The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-09-08
THE BoGART CASE.
"Citizen" Writes of the Outrageous Man
ner of the superintendent Arrest.

ner oil the Supcrtntendents Arrest.
EDITOR HERALD To say that the re-
spectacle portion Of our community, re.
gardless Of creed, were shocked at
the outrageous manner in which one
Jack Tooe made an arrest after the
manner of an English red jacket constable in
an Irish eviction case, and railroaded his
victim to a far of county in order to arrive
at an hour of the night by which he would
have the satisfaction of incarcerating his
prisoner, even if it was only for three or four
hours, is putting it very mildly.
1t was only few days ago that this same
Tool was seen interviewing a certain rail
road agent and in very earnest
conversation carried ON in an under
tone-if any one accidentally walked their
way the conversation ceased-hc was evil
IDENTIFY planning for the quick railroad con-
nections by which he would be enabled to
railroad his intended victim in as round
about way as possible. His plea that he was
willing to accept bail in the court of Sun
bury, and refused to go TO his nearest and
own county seat to enter it, showed the real
animus of the whole affair. The remark
glcefully spouted out on the public street
by our eX-school official that Now we have
him fast, as he surveyed Supt. Bogart in
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of that would-be champion of morality, who
is now charged with libel, This means ff-
teen years in Jail, shows well how honest
! they are in this matter of their attempt to
shoulder morality" in manner that out
siders would infer they were the prototypes of
DR.. Parkhurst, of New York.
! The News in column editorial would
have the public believe that this was
spontaneous work of the people of the town,
and that they hoped and trusted (?) that Mr..
Bogart would be enabled to prove himself
innocent. Their actions belle their words.
Let us see. The man who wrote this edi-
torial was none other than the same man who
presided at the morality" meeting held
some time ago by certain portion of our pop
ulation Who was he ? Why he's the same
man who a few weeks before went bail for
a prostitute whose house had been raided in
this town What an excellent judge of what
constitutes morality :"
Funny, isn't it, that there is certain
| clique in this town who are more interested in
! this case than is the family who are directly
connected. Strange that our own honest,
! upright, wOuld-be taX-eXoneratcd Jim
Smith, was obliged to make this journey to
| Pittsburg in order to swear out warrant in
| the interest of this Yates family, none of
whom were present at the time the warrant
was made Strange that this same clique,
| some of whom are wealthy and respected
citizens of our borough, did not take the
| place Of Jimmy
But. then, you know if the case goes
against him, there will he no redress as
neither Of the two who are moving in the
matter are worth collectable cent, while if
property owner undertook the same case,
he would be muCtcd for costs and damages
to character.
Why did not the two responsible business
men who interested themselves in this fight
long enough to spend their time going from
door to door soliciting cash contributions in
order that this fight might be carried on to
the bitter end so as to make it as unpleasant
as possible for Superintendent Bogart while
in charge Of our schools, go to Pittsburg and
make the charge All, they knew that in
case of failure, they would be held respon-
sible so they place two straw men in charge
Of it from whom not one cent of damages
could be collected.
The minority side of the School Board are
not content with having more than their
share of the teachers in our public schools Of
the borough, but they would want the
superintcndcncy. The trouble with the Cit
liens members Of the Board is that they are
too lenent with the opposition. They allow
their petty spite against each other to come
in between and thus allow the minority side
to capture the spoils. BE men, gentlemen,
and stand by the people who placed you
there. CITIZEN.
Shenandoah, Pa, Sept s.