gentleman, (Mr. Stuart) spoke to me about a note to Pacaud. I wish it understood that I never had anything to do with Pacaud. This note of one thousand dollars came from Beausoleil to me to be discounted, 1 discounted it. When the note was due, it was not paid and I took a renewal note, and the way that note came to be discounted by Whelan was he had heard something about it and said in Quebec, " I shall cash that note," and I said if you do it, I will give you a discount on it and he gave me a cheque for nine hundred and eighty dollars, ($980)'charging twenty dollars for discounting it, and when it came due, that note could not be found. Mr. Pacaud and a number of his friends wanted to pay that note. That is the only thing I ever was mixed up in with Pacaud in any manner, shape or form. ' By Mr. Stuart: Q. This cheque for nine hundred and eighty dollars (i? )80) given to you was on the Bank of British North America, was it not? A. 1 could not say. I never remember. I know that the money came from Whelan, to discount the note. Q. Have you not got that cheque now? A. No...