Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-10
How Uncle Sans Mails Were Used
to SwindIe the Unwary---In-
creaSing His Salary.
The Houston Il Texas Central Makes
a Squeal on the Pool-The
Young Stagc.RObber.
Judge Rimes Believed 20 be at Home In
Marlin-shrewd Merchants--La
suits, Etc.

lard of Meridian, ex-secretary of the Me-
ridian Mineral Wells company, was ar.
ralgned in United States Commissioner
Fink's court this afternoon. lie is charged
with misuse Of the postofllce establish
ment for the purpose of swindlng Philip |
Howard, also of Meridian, and president
of the Mineral Wells company out of a /
sum of money, which Howard alleges
was $3.50. billiards. scheme and modus |
operandi, as charged by the government |
were given rather fully in The GAZETTE |
OF the I'd instant-how he personatcd |
dual character, figuring as "Russell, NJ. |
D. at Bolton and Temple, Offering to |
buy the stock of the company, and how
he finally unloaded, ut fictitious
value, his seven shares of stock on inno-
cent and unsuspecting old man Howard
The amount involved was not large, but
billiards. alleged adroit scheme is what
has given the case interest. The lawyers
say a man as keen as billiard might have
been expected to utilize his talents on
bigger game. A crowd of witnesses
were on hand, and Maj pearre prose-
cutcd for the government. billiard
waived examination; he did not put any
witnesses on the stand; the government,
however, examined several, taking ex-
parto testimony for use when the grand
/ jury meets.
The case, as developed is substantially
the same as tclegraphed you in spc-
cal OF the Sd inst, with exception
( that the postmaster at Temple deposed
that postmark of his Office on letters
sent to Howard at Meridian were genuine
/ instead of forged, as at first alleged.
! billiard was bound over in the sum of
/ S400.
Deputy United States Marshal Ish ar
rived this evening with f. Koehlar, q
{ postmaster at Green Rock, who is charged
with unlawiully increasing the receipts of
his Office, thereby increasing his own
salary. The allegation is that he
made requisition for large quantities
of stamps far in excess of the needs of
the Office, using them in trade with mer-
chants. He is held for preliminary trial.
A. b. F. Richmond, an eX-conductor has
brought suit against the Could railroad
system, or to be more specific, the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway company, on rather
novel grounds. lie alleges that two years
ago he was conductor of n freight train
on the International & Great Northern
railroad, one of plaintiffs leased lines
He was discharged on the ground of care
lessness. After being discharged he was
by plaintiff--hS name placed in a book
that was circulated among railroad OIL
Gals all over the country. BY reason of
this he says it is virtually out of
the question for him to get employ
ment ON any railroad in the country. He
, has followed railroading for fourteen
years and doesn't understand any other
business. His grievance is that plaintiff,
| by thus "blackmailing" him, has effcctu-
ally deprived him of the means of making
an honest livelihood. He prays for
$4,000 damages. Anderson K Flint are
the counsel and the case is set for the
, November term of the United States dis
; trict court in this city.
: Last year, on the complaint of A. Hinch-
| man, dealer in agricultural implements,
: this city b, A. Altrich of Dallas,
then representing the Buford & George
{ Implement company of Kansas City, was
= arrested on charge of perjury. In the
{ federal court, after months of delay,
Aldrch was fully and honorably acquitted
of the charge. Aldrich now brings suit
in the district court of this county against
IIinchman, alleging defamation of charac-
! ter, false Imprisonment, etc. and praying
u for $4,000 damages. IIinchman's AN
! swer was filed this morning, denying the
allegations in toto, and bringing forward
some rather rich facts to sustain his an.
c swer.
: United States District Attorney Pearre
, received telegram from United States
Il Judge Turner at El Paso this morning in
regard to the young stage-robber, Jesse
u w. Jones, now in custody at El Paso.
7 Judge Turner says he has ordered the
! prisoner remanded to Dallas. As Jones'
|, crimes were committed in Eastland
u county, cases from (which are rcturnablc
u to Waco for trial in the federal court il
: is now certain that the embryo Claude
: Duyal will be tried here.
Sheriff Harris got a letter this morning
Il from Camden, Ark, directed to "IIon. b
II w Rimes, district Judge, Waco, Tex.
e care of Sheriff llarris.n From this the
C sheriff concludes Judge Rimes is now AT
= home in Marlin. The sheriff saws he
: wouldn't be surprised to see Judge
. Rlmcs walk into the courtroom to-mor.
y row morning, take the judges seat and
: say "Mr. Sheriff, open the court" The
! lawyers are also discussing such con.
" tingency and what they win do in such
u event, twin be remembered Judge Rmes
: telegraphcd the bar meeting held here
: last week that he would resign on his re
l. turn from Arkansas.
y gentleman in st. Joseph, Mo-, to ,
II friend in this city says "Sam Jones ha,
T. made seven hundred converts and Sl20l
3 here. Our merchants raised $4,000
e bought $1,000 tent. put 5000 chairs in it
e ioored it, lighted IL with electricity ant
opened the meeting The crowds of Wis
itors have been immense" The nfercnc,
n Is drawn that the shrewd ST. Joe men 20
sam Jones there as a business scheme
which certainly was not the case with hi,
great meeting In Waco
= AS was anticipated and forcshadowe,
" IN these specials two weeks ago, the Cen
tral was the first one of the pool roads t,
squeal about cotton Nearly all the Wac,
shipments We're going out over the Mis-
Is souri, Pacific and the Texas and st. Louis
e The two last named roads have come L
y the Central's aid by raising their cotto
- tarlh about ten points, which causes NOR
q cotton to flow TO the Central, aud thcr
L Is a fairer divide and all is harmonlou
l. again.
l. AT the recorders court this morning
: big batch of the demi.mondc were ur
e The city does not license the maison d
II Jole, but IL gets license all the same b