Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-11-23
sLAck DIAMOND BOONE ARRESTED,
Charged with PurlolnIng Valuable Papers.
Held to Ball In the Sum OF 81, 900.

4 Col. Abort II. Boone, was arrested
Saturday by Constable Garrott Osborne
on d warrant sworn out by Sam w. Stairs,
acting President Of tho Dover, kentucky
and South Atlantic Railway Company, at
Dover, charging him with unlawfully
taking from tho Presidents desk valua-
bio papers, the property of tho company.
He waived preliminary trial bcforo
Esquire j. j. Perrino, at Maysvillo, and
was hold to bail in tho sum of $1,000 for
his appearance before the Circuit Court,
which convenos noxt Monday.
Col Boone has for somo months been
rectors of the various lines of tho Black
Diamond, publicly making tho false
charge that thoy arc trying to "rob
Boone" and otherwise posing rs tho
champion of the people. Tho facts as
they develop in tho courts will show con-
clusiyoly that the officers and directors
are SO carefully guarding tho interests of
enterprise that they will succeed liz pro-
vomiting Boone from r0bbing tho nvcs-
tors by defeating tho financicring of tho
enterprise, which ovory movo Of his i'll
dioates he is attempting to do.
4. His weapon is tho betrayal Of the con-
Attbuuonov ~ uiS asSocldteS, anu uhWaf-
ranted abuse of evory man ho cannot use
70 further his own interests. IIo has
frequently boasted that when he has any
thing against q man ho "cilargcd him
with everything in the catalogue except
rape and murder and keeps tho follow
! Dusy refuting the charges" His charge
of. s'robbing Boone" is along that line.
Ihe standing of the officers and dircc-
{ tors OF tho Dover line 2or'ls no dofonsc
against such charges. They arc among
: the most honorable citizcns OF tho coun-
try. -
{s..A A plain statement of facts in regard to
s;sss:ifs of The lettcrs is duo tho poe
pie.
Col. Boone camo to Dover when Mr..
+ the cour Gesy of the company he was al
lowed to occupy rooms at tho Office with
4 N.Y.. Nc cKisson, tho map man, who was
also occupying room in tho building
Eshrough tho courtesy Of tho company.
None. of tho officers of the company
We're in the building. During tho night
packages of correspondence and valua-
4ble papers, filed in the Presidents desk,
were opened, and many letters and valu-
&able papers carried away. Many Of them
{ Were slipped from tho envelopes aud tho
empty envelopes retied in the packages.
some two hundred Of these letters, in
toiuding letters torn from the lottcr book,
We understand Col. Boono's defense is
that he had right to tho letters. Col.
Boone Is not all officer or director of tho
company and could have no more lcgiti-
mate right to tho papers belonging to the
Dover, kentucky and South Atlantic
Railway Company than to papers in the
desk of the President Of tho First Ma
'ghJnal Bank.
But this question and several other
knotty problems will be decided by the
courts. to which wo cOnsign all further
controversy.
The boogaboo statement given out to
tho press that Col. Boonc's arrest will
defeat the building Of tho road through
dover, and that it will bo built via Mays
| vile, Is the sheerest nonsense. The road
isWili be built just as surveyed and Just
\ as reported upon by Sir Thomas Tan
fcred.
aFIt has been stated in number of pa
4 pers that the Cccent arrest Of Albert E.
1 Boone will lose tho great Ohio River
Amerly tho Black Diamond, to Dover, and
Athatit shall now go to Maysvilc just
sSwhy these correspondents take this view
Ilsse fail to see. Boone has never been
Recognized in any way by the English
lsndicate and has no moro influence with
SgAlem than man they never heard of.
& Alhis is ono reason why Boone has been
5tying $to break the enterprise down.
lE Thomas Tancrod has examined the
81 as surveyed and reported favorably
va it, and it will DO built just whore
ged.-DOvor Wy.) News, November
s9a2sstP3 u surprise to any who
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