The news & observer., 1905-08-09
Arrived from Hamlet Yes.
terday and Gave Bond.
HE VISITED DOCKERY
.. E. Lackey, the DistiIIer, Hill E
King, John Nichols and T. r. Brock.
well His B0ndsmen. Had Prob
ably Been in Hamlet Wind.
ing Up Liquor Business.

Last Saturday The News and OBJ
the bond of Claude Bernard and the
impending return of that six weeks
fugitive to the city
Yesterday Bernard got into town
quietly, coming on the 11:40 train
from Hamlet going North. That train
is as rule patronized only by through
passengers, since there is an earlier
train arriving from Hamlet. Bernard
chose for his entry the later train and
thus escaped general observation.
Immediately on his arrival Bernard
walked up to the Jones Building and
was standing on the porch just out
side the office of his friend Hill E.
King when he was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Walters He at once rendered
his bond which was accepted his
sureties being John Nichols, H. E.
King, T. F. Brockwell. all of Wake,
and A. f. Lackey, Of Richmond coun-
ty. Lackey is the rich Hamlet distiller
and one of those with whom Bernard
is said to have been interested in the
whiskey business.
The bond was approved by the
sheriff and by his attorney, Mr.. r.
II. Battle and the attorneys for the
prosecution, Messrs Argo & Shaffer
the acceptance of his bond.
Later in the day, the attorneys for
the prosecution desired to examine the
suretieS on the bond and this was done
before the clerk of the court at three
o'clock in the afternoon. Mr.. Lackey
stated that he was worth O,0O0
over and above debts and personal
property exemptions and Mr. KING
justified for 100000.
There was a rumor later in the af-
ternoon that there would be compro-
mise of the suit against Bernard for
damages, but this could not be con-
firmed.
The Charges Against Bernard.
The sensational events leading to
the exile of Bernard and the proceed
ing in arrest and bail in connection
with an action for 100000 damages
by H. c.. Howell for the seduction of
his daughter are well remembered.
Bernard, in company with Bertha
Howell went with John Dockery and
Loulou Rogers to the assignation
house of one Jennie May in East Raj
eigh, as the May woman stated, on
two occasions. The girls, said she. af-
forwards came to her place in daylight
and discussed with her the matter of
running away from home. They were
seen on that occasion by a man who
reported the circumstances to the
Howells who in turn Informed Police
man Isaac Rogers. At that time both
Bernard and Dockery were in attend
ance on the Federal court in Will
mington. There they heard of the
fact that the parents of the girls had
been apprised of their fall and Dockery
came back to Raleigh to try to ar
range the matter. While starting into
the Tucker Building with Clarence
Howell, a brother of BernardS COM
panion, he was shot on the steps by
Policeman Rogers. For more than a
&week his life was despaired of, but
.he has3so far recovered that last Sat
9drday1 he was able to go to his home
in Rockingham. Bernard only re-
turned yesterday. In the meantime
he has been heard from at Old Point,
in Norfolk, where he was stated to be
drinking and where he gave out an
insulting interview in which he said
that he could not get justice in North
Carolina, and again in South Carolina,
where he ran imminent danger of be-
ing badly used by stopping at a hotel
kept by a relative of the Rogers girl.
Lately Bernard has been at Old
Point. He was expected here on Sat
urday or Sunday, his bond having
been arranged. as was stated in The
News and Observer. He went, however,
to Rockingham on Saturday night to
see Mr.. Dockery and afterwards went
to Hamlet where, presumably. he has
been since Sunday. Bernard's Rur-
pose in going to Hamlet was doubtless
a double one, to get A. E. Lackey to
go 'on his bond and to settle up his
liquor interests in that section. 1t will
be remembered that the distilleries at
Hamlet and Hoffman went out under
special act of the Legislature on July
1st. Previously they had been seized
by the government for frauds which
amounted, it is said, to more than
$4,000. The matters were afterwards
compromised with Mr.. Yerkes for
about $4,000.