The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-02
Notifies Them OF Suits Which
Have Been Filed Against
Them.
HAD AGREED TO DO so
Think Latest Action in Court
Is Surprising ami Sig
nifcant.
Times-Dispatch Bureau.
t09 North Sycamore street,
Petersburg. Va, November i

in the Hastings Court yesterday by
the American Bank ana Trust Com
pany. in which Charles Hall Davis and
| others associated with him are the
defendants. Mr.. DAVIS had sent out a
letter of explanation to his creditors.
This was done in accordance with an
agreement made with his creditors at
a meeting held In December last 20 the
cnect that he would at once notify
all of them of any attempt on the part
OF any one creditor to obtain a judg-
ment against him, or In any wav to
secure II preference. Suits are brought
and Judgment will be moved on three
notes sli.469. s26.4s4 and s2o,95o, re
spcctively. which were discounted by
| the Appomattox Trust Company. of
which the American Bank and Trust
Csmpanv Is the successor. The aggrc.
gate of the notes is about 100000
In the letter to his creditors. Mr..
Davis says:
Up to this time. no judgments have
been obtained against me. nor have
any of my creditors SO far as l am
informed! ATTEMPTED to get them. AS
all OF my personal assets, as we'll as
all OF the assets of Davis & Davis
! have long since been turned over for
the protection of our creditors, this
action seems surprising and signih.
/ cant.
Il have been using every effort to
! pay off my creditors, and was RAPIDLY
reducing my obligations (having paid
Off about $4,000 during the year
1900 until the beginning OF thls
year. when on the initiative of ono
! of the stockholders of the Appomattox
| Trust Company, criminal proceedings
We're started against me. Since that
time. my entire time and attention
ai In or
criminal prosecutions, and 1 have lit
/ orally been unable to earn / cent
| UP to date there have been found
thirtY-three indictments against me-
one of them, the largest and longest
in the history Of Jurisprudence. 30 far
as l am informed. OF these thirty
! three. twenty-five have been nolle
pressed by the attorney for the Com
monwealth against my protest, and In
spite of my repeated requests to De
| tried. Nine others have been dismissed
| under the statute providing that, where
! four terms have elapsed without a
trial. tho defendant is forever dis
F, charged from prosecution for the Of
! Tense charged.
| Only two remain, one of these be.
Ing the large indictment referred to
above. OF the $50 counts, charging
l.0oO offenses. contained in this In
! dlctment. $50 counts charging 40
I offenses. have been nolle pressed by
! tho Commemorative attorney, leaving
1Io counts. charging $40 ofrcnscs
| This indictment was continued 20 the
| November term on my motion so as
| to allow me to apply to the Supreme
| Court OF Appeals of Virginia for a writ
or hnbeas corpus, on the ground that
have tbeen and am Illegally de-
! tanned under the said Indictment, be-
| cause have been held for trial for
moro than four terms for the oferscs
| charged therein. The Hastings Court
of Petersburg refused to grant this
| continuance to allow me to bring this
matter before the Supreme Court un-
less l likewise moved for n continu-
ancc OF the other remaining indict-
ment on which I desired and asked
| to be tried Consequently, against nv
| protest ! was forced to ask for the
| continuance OF the other indictment to
the November term. These are the
only continuapces that 1 have ever
| acked for In refernce to any of the
| bo3 indictments. And these two arc
all that remain of the thirty three
/ found.
"All OF these thirty three indict-
! ments allege offenses against the APP
pomattoS Trust Company, and were
found almost entirely upon the testi-
mony of the present or former officers
"ho directors OF that company, which
Is and was my largest creditor
The only remaining asset that
know of Is an equity in my former
| home. known as the Centre Hill resi-
! dence have used every effort to
make this produce something for all
I my creditors The Trust Company has
! used every effort to secure II for itself
alone On Sunday. the goth of Octo-
Der. there appeared in the index
/
| ment from me as the president of the
| Centre Hill Corporation, q copy OF
which Is Enclosed herewith. This viii
| explain the situation In regard To this
property. This article appeared on
Sunday morning, and the notices OF
! motion for judgment above described
4 were served Tuesday morning. These
notices are made returnabl 10 the
very day to which the large indict
! ment was continued.
AS matter of justice to my cred
| itors. feel that ,aey should all be
| Immediately advised OF any acits,,
! which might create a preference in
favor OF one as against the Other In,
| reason o. the liens of Judgments OBJ
tanned. Consequently / write to i'm
medlateiy advise you Of this action OF
| the Trust Company.
u have throughout. against tho al
vice of my counsel and many NJ NV
friends refused to- become volun
! thry bankrupt I wish to paw or nv
| debts in full. If given an opportunItv
1 10 do so. Pending the criminal PROS
| ecutions above referred to. touud on
the Initiative OF stakeholder of the
! Trust Company. and almost exclusive
ly on the evidence of the present ana
! former directors and officers of the
| Trust Company, and on which 1 have
| been unable to get a trial. IL has been
and Is impossible for me TO do any
/ thihg TO reduce my debts have
repeatedly attempted to be tried and
! TO end the matter, but these indict-
! inents have been found in three sets.
| and when | stated that / was ready
| for trial on the first set of eight in
dictmentS. those Wrrn nolle nrnssnd