Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02

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From the News and Courier OF Thursday
EX-GOVERNOR MOSES.
The Real Reason why he was not brought
back to South Carolina.
Capt. J. S. Conner, who was specially COM
missioned by Governor Hampton to arrest ex-
Governor F. J. Moses Jr, in New York, on
requisition upon the Governor of New York,
charging him with swindling Mr.. Jas. Allan,
ieweller of this city, by means of a forged
note, returned to this city from New York on
Tuesday morning, by the steamship Atlanta,
but failed to bring with him the native young
Governor.
During an interview yesterday, Capt Con.
ner informed reporter for the Ne,us and
Courier of all the interesting circumstances of
his trip, and the reason why Moses was not
brought to Charleston in his custody:
He says that he went to New York on
purely financial business connected with the
purchase of steamboat. When he reached
New York, Sheriff Bowen, who went on the
same train with him from Charleston, hand:
ed him the requisition from Governor Hamp-
ton, and for the first time notified him of his
appointment as special agent of the State
of South Carolina to make the arrest.
Shortly after receiving his commission and
the warrant of arrest from Sheriff Bowen, he
was met by Detective Larrigan, who for sew
eral weeks had been specially detailed to
watch Moses and who had him spotted and
knew his every movement. After consulta'
ton with Sheriff Bowen, Capt. Conner was
placed in possession of all necessary informa-
tion, and Sunday night two weeks ago Detec-
tive Larrigan arrested Moses on the street
and conveyed him to the central police station,
and handed in the requisition to Superinten-
dent Walling. -.
On Monday morning, on returning from
Jersey City, where he had spent the previous
night, Capt. Conner found note at bis hotel
from Larrigan telling him to 60 at once to the
central station. He reached there about
o'clock P. NJ, and found that Moses had em,
ployed counsel, had secured a writ of habeas
corpus, and was to be brought before Judge
Donahue the next morning at 10 o'clock.
Finding that affairs had taken this turn, Capt.
Conner that evening left New York for AL.
bany, and saw the Governor the next morn.
ing, and secured from him warrant of arrest
in recognition of the requistion from Cover
nor Hampton. Before 10 o'clock A. M. he
telegraphed the superintendent of police in
New York to hold Moses, and that he had
secured the Governors warrant. The next
day (Tuesday) he reached New York again,
and found that the superintendent of police
had received hisdispatch in time, and that the
hearing of Moses case had been postponed
until o'clock P. NJ of that day At that
hour the case came up, but was postponed
until the following Friday. At that time it
was postponed until the following Monday,
and then there was another postponement
until at last it came up together with similar
case of man named White from Massachu-
setts before Judge Lawrence, who rendered
his decision on Tuesday last, the 23rd instant.
In the meantime Moses was turned over to
Capt Conner upon Governor Robinson war
rant, but not in time to take the Charleston
steamer of that day He then went to the
superintendent Of police, and that functionary
positively refused to keep Moses any longer,
stating as the reason for his refusal to receive
Moses that it required two men to wait upon
him all the time. Capt. Conner wanted to
know why any special license was given to
Moses, and why they didn't lock him up like
any other criminal, instead of allowing him to
parade around the streets escorted by two Of
6cers. In answer to this very pertinent in
ouiry, Capt Conner was advised by the super.
intendent of police to take the erring Cover.
nor to the Tombs, and have him committed
there. This advice was followed, but the
Justice at the Tombs refused to receive the
prisoner on the ground that he had no power
to do 80, but informed Capt. Conner that the
sheriff of the Eldrige street Jail would take
charge of Moses if he would pay his board.
Having no funds Of his own to spare and
having received no authority to draw upon
any one in South Carolina, Capt. Conner saw
nothing to do but TO take charge of Moses
himself He accordingly took his prisoner
with him to the St. Dennis Hotel, and kept
him in sight for the balance of that day.
Finding it too expensive an operation to en-
tertain his Excellency at the hotel, and hav-
ing no means of procuring any funds except
by borrowing on his own personal note, Capt.
Conner put Moses on his parole and gave him
dollar day to support himself with. Moses
reported to him daily, got his money and
went off, until Saturday last when Capt. Con.
ner told him to pack up his trunk and come
back to 20 with him on board of the steamer
Charleston, which left at 8 o'clock that after
noon. Moses expressed every willingness to
20, and went of to get his trunk; but he did
not return, and Capt. Conner, being pressed
for time, was compelled to take the steamer
and leave Moses behind.
Capt. Conner describes Moses as being in
very pitiable condition, without money, with
out friends, and even forsaken by the woman
with whom he has been living for some time
in New York City. He says that the legal
points having all been settled, it will be an
easy matter for any one who is furnished with
the means by the State to 60 to New York
now and take Moses, as the requistion is in
Albany, and the warrant of the Governor of
New York is at police headquarters in the
City of New York The cost would be very
small, and he is of the opinion that Moses
would be glad to get back. The whole diff
Guilty in the case appears to have arisen trom
the fact that the State of South Carolina fur
nished no means to execute her own warrants,
and the parties deputized to make the arrest
very naturally refused to undergo the expense
themselves, with the uncertainty ofeve being
refunded.
The York BoNDs-If the parties inter.
ested in the litigation Of the railroad bonds
in York county are not careful. they will
succeed liz having the Narrow Gauge road
gobbled up by the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta road, or some other corporation,
that will put an end to competition, and
raise the rates. We have no sympathy
whatever for the bonds or for the apparently
fraudulent manner in which they were issued.