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riti-*y3.itFrom the Daily Salem Statesman.GRLSUOhD A7W IDOWKIX.Ha\turibeerpillc4 4 4 4(1 1-11 li»g)trn3-ieyieitIfbo;,sotin Gdied4 4Old4 ftbersetc.4 444 4 4mid44 4 4 44Agarc44harlPortland, Feb. 14, 1ST9.The Dowell-Griswold case v.'»3 up again yesterday before the U. S. Commissioner j y®® and from present appearances the case may •(ire: be summed up as follows : lie 1A bill will be tiled in behalf of the United States and B. F. Dowell to-day in the United States Circuit Court to declare W. 0. Griswold insolvent according to section 346o of the revised statutes of the United States, which statute gives the United State3 priority in all cases of insolvency. It also charges fraud between Griswold and his wife in the matter of the Griswold block in your city, and seeks to subject the property to the payment of the judgement of the United States, it was the opinion of many that the United States would get beat on the execution but Mr. Dowell went to your city last week and searched the records and produced the above statute which puts a new phase in these matters. It is now almost certain that the United States will get , the greater part of his property and those *oi(l who have been diligent in encumbering Mr. e 1 Griswold’s property will have to take back seats and look for their payment of their claims after the United States judgments are satisfied.It appears from the bill and from Mr. Griswold’** deposition, which was taken yesterday before the United States Commissioner, that Mr. Griswold liled a petition in bankruptcy in New York in 1878, and that he neglected to put his property in your city in his schedule of bankruptcy and. large amounts of Oregon war scrip amounting to over §4,000. By these means Mr. Griswold induced his creditors to compromise with him for less .than 50 cents on the dollar without knowing or mistrusting that Mr. Griswold was the owner of a fine.brick block in Salem, and without knowing Mr. Griswold had upwards of §20.000 of Oregon Indian w ar scrip unpaid. This, the attorneys for the United States say, will make the brick block liable to the United States for their judgment, and for all his old New York debts which were compromised at inadequate prices by the concealment of property in this city and the Oregon Indian war debts weich he attempted to cover.“Visitor.”fortedandwaspeasU'-HliteimarHeof t He of t of Iad \'iLCaviwasitse!ingwhi est : torYori norof tcal
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Corvallis Gazette
Corvallis, Oregon, US
Fri, Feb 28, 1879
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