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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[AfeRlL 30, 1891. 



The Cotjet; Q. Did you. render monthly accounts? A. No 

 sir; quarterly. Q. To the club itself? A, Yes sir. 



Q. In committee assembled? A. Yes sii% Q. Then, how 

 do you say that you rendered no account? A. A detailed 

 statement. I simply reported the credit balances on hand. 

 Q. Showing simply so much to the credit of the club? A. 

 No sir — to that one account of the club. Q. Without show- 

 ing what disposition was made of the dift'erent moneys. Then 

 you say you accounted for all the money in these quarterly 

 accounts? A. 1 say that I gave the balances on hand in the 

 quarterly accounts. 



Me. Peshall: Q. How much balance was on hand at the 

 July meeting, 18S8? A. That was not a regular meeting, 

 sir. " 



Q. Did you report a balance on hand on that date? A. I 

 will tell you— July. '88? 

 Q, ' July, '88. A. No. 



Q. You did not? Did you at the May meeting? A. Yes. 



Q. How much was on band? A. I answered you that 

 question this morning. [The COURT: Well, answerit again. | 

 A. $V2S 01. 



Mr. Peshall: Q. That was all the money that you had 

 then? A. To the treasurer's account? 



Q Was that all the money that you had in your posses- 

 sion? A. No, sir; it was not. 



Q. Then, where Is the rest oE the mouey — that is what I 

 am trving to find out? A. It was in the bank. 



Q. Did"you ever account for the money that was in the 

 bank? A. No, nothing but the annual account until '89. 



Q You never did ? A. No, sir. 



Q. What did you do with the money? A. Left it in the 

 bank. 



Q. Left it in the bank? A. Yes. 

 Q. Where is it now? A. In the bank. 

 Q. In the bank yet? A. Yes. 



Q. Will you explain how that money stayed— remained in 

 that bank? A. Why it was changing continually — making 

 deposits and drawing from it. 



Q. And do you mean to tell this jurj^ that you have never 

 accounted for any of the money since you have been treas- 

 urer of the American Kennel Club — for the thousands and 

 thousands of dollars that you received to date? A. No, sir; 

 because I made a detailed statement in '90 of my '89 account. 



Q. Of you;- '89 account? A. Yes. 



Q. Hflve you ever made any detailed statement of the '88 

 account? A. No. 



Mr. Peshall had evidently been doing some hard thinking 

 about the printers' bill for payment of "Vol. V., Part IV., of 

 the Stud Book [1889 account], and he asked aboiit it: 



Q Now, Mr. Vrpdenburgh, I want you to look at the bill 

 marked Feb. 11, '89. and slate when that bill was paid, if you 

 know, and how it was p;dd? 



The Goitrt: When it was made or paid? 



Me. Pesiiall: Q. When it was pain and how it was paid? 

 A. It was paid on Feb. 35. '89. It was paid by check. 



Q. One moment now. When did you say it was paid? A. 

 Feb. 25, '89. 



Q. By a check; on the Chatham National Bank? A. It 

 was the only bank I had any money in. 



Q. Give nie the number of the check, please. A. Check 

 No. 51. 



Q. Now, Mr. Vredenburgh, was that bill presented before 

 the meeting of Feb. 21, '89? [The Court: Presented to him 

 by the printer, yon mean? Mr Peshall: Yes, sir.] A. I 

 don't remember, sir, when it was presented. 



Q. Is that the original bill that you received? A. That is 

 the original bill that I received. 



Q. And that is the bill— you placed it, as soon as it was 

 paid, in that book, did you? A. I did. 



Q Hand me the book again, will you, please? Was the 

 bill due when vou held that meeting? [The Court: What 

 meeting? Specify.] Q. Feb.ilS, '89. A. The work had 

 been done. I tell you I don't remember whether 1 had the 

 bill or not. 



Q. It is dated Feb. 11. A. I don't remember. I did not 

 notice. 



The Court: Well, the bill is there. 



Mr. Peshall: Q. Was the bill due when that meeting 

 was held? A. I tell you I don't remember. 

 Q. You don't remember? A. No. 



Q. Well, is there any document or paper that you know of 

 that you could get that would refresh your memory upon 

 that stxbject? A. No. 



Q. None? A. No, sir. 



The Court: I understood you to say that the work had 

 been done? A. Yes; but I am not positive that the bill had 

 been presented. 



Q. Then how do I understand you when you say that you 

 do not remember whether the bill was due Or not? A. I 

 meant the work may have been done, and if the bill had not 

 been presented I would not know the amount that I owed. 



The Court: Exactly. 



Mr. Peshall: Q. Now, Mr. Vredenburgh, I will ask you 

 if that stud book was not out in January? A. I think it 

 was out the latter part of January. 



Q. You think it was out the latter part of January? A. 

 Yes, I thiuk it was. 



Q. That is, it was in your office at that time? A. Yes; it 

 may have been the 1st of February. 



When Mr. Peshall at one time came around to the dona- 

 tion, which he says Mr. Vredenburgh told him Mr. Belmont 

 made to the club," this colloquy ensued: 



Mr. Peshall: Q. Before I read this I desire to ask you, 

 you say JVlr. Belmont never put any money in the club ex- 

 cept a hundred,dollars? A. Thatis all. 



Q. Did anybody else ever put any mouey in the club? A. 

 Yes. 



Q.' Who did? A. I did. 

 Q. How much? A. $350. 

 Q. Cash? A. Cash. 



Q. When? A. At the time that you olJered me, as chair- 

 man of the Stud Book Committee, to pay me -^750 that I was 

 entitled to and I declined to take it all and made the club a 

 present of f350 and afterward gave my services for nine 

 months for nothing. 



Q. When was that? A. That was May, 1888. 



Q. You say that I did it? A. You instructed me to draw 

 from the funds of the club $750, as the chairman of the 

 Stud Book committee. I say I declined to take it all. I 

 gave the club S350 out of that S750 and I drew $500 in two 

 amounts. 



Q. You gave the club $250? How did you give it to them? 

 A. Because you gave it to me and f refused to take it. 



Q. Did yoit have any of the money? A. You were chair- 

 man of the Stud Book committee and gave me that instruc- 

 tion after the meeting of the committee. 



Q. I was only one member of the committee, was I? A. 

 You stated to me that that was the result of the committee 

 meeting. 



Q.. When did I state that to you? A. At the time that 

 they had the committee meeting. It was, I thiuk, in May, 

 1888, or the month before. 



Q. Was there minutes kept of the meeting during that 

 time? A. I ana sure I don't know what you did in your com- 

 mittee 



Q. Did we have one room there? A. You met in another 

 place that day, I distinctly remember. 



Q. Who was secretary ? A. I don't know. I had nothing 

 to do with your committee at all. 



Q. Did you take the money? A. I took S500. 



Q. Then you .gave the club §250 by not taking .$350 more 

 that I said you might take, was that it? A. Yes, sir. 



Q. And that is what you want the jury to believe? A. It is 

 the truth. 



Q. I say that is what the jury is to believe? A. I say it is 

 the truth. 



Q. And subsequently you made a donation of S350 to the 

 club? A. That is exactly it. 



Q. Haven't you repeatedly stated in yoitr reports and in 

 your speeches that the club has never received one penny of 

 donations? A. In reply to your accusations only, I have a 

 statement that you will see I acknowledge a donation of SIO. 

 Q. I think you mentioned that. A. Yes, you read it, 

 Q. You were a friend of mine, were yoti? [Objected to; 

 objection overruled.] A. Yes. 



Q. When? A. I was. 

 ^ Q. Up to when ? A. Up to the publication of your letter of 



Q. Of' June 19? A. Yes. 



The prosecution had two expert accountants to whom ref- 

 erence was made from time to time through the trial. It 

 was explained that they had examined the books and were 

 on hand to testify to their correctness. At length on Thur.s- 

 day the fir.st expert was put on the stand, and read this 

 statement (which had alreadv been given Mr. Peshall by Mr. 

 Vredenburgh on Wednesday): 



detahjKD statbmekt op itejis jiaking [up the balance 

 OF $1,228.28. 

 Statement from Jan. 10, 1888, to Jan. 11, 1889. 

 Beeelpts. 



Balance on band Jan. 10. 1888 55650.04 



Received for members' annual dues 310 00 



Registration of prefixes 42 00 



Traveling expenses 100 00 



Reg'stration of dogs 2128 00 



Sales of Stud Book 9.<7 00 



Tabulated pedigrees 54 ,")0 



Advertising 42,5 25 



Incidentals 7 90 



Total receipts... $4TI4 69 



Less total disbursements 8486 41 



Balance on hand Jan. 11, 1889 $1228 28 



This aoconnt embraces 47 pages in cash bnok, January, 1S87, to 

 April, 1888, and 97 pages in cash book, April, 1888, to April, 1389. 

 Disburfiements. 

 Jan. 10, 1888, to Jan. 11, 1889. 



Paid Dr. N. Rowe S35 00 



For postage stamps 118 00 



7 05 



12 45 

 20 00 

 1 65 



20 00 

 69 73 

 18 67 



75 

 31 15 



3 00 

 14 14 



4 00 

 50 



3 00 



4 87 



21 00 

 35 00 



3 00 

 64 70 



Stationery 



Exchange to bank 



Volume I. Stud Book 



Expressage 



Reiurned registrations 



Treasurer's account 



Gas hill 



Telegrams 



Extra servlcps 



Vol. V American Kennel ReffMer 



Trade discount 



Librarian of Congress for copyright 



Type writing 



Returned registration of prefix 



Returned copies of Stud Book 



Furniture 



Stenographer 



Christmas gifts to elevator boys and postman.. 



Tra veli ng f>xpe uses _ . . . 



Reut of ofiSce 268 75 



Salary A. P. Vredenburgh 700 00 



Salary A. D. Lewis 400 00 



Printing to Rogers & Sherwood 1,651 01 



Total disbursements $3,436 41 



On cross-examination it was developed that the first expert 

 had examined only the cash book. He had not looked at the 

 ledger or other books. The second expert read a similar 

 statement, and on cross-examination acknowledged that he 

 too had seen only the cash book. 



The prosecution called Messrs. A. C. Wilmerding, James 

 L. Anthony, C. B. Reynolds and James Watson to attempt 

 to prove that Mr, Peshall published the article in the For- 

 est AKD Streajni. Mr. Wilmerding testified to a conversa- 

 tion he had had previous to the publicatiou of the article, at 

 which time Mr. Peshall had shown him the manuscript and 

 had told him he wotild publish it in the Forest A'SD Stream. 

 Mr. Wilmerding appeared to be an unwilling witness with a 

 very weak memory, and bis testimony amounted to verv 

 little. 



Mr. Anthony, on his direct examination, testified that he 

 had met Mr. Peshall in New street, after the publication of 

 the Forest and Stream article of June 19, 1890. 



Q. State the substance of the conversations? A. The time 

 of day was passed, and I said, "Well, you have done what 

 you threatened to. I see you published what you said you 

 would publish in the sporting papers about tlie finances of 

 the A. K. C." 



Q. What did he say to that? A. He replied yes, that he 

 had published it, and that he proposed to follow this thing 

 to the bitter end— proposed to prove the truth of his publi- 

 cations. 



Q. Did you call his attention to the publication in the 

 Forest akd Stream? A. I told him I had seen it ptiblished 

 in the Forest and Stream and Turf, Field aiLd Farm-. 



Q. And in reply to that what did he say? A. He said that 

 he had published it. He admitted the publication, and he 

 proposed to prove its trtith in the contest, the publication. 



On his cross-examination he testified: 



Me. Peshall: Q. Now, Mr. Anthony, I believe you made 

 a motion at the May [1890] meeting, you introduced a reso- 

 lution to keep me out for the reas^on that I have made? A. 

 Shall I answer you yes or no? 



The Court: 'Q. Did you introduce a resolution ? A. Yes, 

 sir; I was the father of it, yes. 



Mr. Peshall: Q. Now, since that meeting we have never 

 spoken? A. I have never spoken to you. 



Mr. Reynolds testified that he did not know whether the 

 original manuscript of the article complained of was sent to 

 the Forest and Stream or not, but that in several conver- 

 sations had with Mr. Peshall, Mr. Peshall had acknowledged 



NOTES AND NOTIONS. 



I AM in receipt of a note from Mr. Geo. R. Krehl, advising 

 roe that Mr. E. Millais explicitly denies any connection 

 with the publication of the libeloiis article in Fanciers' 

 Gazette. When the armed neutrality these gentlemen 

 maintain is taken into consideration, both are raised in 

 estimation, and Mr. Krehl's ma.gnamity in hastening to 

 correct an unjust impression against an opponent is par- 

 ticularly creditable to him. 



Judging from the editorial course of the Stoclc-Keeper, 

 Mr. Krehl is no carpet knight, but a most puissant warrior, 

 and it is a great pity that combatants generally cannot, or 

 will not, adopt the same coux'se of generous justice. The 

 hateful mischief of kennel squabbles is the blind vindietive- 

 ness usually characterizing them. As a result, while A 

 often proves that B is a liar or knave, he also often proves 

 that he himself is a blind, vindictive fool, caritig more for 

 injuring his antagonist than for helping himself, and sel- 

 dom entirely escapes sharing the garment of Ananias with 

 his antagonist. 



* * * 



I see that "Busy Bee" is still unconvinced as to the com- 

 parative merits of the collies Marcus and Metchley Wonder. 

 As an expert discussion between two tin kn owns would be 

 exceedingly ridiculous, I drop the question, with the remark 

 that I am in hopes of Forest and Stream having commti- 

 nications from .some very distinguished Eoglish judges on 

 the comparative merits of such dogs as Vero, Marcus, 

 Carlyle and Cocksie, contrasted with Metchley Wonder, 

 Christopher and Rutland, with perhaps a consideration of 

 such intervening dogs as Eclipse and Charlemagne, and I 

 fancy many collie men will be surprised. By the way, I 

 think that Mr. C. H. Mason will say that he has seen no 

 collie over here that was superior to Carlyle. 



Dr. Mills is quite correct in saying that over-fat dogs are 

 in bad condition, and when this infliction is piled on the 

 confinement, lack of exercise, and excitement of shows, it is 

 not surprising that many succumb to such a complication of 

 inflictions. THE ONLOOKER. 



DOG CHAT. 



WE are always pleased to receive letters from our friends 

 in dogdom, but somehow lately they have nearly 

 always contained some news of the death of a prominent dog 

 or other. A letter from Mr. Frank Comstock tells us that his 

 sterling good Irish terrier Mars has joined the majority in 

 a peculiarly distressing manner. Returning in good shape 

 from Cleveland, where he had added to his already long list 

 of prizes, he met with the accident which caused his death. 

 It seems he was a great dog to climb fences and consequently 

 was kept chained in the yard. On Friday last while so 

 hitched, he jumped the fence during the absence of the ken- 

 nel man, and the chain not being long enough to allow him to 

 totich the ground, the dog died a lingering death. Mr. Coin- 

 stock naturally feels pretty sore, not only on account of the 

 manner of his ^taking off, but also because he was much 

 sought after in the stud. This gentleman has now loist two 

 good ones, Breda Florence and Mars. The latter was by 

 Benedict out of Irene, and as he was only about two and a 

 half years old, it makes his sudden death all the more un- 

 fortunate. Mr. Comstock has our sincere sympathy. The 

 other dogs in the kennel he tells us are in good shape, his 

 black and tan Queen III. is heavy in whelp and as Louie 

 has been bred too, he will soon have some puppies from his 

 new stock, future champions of course. 



The sign of the times points to black and tan terriers 

 furnishing some of the keenest competition at future shows. 

 Some new dogs may soon find a home in this country, and 

 the class of terriers shown next fall may even surpass those 

 seen here during the pR.st circuit. We hear that Mr. Smith's 

 General took a trip to Denver in charge of Mr. Naylor. 



The National Beagle Club are now occupying themselves 

 with the arrangements for their forthcoming trials. From 

 the expressions of interest in the matter which we have 

 heard from several beagle men during the show season there 

 is sure to be a bigger entry than last year. To sectire judges 

 seems to be the hardest part of the affair, for certainly they 

 have not a very large field to choose from, as thougli there 

 are, no doubt, lots of competent men who know what a 

 beagle should do in the field, there is a vital obstacle to 

 them acting in a judicial capacity —wind. One needs to be 

 in pretty good condition to follow the little hounds over the 

 rough country in New England and especially when one has 

 been tempted to partake of the national pie at breakfast, 

 the cry is soon ''bellows to mend." .Joking apart, it is pro- 

 posed' to have two judges and a referee, though the use of 

 the latter we hardly comprehend, as he cannot follow both 

 do,gs at once. We think Mr. Chapman's plan, as he writes 

 us, is a good one, not so many classes and good prizes in 

 each. An under 15iu. class, a 13in., a two-year-old and 

 under, and a champion class to come last, should about fill 

 the bill, with §100 in each class, divided into S50, -SSS, $15 and 

 •SIO, and champion prize $25. As there are sure to be several 

 valttable specials offtred these are well worth running for 

 and many a man might do worse than don his leggings and 

 the "toughest" clothes he xjossesses, to spend a week after 

 the "btmnies," and depend upon it he will return in good 

 condition. 



Mr. C. H. Odell, the secretary of the Central Field Trial 

 Club, writes us that the following gentlemen have been 

 selected to act as judges at their coming trials; Messrs. J. 

 M. Tracy, of Kew York city; N. Wallace, of Farmington, 

 Conn., and James S. Churchill, of Middleborough, Ky. It 

 will be remembered that the two first named judged last 

 year, but Mr. Churchill takes the place of Mr. John David- 

 sou. Mr. Tracy some time since informed us that such 

 alteration would be made in the running rules as would 

 admit of the trials being run off in mtich less time than last 

 year, so no doubt these trials will be more popular this year 



the authorship ot the article. On re-direct examination he i i,.,,, ' j.Up„ „„„„ i,„„„ na=it two 



testified that his best recollection was that the article had ^^"^^ ^'^^^ ^^^^ '^^^^ ^^^^ m the p a^t two, 

 come to the Forest and Stream as a printed proof from 

 another paper. Mr. Watson testified to several conversa- 

 tions he had had with the defendant, and also put in evidence 

 some letters written to him by Mr. Peshall. 



The te.stimony of Messrs. Vredenburgh, Terry, Schellhass 

 and A, D, Lewis respecting the nature of the* Lewis Stud 

 Book contract will be given later. Also some very inter- 

 esting testimony about the secret meeting of Sept. 35. The 

 charge to the jury will be given next week. 



The Hamilton Kennel Club, true to its record so far, steps 

 in ahead and claims the dates Sept. 9 to 11, a three days' 

 show, coming in the week before Toronto and thus starting 

 the circuit. The judges selected are Miss A. H. Whitney 

 and Messrs. Kirk and Lacy. The first named to take St. 

 Bernards, great Danes, mastiffs, Newfoundlands and pugs, 

 Mr. Kirk spaniels and Mr. Lacy the other classes. Our cor- 

 respondent Mr. Stewart, the president of the club, writes 

 very pithily: "There will be no puppy classes, as we have 

 decided to shut down on that nonsense; and we propose to 

 spare no pains to make our show a good one in every branch 

 and particular." It is not to the credit of .show committees 

 in this country that Canada should take the first credit of 

 abolishing puppy classes and showing that progressive 

 spirit that will at least tend to save to them the results of 

 their trouble and expense in breeding. 



There seems to have been some backing and filling about 

 the sale of Scottish Prince to Col. Ruppert. During the 

 Cleveland show we forwarded the announcement of the 

 sale, but luckily it did not arrive in time for insertion. 

 Last week we gave excltisive information that the sale 

 had not been made. We were right. On Thursday, the 

 33d, Mr. Smith called at our sanctum, during our absence at 

 the memorable trial, and left the following note, which 

 proves everything: "Dear Sir— I have just called to give 

 you the two' photos, one of Scottish Prince and the other of 

 Aristocrat, and to tell you that Col. Ruppert has just 

 bought Scottish Prince a'nd Aristocrat and my young bitch 

 by Alton, which bitch bids fair to rival the best bitches 

 ever seen. Yours very truly, SYDNEY W. Smith." This is 

 the quiet announcement of a sale by which Col. Ruppert 

 transfers from his pockets the large "sum of S5,.500, to those 

 of our visitor from Leeds for Scottish Prince alone, and it is 

 fair to suppose that, as good St. Bernards go now, it took 

 an additional "five thou" to secure the other two, for we 

 believe the youna: ])itch was to Mr. Smith as the apple of 

 hi.s eye. These important purchases will at once place Col. 

 Ruppert's kennel well to the front, and competition for the 

 principal honors will not be restricted to the two Melrose 

 Kennels in the futtu-e. Scottish Prince, whose picture we 

 publish in this issue, is spoken of as the only likely dog left 

 in England that could nope to successfully compete with 

 Sir Bedivere. 



