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i T0 the Honorablc J. C. Lamb, Julgo of the Thuncory Court of thc
é City of Richmond.
‘ Your Oratrix, Carolino H. Von Roqnoa of tha City of Rouen
Province of Normandy, Rcpublic of Vrancc, humbly complaining show- [
cth unto your Honor:
{ That aha ia thc only child and hoir at law of Darius
o Blake Holbrook and Elizabeth Thurston Holbrook, his wife, formorly
l of Alcxandar County, Illinois; ani lntor of tho City and State of
New York; and that both by inhoritonco an; dcviao from hor said
fathcr and mothcr, $10 bocomo aoizod of an oatnto of inhoritnnco
in fcc simple, and by oquity, froc from thc control or ucc of hor
husband, and for hor solo nd aoparqto noo and bonofit, in aid to
all and singular thoao cortnin trncta or parcels of land lying and
being situatc in tho Gtatoa of Virginia, Woot Virginia and Kentucky
qontaining Two million Pivc hondrcd and fifty-two thouaand,throc
hundrcd and four acroa and thrco-fotwtha of an acro,(2,552,304-3/Z) E
more or loss, whidi said lands wore convoycd by thc lato Jamoa Q
Swan, of Boston, Nasaachuactts, to iamucl Allinaon of Philadelphia —
Pennsylvania, by a Dcod in foo simplo, absolute, cxccutod in Paris
Franco, bearing date thc thirtioth day of August, A. D. 1350, and
— recordcd in dood Hook L, of tho Gcncrnl Court at Frankfort, Kon-
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8 60Py of said Hood from Jcmos Swan to Samuol Al1inson,markod”ox-
hibit A·” ig herewith filed as a port of this bill for c more por- V
ticular description of scid tracts or parcolc of land thoroin con-
voyod. And which scid lnnoa wovc cubcoquontly gulg gud G nvoygd
o in foo simplo absolutc by Uxo said Samuol Allinson aud E;iz&b@gh’
.“ his wife, to tho acid Darius Qlako Holbrook, by Deed Oxocutgd at
L°¤d°¤. E¤G1&¤d; dated tho Rixtoonth dcy or July A. n, ;35g, al&
"Q°°*`°‘°d in tht °1*>P*—='¤ Office of wymc cotmty Court in Vixqgixiia
A vn WEB TW€¤ty·ninth day of Juno 1841, and in tho 0lcvk's Ofiico
U? %h¤ GORP? Of Appcolo for MIG Btatc of Kentucky, in Book Ho. H7
Pago 201* On the lgth JH? GF July 1841, o copy of which oecd markol
”Exh1bit G" is herewith filed as port of this bill. And whilo
possessing tho tltlo to sold lands nid rocidlng in Franco, youy
~ Oratxtix rocolvod za lotto? from D. W. Arm—stx·<>ng of }',»ou1·svillo Zion-
‘ tucky, dntod July loth, 1979, statin; that by inquiries ct Cairo,
(my inthcr°s old homo), ho had lonrnod that your Orntrix was tho
daugntov and probably the only rwnaining holy at low of Darius
Blako Holbrook; o d desiring all of the infomnntion I possoaadd ron
`gavding my fathor'a titlo, wulwuy own lntovcst &c., am¤.stoting
that hc was the Attorney for oxo hoiro of Aloxnndor McRae, who own-
cd an oquitablo lntcroot in ono·third of tho throo hundred thous-
and acre tract lying bctwoon tho Forks of tho Handy River ln what
is now Lnwronco Gounty Kentucky; which was convoyod as nforosoid of
to my father; and stating that no was only cooking to cotabllsh
_ thc intorost of thc McRao hoirc in 0no·third of said thrcc hundred
thousand ncros in thc Forkq offtho Sandy Rivor, to which thoy woro
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all such lulling protestmtions, ani false statemonts, and pretoxts
to avert suspicion, aid keep your Oratrix in ignorance of the roal
facts. Your Oratrix further states that the said U. W. Armstrong
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by letter dated at New York, October End, 1385, ed&ressed to Alfred
Roe, Esq., (Co-edministrator wiwx her), enclosed n blank power of I
Attorney, he &esirod sent to your Oratrix, fav the sigoctire of
her husband, a1d in scid letter he stated that "I hzvo boon {orc
some time past engaged as en Attorney at law in the effort to sm
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g her(my) father which I(he) have boon urging on tho beinlf of than ,
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of attorney is required," and he suggested that the Gorman Qensuln ‘
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or some other person, deemed worthy of confidence, be nnmei Attor-
ney for the Bnronxxx Von Roques and gave instructions &c., as toy
the ccknowleégement. execution mud certificate of the emma? which
said letter was forwarded to your Orntrix. And in pursuance of mAé_
'above requirement and instruction, and reprosontatione of yvwr ¤re4
trix's scid Attorney uni at his roquest, on the Sth day of Hovcmbor
‘ 1836, Following, the said Baron Adolph Von Roques, did execute and
acknowledge c certain Power.o£ Attorney to the Hon. gpseph 3;'Pott¤ c
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David W. Armstrong, r.mp0z·t:e»d to gmx, that ¢sa=¤.id n@;;r>ti:=ti<.m—;   »
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failed, and said deed was not delivered , but failed to return the
‘same to her, and continued to write to her, discrediting her title
in every way possible, and pretending to be still trying to real-
ize something on it for her , and claiming other difficulties had
V to be surmounted before the said Groom would agree to purchase the
said lands, or take said deedaad pay the purdiase money(price)l
c therefore, all of the time as your Oratrix is informed, and believes
· and now here charges, falsely and fraudulently withholding from
{I your Oratrix the real facts and nature of the case, and cunningly
devising-means ain ways to defraud and cheat your Uratrix out of
her said property, by false and fraudulent representations, state-_
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ments and suggestions, aid by suppression of the truth. J
A That he pretended to keep up such negotiations with the
said Harrison T. Groom during the years 1298 aid 1829, sith refer-
ence to the aforesaid part of the Kentucky heme lands. In the
» mean time, your Oratrix's only daujiter, and only child, Florence
A B. Maybrick, wife of James Naybrick, deceased, was cruelly incar-
cerated in prison in Liverpool, England, on the false and fo;l
r Vcharge of poisoning hor husband, and put on trial for her life, wi
." without means to make hor defense, and solely dependent upon your _
Oratrix for uic necessary funds to secure Cunnmel and make said
i defense. And your Oratrix being also without available funds and
in sore need of them to save hor child's life ard family honor, die
urged her said Attorney, D. W. Armstrong, to close up the Kentueky
negotiations, aid after over two months of dire distress of mini ‘
and almost wild misery, on die Sth day of her dau@itels trial,
4, being the 7th day of August, 1889, your Oratrix was celled rpon in
signseveral documants, whach she signed on the understandin; that
they were deeds of sale of a portion of her Kentucky lends, and so.dd ‘,
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cnablc hor to obtain funds, so torribly-nocdcdin hor said ccugntcré
trial for lifc aol doath; Tho papors w~ro also placed boforo your
0ratrix's daugntor in tho Gourt room in tho said City of Livorpool
during a lull in tho Court procccdings, grantcd for Mio purposo,
and SF2 also signod thou, tnon and thorc in tho same boliof.
Your Oratrix was laboring undcr such jntonsc oxcitomont
and tcrriblc strain of mind, that sho did not attompt to road any
mnxumi ono of said docwnonts or docds,nor in fact could duo have
» snfficiontly composcd norsolf to novo road tho samc. Your Oratrix
was told and fully bclicvod that thc solo was for twenty thousani
dollars, ton thousand dollars to bo accrcditcd to hor aid ton
thousand dollarsto hcr said fttornoy D. W. Armstrong in accordanco
i»‘ with hor contract with him. Your Oratrix had no idoa diat sho
was convcying all of hor Kcntocky lands, muon tho loss in addition I
thcrcto, noarly two million acros in thc two Virgniias, b¢t only I
, cortaln snall portions of hor Kontncky lands, azn that twenty tnoa-
sand dollars was all that was bcing truly pail by Mio purchascrs
of thc said Kentucky lands to hor said Attornoy D. W. Armstrong.
Your Oratrix fortnor status that thc ton thousand dollars
aforesaid, was accrcditcd to hor in thc fall of 1399, long after V
thc execution of said docd, and aftcr uic crucl and unjust scnton•o
of dcath had boon pronounccdupon hor said daughtor, too latc to bc Q
of but littlc sorvicc to nor casa, aid out of that paltry sum ovor  
jonc-third was rotainod by thc Hon. J. S. Pottor, U, 3. Consul at
‘Orcfold, Gcrmany, for snvvicos no claimed to novo porformcd in con-
t ncction Widi Mio salo, thus actually rocoiving about $G0OO.¤¤,- up
to this data. Your Oratrix furtnor states, that xkdxxxxnn she has  
Q only rcccntly loarncd thu contcnts of thc documonts sto signcd undnp _
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the pa1·ti.¢au in whow ¢;n»s1,¤.>=:.i;· 5.1. »-rw; za ::1 is ;>1¢z»e;:»;-zi to be imcmi and
x·m wifi ¢<;·;·»;r ir;. will iw ¤s~:cm, mei ;#·mz·
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regions of b0‘¢,?1 Staines, Tnrzimi; st ¢;}m1; time nu Lx; ‘g>1·•‘»j~;ci;ad, limes
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his Attorney in f ct, uaé hwy iuu§ nar, gud xx was alan iwcded by
, her Trustéca August 20th, ITGQ a eoyy QF weigh iced from how quid
Trustees is herewith exhibited marked "wxhibit J“ an@ pruyci to bb
taken emo; read wz ;.>z¤.4;·i r>i‘ 1311iFa Y>i?.§L..
Your 0ma.*,1*?x c?;s¤vg,;=J·a tha?. the wniiii Uzev}. :1 €`*. f»;¤‘*z‘:‘;<:‘LI‘fm{3
took advantagc of the monfiuwnco r¤?02wi iu h;m, as hor Attovncy
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the lifc 0i` hear irmrmccnt chilzl, =u1» f‘»»l·_:·,>l;¢ maxi fwt-uLl ‘ ·:qq;·u·;r;9?_  
of hor fam;i.l.}f}10rn•,‘>1‘·, to #am:¤;u··r> tim azifcwzeszaini.  3.i.Q.<,·mt deed, to the
88.1:3. Harrison T. G1·¤>¤.u· {>1··m;1‘·ix°ss ?.mz=1=a in tho two ‘fi1·;j·i11i:·s, by xw
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