Hugh A Torrance

 

And at the same time and place came Hugh A. Torrance, who after being duly sworn according to law to testify the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in regard to the matters deposed to in the annexed deposition of James Deshazo, deposed as follows, that is to say;

 

I was acquainted with Allen P. Deshazo who left here in company with John T. Baker in the month of April 1857, bound for California. He had sixteen head of as likely young cattle as I ever saw in my life. They were all heifers and young cows, and were a well selected lot of cattle. Taking into consideration the kind of cattle he had, and the cost, trouble, and expense attendant on getting said cattle together, I would say that the morning he left here with said cattle, they were worth at a low cash price the sum of fifteen dollars per head, and I have no idea that the said Allen P. Deshazo would have taken twenty five dollars per head for the lot of cattle when he started with them and from my knowledge of his cattle, clothing, and outfit with which he started, I suppose it would be a low estimate to put the amount of what his property was worth the morning he left here, at three hundred dollars. And perhaps a larger sum and further this deponent saith not, so help me God.

 

H. A. Torrance

 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 23rd day of October, A.D. 1860

John Bunch, J.P.

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State of Arkansas
SS
County of Carroll

 

I, John Bunch, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified as such within, and for said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing depositions of James Deshazo, H. A. Torrance, and Lorenzo D. Rush, were all separately taken, reduced to writing in their presence and read over to them respectively, and by them sworn and subscribed to before me this 23rd day of October 1860, and I do hereby certify that I am personally well acquainted with said several witnesses, and that they are all respectable persons, and entitled to full credit. Given under my hand as such Justice the day and year where written.

 

John Bunch, J.P.

 

State of Arkansas
SS
County of Carroll

 

I, Sam W. Peel, as the clerk of circuit court and exoficio clerk of the County Court of said county of Carroll and State of said, do hereby certify, that John Bunch whose genuine official signature appears to the annexed on foregoing certificate, was at the time of taking depositions and the making of said certificate, and acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified as such, within and for said county, and that his said certificate is in due form of law and by the proper officer. That his signature thereto affixed is genuine and in his own proper hand writing, and full faith, and credit are all his official acts as such Justice of the Peace. In testimony witness whereof, I, Sam W Peel, a clerk of said court as aforesaid herein to, set my hand and private seal (the public seal of said court having been destroyed by fire), This 25th day of October A.D. 1860.

 

S W Peel