The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-09
Tie Arrival OF the Sneak Thicf at Co.
Iumbia.
COLUMBIA. s. C.. Julv

COLUMBIA, s. c., July 80.
Woodruff arrived in Columbia las
night, at | o'clock, in charge of Lieut.
Chapman, of Charleston. and the fwf
spent the remainder Of the night at the
Columbia Hotel, where their names are
to be found registered this morning. The
trip South from Philadelphia was made
without incident and without anv at
tempt at escape by Woodruff, who seem.
cd to have come to the conclusion that
ne had done an unnecessary and foolish
tlpng III fleeing in the first instance. and
had made up his mind to an acceptance
of the situation rs it is.
Woodruff was before the committee
last week, and obtained permission to re-.
turn TO Charleston to procure certain
papers in his possession, and which were
needed TO establish certain points OF his
testimony. Ga his arrival in Charleston.
however, he was surrounded by anxious
and ofiicious friends, who told him one or
more 'arrants had been issued for his
arrest, and that the Fconstables were al
rcaGy looking for him, aud khe was nd
vlsed to secs ss fety in fight OF the cir
cunstances' ana h:eriiier Of his escape.
Jour readers have been made fully &c
qualnted. On his afriv;ii at Philadelphia
nc was met by Lieut.. Chapman and
taken into custody by virtue Of requi-
sitlon, and brought to this. place where,
as already said, nc arrived last night.
Woodruff spent the morning in the
street and in visiting his friends in the
Jail and elsewhere, under no further -e.
straint as TO his movements than that inn.
posed in the shape of the personal atten
dance Of Lieut.. Chapman, who never
leaves his side. He has not appeared
before the committee otherwise than by
his attorney, Col. G. II. Simonton, Of
Charleston, vino was telegraphed for. and
reached the city this morning.
Woodruff's friends here do not think
lie will be confined in jail, rs the neccs-
sary bail for which he has been in search
Tor hours will be ready when the antici-
pated preliminary examination is held.
woodruff takes the matter quite philoso-
phlcally, though he evidently feels his
new position of prisoner rather keenly.
THE CAPTURED KNAvE's LAMEEy. CJ-sEs
In an interview this afternoon with
Josephus Woodruff at his room. at the
Columbia Hotel, he made in brief the
following statement: He left Charleston
because he was reliably informed he
would be arrested and that 800, 1000 bail
would be required. This amounting to
virtual imprisonment, he intended Keep
ing out of the way until he could com.
municate with the committee relative to
securing reasonable bail, and failing in
THIS he would have returned in time for
the October term of the Court of Scs
sions.
The charges upon which the warrant
was issued for his arrest were for sundry
printing bills raised to double the oriei
nal amount on account of discount on
Blue Ridge scrip received in payment.
Concerning this Woodruff also made the
following statement: 'Parkcr (ex-State
Treasurer) told me (Woodruff) that there
was no money in the treasury, but that
nc was. paying, or would pay, all such
claims in Blue Ridge scrip. In reply |
stated that the scrip was worth only fifty
cents on the dollar, and would there
fore raise my bills accordingly. The
bills thus raised amounted 10 $4,000.
!hey we're sold to Comptroller Neagle
Tor S2O,00O in grccnbacks. (Neagle is
mere aud will tesiif: that he presented
the bills to Parker, VINO paid him $780,
oOO IN Blue Ridge scrip for them, keep
ing $40, 900 for himsclf) A few days
aiterward Parker asked me (Woodruff1
to sign the receipts, which did, suppos,
ID.
now appears on the treasurcr's books
that the bills were paid in greenbacks.
! deny. ever having received q dollar of
1t, and believe that the checks. which I
am told were drawn to ]. Woodruff or
bearer, will be found credited to Parker's
bank account"
woodruff denies saying ut Philadel-
phia that he was to be made q scapepoat
but only said he did not doubt there was
some political move connected with his
prosecution. He was told by the officers
and his counsel in Philadelphia that he
could be released OH habcas corpus on
very small bail, and that it was doubtful
IT the requisition would be countersigncd.
By the advice of counsel il Charleston,
however, as communicated through his
son, he waived technical questions, and
agreed to come voluntarily. Woodruff
will be able to give bail. The prelimi-
nary examination did not come off TODAY.
but will tomorrow.
woRTHINGTON's CHANC,s-No ARREST
YET.
The report that Collector Worthington
has been arrested cannot be verified here.
as all the members of the committee deny
and disclaim any knowledge of such an
arrest having been effected or contem-
plated. The truth apparently is that
Worthington has been subpnnaed as a
witness by the committee, and viii arrive
here tomorrow morning.
EAsGovernor Moses was before the
committee again to-day, and it has leaked
out that the budget of papers referred to
last night, as having been recovered
through his agency, are even more valua-
bic than was at first supposed. They
concern certain chiefs who have hitherto
escaped the hands of the law, but whose
footprints, hitherto supposed to have
been deity concealed, are here given as
plainly as that which Robinson Crusoe
saw in the sand. Names may not yet be
given to the public, but the committee
are elated over the acquisition of the
treasure which has thus been washed to
their feet, and they will certainly give q
good account of It's use before, perhaps
another week be past. The language OF
the great Head Centre of Carpet-bagism
was ''ici no guilty ,nai, cscupe," aud thiii
coed advice is likely to be followed out
by the committee to the everlasting con-
fusion of both himself and his many
friends of other years IN this State y
The cry, this morning, is still they
come, the latest probably being ex-Senn
tor Y. j. P. Ovens, who is reported il
the streets to have been captured nea
the Canada line while trying to max,
hia UNIV over fhn bOrdar~ a sd ,vlo 10 pou