The Portland daily press., 1877-02-03
MADDOX,
The Kind of a Man He IL.
A Very UnsavOry Reputation,
Especial despatch to the Boston Jour nall

Especial despatch to the Boston Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The Marylanders are
overhauling the antecedents of Maddox, the
volunteer solicitor of a million of dollars from
Tildehs 'bar'l of money for The purchase OF
Mr.. Wells, President of the Louisiana Return
ing Board. He was concerned in some crooked
transactions during the war in getting tobacco
out of the rebel lines, and based claim on the
government for losses which he alleges to have
sustained. A share of this claim he sold to
Mr.. Crawford, Secretary of the Parkersburg
Branch Railroad Company, who surreptitiously
issued stock to the amount of million and a
half of dollars to raise money for prosecuting
it, very much as Tuckerman defiauded the
Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts to obtain
funds for the prosecution of another claim here.
Maddox negotiated number of loans on de-
posit of these fraudulent certificates as colate-
raj security.
John A. Nichols, President of the Knicker
booker Life Insurance Company, who was thus
suited counsel and concluded to have Maddox
arrested for getting money under false pre-
fences. Maddox was held to bail in the sum of
$4,000 to answer the charge. The grand jury
Investigated the case, but there being no direct
proof that Maddox knew the fraudulent char
acter of the certificates when be hypothecated
them the charge was dismissed. Thereupon
the valiant Maddox undertook to revenge HIM
self upon the counsel who had advised his ar
rest, by his friend John T. Pickett, the same
affair. He sent note to John Henry Keene,
Esq, demanding satisfaction. Mr.. Keene took
no notice of the hostile missive, and refused to
hold any communication either with Pickett or
Maddox. The latter then published card pro-
claiming Mr.. Keene coward" Mr. Keene
responded with communication in the Gazette
giving the facts that pointed to Maddox as an
accessory in the crime committed by Crawford,
and declaring that no opprobrous apithets from
escaped or convicted criminals inside or outside
of the penitentiary should deter him from the
discharge Of his professional duties.
Maddox next sold contingent interest in his
claim to the late Col. Yerger who had been
convicted of the murder of Col. Crane in Mis-
sissippi, and discharged under a writ of habeas
corpus from Chief Justice Chase. They soon
quarreled, and as Yerger vowed bloody ven
him arrested and locked up until his rage should
subside. We have forgotten how the affair ter
minated, but, contrary to the general expecta-
ton, no blood was she'd The unhappy Yerger
soon afterwards went to his grave, and Mad
dox disappeared from public notice until be
turned up before the Dudley Field Committee
with his story about Gov. Wells, and his at
tempt to procure bride of a million of dollars
for him with view to retaining large per
centage for himself.
The story is plausible one, and it is adroitly
sprung upon the country, but in Maryland,
where Maddox is known, it is not believed
Ito the Associated Press.]
/ j. II. Maddox, the treasury agent who has
been giving testimony in the Louisiana CASE
was today removed from his position as agent
of the internal revenue bureau by the Pfesi-
dent and Colonel E. Chamberlain of Virgin ia
formerly an offfcer of the regular army, was
rendered the place which he Immediately &C
cepted His commission was signed this after