The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-06-19
A "Gay and Festive District Attorney"

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The Doylestowp Democrat n~arrates the
following doings of the District Attorney
of Bucks county.
The late serious charges against District
Attorney Heist are too we'll known to the
people of this county to need recapitula
ton The repor; Of the committee appoint
ed to investigate them wasGlled at the last
term: and he was ruled to answer at the
adjourned court 10 June. The testimony
is OF such a character, that il is believed
there would be no other course left, the
Court then to strike his name from the
list of attorneys. But, if common report
be true he has saved the Court this trou
Bile in advance of its meeting, and left for
parts unknown. As the circumstance Of
his leaving Doylestown some Of which
came from his counsel, detailed below.
have been the subject of public converse
ton on our streets since Saturday, WI feel
justified in giving them currency in our
columns. We do not vouch for them,
but our community believe them to be
true.
On Wednesday last he and his wife.
formerly Miss Bush, left on the afternoon
train for Bethlehem, where they arrived
that evening. He told her that he had
business at Harrisburg, and that if he did
not come back by Saturday she should
return home. AS he did not make his
appearance by the tiue appointed she re
turned to Doylestown on the Saturday
evening train. 1t is said that Instead OF
going to Harrisburg, he returned down
the North Penn road, going OF to Phil
adelphia that on the way or in the city.
he was joined by a lady Of Montgomery
county, to whom it is said he was married
several months ago, and before his mar
riage to Miss Bush, and in order to make
this latter marriage invalid, and that
they stopped at the Bingham House,
where they registered under false names
They left the city on Friday for parts un
Known, and siuce then nothing has been
heard OF them. We are told that his re
~signation of the Office of District Attorney
has been LETT in the hands of a friend,
and we presume it will be presented at
the adjourned court next week. 10 ad-
dition to the above facts, we are told that
MIR. Heist was engaged last week in col
Letting up some little debts due him
around town. His clothes have been tax
en- from his Office, and it is said that his
trunk was spirited away, so as not to ex-
cite suspicion, in a very ingenious man
ner. For some little time before he left,
Mr.. Heist had in his hands a thousand
dollars belonging to the law library fund
arising from u forfeited recognizance, but
this he paid to the treasurer OF the library
company, less his commission for collect
ing, one day last week. In regard to the
young lady who went away with him, it
is said they were engaged to be married
before he got into his troubles, and that
they were secretly married before his
compulsory marriage with Miss Bush
Of course this conduct Of the District
Attorney creates great Indignation in our
community, and is severely criticised. We
have given the circumstances as we have
received them FROM several sources, with.
out vouchiug for the truth in aby parti
cular. Some Of them are known to be
positively true.
We have no hesitancy in saying that if
these things all be true, our late District
Attorney has added bigamy to his other
ofe2ces, and that those who have been
injured b, his conduct should bring him
10 the bar Of public justice.