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991025

Seattle July 1st, 1890

To your honor the Mayor
and Common Council of the City Of Seattle

As I have been spoken to
by members of the Council regarding a bull
claimed by Mr Fagan to have been sold and
not advertised I have thoroughly investigated
the matter ... and I wish to make a statement
to your honorable body. I find that on the 5 day
of September, 1889 there was Impounded one small
brindle and white bull about 3 years he was advertised
on the 7th day of September & sold on the 11th. On
the day of the sale there was no one that would bid
on him & the Chief of Police said that if he was
not sold he would be an expense on the City and
that I had better take him. I paid $10.00 for
the bull put him in pasture for some 30 odd
days at the expense of $3.00 and at the expiring
of that time I sold him to a sausage maker
for $16.00. I did not see any brand on the
bull. I understand that Mr Fagan claimed in his
statement that he spoke to me about his bull.
I remember sometime in the early part of November
last a man stopped me on the street and spoke
about a bull he had lost but that I could not
conceive the idea of connecting his bull with the
inferior looking animal that was advertised & sold
in September last. The man who spoke to me
I afterward found out to be Mr Patrick Fagan.

The above statement can be testified
at any time, should it be necessary.

Respectfully submitted
A E Boyd
Pound Master