Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-05-03
(Frorq The Ph,,caeipa,a Sprii Of hc 1inrS)
TIlE lIAnEAS cnNrI,S u, IlKY IKlALS.


CONTRARY 10 all expectation, the Court "t General
Sessions yesterday postponed until nf1t FRIDAY lis de-
cision The habeas corpuses OF Messrs Bidde, An
drcws and Cowperhwaite. The Court room was
crowded with mass oil GnXinus people 10 see these
men of wealth discharged acahoat uiaL The inteil
rcnce had gone abroad that Of such character
was about be presented, and while the footsteps OF
hundreds of excited people echoed amid The sounding
halls of the OF justice, the groans of thousands OF
wfe,clcd spirits who could not witness II, rung out
from the byc-p places Of our city, IN commemorative OF
the event We will not say the Court was alarmed,
ard in view of all this dared not scharge the socaed
Conspra,ors but from some cause or other, although
four ,reehs lad eorstd. end tie Grand Jury, tired ~
ra,ar had home bctn tie Court had not yet made
up s mind h0,c TO ac and required Gnothr cccE tor
deheraton.
Mark our words-THEY WILL. BE DISCHARGED. The
reader may think that there abundant protaue cause
tor binding over and that these rich should be tried
tga .Jry jus, though they were poor. We think so
too Almost every in the community thinks so.
Nevertheless, We say Mey cW he discharged!
70 prove that there is abundant "pTobable cause
10 put The prisoners their trial, recall 10 the at
en,ion of our readers The small item alone OF the miss.
nr tour hundred thousand dollars, and the conduct of
the prisoners IN relation 10 it, To the establishment
OF every one there not aemt It made by either
Biddle Andrews or Compartments, TO offer even by
the cross-examinaton of the witnesses, the slightest
icoaradicon 10 the charge respecting the SIGG000.-
This point so clear and strong that all hoped
some explanation wonld have been offered, fnot by
evidence BY denial of the facts. An allegation Of
mistake or error, something TO relieve them from
The direct mpu,aton under the evidence OF positive
abstraction OF this enormous sum.
The facts which sworn 10 by the officers Of the
bank to it, that early in l-36, Andrews went 10 The
first teller with ticket or shor, receipt signed with his
initials y. A. Is, 4. Cash. for and took from that
officer 800 0G0 which he said he wanted for the Pre-
sident Fifty thousand dollars, there abous of this
sum- was laid way for Andrews by the first teller, aud
the res, Of The $780, GOO taken away by Mr. A, who
carried ii in his hand to the Presidents room
| THIS was during Bank hours, when the President
(;dd;e) was usually in his room. This ticket was put
into the money drawer and counted money, accord
ing 10 practice which sprung up the year before,
when the heavy loans were made 10 Andrews, Jaudoa
and Cowpt r;hwae. Andrews said lie had gwen this
money 10 Bddlc, and thus the matter remained for
some weeks. GA about the Isl Of March, 1886, An.
arews came To The first teller got the S30,000 the
remainder Of the 100000 which had been laid aside
for HIM and showed The first teller ten past notes,
a, days. for $40 0G0 EACH of the Bank Of the u. S,
sgu,d ty tic Pres;dcatoud CosAier, which he said
To- eGuaze this Si00CGU previously taken by him. and
which he SAID he about TO hand over TO the Clerk
of the Carcclng Committee 10 be cancelled. lie car
RED off the ticket he had first eit tor The S1OO00, the
balance Of $50 coo out OF the S100,OG0 and the ten
ne post notes each for Sio,0O0 leaving orders with
the first teller Ia mark down To The cash account this
100000 as having been caacciicd or burned.
The first teller discovered that the accounts
stood, he had paid for redeemed notes than
were in circulation OF this he repeatedly spoke to An
drews. This Of The cash account increased the
balance the wrong sde until 1t amounted 10 about
$3.50 GOO The first teller again urgently called the
attention Of Andrews 10 the subject, who repeated that
he had given the money 10 Bddc, and said that he had
spoken 10 Jaudon aud Dunlap about IT, and that some
method must be devised 10 equase the cash account.
These conversations in l-5 and 9, and whether
they coneciured that from the hundreds Of millions
which had IN fifteen years been issued by the Bank
lwo hundred thousand dollars, had been lest, had
persisted while i'll circulation, and that thus they
would lie SAFE, no one can say. Nothing, how
ever, was done with the matter until June Both,
1910, when Andrews ordered another forced entry 10
be made To cash of $780, 900 10 NEE; this first entry
Of The 100000 which had been charged cancelled,
but which il will be Observed had not really been
sumed
In other words the GOO taken from The drawer
had been burned. The ten post notes each for
$40 900 had been burned but this III respect exir
Gated them from the difficulty, because these post
had never been issued or used. They were marked by
Andrews, in his writing, in the post note Register
"no ssued The only service they had done for their
manufacturers 10 deeeise tic Caneeing Committee
who usually counted The notes they burned And when
that Committee The LIST of March 1896 cancelled,
BY burning, large bundle several large bundles of
bank notes, amounting III the whole 10 some million
and half of dollars these pest notes burned with
the o,hers, and Tie Committee certified that they had
cancelled 100000 Of The issues Of the old bank.
But all this did not remedy The deficit in the cash
account, for the ten post notes had been charged
/
cancelling committee, as The ofctrS ALLEGED, sho,ced
Mat his jaUr hnrdrtd owSand Goars had been dcsroy
I'd. And it did; bu, THIS fraud into v hch the
Committee had been unai!iingly drawn, and which
did silence the siiil deep language Of truth in the
leash account" This had not vet been smothered -
Nor will il ever he explained The 100000 lad bee
nkcn all the officers 1, was not charged anywhere
any book, 10 any account IN the bank. 1hev and
al The Directors say, there authority for It's ab
siracon, aud all say that they utterly gncan, for
Whist il taken.
Bildc was told that Andrews had said he gave this
money TO him. He was called upon by the Chairman
of Committee If Investigation in oll, by letter, 10
expain-the whole subject known and discussed
in the bank by all the defendants, and down To this
hour, word of denial, contradiction or explana.
ton, publicly privately by counsel otherwise, Of
these astounding facts, has come from the lips of one
of these parties. Tha. they all knew of this at the
Tine it occurred, is clear unclouded sun a,
MONDAY. Andrews took the money and gave it 10
Eddie.
Andrews spoken 10 about it by the lst Teller
for years Andrews spoke of it all TO Jludon and
Dunlap. On the lst Of March, 1896 BddIe and Jau.
don, President md Cashier, signed the ten post
notep, each for $4,000. Andrews marked them in the
Register not ISSUED, and if Cowperhwste, who was
then Cd Assistant Cashier, did any Mirs in The taak,