Young Hansell and his father were at my house on business (I
am Justice of the Peace). They had rented a house. I think it
was on a Saturday in '80 or '81, in the summer. The next day
my son went to Hansell's and brought back a large number of
Indian relics. He had invested two or three dollars in them.
In the lot was one of the pieces of the stone. I remember
saying that it was a pity he had not the other half. The lines
were not cleaned out. I recollect the elephant. He emptied
the relics on the floor of the piazza. It was early summer,
and warm weather--about May or June,--and I think on Sunday.
I am certain of having seen the elephant the first day he got
the stone. Bernard Hansell, I find in my book, paid his tax
November 8, '81, but I am not positive in these dates to a
day. There is not, and never has been, to my knowledge, any
strange or suspicious person of an "archæological turn" in this
neighborhood, and there is no one here clever enough to have
made the stone.
[Signed] ALBERT S. PAXON.
Affirmed before
JAMES GILKYSON, J. P., Nov. 8, 1884.