Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-11-22
FROM WILMINGTON DOWN
IHE COMING DEL4HJRE COLLEdg
BdN0UET.
Troubles Of Pnrta-COIorcd Firm
Fac white Partner Released and
thr COlorcd Partner Jailed.

troubles Oi RNrfa-fOiOred Firm
Fhc white Partner Released ant
thr COiOFcd Partner Jailed.
Before United Ststaa aomni7siouer 8
Redmond Smith, Ed, Friday alter
noon, Charles nieksris wss givsn =
bearing on the charge Of opening letter.
5ant throusp The mails aud directed tC
Claytoa Earl, eolored, ills partner in the
charcoal business.
The two men ara employed in burning
charcoal below Harrington, having started
the busiusss January 9Th OF this year.
RickGrds 10 the owner OF the property
wherefrom the good is obtained and tool;
Earl, VINO il practical burner, into his
eWyioy, giving him g part of the earn
inRs. Richards personally conducted the
financial part Of the business,
Earl claimed before the commissioner
Friday that HIS partner had taken
and kept L letter personally addressed to
hin from the Bstta' machine company,
sending mia the envelope by messen.
ger. Baeps suspicious were fret aroused
that Richards had kept the letter when
he recsiFed q postal card from tbe same
conn uy IA 2 fsH days after inquiring
WY Ine letter had not been ans 9ered.
Tbs ie:tsr, he claimed, wss dated Jauu.
aTy 9lh, 1883, gni addressed 10 him
personally.
Tuu messenger WIS osllel to testify
and stated that he had carried an en-
velope from Richards TO EArl, aud with
instructions from the former TO tell the
latter tnst an order for charcoal had been
raoairal b., n.
worth Company, aud wanted some
instructions about shipping it. The
envelope containing the cOmpany's csrds
printed on it was given the witness as o
memorandum to assist him in remember.
ing the name. The envelope carried by
the witness was buff and the one showed
by the prosecuting witness in evidence
with the postal card trom the Bstis
machine oompsny WAS white.
Samuel Johnson was callsl az g 7'itrass
anc corroborsted in part the testimony
OF Thomas Green as given above.
Thr post master at Greenwood, Will
liam Richardson, testified that sll letters
addressed Richards Il Earl wers given to
tn. letter hut never those addressed to
the latter personally.
lu cr0ss-eXsmiuation by Mr.. Patterson
Earl testified thst the partnership was
formed IL Jsuuaiy 1853 ard the postal
cRTd referring TO tue Bats letter was
written January 9tb, 1888.
Edward 4. Bett2 OF the Belts Machine
Company wa oall.i AID from q dupli
cate IL the Gompsuy's lett4r buot showed
that The letter Earl had sworn was taken
b. Richards in January OF this year was
written JGuuery Oh, 1882.
The Pro)t vi Earl'a perjury was clearly
and Mr. Patterson denounced
him "a = person WLolly unworthy of
belief. A. 4 30 O'clock t1y case was post.
poned ur.il saturday maruing.
saturaay Mr. Richards was lut OF
the stsn aud testified that he received 8
letter frcm 'hs TARA Il uuliiugeworth
company ilquiriuR about charcoal and
wanting 10 make sOme Inquiries sent
6rsHu sc Richards TO ask about IL COM
pany, and at the lstier's suggestion had
given him l1o ehvalopo IN order that he
could remember the mama. rhero bein,
no testimony to warrant holding Rick ards
he was discharged.
At the conclusion OF Friday evenings
hearing Earl was arrested on parrsnt
Issued at the instance OF Richards on the
charge of threatening to shoot him and
soue Of his men. After considerable
difficulty, which engaged tha efforts Of
four poicr,aen to tAtOw the brawny,
negro, he was lodged in the
police station.
Earl Was taken by County Constable
Green 10 Milford Saturday Il ii not kuowD
whether United States District Attorney
p lttAt.n, tciI i1et4tut. ,,-ro.aJ inn,