A. Contractor of him; he contracted to do his work in the city for pay....
By Mr. Bradford:
Q. Where is this Mr. Stickney, the actuary? Does he live in this city?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What was his pecuniary condition when he entered the service of the Freedmen’s Bank?
A. He was a man without any appearance of any considerable amount of means—not very large amount of property. He is a wide-a-wake, active, business real estate broker.
Q. How much property has he got now?
A. I cannot tell.... I think he has an interest in a good many pieces of property; how large that interest is, or how well secured, I cannot say.
The above will serve to show what kind of a man this G. W. Stickney was. The simple truth is that, when he took charge of the bank’s affairs, about all the property he had was his pretensions to being a high church Republican, and his stock in trade in religion of an assorted kind.