The times., 1897-04-06
MANY new INDICTMENTS
Specific Charges Filed Against
Turner and McElhone.
They Are Accused of Taking Valu-
able Relics From the Library.
Tunayenes Indicted.

The grand jury returned number of in
dictments yesterday, as follows: Lewis
NICK. Turner and Philip McElhone, FOR vio-
lations of sections 5403 and 5456 of the
Revised Statutes and act of June 10, 1878;
Telemague T. Tunayenes, violating section
1898 of the Revised Statutes, specifically,
sending obscene matter through the nails,
Robert j. Mel. can, false preuenses; James
Cassidy, violating section 5431 of the
Revised Statutes; James Smith, Charles
j. Roberts and Joseph II. Williams, larceny;
James A. Laorey and John A. Fairall, en-
bezzlement: Howard Nj. Batchelder and
John w Barnes, forgery; Joseph w. Geyer
and Lawrence Ball. housebreaking; Lin
coin S. Forrest, false pretensesi John &.
Jones, murder: John Beckett, carrying con-
cealed weapons, second offense.
The grand jury ignored the charges
against Fred Herbert, - Robinson and
Mary Simms.
Three separate indictments Were returned
against Turner ana McElhone, jointly, the
specific charges being the theft OF valu-
able manuscripts and other articles from
the Congressional Library, as heretofore
noted in. The Times. The items enumer-
ated, and the dates of the thefts, to-
gether with the value of the several arti-
cles abstracted. were stated as follows:
A circular letter, signed by George Wash
ington; value. So 800; taken from the Ii
hrary January Is, S97 a paper, entitled
"A Return OF the Troops Employed In
the Western Expedition, Under the Com
nland OF Major General sullivan written
by Gen Washington; value, 500; alb
stracted November 3, 1896; a letter to
Nathaniel Shaw, written by Benedict Ar
mold, September 10. 1880; value, 500;
also letter dated September 10, 1880,
from Benedict Arnold ;abStracted November
80 1896 George Washington's private
diary. dated 1877, and Il circular letter
in manuscript, hearing the signature of
George Washington; value OF the two,
$500; alleged to have been stolen jan
uary Is, 1897 two books, of the value of
So 900 each. in manuscript; said to be
the orderly books of Sir Edward Brad
dock, kept within the dates of February
to June, 1888: said TO have teen stolen
January &c, 1897.
a letter written by Thomas Paine to
Col Peabody, valued at 500, taken Janu-
airy 29, 1897; manuscript in the hand
writing of George Washington. valued at
$50; said to have been distracted Febru-
airy Z; also on the same date, commits
sion appointing Philip Cortland a lieuten-
ant-colonel in the Fourth Regiment of the
United Colonies, ''by order of the Con-
gress," and signed 10y John Hancock, preSi-
dent. June so, 1875, value not stated.
These relics We're taken from what is
known as the Peter Force collection,
which was purchased by authority of Con-
gress. under the act of March, 1867. The
witnesses upon whose testimony the indict-
ments were found are Chief w. p. Hazen, of
the secret service bureau; Librarian A. r.
Spofford George W. Hazen, George K.
Foster, and William +. Benjamin.
The indictments were reported to the
court, Chief Justice Bingham presiding,
at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
jury was at once discharged for the term.