The sun., 1898-11-11
Special Telegram to The Times.
DOVER, DEL, November 7.

Special Telegram to The Times.
Dover, DEL, November 7.
Much dissatisfaction is expressed here,
especially among the patrons OF the
First National Bank. over the treatment
now being accorded William N. Boggs,
who, as paying teller of that institution,
recently robbed it of $lO7, ,OOO-more
than it's capital stock.
Boggs, having turned States evidence
and confessed his crime, hoping for an
leasing up'' Of his own sentence at Tren-
ton or Brooklyn Penitentiaries, is being
kept at New Castle Jail. There he has
the privilege of the residence part, hay
ing never gone behind the bars, practi-
cally lives with his wife, entertains his
children. dresses in fine clothes, and
often sits at the front window.
Once Boggs came to Dover to see one
of his children, who was sick, and since
then has been seen in Wilmington, al
ways attired in clothes of the latest cut.
1t is said that he eats at the Sheriffs
table and that the Sheriff explains his
extremely hospitab!e treatment in that
he has not the heart to confine Boggs.
The above telegram to the Philadelphia
Times is an idiotic story written by j.
Milton Davidson, of Dover, Delaware.
This is not the only letter OF like char
acter which Davidson has written during
the last few days. To newspapers all
over the country this man has sent
idiotic and malicious stories concerning
the present condition of William N.
Boggs and the First National Bank of
Dover.
These letters have all, with the excep-
tion of the above, been sent back by rep
utable newspaper men of the city of Will
mington. They were Immediately
stamped as malicious lies and the paper
to whom Davidson had forwarded them
notified of their true character.
These letters in themselves give assur-
ance that Davidson is irresponsible. That
he for some motive has flooded the news
rooms of several great dailies with NAL
odorous statements like the above tele-
gram.
Davidson's letter in The Times is lie
out of the whole cloth. A newspaper
that will publish such iniquitous stuff
without first making inquiry as to David
sons responsibility and later as to the
truth of his statements is surely in 4 de-
plorable condition.
Davidson's spiritless and shameful at
tack on Sheriff William r. Finn is par
ticularly despicable, coming, as it does,
just at tie close Of Sheriff Flinn's term.
Sheriff Films treatment of Boggs is
but that which custom and usage all
over the United States have made proper.
A prisoner awaiting sentence in a tenn
porary place of confinement is subject to
the discretion of the Sheriff in so far as
the conditions surrounding him relate.
Sheriff Finn's contract with the
United States Government, so far as it re-
lates to Boggs, is merely to produce him
in the United States Court whenever Or
dered to do so. New Castle Jail is not a
Federal prison, and prisoner of the
United States placed therein while await
ing sentence is to be conditioned at the
discretion of the Sheriff, who is in no
way compelled to place such prisoner in
a cell. The Sheriff is paid to keep the
prisoner and simply produce him when
SO ordered.
The pernicious outburst of this man
Davidson is strikingly peculiar as we re-
call that Davidson himself is aware OF
the fact that two New Castle prisoners
convicted of murder have on several oc.
casions gone forth from the Jail and re.
turned.
]. Milton Davidson's responsibility
becomes dangerous when he endeavors
to gain the publication Of such idiotie
lies as the one quoted above in news
papers all over the country.
Knowing himself that his statement
that Boggs is allowed to come to this
city is lie, Davidson deliberately
stamps himself as untrustworthy and not
answerable for any and all statements
made by himself.
Davidson's declaration that patrons OF
the First National Bank are dissatisfied
over treatment accorded Boggs is the
clearest evidence of his responsibility
and the maliciousness of his attack on
Sheriff Finn. Every patron of the First
National Bank is no way concerned over
Boggs' safety or thertreatment by which
that safety is made possible.
This product oflDavidsons pen is but
another stage ofgthe irresponsible Jour