The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-01-26
CHARGES GOODNW
WITH MANY CRIMES
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incompetent and that the consul gen.
erai thereafter received a perjured ac-
count from his appointee; the sixth
charges conspiracy between Mr.. Good
now, George A. Derby marshal. clerk
and secretary to the court. Stenhen
barchett, interpreter of the court. and
messenger to the Chinese mixed court.
ana one 4. Z. Hazelton to defraud
Macmillan Francis Dzionk, a subject
Oh Germany, of land in value s72.45O.
the seventh, that March %, 1904. Mr..
GooonoW appointed "a biased and pref
udlced assessor" in the case of A. 70.
1llier q co. VS.. the American Trad
ing company
MInneapolitan Enters
Inc eighth charges that Sept. 20.
lS0z, he unlawfully deprived A T.
burke, an American citizen and attor-
ney OF record Of Minneapolis. Mimi.
OF ms liberty and seized and appro-
prlated Burke's property to his own
use, HDeled and disbarred said Burke:
the ninth charges oppression and tyr
amy by means Of intimidation and
threats OF criminal prosecution, through
winch he extorted from A. J. Burke
SIi,OOO, being a third vested inter-
est IN the Chinese indemnity claim
awarded George Warren; the tenth
charges excessive and tyrannical ex-
toftlon OF ESQ taelS from Thomas r.
Jernlgan and that Mr.. Goodnow sought
TO persuade one Rosenthal to instigate
criminal prosecution against Jernigan
10 lnJure the latter'S good name in the
community; the eleventh charges that
June ~, 1903, Goodnow did unlawfully
ala and abet the destruction of public
documents, being documents in the
case or q. f. Curtis VS.. c. Rolker. in
consequence of which $500 was extorted
from the said Curtis and paid to said
Goodnow."
False Accounts
Inc twelfth alleges that Mr.. Good
now has rendered false and Fraudulent
accounts as to the rent paid for the
United States consular Jail, for the
support Of United States prisoners, for
the ja1ler and for alleged doctors serv-
ices for said prisoners, and that said
Goodnow has knowingly forwarded to
the secretary of state false and fraudu-
lent returns of said Derby, as marshal
Of the United States consular court:
the thirteenth charges that Aug. 10,
1902, Goodnow falsely and knowingly
certified that property belonging to for
e1gners was property belonging to a
citizen of the United States, in order,
as it is alleged, solely to give said
property the protection of the Ameri-
can flag.
The property is defined as the Chi
nese owned steamship Kiangse, and it
is charged that Goodnow extorted 1925
for recording. a fictitious bill of sale in
the transaction and SOL for alleged
shipping of a Chinese crew for the
ship. The fourteenth charge is dupli-
cate of the preceding save that it re-
fers to five other Chinese owned ships
Which flew the American flag during
the Boxer uprising and then were re-
turned to their former owners, for
which, it adds, that for the said "un-
lawful service, the said Goodnow ex-
And Now Conspiracy
The fifteenth charges a conspiracy
ito manufacture aliens into citizens Of
the United States" in consideration of
large sums of money, the plan being to
issue bogus Identification papers to be
presented by other parties to the con-
spiracy to Minister Conger, who issued
the proper passports Four Russian
aliens, one Turk and one German are
named as receiving such passports.
Two aliens, a British subject and a
German, were registered at the United
States consulate, 1T is alleged, as. citi-
zens of the United States.
The sixteenth charges Mr.. Goodnow
with appropriating to his own use fees
collected in settling the estates of
American citizens who died at Shang-
hal and making false returns thereof.
The seventeenth charges that he did
unlawfully and knowingly take juris-
diction in the case Of George A. Derby
against one r. Plant, the case being
triable only before the United States
ministerial court at Picking, the result
being that Plant was sentenced to a
long term in prison and it is believed
is serving the same in California Jail.
The resolution further charges that
said Goodnow is incompetent to hold
the office of federal judge, that he has
never been admitted to practice law be-
fore any court in the United States or
elsewhere, and that he is not a lawyer.
A protest against the retention of Good
now signed by twenty American resi-
dents of China is presented with the
resolution.