The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-21
L, 7. COOPER
IN THE TOLLS.
Grand Jury Returns an Indict-
ment Against Him.
MONDAY THE FINAL DAY
The Colonel Indicted for Aiding
and Abetting the Embez-
Element of the Bank.
The Presentrncnt Cites That Mr..
Cooper Unlawfully, WilfulIy and
Fraudulently Used $2s.OOO
for His Own Individual
Benefit, Knowing That
HeHad No Credit With
the Banking As
( sociatiOn.

The second Indictment in the William
n. Boggs case was returned N the United
States District Court in the Federal
building yesterday afternoon.
At 12.45 O'Clock the Grand Jurors filed
into the court room and foreman John
S. Mullin, Jr., handed Clerk Smith
true bill of indictment against Col. Eze-
kiel T. Cooper, OF Dover.
Col. Cooper is charged with violating
sections 5,2O9 and $40 United States
Revised Statutes, the same sections
that William N. Boygs is accused OF
violating.
The presentment against Mr.. Cooper is
more voluminous, however, it covering
2l0 typewriter pages of legal cap. 1t
contains IS counts.
The first count states that he aided
and abetted Mr.. Boggs, on January 2Sth,
1897, while the latter was teller OF the
First National Bank, Dover, to unlaw-
fully and wrongfully embezzle $23 600 of
that institutions funds for the use, bene-
fit and advantage of the said E. 7.
Cooper, with the intent in Cooper to in
jup and defraud that bank
The other counts cover the same
grounds, but the phraseology is slightly
changed.
In conclusion the indictment charges
Cooper with knowingly, wilfully. un-
lawfully and 1fraudulently conspiring
with Boggs to commit an offcnse against
the United States.
Although charged with assisting Mr.
Boggs in looting the bank to the extent
of 1923, 900 the bill of Indictment shows
only $l5, 400 as follows:
June 3rd, 1896, 81, 00O;June 24th, 1896,
81 800; July lst, 1896, $1,000; July 3rd,
1896, $1,000; July 23rd, 1896, $l,5OOO;
August sth, 1896; $500; October 18th.
1896, 1000; November 2lst, 1896, $1,000;
December 18th, 1896, ST. 800; December
22nd, 1896, $1,000.
| All of this money was drawn Ly
checks in favor of f. b. Cuthbert 4 Go.
The presentment Of the grand jury also
cites that these checks are missing and
must have been knowingly destroyed by
either William \. Boggs or the said
Ezekiel 7. Cooper.
, 1t is fully expected that when the
Grand Jurors reconvene on Monday
morning, of next week that the session
will be final.
1t is then thought that two bill will be
returned against the remaining fellow
looters of Mr. Boggs-Tlomas S. Clark,
Charles II. Butler Amos Cole, Harry +.
Ford and John R. MctionigaI.
There are no checks against Mc(ioni-
gal, but it is alleged that Boggs took
$1,000 from the bank and applied it to
the personal use Of the said McGoni-
gal.
The same is alleged against Harry +.
Ford. Boggs gave 81 900 to Ford for his
private use, but there is no evidence to
show how this money was obtained.
The witnesses examined by Grand
Jurors on the indictment of Colonel
Cooper were 4. +. Ross, Hugh Dunlap.
Edward d. Page, Harry A. Richardson,
John Nugent, J. II. Bateman Robert
G. Fulton, Ezekiel Cooper, Irving Boggs
and j. + Collins.
Prior to the discharge OF the jury un-
Til Monday. United States District At
torney Lewis C. Nandegriit addressed
Judge Bradford and stated that the
labors Of the Grand Jurors would be
completed when they reconvened.
! 1t is presumed that 10 other arrests in
the ooting OF the bank will be made un-
til after the trial Of Mr.. BoggS and his
col. .federates.
1t is then alleged that United States
Senator Richard Rollins Kenney and
John +. salisbury and Others may be-
come interested.