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FbRTLASD, Feb, 14, 1878,^ To the Editor of the Statesman:The Dowell-Griswold case was up, again yesterday before the U, S, Cow-7 I m * venuem issioiHT and from present appeunm 'ces the ease may be mi turned up as aac*^ follows: aiiy 1at, A bill will be filed in behalf of Unit the 1 nited States ami II. F, Howell ;irri\ i to-day in the United States Circuit ^. Court to declare W. C. Omwolti inaol elt; * vent according to section 246fi of the taiiu l,f® revised statue of the U id ted States, any sal which btatuai gives the United States r(Ht]\ ely priority in all cases of insolvency. It ^ also charges fraud between Griswold * and his wife in the matter of the (!ris ‘ ‘ ' t ^ wold block in your own city, and seeks ^ ^ to subject the property to the lutyment port s in of the judgment of the United .Stats. (Jbif r 0f It was the opinion of many that the , ., United States would get Ijet on the ..11 ‘ execution but Mrr Dowell went to '|141 your city lost week and searched the Vls*'1 een records and produced the above statues Chii ex- w liich puts a new phase in these mat-j tern It is now* almost certain that , the United States will get the greater y K part of his property and. those w ho ' h a have leen diligent in incumbering ^' ner Mr. Griswold's property will have, to fron ap. take back stats and look for the■ payment of their claims after tiie Uni- * ted States judgments are satisfied.It appears from the bill and from tion one Mr. Griswold which was taken y ester- tnaj the day before the United States Cummis- for ear. skmers that Mr. Griswold filed a peti ^avI tion in bankruptcy in New York in'’,0r ' 1876, and that he neglected to put Lis jions property in this city in his schedule of | s dess bankruptcy and large amount* of Ore- I feci hur* gon war script amounting to over £4, I Ju! Tmr. 000. By these means Mr, Griswoldinduced his creditors to compromise j v ' un 14 with him for less than 50 cents on the j U1’ face dollar without knowing or mistrusting first that Mr. Griswold wojs the owner of a I abi was fine brick block in Salem, and without I tjlf jjere knowing Mr. Griswold had upwards of j ju 820,000 of Oregon Indian war script junpaid. This the attorneys for thti®** and United States, say will make the brick | an lisfix- block liable to the United States foi Bu their judgment, and fur all hie old New York debt* wlAh were compromised at prices by the Juthis pro}**rt inv Indiansevei
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Jacksonville Oregon Sentinel
Jacksonville, Oregon, US
Wed, Feb 26, 1879
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