Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-06
ORDER TO BoNDSMEN
SURRENDER OF MACHEN, LoRENz
AND THE GRoFFs.

The bonasmen for August w. Machen.
George f. Lorenz. Diller 3. Croft and sam
uel A. Croft have been directed to SURRENDER
the individuals named into custody tom'r
row morning The plan is that the four
men convicted of conspiracy to defraud
the United States in connection with Inc
Post Office Department irregularities shall
start for the West Virginia penitentiary at
Moundsville tomorrow afternoon on train
that is scheduled to depart from the pas
senger station of the Baltimore and 0hio
railroad, New Jersey avenue and G street,
at $40 o'clock.
Machen and his co-conspirators Will nave
as travelling companions about twenty 9TH
er prisoners, white and colored sentenced
to penitentiary Imprisonment. 1t is UNDER
stood that Warden Harris of the District
jail has arranged for the use of an ordl-
nary passenger day-coach, which Will be
attached to the regular train, for the trans
portation of the prisoners. for whose safe
conduct to the penitentiary at Moundsville
he is responsible.
Permission Denied.
1t was rumored today that certain rela-
tiyes Of the men convicted of the Post Of
flee Department conspiracy had planned to
accompany them on the journey to Mounds
vile. and that the party would travel in a
Pullman car According to the Jail officials
such plan, il it exists, must be abandoned.
for Machen and his associates are to be
part of a regular batch" and will be
treated as are the ordinary run of prison.
ers. 1t is more than likely, it is explained.
they will be handcuffed and attached to a
steel chain that will extend the length of
the railroad car.
Mr.. Morgan H. Beach, United States at
torney for the District of Columbia, will
appear before the Court of Appeals at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning, present the OFF,
q oil 1nfi Gnn Tow, %l,1
of the United States that the petition for
the writ Of certiorari in the Machen- LorenZ-
Croft case has been denied and request that
the mandate of the appellate court affirm
ing the judgment of conviction rendered by
Criminal Court No. 1 be sent down to the
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
forthwith
AT that time Machen, Lorenz and the Croft
brothers will probably be in the court house,
In the custody of the marshal AS soon as
the mandate is received the court below will
attend to the remaining essential legal
details.
If the applications for pardon presented
In behalf of Diller 3. Croft and Samuel A.
Croft shall not have been acted on in their
favor by tomorrow afternoon they will be
taken to the penitentiary, according to the
later decide to grant the application the par
ties affected would thereupon be released
from Imprisonment.
Sentenced Two Years Each.
Machen, Lorenz and the Croft brothers
have each been sentenced to serve two
years in the penitentiary and to pay fine
of 100000
Machen, it is learned, is very anxious to
take with him a number of books especial
ly Latin and Greek works. 1t is not known
here whether or not the rules of the
Moundsville penitentiary will permit him
to take such property there with him.
yyaS lx-tJ ,a o1,tb 1or
today that George E. Lorenz is ill of pneu-
monia, or threatened Herewith. at his
home in Toledo, Ohio 1t was intimated
that his physical condition is such that ii
will be impossible for him to come here for
the purpose of being surrendered into GUS
tody tomorrow by his bondsmen. Mr..
Lorenzs brother was in close conference
with United States Attorney Beach at the
city hall at a late hour this afternoon.
At the end of the conference all that Mr..
Beach would say was that he had given in
structions that Machen and the others be
surrendered into custody tomorrow, but
that the Department of Justice might have
reason to delay the starting for the peni-
tertiary until after tomorrow.