The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-04
PooRE CANNOT BE FOUND.
A DEPUTY MARSHAL CHARGED
WITH MAKING FALSE REP
RESERVATIONS.

Defendant in the saIter Cases
says lie Obtained Money From Him
on the Representation. That He
Was an Agent OF the District At
torney and Could Arrange to settle
the Case-He Once Took a Bible
From His Pocket 10 Swear a Wit
ness when the Court bible Was
Missing.
Deputy Marshal ". /. Poore Of the Uni
ted States court. It seems. has made him
SELF scarce since charges Of Improperly
personating an officer for fraudulent pur-
poses have been preferred against him.
There is warrant for Poore on these
charges now ia the possession Of the mar
shafts office. and it Is understood the de-
puues are on the lookout for him. The
affidavit on which the warrant was made
was sworn to by George II. Fletcher. one
of the defendants indicted with II. k. Salt
or and others on charges Of using the mails
to carry on the counterfeit money fraud
or the green goods business.
Fletcher stated that Poore came to him
sometime ago and represented himself to
be an authorized agent Of the district at
torney, claiming he could arrange to have
the Indictment put out Of the way and the
case quietly disposed Of without trial.
On these representations Fletcher says
Poore got $50 from him. Poore. it is said,
admits getting $50 from Fletcher. but de-
MES that he did it unlawfully, claiming
he took the money for drawing Fletcher's
bond or arranging it. and for other SINH
lar services.
Another defendant in the case. who lives
near Naldosta. and against whom no in
dictment has yet been found, claims that
he paid Poore 500 on the same representa-
tions, while Salter. who seems to be looked
on as the principal in the case. claims he
paid Poore $500.
Poore left the city the day the afhdavit
was made, but as the deputy marshals
often 90 Off in this way for the purpose of
serving papers, it was supposed that he
would return within a few days. Several
days went by and he did not turn up.
The charges at first were looked upon
lightly by those OF the marshafs office
with whom Poore had been an associate,
was a dodge on the part of the defend
ants, to strengthen their case If by any
means they could do so. Since Poore has
constantly absented himself from the
court, from the time the affidavit was
made, however, the matter Is being looked
on in rather more serious light, and the
deputies of the court are on the lookou.
for him.
Poor was always regarded as one of the
most straightforward men connected with
the court. He was appointed a deputy by
Marshal Walter +. Corbett, and has served
both under Marshal Leverett and Marshal
Harrel. 1t Us said of him that he is a strong
church man. and in this connection an
interesting story is told. on one occasion
when case was on trial in the United
States court for this district, a witness
was to be sworn, and through some means
or other the court Bible had been mis-
placed. Poore, who was on hand, went
down in his overcoat pocket and brought
forth the book that was needed for the
occasion, 1t being customary with him, it
is said, to carry a Bible in his pocket.
The case, in connection with which these
charges are made, is an interesting one.
and dates back to April, 1892. Salter and
his confreres were arrested on charges of
using the mail to work the green goods
racket on some of their green fellow citi-
zens living in the southern part of the
state. 1t is said that they went to New
York city in answer to some green goods
circulars, where they themselves were
swindled and the effect of the allegation
is that they went in the business on their
return to get even by pulling some South
Georgia countrymen into the game.
The defendants were indicted in Feb
ruary, 1893 but for various reasons the
cases have gone over from term to term,
and some of them have made the state
ment that IL was a year ago that Poore
began getting money from them on the
claim that he could arrange to settle the
cases as a representative Of the district
attorneys office. Poore is from Camilla,
in Mitchell county in the southwestern
part of the state, and 1t may be that he
is resting quietly in that section of the
country in hopes that the matter will
blow over