The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-11

VAR TRIAL.-The trial of the Eldridge-
Bovar swindlrng case was continued yes
terday morning before Justices of the
Peace L. j, Blair and VIM. Hamilton, at
the Court House, when the following ev-
idence was elected: g
VIM. Poole (of Bridgeport sworn
About the last of January | hauled five
barrels of oil and quantity of tobacco
and cigars, for n 7. Eldridge, from
Bridgeport to the store room on the cor
ner of Market Square and Union street;
delivered the goods at the store room and
was paid my charges by some man who l
do not recognize here also hauled some
goods from Bridgeport for Bovar & Co,
the goods consisted of tobacco and ci-
gars.
Officer Fender sworn.-Residei in Wheel
ing am police officer, am acquainted
with the prisoners only by the name they
went under: Bovar 81 Co. carried on Il
tobacco house on Monroe street; Eldridge
opened a store or was preparing to open
one on the corner of Union street and
Market Square; saw number of barrels
of oil lying in front of Eldridge's store
one day The first connection / had
with the affair was when gentleman
named Mole, from Baltimore, came on
and claimed some goods in the store Of
Bovar & Co.; / served the variant to
search the store; Mr. Cole was i'll the
store when Mr. Mole and myself called;
in the store we found half chest of tea
which was locked up in room up stairs:
then went to Mr. Beekman, who keeps
q store on Market square, where i found
another half chest of tea; Beekman had
bills to show that he had purchased the
tea from Bovar & Co; two barrel Is OF SUI
car were found in other stores, and the
parties said they purchased them from
Bovar & Co Some time afterwards MIR.
A. f. Line came from Cincinnati and
claimed a quantity of tobacco and
cigars found in the hoase OF
Bovar Il Co; / executed the search
warrant, and seized the goods, which
were subsequently handed over to Line
The recovery of these goods and the cir
cumstances attending the affair started
me in pursuit of Eldridge; having OBJ
tanned reouisition from the Governor,
Invent to Louisville and there found Id
ridge at a hotel, where he had registered
himself as A. B. Brand; arrested him,
and brought him to within about twenty
five miles of this city, when he leaped
from the train and escaped from me;
short time afterwards l went to Cadiz
Junction, disguised as IL soldier, and
again arrested Eldridge and brought him
here. Don't know anything about the
arrest of Bovar; | arrested Wesley and
placed him in jail; few days after this
arrest heard that Cole was i'll Evans
Vile, Ind; | went to that place and found
| Cole registered at the hotel as &c Bid
WE'LL" arrested him and brought him to
this city; on our way here Cole and ]
talked about the affair, when he asked
| mo what thought would be the result
of IL; said he had heard Of and been IN
such eases before and had never known
them to amount to a snap OF The finger,
Mr.. Oliver }. Pryor (of the firm of PrN-
| or Howell X Miller) swnrn-Somc time
agowe purchased five barrels OF oil from
Bovar 4 Co; the oil was manufactured
by Sellers Il Co, Of Pitlsburg; I'VE paid
| them all the oil was worth, and il was de
livercd to our house. =.
Nh James Dalzell (of the firm OF Ii.
| Crangle q Coz sworn-At one time Mr..
Bovar offered to sell lis quantity Of pdp-
| per. hut as we did not want any OF that
article at that time, we did not buy ii.
Mr.. Henry O. OFT sworn--Am acquaimt-
ell with Bovar and Cole, also Mr.. Wesley;
we sold To S. S. Bovar IL Co. the shelving
and all the tobacco we had ON hand when
they purchased; they paid mp all they
| owed me. ....
Mr.. +. F. Fleming (former Clerk of Be
var n Co sworn--Was q travelling agent
for the store, and of course became ac
ouainted with Bovar, Cole and Wesley
Bovar told me his name was Bovar IN
French and Bolivar in Spanish he
never Won't under any other name
than Bovar in wheeling; so far rs
| know the business of the firm was con
Quoted in a straightforward, upright,
honest manner; they carried on u whole
sale tobacco and commission business :;
when they came here they brought with
them between twenty and thirty barrels
of smoking tobacco and a lot of pepper :;
at one time lot of pens aud revolverS
were purchased by the firm the pens
were sold to J. c. Orr Il Co.; don't know
what became of the revolvers; some
time after the difficulty between A. E,
Line and the firm, Mr.. Cole offered to
hand the store over.to me if would give
him my notes for it.
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