The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-09-20
Was IT ROBBERY?
LIVELY SENSATION OCCURS IN
ALBANY.
uov r. w. Jordan, the Live stock Dealer,
Downed Capt. Hobbs on the Pos
session of some Valua-
BILE apers.

From the Il Dduf Aefald-
o.ite li.cl, sensation was sprung ia
fine business part If the city at abont 4
o'clock Wedr esday If .tnoon by trans
oct,on that took place between Mr.. r. w
Jordan tue well-known stock dealer,
and Capt. r. Hobbs, in the latter's law
office.
And the sensation became all the more
Iigelv when it was learned that Mr.. Jor-
dan had been arrested on warrant
sEorn out before Magistrate Greer
charging him with robbery.
Various and conflicting reports of the
transaction soon gained circulation, and
the Herald sought both principals this
morning for the purpose of getting
their statements.
Capt. Hobbs was willing enough to
talk. aad readily answered every ques-
ton put to him by the reporter; but
when Mr. Jordan was fol nd he very
courteously but firmly refused to say
ANYTHING about the transaction, giving
* his reason that the matter had been
takeninto the courts and that he pre-.
fered to wait until his case came up on
the commitment trial set for tomorrow
before he made his statement.
In substance Capt. Hobbs stateme.t
was as follows:
The banking fem Of Hobbs & Tucker
held Mr. Jordan's note, bearing date of
April 3gd 1898, and due in November
uext, for 81, 500 81, and to secure the
note MI. Jordan had placed with them
notes falling due. this fall, on parties to
whom he had sold horses and mules,
amounting to forty-odd hundred dollars.
The fact that the blnk of Hobbs &
Tucker has suspended, and that the af
fairs of the firm are being liquidated is
well known.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Jordan went
to Can't. hobbs and told him that he
wanted to get certain one of his col
lateral notes for collection; that he had
learned that the party who owed him
the amount of the note was having his
cotton ginned, and lie wanted u go and
make the collection. Capt. Hobbs, it ap-
pears. had the notes in his safe in his
law office, and went there with Mr.. Jor-
dan to get the note that was wanted. He
got the whole package of notes, and be-
fore he was aware OF it. Mr.. Jordan had
taken them from the. liable where they
had ben laid, pocKeted them, and, laying
check down in their place, remarked,
Here is what l owe you" and walked
out.
Taking up the check, Capt. Hobbs
saw that if was check from B. Il
Askew on Hobbs f& Tucker for $1,000,
made payable to R. W. Jordan.ss
Nh Askew, it appears, had som,-
where between IS, 900 and $4,000 to his
credit in Hobbs d fuckers bank when
the bank suspended.
When Capt. Hobbs realized what had
been done. he ran to the window and
called to Mr. Jordan to come back, but
''He never came back"
Capt Hobbs then went before Magis-
tr4te Greer and swore out a warrant
against MI Jordan charging him with
robbery. Mr.. Jordan was shortly after
wards arrested in Attorney j. w. Wal
ter's Office by Deputy Sheriff Goodwin.
He gave bond in the sum Of 81 600, and
10 O'Clock this morning was fixed for a
hearing. At the appointed hour this
morning the parties met, and, upon mo-
ton of the prosecution, the case was
postponed until 10 o'clock tomorrow
Now, Capt. Hobbs says that Mr. Jor-
dan never tenoered him Askew s check
inpaymentof his note and for the release
of the oolaterals, but, while Nj. Jordan
himself refuses to talk, it is claimed by
his friends that he did, and that it was
declined.
1t also appears that Capt. Hobos, or
Hobbs & Tucker, had been garnished by
the Albany Fertilizer and Farm I'm
provement Co., on account of Their hay
ing these collateral notes, and Capt.
Hobbs says that he could not have given
up the notes If he had been willing to
have done So The garnishment was re-
tuuable to the October term OF the
Superior Court
When the TIM arrived for hearing the
case the announcement was made mat
&c had been settled. The terms OF the
settlement are not known. Mr.. b. H.
Askev, whose check against his deposit