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Show UlodL:elt Jnreitiuttou. CuicLigj, G. Afier recess Chairman Kno'.t end tLe memorialists had submitted sub-mitted hvj uiore c.iart;, but three having been sufficiently covered would be returneJ to tbfl memorialists. Caus. H. CrrtUH teslili'-d tr.ut be bid lor Fux A Howard's dredging proiiirfty ut it b lukiupt ciile iu June l67o, iO.OUU. Asauee Hancock accented toe l-id aud Jude BloJgett coubrnifd tbe tale, but when bo oil-Ttd the tirc-t pj ment of SJ0,0U0, Hancock s;iid tbe rvi.e h.d been made to oiner pArtl'-s Hi applied to Bled-neil Bled-neil tor rdu-l, v-luaid te did not witut to heir iiyUiii;g more about it. Ho timliyeot tiie property ly a decree de-cree of ttie JJriuinuuud court. Tne memorialists were c.oii.g into tbe papers of this voluminous case when Judge U.oJgtU rose and said: "We admit all tijut " Witness denied tbaj he had threatened Judge Blodgett; hnd said he wm a corrupt judge and had considerable letting ugaiLst htm. rfcveriil witnesses were here called, w:.o tettitied that it was a common practice of courts to appoiut prolea sioual assignees, mid thtisb in question had fciiveu univt:rs:il autislneuou; a'eo that Judge Blodgett never rctu-ed to appoiut an assignee at the proper request re-quest ot tbe creditors. Tbe defense claimed hero that lory were not properly furnished with clniges in advance by the memorialists, and Mr, Sheldon complained thut the district court hindered them in getting papers from its Glen. Judge Blodge.lt Thiil ia false. . Tbe next cnnrge was that the court recorda show tha: a p-tilioo was made by F. II. Winston churning J30.000 nt- flgnt of the owikts in making the sale of Bi.selow block 'o the government. govern-ment. Adjournal. It h expected ihe investigation wi 1 cIoho to-morrow. Cuic.tgo, (. In the LJiudgnU investigation, inves-tigation, Cieorga W. Kftmp, n deputy iu the United Ktutea court, elated tlint a Urge amount ol bunimB wus thrown into the bunds of Jenkins, Campbell mid Hancock a a assignees. He thought UwyiTd generally preferred pre-ferred tbetu. R. E. Jenkins, iiasiguee in bankruptcy, bank-ruptcy, testified that be never loaned money to Blodgett, aud never ac cepted interest from dep.wi;a in bank of funds of ethUea. The interest from all loans be ever made was ap plied to the estates from which it wai derived. Geo. W. Campbell and Bradford Hancock, assignees, tcjlihiU similarly. simi-larly. Wm. H. Bradley testified that tho National Bank of Illinois was designated desig-nated by Blodgett us a depository ol I'uudc in bankruptcy, Witness waa a director in the bank. Blodgett waa not u aook holder, but had two loans of tho baak, aggregating $4,000. |