Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-24
RETURNS.
Former Deputy Federal Marshal
Makes Appearance at
Knoxville.
HIS BAIL BOND REFUSED BY CLERK
Returns to Des Moines to Secure Ger.
tificate as to Responsibility of His
Bondsmen-Was in Des Moines Fri
day.

day.
w A. Richards who is under indict-
ment by the Marion county grand jury
charged with breaking and enteringI
in the night time and larceny from a
building in the night time rel
turned to Knoxville Saturday after
a long absence, apparently AM
absence from the face of the
EARTH His intention was to file bonds
| amounting to $4,000, to secure his ap-
pearance in court to face the charges1
of robbing Mr.. and Mrs P. Sullivan at
Hamilton on January 2, but Richard
Langelak of the Marion county dis
trict court refused to accept the prof
| ferred bond which bears the names
of two Des Moines men and one resi-
dent of Greenfield. and Richards was
taken to Des Moines Saturday by
der to satisfy Clerk Langelak of the
] responsibility of his bondsmen. The
result of his quest is as yet unknown.
Had No Certificate.
Richards spent all of Friday in
Des Moines in conference with his for
mer superior. United States Marshal
I George NJ Christian, who, with r. r.
! Mason, clerk of the federal court at
| DeS Moines, has stood on Richards
side ever since the former federal Off
Ger disappeared in January soon after
the robbery of the Sullivan family at
| Hamilton. When he left Des MONIES
! this morning he carried bonds signed
| for 800 by George M. Christian and
Ed Hunter of Des Moines, and by d
man living in Greenfield, for $4,000.
\ However, when he presented the bonds
to Clerk Langelak this morning, that
official refused to accept them for the
treason that they were accompanied by
no certificate from the clerk of the dis
trict court at Des Moines to show that
the bondsmen are responsible for the
amounts for which they are pledged.
Accordingly Richards and Sheriff BY
bee returned to Des Moines today to
secure, if possible, this certificate,
which will be the means of keeping
the alleged robber out OF Jail.
Another Indictment.
Richards is also under indictment,
j in company with his brother, Jim"
Richards, on the charge of maintain
: ing nuisance at Hamilton. The bond
provided for in this case is $4,000. but
the oCurier's correspondent at Knox
vile was told this morning that the
$4,000 bond, if properly certified and
accepted, will cover all the cases.
confers With Attorneys.
Before giving himself up to the au
! Ia 1xYoc in
!, Yesterday at Des Moines and this
!, morning at Knoxville with his attor
Q neys, Mentzer & Kincaid, of Knox
: vile, whom he has retained to defend
him.
| Maintains Innocence.
S In speaking of the case Mr.. Richards
: vigorously maintains his innocence o.
l. all connection with the hold-up at Ham
S ilton, and according to a Des Moines
! paper said during his stop at the cap
). ital:
81 am entirely innocent in the Ham
ilton case" he declared to his friends
today, while he was telephoning to va
rious friends in Des Moines and Stuar
and arranging for his bond. Il know
. things may look little black agains
me for skipping out, but give you m.
!. word / did not skip out because o
any connection between me and TIL
Hamilton hold-up, but simply because
= was short in my accounts as admins
. traitor of the Joel Graves estate Whel
my name came out in connection witt
= the Sullivan hold-up and discovery wa
g imminent in my administrators al
j. fairs, | lost my head and on the spu
of the moment ran away. | have re
pented it and came back just as 500
as l could arrange it. / didn't wan
! to go to Jail, | can't bear the idea of it
and so I've been in Omaha arrangin
for the bond and when it's fixed Gel
q tain I'll go to Knoxville and surrende
n myself and gladly stand trial. conf
III dent that can acquit myself there a
right"
10 Letter Received Hers.
% An Ottumwa man. a friend of Rict
~ ards, who has been taking considers
g BILE interest in his case, received a le
ter from him this morning, written a
6 o'clock last evening in Des Moines
Il He stated that he would go to Kno,
= vile this mornings and had been in co
~ ference with friends at Des Nome
n all day, having arranged for his bone
~ He said that newspaper reporters ha
II been hunting him all day but ha
- not found him at the time he was wri
IN ing the letter.
ID Just where Richards was during h
apparent disappearance from IL
IN earth Immediately following the Hal
r. ilton robbery is yet unknown and pro
ably will not come out until during Il
trial. The former deputy marshal WI
lit it was reported. traced to Omaha al
is thence to Mexico, where it was rune
Mt ed he stayed until short time ae
i'd returning to Lincoln and then to ID
Moines. There is another story ho
ever, that he says he was not out
of Iowa during the entire time and w
*. within 100 miles of Des Moines all Il