Bribery and Piracy!; The [Gallows] Cheated Wilful and Malicious Loss of the Steamship Shooting Star. Fraud Unparalelled! $125,000 Swindle! (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. 1870 Excerpt: ...should be applied pro rata to the payment for the loss on the freight, decided me to accept, although I relinquished some seven or eight thousand dollars which justly belonged to me from the Underwriters, beyond what Butler agreed to pay, and which Mr. Ames had promised time and again that he would secure or reserve for me before he paid Plummer. But to the proposition: Mr. Butler agreed to pay one of his protested notes and take up the other two, and give his note at eighteen months date with Oakes Ames' endorsement, for, and sideration of which I should relinquish all claims against the Boston Underwriters, and when called upon, go to New Orleans or elsewhere in the United States or. the Island of Cuba under the direction of A. B. Merrill, at a fair compensation--Butler and Ames paying all expenses. Here was an unjustifiable effort on the part of Butler and Ames to deprive me of my rights, and remedies as against the underwriters, a matter with which they had nothing to do, except to break faith and render their promises and professions alike idle. % After reflecting upon the proposition until the 8th of January, I decided to accept it, and on that day was for the first time introduced to Mr. Merrill by Mr. they had the only dangerous man now safely muzzled for a time, and confidently relying upon the double dealing of Merrill in secret collusion with Mansfield, and a little more money to bribe government officials, and thus through the statue of limitation escape the threatened danger to themselves and their "stripped pig " partner. It is proper that I should notice the dire threats made against my life by Mansfield, should I ever dare to visit New Orleans and that too over his own signature, which read thus, "If he comes here he will neve...