The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-24


mature and does not affect this bond.
No new bond Or bonds has or ever
have been issued for this bond. The
State Treasurer returned Ii to MIR.
Lichtenauer at his request.
estate Treasury Department, raj
eieh, n. c.. this October so, 1900.
(Signed.) NV. III. WORTH,
state Treasurer
State vs. Daniel Russell.
Now, why did the gentleman with
the Jew name. he who evidently had
a profit IN the bonds for eight thous-
and dollars which he had sent ON to
the State Treasurer for compromise,
why did this gentleluan-a1ter the
bonds had been held up for a week
suddenly decide hat lie would hold
on to .f.c certificates instead OF get
ting the new bonds for them, londs
hich were marketable instead or
under the cloud of legislation?
And VIVA, did. Governor Russell
gain by holding them mp And
where did Mr. iRcaud, the eX-paEt-
ner of the Governor of the Stete'
come into the deal.
Indeed the inference IS plain, put
it is one which will be hard to prove
How did MI. Ricaud know that Mr.
Lichtenaucr had ten bonds? was ne
not informed of the fact from North
Carolina? Who was there 70 so m
form him except the one man, whose
signature was necessary before the
obligations could be compromises. ac-
cording TO the act(of the Legislature
Gentlemen of the jury, here Is the
case KS. Dan. l.. Russell, Governor OF
North Carolina:
Treasurer Worth brings in the elght
bonds offered for compromise and ex-
hibits them to the Governor.
The Governor. charged with the
duty, Il he was with any duty charged
OF protecting the interests OF the
state, at which he was at the time
the head, holds up q compromise de-
creed by law and accepted by the
no. der Of the bonds.
For doing this he gives az the eX-
cuse that he had heard from ms
former law partner.
In seven days the holder ot me
| bonds demands their return.
They are sent back with the cort-
dcate endorsed upon each which Is
set forth above.
A year later and Ex-Governor Eus-
sell is appel airing in the case of South
| -
| which he was Governor, when this
| transaction came about, pleading Tor
| !, Judgment by virtue OF q gilt py
Schaffer Brothers of ten bonds 10 the
plaintiff State. eight of which were the
identical bonds which lac as Governor
had held up by request of Mr. Klc''ud'
his own former partner, and all along
attorney for the Senators. tie 2eNer-
o,s donors TO the State OF South ia
! !-ntc
How did the bonds get from the
| possession of the gentleman with the
safe and sound Jew name, eN-
| cept by purchase by the ScnateFS'
whose attorney was and is the eX-
mariner at law OF the then Governor
of the State.
And, that being so, Is not the fact
that their presence in the hands OF
the man who was willing to compro-
mise them Vas disclosed to his friend
and partner a thing so plain that ali
may see?
Russell the Traitor.
And. in the light OF the facts that
have since appeared, does 1t not pear
out the assertion that Daniel l.. Rus-
sell is a traitor in fact, as wen DIS III
spirit to his State. in that he caused
the commonwealth a particular loss,
! In that he prevented it from purchas-
ing certain bonds 1T 25 per cent on
the dollar for which 1t was afterwards
adiudged bound to pay the race ana
interest in a case in which he the
sopnsOr of an outstanding obligation,
was one of leading counsel against
his own people?
And is he not fixed then, in OCTOBER
| 1900, with an least an indirect at
| torneyship against the State which
had been lead into the error of NAM
| ing him as its head?
What Treasurer Worth Says.
These be not idle conJectures, gem
| tlemen. The certificates giving the
story are spread upon the bonds
Treasurer Worth, perhaps mistaken
but never called other than all non
est man, is still living here in Raleigh.
saw him yesterday. Part OF the
transaction he could not remember.
| But of this he was sure.
II remember" said eX-Treasurer
| Worth, when these bonds were sent
in. l held them up by the order of
| Governor Russell who said that he
had received letter or telegram
from the man who was formerly MS
partner, in New York. He was not
the man who sent the bonds. Some
time afterwards that gentleman re-
/ quested their return and / sent them
back to him. AS the bonds We're al
ready cancelled, that certificate was