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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1854
"My attention was first called to this claim by a protest filed by Richard Wells, administrator on the estate of F. T. Wells, against the payment of any moneys due the estate to other than himself; this protest bears date February 12, 1852. On the 16th February another protest was filed in the office, signed E. W. Moore, late administrator, a copy of which I hand you. Early in the month of March last the certificate was presented to this office for payment by B. F. Parkinson, Esq., of New Orleans, acting, I presume, for one J. T. McMullen. "The certificate had been transferred for a valuable considera- tion, as stated in the transfer, which was upon the back of the certificate, by E. W. Moore, administrator, and acknowledged by him before the commissioner of deeds for the State of Texas, residing in Philadelphia. "I refused payment of the certificate at the time, upon the ground that there was nothing with the papers to show that Moore was administrator, except his signature to that effect; and also, because, admitting he had been the administrator, proof was submitted to me, showing that his powers were revoked, and that Richard Wells was the authorized person to receive the money. "On the 15th of March last, in the suit of Richard Wells, ad- ministrator, vs. Moore and Parkinson, an injunction was granted, restraining me from the payment of this claim; and on the 5th of May last, another injunction was served on me in the case of Wells, administrator vs. Moore and Parkinson. These suits, I presume, have not yet been decided." "Jas. B. Raymond, Treasurer. Treasurer's Office, Austin, January 24, 1853." ... As these are records and official documents, I have no hesitancy in presenting them, particularly when ·I have been charged by this man with almost every species of villainy. But these are not all the cases of the same character. It appears that there was an officer who served on board the same ship with Com- modore Moore, who was wounded dangerously in the breast, and also in the head, on the same ship the commodore was when he saved his own head by dodging, of which wounds he died in 1848, leaving a widow and one child. His widow was anxious to obtain some relief from Texas. She states that she visited this city for the purpose of seeing myself or my colleague, [Mr.
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