34 MR. baker's remarks. 



innumerated, I should be decidedly for following up the Blow in 

 Canada, by the publication of such facts & circumstances as would 

 convict, in public opinion, some notorious offenders in ye U. S., par- 

 ticularly in N. York. This is a cheap course and places them either in 

 the way to the Gallows or beyond the power of pursuing their hereto- 

 fore successful career in villainy. 



The whole expence of such prosecution, if conducted with unity of 

 plot, I ara convinced would not exceed what was pd for ours in the 

 county of Hillsborough, or for ye conviction of Wingate & Peasley. 



Should you judge ye subject worthy of attention, & cannot, without 

 difficulty, employ a more suitable agent or agents, & should see fit to 

 furnish me, any time in May, with the above mentioned credentials, I 

 will, for $2000 outfit, engage to undertake the business, procure the 

 necessary evidence & aid, and within 60 days from the time of leaving 

 Amherst secure Burroughs & a suflicient number of his colleagues in 

 Montreal, or such of the States as they can be punished in & defray 

 every expence connected with the arrest & procuring the evidence, 

 till time of trial. If the business should not l)e done to your satisfac- 

 tion, I will return, at thirty days notice, such part as any three men 

 you may choose shall say, & if to your approbation & by your concur- 

 rence, will engage to refund the above sum in one year from its 

 receipt, & rely on such compensation as may be given by Banks in the 

 other States. 



If this communication is entitled to your consideration, I shall be 

 ready to receive any communication and attend to it after the first 

 week in May. Yours with esteem, 



(signed) D. E . . . 



P. S. I have written to M"" Woodward advising him to request Mr 

 Lyman to enjoyn secrecy on arrest, & in the mean time to collect evi- 

 dence, promising as requested to correspond & consult with you on 

 the subject. (signed) D. E . . . 



These papers were commented on and discussed in an 

 interesting manner by the Hon. John I. Baker, who was 

 introduced as the best informed of living men, in the his- 

 tory of Beverly. Mr. Baker went on to speak of the great 

 historic names which illustrate that history, — Woodbury, 

 Eliot, Hale, Thorndike, Dane, Cabot, Lee, Rantoul, Fran- 

 cis — and the conspicuous places filled in our day by such 

 representatives as Judge Woodbury, Samuel A. and 

 Charles W. Eliot, John P. and Edward Everett Hale, Is- 

 rael, William and Albert Thorndike, Henry and Col. 

 Henry Lee, Robert Kautoul, Robert Rantoul, jr., Eben- 



