Evening journal., 1906-07-19
Mr.. HOFFECKER
AGAIN FIGHTS
Declares tie is Innocent oil
Wrong Doing and Wants a
RetriaI
PROPERTY VALUE INCREASES
Special to rho Evening journal

Special 70 The Evening Journal
DOVER. July 19.-The courage OF
Lawyer Honecker is the comment OF
professional and business circles
throughout Delaware.
The distinguished-io Whining
tonlan, disbarred by the Court OF
lChancery of Delaware, defeated in two
attempts before the Supreme Court OF
Delaware which displayed unusual len-
lency for the accused lawyer. and pub
licly talked about as a man who al
lowed an estate Of something not fan
from 100000 to dwindle In his hands
to few hundred, he comes into court
here again.
Well groomed. confident that he is
right. and represented by the ablesi
of counsel-including Former Senator
Anthony Higgins. Former Attorney
General Herbert H. Ward. Horace c.
lEastburn and others, he has just filed
entirely new briefs with the clerk OF
the Supreme Court here which so 70
lshow that he Is entitled to an award
of a new trial and his lawyers. upon
the strength Of it, will plead with the
court to remand the lawyers case
again to the Chancellor and give him
an opportunity Of standing another
trial whereat he may prove his inno-
cence-that he safe-guarded the estate
wherever he could during trying nnan-
clal Tins. that he did not invest the
lsplondid fortune in speculation, Wild
cat opportunities, or TO build up or IN
any way secure his own private for
tune
. "Tho equity OF $4,000 IN the IIockes-
sin Kaolin Company. the principal un-
fortunate investment of Mr.. Hoffecker
! as trustee appointed by the Chancel-
lor for the Joseph Teas estate. is ex-
plained by the newly discovered evil
dence In the new Hoffecker brief. and
the Cedartown Investment, where a
s large sum was risked in the develop
e ment of q Florida or Southern City. Ia
{ sworn now TO be valuable stock and
- he comes forward ready TO prove 1t.
r Before the organization Of the Kao-
lin Company" say the new appeals for
an award Of a new trial, filed in the
supreme Court here. "Honeclxer had in
Il vested S183OO. a first mortgage on
l. the Chamberlain farm.
IN 1T appeared to the trustee that the
u Operation OF a certain clay deposit on
"a this farm by a company to be formed
= for this purpose. offered a reasonably
= probable method for recouping th'
Teas estate for payments theretofor
~ made out of the principal OF said estat
land OF onsuring further prohts to sal
is estate.
vs. with this end in view II is her
90 shown that the trustee expended hi
own money 10 the extent Of SS.969.5
in developing and equipping said prop
erty before the organization OF sal,
company.
IL ahirmatively appears that the de-
velopment OF said farm was under
( taken. not as a personal investment b,
Y Mr.. Honeckor for his own advantage
but solely In the interests OF the Tea
estate.
>. "Outside OF the shares so distribute
ed. for business purposes there re
maned in the hands OF HoffeclSer. gen.
eral trustee. S27 shares. which werl
distributed by said trustee on tho lftl
day OF September, 1900. I'm exact pro
portion. between the Teas estate upol
M an investment OF $4,000 by It and tn
credit OF $1,000 remaining on tn
~ books OF said company as a credit nom
NJ inally to Mr.. Honecker. a hook-keeplnl
ot method Of creating an Indebtedness
which the company might In du
course. pay off and enable the trus
en- tee to so return to the estate a portioi
IT. OF the money invested by Il.
ct further appears. IN complete con
travention OF the claim made agains
ad this trustee upon the first hearing. tina
a his advances on account of the estat
., we're at all times far in excess OF ~
payments made TO him.
hu $50 far as the Cedartown investpne
la Is concerned. Il appears from ftfe a
ier hdavit now filed by Mr.. AdWson.
SITS new affidavit that the sto9K of sa
"a. Cedartown Company Is noW Of val
ew and likely to become IN thYnear futui
very valuable"