The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-15
CITY NEWS.
Items of Interest Gath
cred by the Times
Reporters.
INTERESTING 1RIAL IN THE HusT.
INGs COURT.
Briefs, Notes and Personal NJ ention.
CITY NEWS.
Briefs. Notes and Personal Nj ontion.

The trial Of Felix Moses, charged with
lraudolcntly converting 20 his own use
/ 500 lhe property Of the Bowker Ferlllz-
I ing company, was resumed In the Hus-
/ tings Court yesterday morning. The
/ Jury appeared In Court at II o'clock and
the examination Of Mr a. V. Young, the
trsi Witness introduced by the Common.
wealth, was resumed.
The counsel for the defense seemed 10
attach more importance 10 the trial after
The iirst days proceedings. and yesterday
employed q stenOgrapber who took down
thc evidence Ia fuM. When the C0uri
met the cr0ss-eXsmluatiOn Of Mr. Young
By the counsel for the accused was imme.
diaioly resumed
The subject matter Of The controversy
between The b0Wker FertlliIng C0mpa.
MS snd Mossfs Clemens and Moses, upon
which The prosecution WAS based dates
back IS far AZ 1888 under four separate
contracts for the purchase Of guarO.
Under these contracts MessIs ClemOus
and Moses received from the Bowker
Company several large quantities Of
fertilizers, and sold the same throughout
Virginia and Tennosse, according TO In.
struciIOns taking from the farmers their
notes az twelve months. these notes
were given the Bowker Company which
afterwards sen. them back 10 Moses and
clemens for collection These gen
ilemon collected a large number Of
The notes and returned them 10 the Bow
ker Company But the company asserted
and maintained that the full amount Of
The notes har not been accounted for
The defense claims that had the case gone
90 fury, they were fully prepared to show
p fragrant violation of the contract Of
agency by the BOwker Company In re
fu-ing 10 return 10 them (ClemOns g.
Moses an amount IN excess Of 81 so Of
farmers notes oTcollectlon, and tLls fact
was admitted by the Bowker Company
The counsel for the defendants won a also
have shown that the entire amount Of
fertilizer purchased by the Bowker Com
Oany had been either paid for OF account
cd for by The defendants.
In the course Of the cIOss-eyaminatiCn
Yesterday by the counsel for the defense,
20 was shown conclusigely by the wit
ness own statement that he had contra
dicied himself no less than three times In
his oral examination aud was contra.
iiCied twice BY the letters produced ia
Court 10 was further brought out II the
that the BOwkeI Com
pany had enticed Major Clemous 10 New
York, had shadOwed him thither from
Boston by private detective and, on his .
arrival there, had him arrested on q civil
process for the very debt now claimed by
The company as the basis of a commercial .
liability. This was all admitted by The .
witness.
At about this point In the trial, Colonel .
SpoiswoOd the Attorney fOt the Com
monweelth, arose and stated that under .
his duty TO the accused, as well as the
accus0r. he could not consent TO press
The case further. and expressing his will
Inpness 10 discontinue the prosecution,
moved the court to dismiss the case and
enter 2 naHS Ia the remaining four cases
against Mr Moses and two against Mr.
ylemons The court granted leave for
Ibis course, and the trial ended at half
past O'clock.
In March last. when Major Clemons
ygs IN Boston, he was induced by the
~ euts of The Bowker Company 10 60 TO
New York when the moment he touched
be shore he was arrested by the sheriff
% the process above referred to. ard he
only escaped going to Jail to await trial
through the couTtesies of the sheriff On
leing placed on trial the circumstances
II his arrest and prosecution were made
.u0wR. and he was Immediately ecquit-
ed since ilat time Major Clemons,
Trough bis C0uGsel. General Roger A.
Pryor, of New York, las Instituted suit
.geiust the Bowker Company for $4,000
ismages.