Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-02-24

and Illuminating case to these people
and they have Bomo feelings that should
be respected. They are nice people and
they should not be bounded in tho way
in which they arc. William N. Boggs
is arrested and there ia nothing further
to say in the matter at present. have
some reHpect for these people and their
wishes will be complied with. Mr..
Boggs will nat talk, nor will NJ RS. Boggs
talk or be interviewed under any cir
cumstance in reference to tho previous
movements Of Mr.. Boggs'
Services were held in the jail yester-
day afternoon, beginning at 40
o'clock and continuing for an half hour
They we're conducten by the Rev. l., r.
Corkran of Nazareth NJ. 4. Church and
many of those who entered ths Jail ex-
pected 10 aes the much talked Of Boggs,
but were disappointed,
Last evening several reporters went tn
the home OF Sheriff Finn and re-
ouested interviews. Many of them also
attempted to brihe the officers in the
| Jail, but they refused TO he roerced.
Yesterday afternoon a woman friend,
who had been at one time iu the same
predicRment as is Mrs. Boggs at present,
sent into the jail n b1x containing
delicacies for Boggs. The box was placed
| 10 the care Of Chief Warden Gould and
sent TO the person for whom it was in
| tended.
Last night Mr.. and Mrs. Boggs sspar-
ated and occupied quarters in tho man
eion, as they had done 90 the previous
| night. This morning Mrs. BoggH re
| luctantly left her husband to whom she
| bus shown such great deviation. She
proceeded TO leave for Dover to look
after hrr family. She will probably re-
turn this evening with the children,
four of whom the husband has not seen
since his departure, and one, the
youngest child, whom be has never seen.
Mrs. Boggs had not at late hour last
evening engaged quarters at the Gilpin
House, but tho matter was talked Of
and if her husband shall remain in the
Jail until the final hearing and trial on
June 23d, then il is probable that she
will hoard in this city, where she can
daily visit her husband
COOPER AND COLE SECURE BAIL.
f. I. Couper of Milford and Amos
Cole of this city, who were arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Smith on Saturday on the charge of
assisting Boggs in embezzling money
from the Dover bank, were admitted to
bail late in the afternoon, Joseph l..
Carpenter, Jr., going on Cooper's bond
and Harry Ramsberger on Coles bond.
INTERVIEW WITH FRANCIS s. BROWN
In speaking of the surrender of Boggs,
Francis Skunk Brown. who had been
retained by the directors of the bank to
ferrot out the defalcation, said Boggs
has not returned 10 plead the baby act,
but frankly says he was guilty of wrong
doing, and he has made clean breast
of the whole affair. I secured ID written
statement from him. which ID now in
possession of District Attorney Vande
grift, which Boggs has supplemented
| With verbal statements covering every
detail of the transactions in which he
| was involved.
From my knowledge OF the case /
do not believe that Boggs profited by a
single dollar of the SLOT, 600 that was
taken from the bank. In my opinion
he found himself caught in giving out
the bAnk's money without warrant IN
one or two instances, and in order to
cover up these accounts, he went on
from one step to another, and he was
taken advantage of and used as lever
by other parties for their own interests.
In other words, men who had deposits
of but few dollars in the bank in
duced him to cash checks for hundreds
or thousands, and other people gave
him In return for borrowed money,
promissory notes far beyond their
| ability to pay. | do not believe there
was any oonsniracy, but the way in
which the thing was done looks very
suspicious. "
Speaking OF the four arrests already
made as the result Of Boggs' dis
closures, Mr.. Brown said: "There are
quite number of other parties who
had dealings with Boggs and The bank,
against whom obligations are held. J"
Mr.. Brown could not say whether any
OF these obligations would lead to
further prosecutions. 1.-The matter ia
entirely in the hands Of the district
attorney, who is now in possession OF
all the facts. But there is oEe thing
certain, President Richardson is deter.
mined that every man who was in any
way implicated in nny crooked work
will he vigorously prosecuted. Tbs
| banks officers are determ ined that no
matter who the guilty parties are, they
shall be brought to justice. " Mr.. Brown
declined to say anything further than
that he believed that Boggs had never
left this country" During his absence, :"
Mr.. Brown said. 'Boggs had but little
communication with any one ia refer
encs to the banks affairs. In fact. for
several months after his departure his
wife and other relatives did not hear
from him at all. 1t has only been within
a very recent period that active pre-
narations for his return we're made.
When Buggs arrived in Philadelphia he
| did nut have $40 bill in his pos
session. "