The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-18

Bird, stating that he had given him be
mission to go to Milford to attend t.
business matters.
"He will be here tomorrow morning,
continued Mr.. Bird, "and when cour
canvenes at 10 o'clock Mr.. Cooper vii
be present and give himself in the Gus
tody of Marshal Short.
Mr.. Bird then notified the court tha
lie had the right to make motion for al
arrest of judgment; make a motion for
new trial providing he filed reasons
within certain time or to take writ O.
error to the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals for the Third district, which
meets in Philadelphia the third Tuesday
in September next.
The Court then turned to the jury,
thanked them for reaching verdict and
discharged them until Tuesday morning
of next week.
1t is understood that during their "A
hours of enforced confinement ~ ballots
had been taken, and that they stood
for conviction and for acquittal until
the last ballot was taken yesterday after
noon.
The Court, under which he was con-
victed, accuses HIM in connection with
William N. Boggs of misapplying $1,000
of the money of the looted bank, on
November q, 1896, through a check
which he Cooper, had given to f. B.
Cuthbert 4 Company.
The news of the conviction of +. 7.
Cooper by the jury was soon known all
over the city and the concensus of opin-
ion was that the verdict was Just one,
with the exception of among the gen
ial colonePs friends, and they, to
speak mildly, were thunderstruck, SO
sure had they been that the jury at least
would disagree.
Count 4G under which Col. +. 7.
Cooper was convicted reads as follows:
That Ezekiel 7. Cooper late of the
District Of Delaware, yeom4n, on the
twenty-tirst day OF November,A. ID. 1896,
did knowingly, wilfully. mlawfully and
conspire with one William
n. Boggs to commit an offence against
The United States for the purpose herein
after stated and in the manner and by
he means following, that is to say He,
The said William n. Boggs, was then and
there teller of certain national banking
association, then and there known and
as ''rhc First National Bank
of Dover which said association had
oeen therefore duly organized and estab-
ished and was then existing and doing
business at the town Of Dover, in the
state and District OF Delaware, aforesaid,
lndcr the laws OF the United States, and
said Ezekiel T. Cooper and the
said William y. Boggs, teller as
did then and there
unlawfully, and fraudulentIy
then and there to wilfully mis-
lpply a certain large amount of the |
moneys then and there belonging to the
said association, then and there with
ntent in them, the said Ezekiel r. |
Cooper and the said William \. Boggs,
o injure and deiraud the said associa-
ion, for the use, benefit and advantage
II him, the said Ezekiel 7. Cooper, that
5 to say certain check was on or
lbont the twentieth day of November,
\. d. 1896, drawn by the said Ezekiel
!. Cooper, in and by the name of f. T.
Iooper, upon the said national banking
payable to the order of a
ertain person or certain persons by the
lame of Il. B. Cuthbert & Company, for
he sum of $1,000, and by said person or
'ersons duly endorsed.
That said check so endorsed was
hereupon, through the usual channels,
orwarded to the Farmers Bank of the
tate of Delaware at Dover aforesaid,
or presentation and collection, and said
heck was on the twenty-first day of
November, A. d., 1897, presented by
aid Farmers Bank, to the said banking
Of which the said William N.
'cggs was then aud there teller as aforp.
aid and the sum of three thousand
ollars was then and there paid by the
aid William N. Boggs as teller as afore.
mid out Of the moneys of said association
'ithout the knowledge or consent OF
aid association or its board of directors,
he means in and by which the said
William N. Boggs, then and there paid
nd, check was to allow the sum il
slled for. ~ credit to the said