The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14

the two detectives assured me
the way returned the papers l would
tnaV free man before nlghttaIl.
10 CLERK GOT THE PAPERS.
=, tho meantime I had given all
n.rnrs to Frank w. Clark, a fell
my Rnrfsoner in the Tombs, who has
low there two years on a charge OF
oeen on which he was convicted
;s now awaiting action on appeal.
anu "uCiark had managed to pass the
,oors out by friends, who placed
pap, in a certain safe deposit com
IuIr ,ndnr a valuation of $40, coo.
P"nnIWhen I reached my cell after the
r,inv with Assistant District At
tnrnnv Weeks and the detectives l ex-
yyJyaain3d the case to Clerk and asked
PP;na IN secure an immediate return of
the papers.
He laughed at me. WELL said
bo 'vo are an easy one to fool.
These detectives are playing you.
they are after the papers, and your
surrender of them will place you in a
for worse fix than you are in at pres
ont In brief, he positively refused
10 return the papers to me, and l soon
learned to respect his judgments in the
The next day l was again taken
before Weeks, who, disguised with
nv change of front-for l now refused
~ accede to his manufactured me
roundlv, and wound up by saying
"'You are a liar as we'll as a thief,
and I do not believe that you have
these papers!'
THAT piqued me and 1 determined
to show that before my arrest | had
deposited a couple of papers with a
Mrs. Welsh, at No. 325 West FOrtieth
street. When Weeks sneered at my
word I took out my pencil, wrote an
order on Mrs. Welsh for the two docU-
ments and handed it to him.
THAT, SIR said | will show you
whether or not l am in control of the
railroad papers you e so singularly
interested in
GOT TWO DOCUMENTS.
detective Valley took the order
and secured from Mrs. Welsh the dOcu-
ments. one of which admits grave vic
lations of the Interstate Commerce
law over the signature of a high off
cial of a prominent road. The other
is an application for a pass which was
granted to an individual residing in
Canada.
Sin ,e that day [ have had no more
OF the District Attorneys Office, but
the detectives have been doing their
utmost to get possession of my papers.
They have failed. Poor Clark has
been before Assistant District AttOr-
ney Week, who used every means in
his power to get at the whereabouts of
the papers, but without success.
Here lam held on an unjust charge,
unable to secure bail and at the mercy
of the railroad magnate5 in cOm1ina-
ton with the Assistant District At
torney.
SIX RAILROAD INVOLVED.
Now, as to the papers I hold, let
me say that they prove a sun total of
Interstate Commerce law violations
which. if reduced to penalties, will
merely bankrupt several prominent
railroads.
I hold the originals. The com
panies cannot repudiate them. | not
only hold them, but in view of the
treatment I have received 1 propose to
make them public property.
six Of the leading railroad COM
panies in this country are involved,
two of them to the tune of half a mil
lion dollars each. l have voucher
sheets, 80 shipments to a sheet, and
every shipment a glazing violation Of
the law, involving a S., 900 penalty.
They have pushed me to the wall
and l shall strike back for all that l
am worth. The violations are by
special agreement with dressed beef
concerns, marble dealers, sugar, coffee
and grain shippers, dry goods dealers,
cement manufaCturers-all Of them
among the most substantial business
men in the country.
How many of them? More than a
thousand, whose names and the viola
tons Of law involved in their ship
ments ear establish by documentary
proof. 1t shall all be made the subject
of legal action. Of this l am deter
mined. With that end in view l have
To-Day written to the United States
District Attorney stating that l am
held here subject to the persecution of
Assistant District Attorney Weeks,
who is striving in the interest Of GER
tain railroad companies to force me to
surrender valuable papers in my pos
session. I appeal to him in the federal
courts, where 1 can with safety sur
render the documents now so eagerly
sought by their l~aWbreaking owners.
Il have three thousand original
letters and vouchers, each represent
ing and proving all the way from one
to a hundred and fifty Violations.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission must take action on the evil
dence 1 have in my possession, and
the result will be a terrible financial
blow, to the half dozen great roads
whose papers 1 safely hold. They
have bounded me to this step and they
must stand the consequences"
THE BEST FOUR PEACHES.
At tho loct annual poOo+;.u &c ~.