Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-26

him from the Treasury of the United States
on the following checks drawn 10y him on the
Treasurer of the United States and for the
following amounts. viz:
Nov ii. 1878 check in favorof Amer
lean Union Telegraph Co. or order $4,000 90
Nov l6. 1873 check i'm favor of West
ern Union Telegraph Co. order,
account l.. H. Rodgers a. Co S400O 90
Feb. Is 1879, check in favor of West
ern Union Telegraph Co. or bearer. u 100 90
Sept g. 1879, check in favor of West
ern Union Telegraph Co. or bearer II, 500 90
Sept. l9. 1879. check in favor Of l.. H.
Rogers Il Co. Co...................... 10000
Nov. 20. 1879, check i'm favor of n.
Peters. ......................... 10000
Feb Is. 1880 check i'm favor of l.. H.
Rogers K Co. or bearer ...... $500
April 5. 1880. check in favor of W. b.
Moses or bearer. ................... $4,000
May "a, 1880, check i'm favor Of A. A.
Mccullough or bearer 5ooOoo
June 81. 1880. check in favor of l.. q.
TillotSon 4 Co or bearer ......... 5.4S1 SO
July PC. 1890 check I'm favor of A. A.
Mccullough or rbearer ............ 12,I6O 20
July 26. 1880 check i'm favor of L. III.
Rogers Co. or bearer ......... 100000
August 9. 1880. check in favor of n.
Peters or bearer. rer.......-.... $50 90
August 13. 1880. check i'm favor of
Norris Peters or bearer -. $4,000
August 81, 1880, check. in favor Of
Western Union Telegraph Co or
bearer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 12,4so0
Sept. l. 1880. check in favor Of A. A.
Mccullough or bearer. 7.500O
Total. ......................... S10l 257 0S
Yesterday afternoon. just before the close Of
the offices at the City Hall, Col. w. A. Cook as
special attorney. entered suit TO recover the
amount of the above account. and filed with it
the affdayits of A. b. Newcomb and Louis V.
Cazarc. setting forth that an investigation has
for short time been going on by the govern
ment into the accounts of Capt. Howgate as
hlSlar1 intF nf .af fhxa
United States army: that such investigation has
developed that the defendant has unlawfully
drawn from the United States Treasury on
checks and appropriated to his own use the
sum above mentioned: that il is believed that
further investigation will disclose other large
sums SO taken by Howgate and that he has.
with a full knowledge of these facts. and while
the investigation was still going on. suddenly,
and without declaring any other business or
reason for leaving at this time, left the District.
without indicating how long he will remain. or
when, if ever. he will return: and they have been
informed and believe that Capt. Howgate, be-
fore he leIt. had intended to dispose Of some OF
his real estate i'm this District, SO "a 10 defeat
Just demands against him.
A writ of attachment was issued and placed i'm
the marshals hands and he and his deputies at
once proceeded to levy on all the real and per-
sonal property and credits belonging to the de-
fendant.
The statements made that the checks drawn
10y Howgate were made payable to order and
were properly endorsed 10y the parties named, is
incorrect. as the checks themselves. with one or
two exceptions. are drawn payable TO bearer
and endorsed by Howgate.
DEED OF CONVEYANCE FILED TO-DAY.
In the recorder of deeds office to-day. deed
was filed from Henry W. Howgate and Cordelia
Howgate his wife. to James 4. Fitch, and
Robert c. Fox. as trustees. conveying the
| following property i'm trust to secure W. w.
Mccullough, W. B. Moses and Motley Anderson,
as sureties on his bond of $4,000 TO appear an
/ g.. -.
United States government lot l5. Dayidson's
sub. l69: lot e kdwells sub. 2l1: of lots 205 to
2l0. Howgate's sub. Pattersons sub. 50. 206;
lots 80 to 3S Williards sub. lots SO. 2SS. and pt.
lot TO- SO. 2S9. The deed is dated August both
Saturday last. and was executed before John
J. Lnney as notary public. and was this MORN
ing at 1015 O'Clock deposited in the record office,
from which hour it is effective.
THE MARSHAL CLAIMS PRIORITY.
The attachment writ under the suit entered
by Col Cook was issued about AZ O'Clock yes
terday and the various pieces of property stand
ing i'm the name of Capt. Howgate by O'Clock
were i'm the hands Of the marshal. Ii would seem
therefore that the marshals claims have priority.
Some members Of the bar claim that the attach
ment will not hold unless it can be shown that
Capt. Howgate left the city to escape service.
NO MORE PROCEEDINGS AT PRESENT.
Gen. Hazen said to-day that the seizure OF
Capt. Howgate's property probably closed all
proceedings against him until the trial. He did
not think it probable that Capt. Howgate would
be rearrested-at least he would not he unless
he attempted tc leave the country. The Ian
guage Of the bill filed against him was formal it
being necessary to allege the probability of the
defendants making away with his property and
getting out of the reach Of the law in order e
get the attachments
VALUE OF THE ATTACHED PROPERTY.
The appraisers under the attachment Ct ].
Fisher. w. B. Williams and +. J. Stellwayenl
attach valuation pf sll0, ,205 to the property
seized
DROPPED DEAD.-WOrd was received at Tho
health Office late this afternoon that James
Furbinger dropped down dead ct GracelanA
cemetery this afternoon.
WHY she WANTED A PARDox-An fbpeai
has been made 10y the mother of a rough char
acter named John Norris who has been sent tn
the woTkhouse as a vagrant, to have her son
pardoned. In the meantime while the attorney
for the District is engaged in looking up the
facts for which he was committed II Ia ascer.
tanned that Norris has escaIed from the work.
house In his striped suit, and that the pardon n
Tor the purpose Of getting back the suit of cloth.
ing taken from Norris on his entrance to the ~
stitution.
The WEEKLY 6fAR for this week ID 40.
ready. In its new form It ie one Of the hand-
soonest and largest newspapers In the United
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