Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-08
An |ONAN N TROUBLE
Capt. Cyril ". King Arrested ~
United States Authorities
at Mobile.
He is Charged With Accepting .
$4,000 Bride From Govern
ment Contractor.
Was Member Of Iowa Guard in
Spanish war--In Army
Service.

Mobile. Ala, Jan. S,-Capt. Cyril w.
King. U. s. ". supervising Quattermas-
ter at Fort Morgan, Ala, has been arr
rested upon a Warrant issued from the
United states district court at Mobile
charging him With accepting money as
a bribe from contractor doing work at
! Fort Morgan for the government.
The Variant was issued upon infor-
nation furnished by +. p. Nc.Adams of
The SECRET service bureau of the United
States treasury department. Agent
alc2Aaams also made the arres assist
ed by the city detective force
In the afternoon King vas given a
preliminary hearing before United
States Commissioner Is. q. I.ickarby,
and was rsmandei to the custody OF
the next grand jury Bail was fixed in
The sum Of $4,000. Captain King SO far
has failed to secure bondameli.
The evidence before the commissioner
showed that Special Agent AIcAdans
arrived in Mobile Monday morning,
meeting by appointment j. II. Hobson
firm CT contractors who have secured
the contract for building officers quar-
tiers barracks at Fort Morgan Hobson
drew $1,000 in currency from i bank in
Mobile. The secret service agent made
a record of the number and series of
each bank note, and also placed mark
known only to himself and Hobson on
each rote
TJn ~. !, :, !,
with Captain King met him at 10
g clock and paid the marked money
over 10 him: Kings arrest by Special.
agent NlcAdans aud Detective Morris
OF the Mobile police force, followed. In
the United States marshal $ office King
vas searched and $1,000 in notes was
taken from him. Before the commits.
'sioner AlcAdams and Hobson Identified
the money as that marked by the form
or.
The charge was made by Hobson thar
since he obtained the building contract
AT th- fort he had met with serious
trouble because Captain King, as SUI
sl9elvisoi rejected nearly so per cent of
the work done and material furnished.
By his firm. while material and labor
We're strictly according to the rpecffi- :
linuess rejection of the work. meant the
financial ruin of himself and firm
One day last fall he testified Captain
King made a proposal that Hobson' $
firm should pay him s3.00o in consider
alton Of which King should thereafter
accspt Hobsons material and work.
provided both Nere according 10 the
governments specifications King said
hi. expected 10 CAT 5000 from Hobson,
but IN consideration Of his former se-
verify he would make the gum s3.oD0
Hcbson said ne agreed tostfe arrange
merit. and had paid King $1,000 in two
payments of $3.50 and the $1,000 paid
Yesterday. Cancelled checks, made pay
able 70 Cyril w King and signed by
u n Hobson & u. We're placed n evi-
ferice Hobsor also stated that he al.
once informed the authorities in Wash
ington Of King corrupt proposal.
Captain King refused to accept or
enlp!py counsel He asket, a few ma
tel'ial questions # the two principal
witnesses against him. declared he was
not guilty and was remanded. The
captain enlisted In the Volunteer service
in 1898 ard served in the war With.
Spain. He has been stationed al Fort
Morgan a little more than a year. His
home is in Dubugue, Iowa. He is mar
ried and has two children
Kings Record in Iowa.
Dubuque, Jan. s.-Gaptain Cyril w.
King Il the son of j. Wade King. a
dentist, Who moved from Dubuque to
Marslalltown many years ago. Capt
King became q merchant at Fort Dodge
ana captain OF the Fort Dodge military
company, and in 1884 was assistant adj
1utant genera q the Second Brigade,
Iowa National Guard, with the rank OF
lieutenant colonel. He entered the
spahisl-Ai nericaii War from Fort
Dodge with the Iowa volunteers and
after the war remained in the service
az s'luartermasterI with rank Of captain
he is known here but slightly.