The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-12
TWO MEN &C TO THE PEN
One Negro Postofice Employe at
Tarboro.
OTHER A.WHlTE MAN FROM NORTHAMPTON
He Took the Letter of His Niece From the Post
Office at Lasker and Never Delivered
Them. They Were From Her
ssSwsethea art.

Another friend and appointee of
Geo. II. White, the negro Congress-
man, has come to grief.
In the Federal Court yesterday
morning Geo. 0. Dancy, a young ne
gro who was employed in the post
office at Tarboro under Postmaster
Martin, submitted on charge of rob-
bing the mails and was sentenced to
year and month in the penitentiary
1t seems that Dancy had been in the
service at the postoffice for several
years before he had an opportunity to
begin his populations, but once they
were begun he became so bold that
he was easily caught. When arrested
he had in his pocket a S. gold piece
that had been sent by a postoffice Of
fetal through the mails in a decoy
letter.
In court yesterday he offered no
defence save some affidavits as to pre-
vious good character and a petition
from a large number of citizens in
Tarboro praying the mercy of the
court. In view of these Judge Pur-
nell sentenced him to only one year
and one month.
Another case of much the same
character was that against ". III.
Crowder. a white man from North
ampton county. He was charged with
fraudulently taking letters out of the
postoffice at Lasker and destroying
or canceling them
The complainant in this case was
Miss Cornelia Barnes, niece Of the de
PENDANT. Last summer she was regu-
larly corresponding with Deb Hodges,
young man living at ST. Petersburg,
Fla. Suddenly Hodges letters stop
ped coming and the young lady was
at a loss to account for it. This was
in July and not till the following De-
tober did she again receive a line from
Hodges. Then the letter was a regis
tered one, with a special delivery
stamp on it. This opened up commu-
nications again. Hodges told of the
many epistes sent and not answered.
As Miss Barnes had never seen one
of them she instituted an investiga-
ton which resulted yesterday in the
conviction of Crowder.
As Crowder lived only some three
hundred wards from Barnes, he usu-
ally inquired at the postoffice for the
Barnes mail when he got his own.
But the letters for Miss Barnes from
Hodges, it seems he for some reason
never delivered. Three witnesses tes-
titled to one particular letter that
Crowder took from the office, but
which Miss Barnes denied getting.
Crowder had no attorney and his
only defence was a denial of ever
having taken any mail out of the of
fee for Miss Barnes. The jury found
him guilty, however. and he was SEN
fenced to one year at hard labor.
Robert Harris. white man, who
was captured by the revenue officers
at moonshine still which he was
operating in Warren county was given
sixty days in Jail and fined 500.
Other cases disposed of yesterday
were as followers:
j. ID. Carroll. charged with failing
to erase stamps, was fined double the
tax represented by. the stamps. and
in another case against him judg-
ment was, at the request of
the district attorney, continu-
ed until next term, and it was
ordered that he give a justified bond
in the sum of $500 for his appearance.
This was done ON account of the de-
PENDANTS health.
a mol pros was entered in the case
against Shep Turner for perjury, and
Frank Parker, charged with violating
the internal revenue law.
The grand jury failed to find true
bills in the cases against w. j. Y.