Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-09
IN THE MESHES OF THE LAW.

The Charleston Netps and Courier complies
the following list of Republican ex'oficials in
South Carolina, whose sins have overtaken
them, and who have either fled the State or
are now in the hands of the law to be dealt
with according to the enormity of their re-
spective offences:
/. The first under the new order of things,
to disappear, was ex-Land Commissioner G..
P. Leslie, who came to the conclusion that,
when the Hampton government was firmly
established, he could no longer clear his own
skirts by threatening his accomplices.
2. After Leslie, and Immediately upon
Chamberlain's surrender, went j. Harvey
Jones and E. V. Glover, carpet-bag legisla-
lators of Georgetown county, who foresaw the
wrath to come, and fled before the face of the
sheriff.
3. Governor Hampton took formal posses.
sion of the State House on the 18th of April.
On the night of the 18th of May, Mr.. Daniel
H. Chamberlain took his departure for New
York.
4. On the 18th day of May, A. D. 1877, B.
F. Whittemore, the fat fend of Darlington and
State Senator, departed FIR his home in Mass
achusetts, and has failed to respond to the af'
fectionate request that he would come back
and remove certain stains upon his escutcheon.
5. Mr.. L. Cass Carpenter, formerly Editor
of the Radical organ of this State, ex-Con-
gresham and ex-Revenue Collector, was ar
rested on the 2Slh of June at the instance of
the Investigating Committee, charged with
forgery, and is now out on bail awaiting trial.
6. Jonathan j. Wright, a Pennsylvania ne
gro, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court,
has been impeached by the Legislature for
habitual drunkenness, and now awaits trial.
Y.J. P. Owens, ex.State Senator from
Laurens, who accumulated large fortune by
manipulating coupons and certificates, has
mysteriously disappeared from the ken OF
South Carolinians.
8. The lovely form of Robert K. Scott, for
two terms Governor of this State, has also
vanished amid the storm of investigation.
9. FL. Cardozo, mixture Of negro and
Spaniard, ex.State Treasurer and member of
the Returning Board, was arrested on the
21st Of July for fraud, bailed in the sum of
S2O,OOO and has disappeared.
10. Henry E. Hayne, mulatto, Secretary of
State from 1872 to 1876, and a member OF
the Returning Board, has also fled the State.
II. r. H. Gleaves, mulatto, ex-Lleutenant
Governor, has fled, no one knows WHITTIER
12. On the oath ultimo, S. j. Lee, colored,
ex.Speaker of the House of Representatives
and Solicitor of the Second Circuit, was ar
rested, charged with the fraudulent issue of
nav certificates and awaits trial.
13. On the same day Ex-Governor and ex'
Speaker F. J. Moses was arrested in Charles.
ton on a similar charge, and conveyed to Co.
lumbia, where he awaits trial.
IA. On the 25th, A. o. Jones, colored, ex-
Clerk of the House, was arrested on charge
of fraud and perjury, and taken to Columbia,
where he is awaiting trial.
Is. G. w. Montgomery, ex-State Senator,
is under arrest and awaiting trial on the
charge of fraudulently issuing pay certificates.
16 Josephus Woodruff, ex-Clerk OF the
Senate, fled the State but has been recaptured,
and brought back for trial. The charges
against him are complex, and the evidence is
delightfully."- complete.
II. Ex-Judge and ex.Congressman S. L..
Hoge of Ohio, has left South Carolina.
1S. David T. Corbin, of Massachusetts,. the
former holder of dozen different offices,
great Ku. Klux prosecutor, and United States
District Attorney, has gone to Europe, and it
is asserted that he will not return.
Those of the old Ring who yet remain are
E. w. M. Mackey, Speaker of the Bayonet
House W. N. Taft, carpet-bagger and State
Senator G. C. Bowen, Sheriff of Charleston
county; c. w. BUTTE, exCongressman and
ex.Soicitor of the Charleston Circuit; 1. q.
Dunn, ex. Comptroller General; j. L. Neagle,
ex. Comptroller General; W. j. Whipper,
black carpet.bagger, ex-member of the Leg
islature and would-be Judge; W. H. Stone,
carpet-bagger, ex-Attorney General and men,