The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-06
GUILTY Or NOT GUILTY!
Question Re-opened in Ex-
Postmaster Boggs' Case.
DIVISION OF SENTIMENT
As to ar Alleged Confession
Generating Him,

Guthrie, O. T., Jan. IA remaFhaDle
sensation is promised from Pottawatomie
county II viii be remembered that Post
master Boggs of Shawnee. was removed
and convicted of stealing some registered
packages. Now it is claimed that another
has confessed and that Boggs has been
terribly wronged. Two reports are at
hand here. one in the Tecumseh RepuoA-
ran the other in the Shawnee Democrat.
The Tecumseh Republicans report says:
Last Sunday eDputy United States Mar
snail JOHNNY Jones went down to Avoca
and placed under arrest Thomas Love
LADY on charge Of breaking open regis
tered mail, being transferred through the
United States mails. The charge against
LoveIady is the same as that against
Georce C. Boggs at Shawnee and re-
tates to the same money for which Bogss
vas convicted at the last term Of court
and whose case comes up before the
territorial supreme court this week on ap-
peal. Ed Jones, who was employed in /.
A. Smiths store in this city at the time
Loveiadv was there, and was the party
to whom Hank Meeks was supposed TO
have cenfded his story regarding the Kill
ing Of the negro, Dave Fitch, in Tecum-
sch last year is the complaining witness.
Jones statement is that while employed
In Smiths store and while Boggs was on
trial in this city, Lovelady made a con-
fegsion to him that he received the pack
age containing the money While acting as
clerk in the Tecumseh postoffice under J.
6a- Iaa
sent to this Office instead Of Guthrie, and
that he broke the package and took the
money out. After rejecting on the matter
he became alarmed and returned the
money TO the box in the door of the Old
postofice building in Shawnee, where it
was alleged that Boggs found it. Love
. lady was taken to Shawnee Monday and
arraigned before United States Commits
sioner Goodrich. He waived examination
and his bond was fixed at $1,000 which
he gave Immediately and was released.
In justice 10 Mr.. Lovelady, 1t can truth
fully be said that no young man stands
higher in the estimation OF those who
know him oIinthecommunitytha INN
know him or in the community than he
does. All kinds Of rumors are afloat and
the general impression seems to be that
If this case ever comes to trial there will
be some sensational developments"
The report of the Shawnee Democrat is
this: AT the last term of court George
Boggs was sonvicted of embezeiling and
tampering with the United States mails.
1t viii be remembered by our readers that
some two years ago. while the Shawnee
postoffice was being moved, and while Mr..
BOgss was postmaster, some registered
packages were taken from the Office but
evidently the theft of thieves. had
change of heart, for the packages were
returned TO the office. Yesterday, so we
are informed, Ed Jones, who is clerking
for Ike Smith at Tecumseh, came TO Mr.
Boggs and informed him that Tom Love
lady, who is also clerking for Smith, had
confessed to him (Jones) last summer
that he had taken the registered mail
At the time the money was taken Love-
lady was clerking in the Tecumseh post
office, and it is alleged he took it out OF
the mail bags at that office, but being
afraid that he would be caught and
wishing to throw suspicion on someone
else. he rode to Shawnee in the night and
put the stolen packages in the office at
this place. Mr.. Lovelady is a young mar
riod man and during his several years
residence in Tecumseh has borne a good
reputation. That Mr. Boggs was guilty
of theft no one who knows him ever be-
lieved-no, not one-and now that another
has confessed, even the courts. who A
short time ago found him guilty. will
now have 10 pronounce him innoscent.
Ihus, IS this story which Jones tells IS
true. and we have reason to believe It
Is, has an innoscent man suffered for the
crime of another"