R W Miller on oath states that a little over five years since he was going on a steam boat from Cincinnati to Louisville and got into a game of cards and lost all his money -- He had Known Geo Woodruff in New York where both had lived and discovered him with his wife in the same steam boat -- He applied to said Woodruff for money stealing he could & would refuse it as soon as they got to Louisville, Woodruff loaned him $55 and this he lost at cards -- At Louisville they put up at the Louisville Hotel and there Woodruffs wife was taken sick The money he had loaned affiant was pretty near all that he had He seemed much distressed when affiant told him he could not find his friend to get the money In this state of case affiant and said Woodruff were walking together on the street when they met a man affiant had made the acquaintance of on the Steam boat comeing from Cinci -- Affiant had told that man that he affiant was a merchant going to Louisville to buy goods and represented himself to be a successful merchant when he & Woodruff met this man this affiant conceived the plan to obtain money from him -- He had learned from the men he was going off on a boat up the river and affiant pretended he was going on the same boat and when they met on the street affiant suddenly thought of a bill of $100 worth of goods he had to pay for and he stated the circumstance to this man and asked him to let him have the money & he would repay it as soon as