, 1879-07-09
A FLANK MOVE.
That's What Judge Bangs Played on
the "nlatoh- Bond " Heroes.
IA Filtd o Little Information, Bringing tht Gang
Reloro Judge Blodgest.
who Fixed Their hail ut Pive Thousand
Dollars Each.

The Government turned the tables on tho
mntcll.bond fellows yesterday morning, md tho
promised developments Of a sensational order
failed to pan cut according TO programme. Dv
the simple and easy process known rs filing an
Information tho case wns transferred from Com
missioner Hoync's legal rollng-mIll To tho Judi.
clal workshop ut'-atatrs, Without tic usual
evolving passage by way Of preliminary exam
ination before the Commissioner, and thu later
yp1utsIlion before Federal Grand Jury. Tie
result wns tt,At the Government succeeded In
Keeping tho points to itself. In other words,
It. docs not show l.s hand at the
outset, and thus cruelty neglected to give
the alleged consptrators a beautiful opportunity
10 cook up evidence TINT would have for It's OBJ
ject the working out Of glorious v'ndleallon.
The interference with the lsual programme waa
a surprise to ali concerned, except, Of courar,
tho Government; nn, the various aclcndanta
and their legal hackers haycn't gotten over tile
sutptiso Jet.
Tho case was to havo been called bcsoro Com"
missioner Iloyno ut 10 O'Clock. Baxter, tue
broker WHO sold tho stnmpss, wns On band s VIII
cence according to Ills own story, is as c'car rs
dny, hc had three lers h9pGrs N az s TassM mss
liz saturntnc- looking witness TO tho
flshy u,utei,.boud, chewcd the etl'n1H Of au ex-
qst fEr sa Soufsa TS 1 lat ns a s sorses
bis tcuIet tafo OF innocence aud bis indignant
outburst at the indicnity hcapsd uno', % him io
runt,ng him Into common jail. whitney md
extent. That Is to say, they sat behind tic rail.
tne In the Marshal's Office THO tormer alone and
tic latter accompanied by his wife and his lie.
cidcdly 1als-looktng daughter. Il he regarded
~ }ttAp ntr{St mn
Their presence was ovid enco OF wifcly and
Glial devotion, but the hung hends re-
realcd how kccn.y they felt the hu,nlltatinE
position to which tho man Of the family had
With their children. and took things coolly
enough The only missing ones wcic Hale. the
putatiYs originator Of the sct,emc, md AScr,
tho wealthy capitalist who was goln!, to
BIANurAGTuHn FRICTION MATCHES
before ho rot the stamps but who. after obtafn.
them. A little old gentleman IN back, who has
manifested deep md not wholly uncxplainab'o
Iutorcst In the case and It's outcropplnCs, gave
gsnt . 70 o ' ooe1 3esen a nst a' a for d. H. e"o
to palm off snidc bond ou ths
Government, but rs yet It would seem to bo the
doctrine that be who ndyiscs ;s approval docs
IN tho meantime there was general wouder-
mont that the case was not called: There was
saFGrsc we% @ ne II te Is.
formed him TINT the proceedings before tie
Commissioner were of, formally rcarrcstcd bin,
ind requested him 10 take his place bchtud
the rest wcre corraled. moment litter
Daxtcr's attorneys wero asking BanEs
what 1t meant, mud, on reeclrsng the
explanation that m information had been nlcd
before Judge Blodgctt, and tisat the proceedings
before the Commissioner were at an end, de-
rou1weti this unwurrantable interference with
thcir cltont's ylnoication rs an outrage. Bangs
sniied swecsly. md rcn,nrlscd tl.at woroa were
wns no other way out Of it, hastcned to their
C,ont badc hin send for aomebody to 20 his
bail, and repaired to Judge B1odGctt's room to
make III application for release Oh ball. They
found, 70 tlseir dsg1st, TINT the amount
had hcen fixed ut s5GoO apiece. Noth'pE,, but
tic fact that tic Court was lfatcBln to syrn-
onco for reduction. Under tile circumstances,
however, they waited for convenient opportI-
nifty to get In a word ctgcwfse Without disturb
tnE the low OF tho Syracuse gcntlcman's clp'
tls syracusan. WAS apparently wound up Tor oil
day Uu tho relative meris md ,!elnerits 'ot q
coupIo OF lamps, to which he was calling tllc
Court's attention. ln the ncanttmc, tlIe coun'
unccs, II. s, Monroe coming 10 tho front na
eloan'a legal frictt. pe Glbb0n as COUNSEL for the
NnIuhe, ntul +. q. Bull rs tho representative ol
tt,u ylrtuous hut absent Morton +. t!alc. As Il
was impossible TO get tho car oI tue Court al
this slagc of the proceedings In the lamp case
the snInll army OF lawyers set upon Tint infor'
mation md read II with running commentary
on the author, which the latter fortnnotelY io1
aonc With tho obnoxious paper, tho reporter sal
down to 1t mn. derived from It's wosdy nnkc.ut
some idea Of what It gil meant.
sst fort tp rIr' aqs nsa ah'oe9s asrins hiseT
Whitney. Nobcrt Joncs, Charles II. psrktns
hlurtou r, Hale. Jalues Baxter, and Henri
5loan, OH the III Any Of December, 1s78, nnlaw
fully corsptrcd togother nn.l With tiyers otller
to Mr.. BanEa unknown, trnutiulclItly to obtnll
from tho Commissioner OF lntefllal Ilev0nu'
e23. worth Of matcllstnmps; that to efGcc
the ......
TIE OBJECT or TIE CONSPIRACY,
Aver, falsely aud frauaucptly pretending tha
be iutcnde1 to become . manufactnror o
matches, fsa,.datcntly 1nade nnd delivered, n
ndncipal.. and cnuset. TO be made mud delivered
bv tic Ralphs, Whitney. Joucs, md Perkins, a
II liz su i" q ~ 0' to sseare fs sGa
rtomps, whereas Aver did not intend II
become, nor did he Afterwards become
q. manufacturer OF matches, end whcrca
but wns then a,n! there fraudulent and worth
lcas, as Aver well knew, nsd wl,rrcas tho pru
cipa' a safctiss VITO eyefy o,'e Of them The
and A1s* there rs karw ~eeis s ena s9vsS s
charged Aver, the Nalphe, Whitney, Jones, mn
PrtKfl,s with unlawtully md fruudulently exc
eutiug and signing the bond. which was dut
and fully set forth litcratlm OF verbatim. 'rh
Information then went an 70 say tlut liaie. nas
tcrt u,,d Hlann, Dec. 3, 1873. unlawful
procured, advised, aided inn, anh co1
1ycd at tho fa,ee and fraudu1cn
execution of this bond, which wns falsely AT
trauluIcntly signed, In that Aver did not lnten
10 become q manufacturer, as tho others we
knpw, md In TINT Aver and TIC rest falsel
Represented, pretended, and gnye cut that "
bond wns good and sufficient, and that III
eurot!cs were persuns Of large NH! amp
means al.d property, whereas IN truth and
fnct tl,e bond wna not good nnd sufficient, oil
tic surrtieB wcro not persons Of largo or amp
mcans OF properly "but were respectively tl't
aud there pccuntar'ly worthless" rs they
knew.
Attached to the information was thc. af!idaS
Of liuYcnuo Agent James l., TruHbnil, setts1
forth tho same charges In much tho 'atI
language. -,
:, seixug a favorable opportunity when y
eyraelsan stoppe.! for breath Atih tresft IAN
Judge hanga sailed 1T. nctlua'ntfnE the lou
With Tho tact TINT sonc VI the purtles lacLtlont
tn Tie Inflammation wers ready 10 give DULL.
baxtcr and 8loun were present In pcrson.
Mr. 6"ett cndeayorGd t0sct forth the buperE