Evening journal., 1890-05-09
MORNING NEWS MISTAKE.
Mitchell Bought Land After the Timber
Contracts had Been Made.

Mitchell Bought Land After the Timber
Contracts had Been Made.
Special Correspondence EVENING JOURNAL.
GEORGETOWN, Del, May 9.-The Morn.
ing News of yesterday, in an editorial
rolls as a sweet morsel under its tongue
what it terms two interesting points
brought out at Wednesdays session of
the Levy Court investigating committee.
One of these so called interesting points
was in relation to the testimony
of George w. Vincent, who was
county treasurer of Sussex county for
the years 1871 and 1872, who tes.
titled that bogus order was presented
to him by the then collector of taxes for
Indian River hundred, and that he, Vim
cent, tore it up, and threatened to prose-
cute the collector. Vincent did not know
whether it was county court or road
order, nor did he know the amount, and
upon further examination said it Yves
Kent county order, and that he would not
accept it and pay the money on it.
In fact he could not remember defu-
itelY anything about the matter, nor is it
remarkable that Vincent should at this
time make anything but an incoherent
and disconnected statement about any
particular incident in the routine of his
official duties which took place nineteen
or twenty years ago He is now an old
man and talks very disconnectedly and at
random, as was evident from the
manner in which he testified before the
committee But none Of his testimony
was positive, nor was it such as would be
J admissible ia a court Of law, and nothing
he stated could possibly be held by any
court to fasten upon any Democratic
official the least fraud or malfeasance in
office.
The next SO called point, was that Levy
Court Commissioner Henry B. Mitchell
Of Dagsboro hundred had sold lumber to
the county, when the law expressly for
\ bids the said commissioners, or any Of
them, selling any such material to the
county. The law cited in said editorial is
correct, but the facts are grossly mis-
stated The facts are these: In the
winter of 1885 two men by the names of
Peter Mitchell and Caleb Brimer con-
traoted with Henry c. Frame Of near
Millsboro, who for the timber on the farm
of DR.. H. g. NJ Kollock Of Newark
Delaware. But short time after making
this contract, and before the timber was
cut, Dr. Kollock sold the land on which
the timber stood to Levy Courtman h. B
Mitchell, at which time it was agreed
by all parties interested in making the
clntract, that in as much as Caleb
Brimer and Peter Mitchell should 90
ahead, notwithstanding the sale of the
land on which the timber stood, and
retain the same portion of what the
| lumber sold for as their compensation
for their work and nay the remainder
OF the money over to Henry p.
Mitchell, the then owner Of the land.
Thus it is clear the contract in relation to
| the lumber was made between II. c.
Frame and Peter Mitchell and Caleb
Brimer, long before Henry B. Mitchell
bought the land. and the parties were
merely permitted to carry out contract
previously made Levy Courtman
Mitchell has not been guilty OF any
Gro ookedness or malfeasance in Office.
It is stated on good authority that a
few weeks ago prominent Higgins ap-
! pointee OF Dagsboro hundred offered a
man 81. so day to visit the numerous
steam saw mills aud charcoal pits
of Dagsboro hundred and get
the names Of each and every
negro at work at these places. The men
did not then agree TO do the work but
after talking with some Of his friends,
resolved not to do so, and 80 reported to
the Higgins appointee.
The investigating committee, or rather,
Frank Bacon's puppet, adjourned yestei-
day afteanoon till May 20, when il is ex
pected, the report Of the experts win be
received
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