April 23 Saturday – Charles Webster wrote to Sam of the disposition of the Frank M. Scott embezzlement case, and of liquidation of old stock.

Scott was sentenced by Judge Gildersleeve to six years at hard labor in Sing Sing States Prison yesterday.

I have sold the whole batch of the Mississippi’s over 9,000, for more than cost, a splendid sale and mighty glad to get rid of them as I needed the room [MTLTP 216n3]. Note: the source adds: “The reference is to the remaindered stock purchased from JRO [James R. Osgood] and sold to Watson Gill.”

Note: late in 1890 Sam petitioned Governor David Bennett Hill (1843-1910) to pardon Scott.