The Monticellonian., 1894-12-14
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Banker Ailis' Case.


 LITTLE ROCK, Dec. 10.-The mystery Surrounding the non-arrival of the su preme court mandate in the ease of Horace c. Allis, president of the de- funct First national bank of this city, who was convicted one year ago in the federal court here and sentenced to serve q five-vear term in the Brooklyn (N. Y) penitentiary, has been eX- plained. The judgment of the trial court was affirmed by the supreme court of the United States more than three weeks ago.
 oI.NEY EXPLAINS.
 The delay in the arrival of the man date caused District-Attorney House to write letter of inquiry to Attorney General Olney, at Washington, and an answer has been received. The attor- ney-general says the marshal must un- doubtedly await the arrival of the mandate before taking Allis into GUS tody. Under the rule of the supreme court, the mandate in the case will not issue until the beginning of the Febru- ary recess, unless, upon motion of the government, consented to by the de- fendent, an earlier day is fixed. Allis says he. is ready to go whenever the government notifies him, and lie at tributes the respite to a desire on the part of the government to use him as q witness in the large number of civil suits now pending against the bank. Allis, it is said, still spurns the idea of opplying to the president for q pardon. 
 Worked by Swindler.
 A number of Fort Smiths most prom inent business men have been taken in to the tune of several hundred dol lars by man who represented himself as Il. T. Jaclman. Mir. .Iacllman is q prominent business man at Tushka- homma, Choctaw Nation, and his check k good for any amount he desires to draw in fact, he stands Al with whole salers and retailers. Therefore, when an order supposed to have been signed by him to Klein t Fink, jewellers. to send some diamonds for inspection, they promptly forwarded three fine ones. The Boston store, acting in good faith. sent down a good-sized bill of goods, and several other merchants fol- lowed suit.
 HOW THE SCHEME WAS WORKED.
 Mir Jacl1man was in Fort Smith the other day and denied all knowledge of the orders. The swindler's plan was simple He went to TushIahomma and told the clerks in Mr. Jael5man's store that his name was identical with that of the proprietor, and that he was look ing for packages from Klein X Fink and the Boston store When they ar- rived he easily identified himself. and the packages were turned over to him. The swindler was in Fort Smith the day before Mir. Jacllman, but skipped.
 An Interesting Decision.
 The supreme court handed down a decision the other day in the case of E. [. Rapley, eX-city treasurer of Hot Springs, who was indicted by the Gar land county grand jury on the charge of embedding funds of the city while acting as treasurer. When the case was called for trial in the circuit court the defendants attorney filed a de, murrer to the indictment on the grounds that the indictment contained three counts-all for the same offenSe The court sustained the demurrer, and re- quired the prosecuting attorney to se- leet the counts which he preferred to try and dismiss the others. This the prosecuting attorney refused to do, and the indictment was quashed The state appealed to the supreme court.
 Ghief-Justicc Bunn in delivering the opinion of the majority of the court said the counts were not the same, in- asmuch as they alleged different offen- ses, and for that reason the trial court would be reversed and the cause re manded with instructions to the circuit judge to overrule the demurrer and try the ease on it's merits Justices Battle and Wood dissented.
 Youthful Convict Pardoned.
 George Smith, aged lG, wa pardoned by the governor, the other day, and left immediately for his home at Pine vile, Mo. His father is prominent citizen of Pincvillc, and county iudpp