The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-30
THF CASE on Mr. o v npT,,o, y

II will be remembered that on the 7th OF Ami 1887
this gentleman was charged with having consplred
TO defraud the Central Coal Mining and Mannfactnr
ing Company. Mr.. Detmold had been the president
OF that company and agent for the sale of its coal for
many years, and In 1866 several accounts made M
10y the oO0kkeeper and by him submitted to Mr. Det-
mol1 .Or signature, and signed by him, and SUISSE
luenty Ienuereu TO the company, were found to con-
tain serious errors in not credting the company with
the entire proceeds OF coal sold. Differences ensued
upon the discovery Of these errors between Detmod
and the Board Of Directors. Immediately upon being
informed OF the errors Mr. Detmold demanded an in
vestgaton at their hands and directed credit to be
given TO the company for all the items which had
been withheld by the bookkeepcr in the account
M AyeT this there remained consideraDie balance ,
suit against the company on the 2lth OF March,
1861. On the day following four OF the directors
Mr.. Harry Conrad, the President and Messrs Isaac
@. Kendall, Charles L. Anthony, and James Hoy
appeared before Police Justice Ledwith, and made
oath to q complaint preferring criminal charge
against Mr. Detnold Ten days afterwards, upon u
warrant issued on that complaint Mr.. Detmold was
A protracted investigation followed before the
magistrate in the course Of which vast volume of
evidence was introduced by the prosecution, consist,
offered no evidence but rested the case on the COM
plainants proofs and his own written statement eX
planatory OF all the circumstances which had been
urged against him. And In this form the was
sent by Che police magistrate to the Court OF Gene
raj Sessions Immediately upon the record being
filed in that court, Mr.. Detmoids counsel moved to
discharge bis recognizance, upon the ground that
nocence. This motion argued at length at the
March term before Recorder Hackett, by Mr.. Choate
in behalf of Mr.. Detmod, and by MIR. Clinton, with
whom Mr.. n. b. Eaton also appeared for the prose-
cutioD, and the Recorder yesterday delivered and
tled the following opinion, which cannot but be
source Of congratulation to the many friends of the
party accused, who has long been one of our most
esteemed ctizens:-
''The People agt. Christian z. Detmold and Charles
q. McCord.-Motion by the defendant Detmold to he
discharged on his own recognizance. That the
counsel for the prosecution regard the matters OF
alleged fact in lis case as complex, and the law
questions as s~-,what intricate, is apparent from
the printed brief Of more than one hundred pages
which he has fled The testimony is voluminous,
and counsel for the defense has been equally indus
trious with the magistrates clerk and the legal adj
versary in his preparation of argument. have read
all the evidence and arguments with great care,
capitulating any portion Of either. have no doubt
Of the entire innocence of the defendant Det-
mold that he Is guiltless OF any ofense. That
he may be amenable to the charge OF having been
deceived, and, perhaps, OF having been too conhdng
in agent is only to say what often happens to the
best business man conducting large operations. The
motion to discharge the defendant on his own verbal
recOgnizance is granted cannot, of course control
the action of the District Attorney, who may, If so
disposed, send the case to the grand jury; but
even now treat this case ss If was about to charge
jury the allegations before me, which are con-
ceded to be all that be stated. ] cannot resist
the conviction that If the defendant Detm0ld had
not commenced civil suit against the company,
this complaint, initiated eleven days afterwards,
would not have been preferred. i have always been
as Judge averse to criminal tribunals being made
instruments either to further or delay pecuniary set
Elements. Let an order be entered by the clerk in
conformity with the above.
''JoHN K HAcKETT, Recorder.
'.New York, April 26 1862
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