The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-11
B00NE'S TURN CAME
HE FILES CHARGES AND CAUSED
ARREST OF SHELTON.
Blackmail is the Specific Allegation
In the Warrant-Constable Green
Assigned the Duty Of Maxim. the
Arrest-The Defendant Gave Bond
and is at Libery Again.

At o'clock last evening Constable
Gearge Green arrested Lawyer w. j.
Shelton on a warrant issued out OF
the police court charging him with the
allegations set forth in the following
document:
Mr.. Shelton appeared in court where
a bond of $500 was required for his ap-
parence on the 18th inst, to answer the
charges.
He secured a suitable bond before
o'clock, the surities being Bion B. Hull
and ]. A. Bishop.
The following is the complaint omit
ing title and acknowledgment as taken
virbatim from a copy in the Office of
Justic keenan,:
''W. H. Boone, being duly sworn, on
oath says: That on the day OF De-
cember, 1894, in the county of Sedg-
wick, and state of Kansas, w. j. Skel-
ton, with the view and intent to felon-
iously, unlawfully, maliciously and
wickedly, blackmail, eXtort and gain
money from W. II. Boone, did, then
and there, unlawfully, feloniousiy,
wickedly and maliciously verbally ac-
cuse, and threaten TO accuse said W
II. Boone Of the crime of misconduct in
office as county attorney of SedgWick
county, Kansas, in this, to-wit:Of ac-
cepting and receiving money for, and
in consideration of abstaining and re-
fusing to prosecute as such county at
torney, violaters of the prohibitory
liquor law in Sedgwick county, Kan
sas, and Of compounding felonies and
misdemeanors and with crimes com
mitted by the said w. H. Boone as an
attorney-at-law, and other crimes and
miSdemeanorS, and threatened to COM
mence proceedings for the diSbarment
as an attorney-at-law of said w. II.
Boone, all of which said w. J. Shelton
said he would do unless the said w. H.
Boone would pay the said W. J. Skel-
ton the sum of $3.50, and the said w. J.
Shelton then and there agreed and
said that if said w. H. Boone would pay
to him the said w. J. Shelton the said
sum of $3.50 that he, the said w. J.
Shelton, would refrain from making
said charges, threats and accusations
public and would conceal the same and
would abstain from any prosecution
thereof; and the said w. j. Shelton. in
the manner and form aforesaid and by
reason of all the foregoing accusations
and threats SO made as aforesaid do
then and there and thereby unlawful
ly, wilfully, maliciously, wickedly and
feloneously attempt to blackmail. ex-
tort and gain from the said w. II.
Boone certain sum of money, to-wit:
The sum of $3.50 in good and lawful
money of the United Staes of America
and OF the value OF $250 and OF the prop
erty of said w. H Boone contrary to
the form of the statutes in such cases
made and provided and against the
peace and dignity of the state of Kan
sas W. H. BOONE"
The case will attract a great deal of
interest. j. A. Brubaker, John Adams,
J. D. Houston and some other attorneys
not yet learned will act on the side of
Mr.. Boone. He says that a couple of
score of attorneys have volunteered to
take care of his interests in both cases.
Mr.. Shelton also says that he has offers
from fourteen or fifteen lawyers to de-
fend him, but their names We're not
learned. 1t was stated that he desired
to retain Amidon & Comfy and that
they declined to go into the case.
In the disbarment case against Mr.. |
Boone Judge Reed, yesterday, ap-
pointed +. r. NermilliOn and w. Z. |
Stanley. but it was not learned whether
or not they accepted the appointment