Report of the trial of Charles N. Baldwin, for a libel : in publishing, in the Republican chronicle, certain charges of fraud and swindling, in the management of lotteries in the State of New-York. Containing, the publications in relation to this interesting subject - the evidence - the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the charge of His Hon. C. D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New-York, to the jury ... / the whole being taken down in short hand, at the trial, with great accuracy, by H.W. Warner, esquire.

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1818
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Credit: Report of the trial of Charles N. Baldwin, for a libel : in publishing, in the Republican chronicle, certain charges of fraud and swindling, in the management of lotteries in the State of New-York. Containing, the publications in relation to this interesting subject - the evidence - the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the charge of His Hon. C. D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New-York, to the jury ... / the whole being taken down in short hand, at the trial, with great accuracy, by H.W. Warner, esquire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hut, after all, to show the little confidence I placed in the ano- nymous letter, I refer to the following affidavit of Mr. Hart, from which it will appear that he, acting as my clerk, was not prohibited from taking that identical number from the different offices, nor li- mitted in the amount to be taken on it—he might have taken it for three times the amount that I had caused it to be insured for, as nothing is more common, when one person runs a number, for others to do the same. City and County of New-York, ss. Leon Hart of the said city, the sole clerk at the office of Mr. Ju- dah, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, in the presence of Al- mighty God, that when he went to the City-Hall, in order to get the numbers from the different offices, that neither Mr. Judah nor any other person gave him directions not to take No. 15,468—he did take all that was given him on the said number, and would have taken as much upon that number as upon any other number, and fur- ther this deponent saith not, LEON HART. Sworn this 25th day of September, 1818. ISAAC ADRIANCE, Notary Public. On the same day that this said publication appeared in the Chron- icle, but, after the paper was published, anotherexamination of the files took place, in consequence of an agreement made the day pre- vious by and between the managers on the one part, and Mr. Bald- win on the other. This examination took place according to said agreement, in presence of the managers and several other persons— and Joseph D. Fay, esq. the counsel of Mr. Baldwin, and Jeremiah I. Drake, and Moses Allen, esqrs. were chosen to critically examine and report their opinion as to the appearance and character of the said suspected number. The two last mentioned gentlemen were of the same opinion as the managers, that No. 15,468, showed no indication of being soiled by wearing in the pocket, but Mr. Fay thought otherwise, whereupon, the managers took that number, to- gether with the rest that were on the same file, being about 150 in all, and placed them on a table, with the numbers downwards, and re- quested Mr. J. D. Fay to pick it out, who after examining for-up- wards of one half'hour, could not locate on the said number. In ad- dition to the foregoing statement, I submit to the dispassionate con- sideration of the public, the following certificates and affidavits : *#* We the undersigned, venders of lottery tickets, haying seen, with regret, a certain communication, tending to bring our state lotteries into disrepute, have no hesitation in expressing our fullest confidence in the integrity of the managers of said lottery. We, therefore, assure our distant correspondents, that no Lottery he was innocent, and having given up the policies, the parties insuring could du no lets than to say that was perfectly satisfactory to all concerned, and that tie should be by (hem exonerated from all impropriety of conduct, whatever the public might be pleas- ed to think about it. But Mr. Burtus, and the others, did not intend tnat letter for publi- cation ; and they afterwards became masters of many more facts, touching the fraud, iban they were when the meeting alludi-d ;o tuuk [date, and would not likely give another, such * )ftt-r to Mr, .'iidab.