The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-07-11
Big MAYNARD SENSATION.
Two Young Clerks Arrested for Stealing
Composition Metal.
ABOUT TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS STOLEN.
How the High. Handed Game Was Detected
by the Officers Merchants Commercial
Agcncy-rrom Over tho State.

NonyoLx. Va, July I0-ISpeciall-A ire
mendous sensation was created at the navy
yard this morning by the arrest Of Payinas-
ter's. Clerk Van yranken. of the general store
house. and II. w. Coston, clerical empioye
of the same establishment, on the charge OF
stealing composition metal and other goods
from the Government % the value OF slo'VVO'
1t Is estimated.
The arrests were caused by the discovery
IN the store Of box Of goods marked COM
rnandant Of the naval station at Port Royal,
s c.. for which there was no orders. News
Of the crooked" shipments had reached the
yard officials, and Captain Norton. the execu-
tive officer Of the yard, went TO the general
store, and finding tue box IN question, asked
what il contained He told him, 50 Coston
states. that 1t contained composition 70 be
sent 10 Port Royal. Captain Norton had the
box opened. aud IL was found to contain COM
position metal, as stated.
cosTON ARRESTED.
He ordered Mr.. Coston under arrest and
him put in the guard-house TO await action
by the United States Court. Paynasters
Clerk Van Vranken was also placed under
arrest. and being in the naval service was car
ried aboard the United States recelVlng snip
n was discovered that day before yesterday
n similar shipment was carried out OF the
yard. and colored truckman named Amer,
Gus Smith. of Portsmouth. was sent LOT anu
he told all he know of the shipments" be
had handled. Later in the day United States
DEPUTY Marshal j. j. Sullivan, OF Norfolk,
brought CostOn over here. and he WAS ar
raigned before United States Commissioners
H. s. Ackiss. being represented by >: r;
Croker a. counsel, United States DISTRICT
Attorney Borland appearing Tor the United
States.
He denied knowing anything about It's regu-
laTity or the irregularty OF any other shipment
from the navy yard. The commissioner con-
tiued the case and admitted the accused to
bail under bond Of $1,000.
Americas Smith. the colored driver, was
seen by reporter and stated that for about
two months he had been carrying boxes out OF
the yard and delivering them at Mr.. Wood
mans Junk store in Portsmouth; that he
couldn't read and didn't know how they were
marked that Mr.. Van Vranken and MIR. Cos
ton have both gone % Portsmouth with nm
and shown him where 10 deliver the boxes.
The pass for the box carried out day before
yesterday has the appearance OF regularity.
Ii has the signature of Pavmaster ID. A. Smith,
who WAS then in charge Of the store Temporal
rily.
Mr. Van vranken has for long time been
one OF inS SOclhi lehtcIS III t4lio opN'AOH. ~HN
Mr.. COston is resident of Portsmouth and
the son of Captain Coston, of the United
States Marine Corps.
MIR. COstOn's preliminary examination Will
take place before United States Commissioner
Ackiss next Tuesday.
THE DISABLED VESSELS.
The repairs TO the Chicago will be COM
pleted tomorrow.
The three-mast double-decked schooner,
Robert Graham from Savannah to Phiadel-
pha with Georgia pine. put into this port last
night in a leaking condition. Her captain
noted protest with II. l.. Cannon this morn
ing and says that on Wednesday night his
vessel encountered asevere gale which caused
her to leak and she now has four feet OF
water in her hold She is lying on the Berk-
Lev flats.
NORFOLK NOTES.
Thevessel that ran into the British steamship
Iamartine at Lambert's Point yesterday, IS
found to be the Guyandotte, of the Old Do
minion Steamship Company. The Guyan-
dOtte was bound to Newport News. Her bow
was stove in by the force of the collision
twenty-five feet long and two plates wide.
The large number of the Young Mems
Christian Association boys IN camp at Hamp-
ton are hugely enjoying themselves boating,
sailing and swimming. To-day IS athletic
day with them.
Broad creek. near here, yesterday by acct
dontally falling from q boat.
The boiler in the large lumber mill of
Greenleaf. Johnson & Co.. at Berkeley, ex-
ploded yesterday, perhaps fatally injuring
L.. H.,