The sun., 1898-02-20
1AE PRELIMINARY HEARING
Cooper, Cole, Clark and Butler
Held in Hearing Bail.
THE FORMAL COMPLAINT.
Ahidavit Made by President Richard
son Before Commissioners Smith
Upon Which the Four Men
Were Held.

Five Of the eight lnen who pIundered
the First National Bank, of Dover, are
in the custody OF the authorities.
The warrants were served Yesterday
morning ana at 10 O'Clock the prisnrt r,
appea bef, re Commi. s ore Smith.
Ezekiel T.. Cooper was arrested by
Deputy Marshal James L. Hawkins and
brought to this city on the ILL train
yestrlay mo nj Y.
Deputy Mas ~ha!s James i. Clark and
Thomas Rcarlon went to Dover last
night and arrested Thomas $. Clark and
Charles L. Butler whom they brought
to Wilmington on the Norfolk express,
reaching here at 4l5 ye t.rfa, morning
Marshal Shm! Grn G Amos (oe yes
ter d y m,rl ing, at ! is home in tins city.
lnr three defendants were arranged
before United States Commissioner
Smith at the Federal Building, yes
t. rd y IN rllrg
Nj Core was represented by John Fl.
p"dncy and Clark and Butler by John
Biggs.
Through their counsel all entered a
plea OF not guilty to the complaint and
asked for Il postponement of the hearing
until next Saturday morning at 10
o'clock.
This request was granted by Comlnis-
sioncr Smith. who held the three in bail
for the following amounts: Clark, S6, WW:
Cole. $1,000; Butler. $1,000.
Clark and Butler offered Samuel ".
Hall OF Dover as their bondsman and
he was accepted. Joseph l.. Carpenter
was accepted as bondsnan for Colonel
Ezekiel T. Cooper. Cole has not as yet
succeeded in obtaining II bondsman.
Ezekiel T. Cooper was brought to the
Federal Building by Deputy Marshal
Hawkins and was arraigned without de-
lay.
lie entered plea OF not guilty with
out waiting for the reading Of the com.
pIaint and asked for u continuance until
Saturday of next week.
He WAS informed by Commissioner
Smith of the amount he was charged
with taking from the bank and also the
amount of bail which would be required
under the circumstances.
Alexander Maxwell, proprietor OF the
Merritt House, presented himself as a
bondslnan. but he was unsatisfactory.
"Mr. Maxwell is not satisfactory bail, y
said Mr.. Vandegrift. and when Mr..
Cooper made an effort to induce the Dis
trict attorney to accept him az bonds
man he was informed that under no
circumstances: would Mr., Maxwell b.
accepted
Cooper then asked, GLOW about
Patrick Neary, will he be acceptable in
case lie is named as Il bOndsman?' "ieS
we can accept Mr. Neary." Cooper then
said that he would at once send for Mr..
Aeary and have IA consultation with him
and possibly would ask for his accept
ance later in the afternoon.
Levi C.Bird is my counsel" said Mr..
Cooper, "but ! do not know where he is
Just now. ] do not require the services
of counsel at the present stage OF the case
as made up my mind to ask for IL con-
tinuance as soon as the keputv marshall
read the writ to me this morning and
consequently am at present without
legal advice.
Cooper expressed considerable displca,
sare at being arrested on Saturday, as he
said it was his busy day and he did lt
like to be dsturcd on that doy above all
others.
William y. B"ggs and Harry Rich
artlson were closctcd for Il long time in
one Of the rooms of the building, in
which Francis Skunk Brown, Of Phia-
dclphia took part. At this conference it
wa. agreed by all present that tie ut,
most secrecy should be preserved and
that no statements whatever should Lc
given or interviews accorded newspaper
men.
An effort was made to secure admS-
sion to the presence of Boggs, but Dis.
trict Attorney Nandegrift positively for
bad" it. and after being placed behind
closed doors II" one was permitted to see
him under any pretext.
Nandrgrit gave out the following
statement late in the afternoon: "Wil-
liam n. Boggs positively declines to tell
where he has been. This he has decided
on after mature consideration, and 1T
will not depart from this determination.
This matter has been ON his mind for
a long time, and now that he has voun-
tarily returned he will do everything in
his power to make reparation for what
has been done. He will tell the whole
story of the defalcation, and will neither
shield or persecute anyone.
William N. Boggs came from Philadc -
phia this morning in company with
Francis Skunk Brown, Esq, and Walter
NJ. Boggs, n brother, Of Philadelphia.
The three arrived in this city over the
B. K o. station just before 10 o'clock
and went directly to the Office Of District
Attorney Vandegrift.
In a short time they proceeded to the
Federal Building where where william
N. Boggs surrendered himself to United
States Marshall Short.
Boogs and his brother Walter remained
in the room where the four men, Cooper,
Clark, Cole and Butler, were having
their preliminary hearing, for II short
time. lie expected to give his his testi-
mony rs a witness ut the hearing of the
four but as u continuance of the case was
granted, he want back to u private room
to await the action Of the authorities.
About o'clock Boggs was committed
to New Castle prison.
BOggs is anxious to tell his story before
the court and vii remain in confinement
until that time arrives.
Tho Formal Complaint.
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