Smyrna times., 1898-06-22
THE ACCOMPLICES OF BOGGS IN
LOOTING THE DOVER BANK.
The Big Scandal Of the State.

lie ASCUmPLlIES UF bUuuS In
LOOTING THE DOVER BANK.
The Big Scandal of the State.
The trial of E. 7. Cooper, the first
of the conspirators against the Nation
al Bank at Dover, ended in landing
him in the Penitentiary at Trenton,
and the second case-Thos. S. Clarke,
which was commenced in the District
Court at Wilmington a week ago Oc-
cupied all of last week with the first
witness for the Government VIM. n.
BOggs, who sustained himself in the
rigid cross examination of John Biggs,
attorney for Clarke, with documentary
cOrrobOratiOn evidence, much of
which included Senator r. r. Kenney
in the transaction of Clarke, and dis
proves the statement in the interview
in the Baltimore Sm. The case is
still unfinished.
The following condensation of the
report from Wilmington to the Phila-
the general interest of the trial:
1t is doubtful if anything has hap
pened within the present generation
which has caused such a cOmmotion
and may be more far-reachinS in its
consequences than the return of Will
liam n. BOggs from exile and the i'm
plication of ten persons with him in
the loOting of the Dover Bank.
The end no one can see. The ulti-
mate outcome may be that the seat of
the present Senator may be filled by
the man, the head of a corporation,
gambling in the stock of which had
much to do with Turing some of the ac-
cused men into their present plight.
But whatever may be the outcome or
the political upheaval caused, the Gov
ernment's representative alone and un-
aided will proceed with relentless zeal.
Threats, intimatiOns and pleadings
have been unable to swerve the District
Attorney from the course he has laid
down in dealing with the case.
THE PROSECUTORS BIG TASK.
The duty of prosecuting the cases
has been a most unpleasant and trying
one to Mr.. Vandegrift, who has one o.
| the largest private practices in Viii
mington. During the present prosecu
| ton the District Attorney has been
| COulDtllGQ W dDduuOn bnlb
and all of his cases in the Superio
Court have been continued. Francis
| Skunk Brown, the private attorney TO
the bank, would have been glad to ren
der the District Attorney aid, but Mr.
Vandegrift decided to go it alone.
The work of drawing the indictmen
has been huge task. Some of thes
cover more than 100 pages of type
written paper, prepared by lalg
force of clerks.
1t was early in September that tn
bank officials first laid the evidenc
against the accused before the Dis
trict Attorney and the probing began
The District Attorneys Office in thi
State previous to Mr.. Vandegrift
term had been considered ''snap
and a good political peach" Ha
Mr.. Vandegrift when he secured h
appointment, expected that he woul
be called upon to prosecute some {
his old friends he would probably NJ
have accepted the Office, as the epOsitio
of Prosecutor is distasteful to him.
ANONYMOUS THREATS.
} Since the arrests were made the Di
> trict Attorney, it is said, has been SUI
= jected to all sorts of annOyances. A
? Onymous letters have been received |
: him warning him under all sorts
3 penalties to drop the prosecution
a | Threats have been made that his poll
9 ical career would be ended, and eve
= bodily harm is said to have been thres
ened. He has received many lette
{ of commentator.
r President H. A. Richardson, of Il
s Dover bank, too, has also been Il
b victim of anonymous letters. He h
j. received several in reference to t
# cases against two of the indicted me
# These letters are printed with pc
j, Threats against his family have be-
: made. So much bitterness has be
q aroused that Mr.. Richardson does II
: venture out of his Dover home late
II night for fear of violence.
n Open threats of violence have be
It made against others interested in t
:, prosecution. William N. Boggs h
!. been threatened several times. Sin
l. the recent indictments it is said th
), threats have been uttered again
IS Boggs' life by supposed friends OF o.
s. of the indicted men.
;. The writers of these letters and Il
e persons who have made the threa
= may yet be brought to justice.
!. TALK OF A POLITICAL CONSPIRACY.
= AS the cases are being discussed
- - the State papers and among the peOI
- - in every town and hamlet two vie
y. y are advanced The friends of the 6
- cused men declare that they are t
victims of q big political conspirac
Most of the Democratic State pape
" hold to the conspiracy theory, VIII
% the Republicans organs simply s
r that the guilty should be punished.
,s KENNEY FILES A DEMURRER.
"a A demurrer was filed in the Fedel
!. Court Saturday against the indictme
= of United Senator Richard r. Kenn
- - for alleged completely in the Dow
y bank scandal.
N The demurrer will be argued af
I. the Thomas s. Clark trial is complet,
1e 1t attacks each of the twentv-f
n counts in the indictment, on /
a. ground that they are'not sufficient
al law, and that he is not bound bv I
IN law of the land to answer the same.
d 1t is asserted that the counts do r
Is sutiiciently set forth the offense agail
20 the statutes of the United States. a
le That the Senator is not sufficiently
formed of the nature and cause Of
accusation against him.
Inc charge, it is asserted, is not
az described against him as will ena
p the senator to avail himself of his cs
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