The daily gazette., 1879-04-08
FOURTH EDITION
U. .. District Court.

Opening Of the April Session-A Case
SettIed-An Officer ,ch0 Disotsyed
q Summons.
The April term Of the U. S. District
Court for the District of Delaware,
opened in the U. 5. Court room, this
city, this morning, Judge Bradford pre-
siding.
The roll Of the Grand Jury was called
and all the members answered to their
names, were qualified, and retired TO
their chamber. Solomon NJ. Curtis is
foreman of the jury.
| s. A. Macallster, Esq, counsel for
George Steincken, cigar dealer OF this
city, who was arrested for violation of
thief International Revenue laws, and
held in $1,000 bail for appearance at the
present term of Court, stated that he
had prepared an offer Of compromise,
which had been approved by the Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue, the Attor.
ney General, and the officers here, but
had not yet received the sanction of the
Secretary of the Treasury. He therefore
asked that his client be discharged on
recognizance, pending the final result OF
the offer of compromise.
| DisJiiCt hitoiH Hrl SpIudutt Sdlu lie Gs
sented to this request, as the case OF
Steinicken was not yet III court, aud he
did not propose to indict HIM. The mat
ter. he said, had been practl cally, but NO
fol mally, disposed of
The request was granted.
The PeGit Jury were called, and al
answered excepting VIM. Green, o
Middletown, who was excused on ac
count of sickness. They were then dis
charged until 3 O'Clock y. m.
District Attorney SpruancG called the
I names of the Witnesses IN the case oil
Evan Rice, the defaultlng cashier of tht
Wilmington ~ Brandywiue Nationa
Bank, and the following presented them
selves to ee qualified before the Grand
Jury: Washington Jones, VIM. G. Glib
bons, Dan'l H. Kent, Wm. l.. Pusey, Il
w. Sparks, DIR. j. p. Wales, II. F. Rum
ford, and Otho Rowland. They are al
= directors or attaches of the bank.
r The name of Orson Adams, the U.
Bank Examiner who examined the ac
counts of Cashier Rice, was also called
but he did no. respond. In relation t,
Kim, the District Attorney stated that h,
had been duly subpn naed on the 9th o
March, and the subpoena forwarded /,
Atlanta, Ca, where the Marshal learne,
/ he had gone. The subpoena was retnrn
, ed, with certificate of the Marshal 70
that district of Georgia, to the effect tha
it had been served upoI Orson Adams
at Atlanta, Ga, on the 1st of April.
On Saturday, Mr.. Spruance said, he re
ceived a telegram from Adams, to the ef
feet that he could not be here, AMI tina
, he could not be here, and that all tn
necessary information could he obtalne
from the bank officers. The District AT
. torney SAID this was the second time MI
, Adams had disregarded a summons, an
he desired to bring the fact to the atten
ton of the Court for such disposition a
y might be deemed proper. He would z
on with the trial without Adams pres
8 ence, as an attachment would not brn
him here in time, hut he considered it
q fragrant disregard of the processes of thu
a Court by an officer whose FIRST duty
g should be to obey its orders.
Judge Bradford said he would order a
:, attachment TO be issued if the Disrit
n Attorney desired it, and MIR. SprucanC
replied that perhaps lie would ask it fu
ther on in the case.
a No further business was transacte
during the morning session.