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REPLY TO C. E. PARISEAD'S PAMPHLET

One C. E. Pariseau, formerly of Montreal, now an
absconder living in the United States, has, for some
years past, been attempting to levy blackmail upon me,
as the following extract of a letter of his, dated the 6th
July 1878, will amply show :

^^ " Ell r6glant avec nioi, ou en

me procurani tout de suite ma
.^ d6charge a vos frais et depens
;^ je vous jure que jamais je vous
^^ iroublerai, ni donnerai aucun

moyen a qui que ce soit de
• vous laire de la peine.
u \ ^^"^"'' ^ "^oi si vous aimez
^^ a savoir ce que j'aimerais le

ii ^..^®."^' J^ Pi'^fererais avoir ma
" o6charge.

u " h^4 ^composition vous coute-

ra «1 4,000.00, a peu pres, avec
^^le risque d'etre trouble par

moi SI je suis assez miserable

pour laire plus tard des reve-
*' l&lions.

" Si vous versez entre mes

mams cela coiitera $7,000.00.
' bi apres m'avoir paye je suis

assez fourbe pour aller faire

des r6v6lations vous n'aarez a
' regretter seulement la perte

du montant paye."

TnANSLATION.

" On settling with me or on
obtaining at once i% discharge
at your own cost, I swear that J
shall never trouble you nor give
any means to any body to an-
noy you.

As lo myself if you like to
know what 1 would prefer, 1
would rather have my dis-
charge.

The composition will cost vou
about $14,000.00 with the risk
of bemg troubled by me if I am
contemptible enough to make
disclosures hereafter.

If you pay into my hands it
will cost you $7,000.00.

If after you have paid I am
rascal enough to make disclo-
sures you shall only have to
regret the amount paid."

Ihis Pariseau had made up his mind that by slander-
ing me he would in the long run succeed in extorting
money and he has indeed shown a great persistency in
tnis most nefariouK project.

About two years ago I had occasion to show before
the Hon. Mr. Thibaudeau, inspector to his estate, Mr
^alaraeau ins largest creditor and other gentlemen how
base and baseless are the charges that this man has
been making against me with the above object. During

the month of February last, however, he renewed the
attempt, and sent me a copy of a pamphlet reiterating
the charges with a letter threatening to circulate it
unless I would come to terms with him. To this last
communication I replied as follows :

" Montreal, 22 Fevrier 1882
" C. E. Pariseau,

" Grands Rapids, Wis.

** ^ons/ewr,— J'accuse recep-

" tion de votre brochure dans

^^ laquellevous renoiivelez les

' calomniP que vous avez de-

bit6es sur mon compte depuis

* plusieurs annees dans le but

de me faire chanter, ainsi que

' de votre lettre me menagant

de mettre cette brochure en

circulation.

" En ce qui me concerne vous

" devez avoir peu d'espoir de

" succes, car vous n'avez pas

• oubli6 qu'il y a deux ans j'ai

eu roccadon d'exposer votre

(TRANSLATION.)

I acknowledge freceipt of
your pamphlet in which you
renew the slanders against me
which you have been uttering,
for several years in order to
levy blackmail upon me, to-
gether with your letter threat-
ening to circulate this pam-
phlet. ^

As far as I am concerned you
should entertain very little hope
of success, because you have
not forgotten that tvv^o years ago
I had occasion to show before
the Hon. Mr. Thibaudeau, ins-
pector to your estate, Mr. Fa-
lardeau, your largest creditor,
and Mr. Hart, your represen-

tentions que vous renouy&ez tempt ble are the cfarie, vnn

" sence de I'Hon. M. ' Thib^au-

" deau, inspecteur k votre fail-

'*Hte, de M. Falardeau votre

' cr6ancier pour le montant le

" plus 61eve, je crois, et de M.

Hart, votre repr6sentant.

" Mais vous avez imaging de

" pousser I'audace plus loin et

' de joindre a mon nom celui

" de personnes que vous savez

* n'avoir eu rien a faire avec

vous ni de pres ni de loin. Ce

' nouveau moyen, vous pouvez

' en 6tre certain, ne riussira

' pas mieux que ceux auxquels

•' vous avez eu recours jusqu'^

" aujourd'hui. *" ^

" Je devrais pent btre accueil-
' lir votre communication avec

But you have now conceived
the idea of carrying your auda-
city still further by joining to
my name those of persons who
never had any thing whatever
to do with you. With this new
expedient you may be sure you
will not succeed any better than
you have in the past.

J ought, perhaps, to receive
your communication with the
disdain it inspires me, but in
order to rid myself of your slan-
ders and better show your bad
faith, I am willing once more to
renew the offer of submitting
your pretended grievances either
to Messrs. W. Robertson, batOH-
nier, A. Lacoste, Q. C. and C. A.

t
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1

Geoffrion, Q. C. or to other per-
sons equally honorable whom
you may name and by whose
decision I would gladly abide.

Or, again if you prefer it, tht
courts of justice are open to you,
and I have no objection to your
having recourse to them.

Yours, &('.,

F. L. Beique."

" le d6dain qu'elle m'inspire ;
" cepenrl nt, dans le but de me
" debarrasser de vos importu-
" nites et de demontrer d'avan-
" tage votre mauvaise foi, je
" veux bien, encore une fois, re-
" nouveler I'offre de soumettre
" vos pretendus griefs ou k Mes-
" sieurs W. Robertson, bSton-
" nier, A. Lacoste, G. R. et G. A.
" Geoffrion, G. R.. ou a d'autres
" personnes egalement hono-
" rabies que vous pourriez indi-
" qneret d la decision desquelles
" je m'en rapporterais volontiers.
" Ou encore, si vous le pr6fe
" rez, les Iribiinaux vous sont
" accessibles et je n'ai aucune
" objection a ce que vous y
<' ayiez recours.

" Votre, etc.,
" F. L. BfiiQUE."

This pamphlet being now circulated in Montreal, al-
though several of my friends have advised me to treat
it with the contempt it deserves, I deem it my duty to
publish the above letter and extract of letter and to
meet all and every the charges contained in Parieeau's
pamphlet with the most unqualified denial; satisfied
that with the addition of the following declarations and
letters emanating from all the persons mentioned in said
pamphlet as having acted as my preie-noms, or as havinj
assisted Pariseau to secrete his property, I will have
furnished the most conclusive evidence of the untruth-
fullness of all his assertions.

P. X. BEAUDRY.
I, Francois X. Beaudrt, of the city of Montreal, gen-
tleman, do solemnly declare, that when I purchased
certain debts from C. E. Pariseau, before his departure, in
1875, 1 was acting in good faith and in no way suspected

his intention to leave the country ; that I never had in
reference to the purchase of these debts any com-
munication whetjever with Mr. F. L. B^ique, nor with
any of his partners, and that I never gave to any person
whatever a cent of interest in the purchase I so made
of these debts.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously
believing the same to be true and by virtue of the act
passed in the thirty-seventh year of Her Majesty's
reign intituled : " An Act for the suppression of volun-
tary and extra-judicial oaths."

And I have signed.

F. X. BEAUDRY.
Signed and acknowledged before
me, at Montreal, this 14th day
of March 1882.

L. A. GRENIER,

Notary Public.

J. G. PAPINEAU.

Montreal, 16th March 1882.
F. L. Beique, Esq.,

Montreal.

Sir, — In answer to your demand asking me to state
what I remember in reference to the purchase I made
in 1875, of C. E. Pariseau's immoveable properties I
may state the following facts :

When I made that acquisition and subsequently paid
the balance of the purchase price, ($22,000), and gave him
my promissory notes amounting to |1923, as part pay-
ment of said balance, I was in perfect good faith. I had
always thought Pariseau was a wealthy man.

I was personnally aware that he was a large proprie-
tor in real estate, and that in 1873, he had lent
$15,000 to the ladies of the Hotel Dieu at a low rate of
interest for the time, which amount he collected in
August 1875. And I never had till after his departure
in October 1876, any reason whatever even to suspect
that he had the intention of leaving the country.

On the contrary I had good reason to believe that he
would do his utmost to carefully and closely watch his
business here ; for he led me to believe that he was sell-
ing only to get ready cash in order to pay at once and
redeem before maturity a large amount of promissory
notes which he had given as part payment of a purchase
he had recently made of mills, timber and timber limits,
at Coaticook, which promissory notes he told me
he could then redeem at a large discount, and that
perhaps, before six months, he would take back all his
properties and pay me a handsome profit, proportionate
to the discount at which he could redeem his paper and
debts not yet matured ; which profit would increase a
fund subscribed to settle the affairs of a relative of
mine, the Hon. L. A. Dessaulles.

That fund subscribed by me and some other relatives
and friends of Mr. Dessaulles, already amounted in pro-
missory notes, verbal promises and cash paid by me and
four others, to $14,435.

Having that object in view, I made the purchase of
certain of Pariseau's immoveable properties. But before
I made such purchase you advised me, as it was also my
intention, to have the properties valued by a competent
third person and not to use the money of which J was
the trustee, without having first obtained the a J ori-
sation of those who had subscribed it, which I did.

The decrease in value of properties was so rapid, and
Pariseau through third parties forcing upon me, by law
suits and otherwise, the payment of the promissory notes
I had given to him and for which he being a bankrupt,
I could not get a valid acknowledgment of payment and
a discharge of the hypothec and privilege of vendor
which he had reserved on the properties in question,
for the security of the payment of the promissory notes
above mentioned, I had to abandon the said properties
to, or for the benefit of, the hypothecary creditors, and I
thus completely lost the Dessaulles fund and great deal
more, which benefited only Pariseau.

All this shows that the transaction was done and my
money and that of four others paid in perfect good faith

and notthrough weakness of mind, as stated by Pariseau,
but rather -tlirough weakness of heart and to help an
unfortunate relative of mine.

I may also add that any remarks I made reflecting
on you in reference to this matter were based upon im-
pressions received from certain entries I found in Pari-
seau's books, after his departure, which impressions I
have since d I covered to have been false. And I hayo
now no reason of complaint against you.

I should think that Pariseau would show more sense
of right and honour if instead of writing pamphlets and
delaying his return to Canada, he offered and paid what-
ever composition he might offer to his creditors and in-
demnified me and others for losses I have suffered
through the idea he impressed upon me, that if I would
help him by purchasing and paying almost entirely in
cash the price of his properties he would take them back
m paying me besides their price a handsome profit to in-
crease the Dessaulles fund.

Yours, &c., J. G. PAPINEAU.

E. Z. PARADIS.

I, Emilien Z. Paradis, of the town of St. Johns, dis-
trict of Iberville, do solemnly declare that Mr. Frederic
L. Bc^ique, of the city of Montreal, advocate, has never
asked me, directly or indirectly, to act as his prite nom
for the purchase of C. E. Pariseau's interest in the canal
property ; that I made this purchase in good faith in
every respect ; that I had then no knowledge or even
suspicion of the said C. E. Pariseau's intention to leave
the country; or that his affairs were involved.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously
believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Act
passed in the thirty-seventh year of Her Majesty's reign,
intituled " An Act for the suppression of voluntary and
Extra-Judical Oaths."

And I have signed, E. Z. PARADIS.

Signed and acknowledged before me,
at Montreal, this 15th March 1882.

P. LAMOTHE, N. P.

ir. E, I'ouLrN.

H. E. POULIN.
thi'^^*'''!"' ^i'«/''E.Poutiff, Advocate and Registrar of

d^tn?t"of%t H^""" '' '■'•'1'""^ "' Maricville, in the

aistrict of &t. Hyacintlie, solemnly declare that when 1

urchased froni the bankrupt citato of C. E. Pariseau an

I hmi? ' ' •""?•"'" " '''~"' "'S'" •"""'••ed dollars,

I had no communication with Frederic L. Bdioue Km

ctar"„ 'l1^''f fy f Montreal, with referen e o S
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h»it.",'' ^ I?."''® *'^ ^''''""" declaration conscientiously
believing the same to be true and bv virtue of the Act

iS '? t'^ tJ>''-'/-«venth year of Her Majes y's refgn

And I have signed.
Taken, signed and acknowledged
before me, at Marieville, this
eleventh March 1882.

G. BOMBARDIEK, N. P.

PARISEAU'S ASSIGNEE.

F. L. Beique, Esq., ^"'''''^' ''''' '^^"^^'' '''^'

City.

.f fif''p'?r~-^'' ^"''^®'' *^ >'°"^ ^^»i^"id for a statement
of the following lacts which have come to my knowledge

dut'vT/' to the estate of C. E. Pariseau, l^eeZitYy
duty to say : 1st I have ascertained that by agreement
entered into between you and the said C.*^E Set

"ttt.h.!l'f^^^^^^ '"''^'^ ^- the purpoTo

getting half of your share in the Canal properties un
dertook to make for both his half share SyS^

[^!,,T'^^^7 f ?^^««. tor which he was to be reim-
uurscd uui 01 whatever profits would be realized.

^d. At the time of his departure the said C E. Pari-
seau had paid, as shown by his books, a sum of |4433

on this canal property, and I have reason to believe
that you had since to pay several thousand dollars more
on the same share of property and that the whole
amount paid was a dead loss.

3d. At the time of the said C. E. Pariseau's departure
he was indebted to you in a sum of ^0548.42 as balance
of purchase price of vacant lots, as per deed passed
before Archambault, N. P., on the 10th July 1874 ;
these lots were regularly sold by me as assignee on the
16th May 1876, and deduction being made of the proceed
of the sale of said lots there remains due you a balance
of ^4596. 31 including interest to this day.

A. B. STEWART, Assignee.

As to the Honorable Mr. Jett6, whose name has been
wantonly mentioned in the pamphlet in question he
never had any thing to do with Pariseau further than
having been present as his legal adviser on one occasion
when Pariseau entered into an arrangement with Mr.
Falardeau, assisted by his legal adviser Mr. De Lori-
mier, under which ^1200 were paid to Mr. Falardeau
by Pariseau, sometime before the latter left the country.
1 am certain that until after Pariseau absconded the Hon.
Mr. Jett6 had no knowledge whatever of his intention
of leaving the country.

I desire to add one word only. As I have reason to
believe that two or three persons, ill disposed towards
me, have been helping Pariseau in this matter, if any of
them are willing to come out and make against me any of
the charges contained in Pariseau' s pamphlet I offer to
deposit one thousand dollars to be forfeited to the bene-
iit of institutions of charity of this city in case I ahould
fail to prove to the satisfaction of the Batonnier of the Bar
or of any other honorable person who might be chosen,
1st That Pariseau is making false claims against me, and
2nd That instead of having benefitted in any manner
whatever by Pariseau's absconding, I have by reason of
the same lost a considerable amount.

Montreal, 16 March 1882.

P. L. Beique.

N. fi.— Pariseau's pamphlet having been published in English
the reply is made in the same language.

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