The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-03-18

ur .Ccy-sFs LANCASTER OF wILFUL AND
MALICIOUS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
U.RRIs0NBURG, March IA. 1881.
Eiitors Richmond Dispatch: During the
las, week or ten days have Noticed IN your
paper. and also in several other OF our VIZ.
loinia p9pers, illusions to report OF Special
AGENT G. c. Lancaster in reference TO tnis
Iiudicial district, and in to-day's issue you
give the report Itself.
This report Is full OF Interpretations
from beginning TO end, but rs the Marshai,
the District Attorney. and the other oillcers
attacked are abundantly able TO take care OF
themselves. would not have troubled you
with any reply had not this fellow CHOSEN 10
insert in his report wifu and malicious
faIsehOod in regard to me.
The report says: "AlsO, Voucher 8,
Doputy ID. s. Lewis, son OF Marshal Lewis,
JuIy 4 70 8. 1879, where he has charged III
the case of ". Hail, for July |, 2, and 3, en-
deayoring TO arrest, and SO miles transport
ing self, prisoner, and guard, {. u. Lang
horne. when in fact he was nel day en-
deavoripg TO arrest, and did not transport
the prisoner mile. See affidavit Of {. ID.
Lsprborne. IExbiDit 10 When called
upo1 fer an explanation, Deputy Lewis
acknowledged the above facts, and said be
had no explanation to make. the iraudu'
lent fees amount to 81 co."
Now, when Lancaster SAID that 81 ~
had been fraudulently charged TO the Gov
eminent by NE be knew he was telling wnai
was absolutely and unquatted!y totSe.
THE FACTS OF The CASE
are as follows: During parts OF the Yeas OF
1878 and 1879 was deputy marshal, and
| had in my DossessiOn "a warrant for The ar
| re.t of Zadock Hall, accused OF Illicit di>-
tilling.
| Hall had succeeded in avoiding arrest for
some time. and had employed one OF his
neighbors (Mr. w. Z. Lawson) to 0e ready
| 10 assist in his capture when ] went or sent
| to his neigbborhOOd.
Learning that Mr.. Robert +. Latham,
regularly commissioned deputy maIshal,w was
going up TO Patrick county with MIR. L. ID.
Laneborne on trout-6sbing expedition,
asked Mr.. Latham to try to bring Hall back
with him, With the assistance OF DIR. Lang
horne. who acted as guard, as Mr. Latham
informed me. he brought Hall to Dlnvlle,
where he was examined by the United States
commissioner.
The account was sent to the marshal in
my name, and amounted in dollars ana
cents to the ideulcs sum which it would
have done had performed the service in
stead of having il done by Mr.. Latham.
The law allows expenses in endeavorlng
70 arrest not TO exceed two dollars per day.
and six dollars were therefore charged for
expenses in endeavoriDg 10 arrest this man,
,chen / had IN reality paid ont a much
larger sum.
All OF the warrants OF arrest were in the
name of the President Of the United States,
and are addressed "to The marshal or any OF
his deputies" therefore Mr.. Latham, who
was a neutrality-suspicious. deputy, had
Just the same right 10 arrest Hall as had.
So it will be seen that
THE PARTY ARRESTED COULD NOT COMPLAIN,
because he was arrested by regularly-ap-
pointed deputy.
The Government has no possible ground
Of complaint, because-tirst, every item OF
service charged for WaS actually ana ne
ceSSarity performed; and secondly, the ac-
count as rendered amounted to the same,
whether it was made ont in my name or IN
Laiham's name. In other words, the service
charged for was actually rendered, and the
Government was charged
ONLY THE LEGITIMATE FEES FOR THE SERVICE.
In the extract given above the report says:
"Whcn called upon for an explanation, De-
putty Lewis acknowledged the above Iacts,
and said he bad no explanation to make"
Now, the truth Is. told this man all the
facts above rccited and had he not been
guilty OF SuppreSSio 0eri would have had
no explanation 10 make now, ana he would
have had one less falsehood fop which TO &C.
count hereafter. After rcciting q part OF
the facts and being guilty of the suppress
sons Just alluded to, he says, "sec affidavit
of C.. ID. Langhorne," as if to create the i'm
preston that Mr.. Langhorne had given him
an affidavit stating M0t the account looS
fraudulent. Though have not seen Mr..
Langhorne's affidavit, | say here, with per-
feet confidence, that Ian ghOrne has made
affidavit TO nothing OF the kind, nor UW he
DO so. presume Mr.. LanghOrne aud my
self agree as TO the facts.
Now, part OF this fellows
MALJGNIIY TOWARDS Me
IS accounted for by the fact that he attempt
ed while mere little game OF bullying,
which at once stopped him in without the
least ceremony, and succeeded in vastly
improving his manners for the time being,
though as the result proved / can lay no
claim to having improved his morals-dt
least so far as uerocity goes.
But | will not waste words upon such 4
creature, who is only willing tool, as can
and will be shown, in The hands OF much
worse men-Some Of ,ohom disgrace our old
State by iu,ng ,oithin Ger borders.
II have made any fraudulent claim
against the Government, the law prescrbes
a heavy penalty for it. and | demand to be
tried under the law, where the
TRUTH OR FALsITY OF THE CHARGE
can be examined into.
In conclusion l will say that In due time,
as am informed, the Marshal will make his
answer to this malicious report, when 1t
will clearly appear that he and most OF his
deputies, as well as the District Attorney,
the commissioners, and the clerks, have been
grossly slandered.
Yours truly, d. s. LEWIS.
p. s. see that the Alexandria Gazette, |
the Charlottesville ChOrnicie, the Lynch.
burg VIginidn, the Dsnville Ne,cS. and |
some other papers have circulated this man |
Lancaster's base SANDERS about me. l hope |
they will be equally as ready to publish my |
reply. d. ST..
HEAVY SOUTHERN FAILURE.-The fail.
ure OF the cotton commission house OF |