The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1897-01-09
PELTlER ARRAIGNED.
The Circle Check Man Has Preliminary
Hearing

The Circle Check Man Has Preliminary
Hearing
Eugene Peltier, publisher of the Circle
Check Buyer and Labor News, who is
charged with obtaining money from IL
number of Roanoke merchants and who
was arrested in Richmond on "Wednesday
in response to Il telegram from Chief of
Police Dyer, of this city, arrived here
yesterday morning in the charge of Dep.
uty Sergeant Il. l.. Il. Terry. At noon
he WAS taken before Police Justice Wood,
who, upon motion of the comm onwealth,
postponed the hearing of the case until
next Monday morning and fixed the
amount of bail for defendant ut 800
Pelter thought this amount excessive
and, having engaged johnson. Graves &
johnson as his attorneys, it was decided
TO sue out writ OF habeas corpus in the
hustings court and Judge Woods fixed
upon y o'clock this morning as the time
to hear the motion for the writ after Il
partial hearing yesterday afternoon
but Judge Woods being very busy it was
finally decided to give the bond required
by Justice Wood.
a reporter of The Times called on Pei.
tier at the station house and found him
cheerful and chatty and apparently not
IN the least demoralZed by tn situation
He said rs soon as the Richmond DR..
pers received news of the order for his
arrest they inquired into his case and.
finding that he was endorsed by the Trade
and Labor Council of Richmond, and by
the president of the State Federation of
Labor, they treated him with much kind
ness and consideration in the notices
made OF his case
He also found n firm friend in the vii.
liams Printing Company, of Richmond.
who have the contract for printing his
paper, which is issued monthly from the
last named city. He then showed the re-
porter u copy OF the contract which the
merchants OF Roanoke, signed which was
simply request on the part of the signcr
TO the Trades Union Circle Check Ascot.
alton, of Richmond Va, to insert his or
her name, business and address under
the proper heading in the directory of the
Circle Cheek Buyer and Labor News
which paper is to he distributed monthly
In the various unions and trades oreani-
cations of the city named, for lone year
COR $40 co be paid on delivery of the first
supply Of circle cheeks Printed in
italics below this is promise on the part
of the signer that he will issue circle
checks to members of trades unions when
requested on cash purchases and will re-
deem them at the end of each month for
} per cent. of their face value when pre-.
scented by any authorized person of the
local trades union.
Beneath all of this are two lines for the
name and address OF the merchant or
business man ana another line TO, re.
marks.
Mr.. Feltier said that there was nothing
in the contract illegal or to which any
one could object. He was always pre-.
pared to carry out his part of the contract
and he expected the signers Of the docu-
lhent to carry cut theirs. He had received
some money and some checks, he said,
from Roanoke merchants: some of the
latter he had not had cashed because he
dld not have time: but as soon as he had
satisfactorily answered the charge against
him, of which, he said there was net the
least doubt, he expected to collect the
balance due him in checks or otherwise.
He appeared much gratified ut the
treatment accorded by the labor union
men here. and attributed the most of his
trouble to the publication in the ''Ha-
berdashcr," of New ork lie said the
paper had ii large circulation all over the
country and the recent publication
against him would do his business a great
deal OF harm. He had already before his
arrest instructed his attorneys in Rich
mond to sue that paper for libel aud he
intended to make it warm for that iour.
nal.
When asked aiiou. his New York office
he said he had Just received IL letter from
there to the effect that his place of busi-
ness there had been opened daily from 6
10 9 O'Clock.
The accused is a small man, apparently
about 26 years old, with dark brown hair
and mustache of the same color. lie
appeared somewhat restless, which was
quite natural under the circumstances,
but talked with II tiuency and confidence
that strongly impressed most OF those
who heard him