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DOVER, Del, Jan. 30 W-Ex-Secretary Of
State John +. salisbury gave William
N. Boggs lot Of worthless checks drawn
upon the First National Bank. Of Dover.
Mr. Boggs used these checks with
others Of similar character, in carrying
out the scheme concWted for him by the
men interested with him in the plumber
ing OF the bank.
Mr. Salisbury will not deny that he
gave the checks to Mr. Boggs.
Mr. Salisbury will admit that they
were no good when issued.
Mr. Salisbury, being man OF wide
experience and great resource Lazy be
able to suggest a plan that will make a
worthless check good,' but gentlemen
engaged in the ordinary affairs of life
content themselves with the belief tina,
man who issues check which he
knows to be worthless commits crime.
John +. Salisbury signed his name to
checks that he knew were worthless,
and when he igned them he knew that
he had no idea of making them good, at
the First National Bank or elswhere.
John +. Salisbury signed these checks
for the use of an officer OF National
Bank. This officer was being used to
plumber chat National Bank. John +.
Saulsbury's checks played no mean part
in this sensational steal
That Mr.. Salisbury anticipated this
publication is proven by the fact that he
rushed into print, SO long as two weeks
ago, denying charges that had not yet
been made.
He exploited a silly fake purporting to
be a letter addressed to the writer Of
these articles and followed this foolish
proceeding with an interview printed in
The Daily Republican, OF which the fol-
lowing paragraph was part:
'JOhn +. Salisbury was engaged in
conversation with the writer OF these
notes yesterday in Dover The CONVEX
sation drifted on the Boggs matter, when
Mr.. salisbury said that there was moth
ing in the sensational stories printed in
TIE Sun. Not one iota of truth. As for
himself he had never received a dollar
from the dcianlting paying teller. That
if TILE SrN published anything in its
columns about him (Sausbury) he
would have the editor or owner brought
to Dover and have him tarred and
fcatherpd and then dnckcd in the river,
the people of Dover being only too glad
to engage in such spvrt.'
''Thou doth too much protest my
lady'-as Col Cooper would say.
The FAC, that John i. Salisbury $
worthless checks were used by William
n. Bogg> in carrying ont II scheme to rob
the First National BaIk, Of Dover, Della
ware, oi $lO7, 900 mus, not be LOST sight
Of The checks were used. Mr.. Sauls-
bury knows that he gave them and that
they we're used by the man and for the
purpose named.
All the foregoing will he admitted by
John F. Salisbury
These worthless checks were not few
i'm number.
These worthless checks were not for
small amounts.
Every man who has lived two years
in Kent county Delaware, knows John
f. salisbury and every one OF thesn will
weep when that worthy tells them how
he was led astrar by bold, bad Boggs.
I So much for .sohn +. Salisbury and
his Worthless checks.
Now Comes a claim for III ION entcr*i
against this eminent ly respectable in
dlvidlal by the absconding teller Of tic
First National Bank of Dover, Delaware.
Mrs. Bopgs lsns alltEe necessary evidence
to prove thia'deb1 1t must he distinctly
understood i hat there is and can R nc
connection between John +. Salisbury
worthless checks and this Geht q 81 ,1W
for which Mrs Boggs holds the vnucheS.
She MEANS to collect this 81, 100 In his
published interview Mr.. Saulshc.ry II
quoted as hHvSng said that he ''ne scr re.
tpived dollar frcm the defaultlllg pay
ing teller, Mrs Willia,n N. BnggS has
vouchers in her possession for Sl,1OO that
;ohn T. Salisbury did receive "iruln the
dciautirg paying teller his interview
no.hwi. issalding. This money belonged
to Mr. Bogesand is still owing him. Mr..
Saulslmry has made n"etfort to repay it.
Hon. Jehn +. SaulstaIry, who once
served as Secretary OF State for ncla-
ware, gave bunch Of worthless checks
to William n. Roggs, who usel them as
IA lHr1 of plan to Tsnndet the First
National Hank, Of Dover Delaware. Mr.,
Salisbury was of age and in good health
when he signed these chccks which he
knew IT, dAs worthless.
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