Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-04
rhe Lascs. Coupon coses Tn rauquier.


A. the February term OF the County
Court of Fauquier county James II. Lob
was tried on en- Indictment which
charged him with selling and Offering
20 sell tox. receivable coupons from the
bonds Of the State Of Virgins" in the
county OF Fauquier on q day specified in
the Indictment The evidence was that
the defendant had offered to sell con
pom to John y. Grant. the witness, in a
room OF tho Warren Green Hotel, which
the defendant had opened ns n sales
room for his commodity, Mr.. Grant
having gone there "to make g case. "
The evidence was explicit, and under the
act approved May 23. 1887, passed at the
special session OF the Legislature. Lob
was fined $500. There was another case
pending against the same party for Offer
INC to sell coupon on the same day to
another person, but at the request Of the
defendants counsel it was allowed TO go
over to the succeeding term Of the court,
the CONFERENCE.-The attorney consent
ing, as the grand jury, which would hold
- session next day, was expected TO find
two other indictments for an actual sell
ing OF coupons without a license. The
two indictments were found and OF the
succeeding term OF the court Lob
was put upon his trial on one
of them. the one for selling a
COUPON 70 Bishop. Bishop proved that
he met the defendant at the hotel and
was taken by him 10 mis- room, where the
coupon produced in court was handed
TO HIM by Lob. The face value Of the
coupon was $3.50, for when he paid
/ haT price. The witness could not
speak with certainty as TO the person to
whom the price was paid, whether to Mr..
/ Lob, with whom he made his bargain,
or to Mr.. Guigon, Richmond lawyer,
/ whom he found at the headquarters and
who appeared to he an active partner OF
| Lob. The Commonwealth attorney
said it was not important which held the
hare or which skinned it, and 50 it was
treated by the jury. Mr.. Fletcher, who
was engaged in the printing-oliice of the
True inter, was introduced to prove
/ that before Mr.. Lob had opened his cam
paign he had had thousand copies Of q
poster struck advertising his business,
which we're scattered broadcast among
the people assembled at court. The
poster WAS in these words, as it was read
with dramatic effect TO the jury:
Buy Coupons Coupons Coupons
/ To Tax PAYERS All taxes due the State
can be paid in Coupons You can pay
by straight tender, saving half your State
taxes, and / viii give you my guarantee
of legal protection and indemnity free OF
all cost. Applyto JAMES Il. Lon,
"Warren Green Hotel.
The posters showed the great scale on
which the enterprising Mr.. Lob proposed
/ to conduct business, and the jury fined
the gentleman Fl, 600. The defendants
counsel offered verdicts for $500 each in
/ the othertvO cases without the fOrmallty
of trials. The offer was accepted. Bills
Of exception we're taken in the several
cases with the view Of testing the rulings
OF the Court aud the constitutionality OF
the license law. When the cases were
closed mir. Sands. as he left the bar, re-
marked, with emphasis "In these cou-
pom cases | believe Fauquier county is a
close corporation Judge, jury, and Com
monwealths attorney"
A juryman, who perhaps had heard
Mr.. Sands's remark, observed at is a
certain fact that Fauquier is not cou-
pom county" Thus ended the coupon
cases in our CONT It is now under adj
yisement whether Lawyer Guigon shall
not be indicted for his hand in the show
for being in the salesroom with his be-
witching little partner
"1o bear his part
And show the glory Of tho art
ANTI-COUPoM
WoTCnt0n, "a, April ?, 1883.