Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-12
ISSUE SUBPOENA
| FOR GOV. WILSON
|; IN MURDER PLOT
II. S. COMMISSIONS
Sets Tuesday for
Hearing.
DEPUTY u. S. MARSHAL TO
SERVE PAPER ON WILSON
Secretary Tumulty May Be
Called in Place of Presi-
dent-eIect.

"A subpoena for President-elect
Woodrow Wilson hase been issued by
United States Commissioner Richard
Stockton in the case of the three
Sparta mountaineers charged with
having tried to blackmai1 the gov
ernor in letters threatening him with
death.
1t calls for his appearance at the
formal hearing in the Federal court
room of the postoff1ce building at
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. He
will return from Bermuda on Mon
day.
Commissioner Stockton first set
Monday for the examination of the
prisoners, but he changed 1t today,
at the request of the district attor-
ney, who will handle the, case In per-
son.
The writ is in the hands of Deputy
United States Marshal Louis G. Beck
man for service.
Whether the governor will actually
i be compelled to testify rests with the
United States district attorney, John
B. Vreeland, Of Morristown.
Mr. Vreeland, who was In Newark
today, intimated that it would not be
necessary to call upon Governor Will
son if his secretary. Joseph P. Tumul-
& ty, could swear to the fact that the
b letter of November II was received
3 by him, acting for the governor.
The district attorney seemed en-
s tirely confident of holding the men
for the Federal grand jury and estab-
fishing his case. He has evidence
which he believes to prove conclu-
sively the authorship of the letter.
q He has to show in addition that the
letter was in the mails and received
by Governor Wilson.
The writ issued by Commissioner
Stockton is as follows:
"United States of America, District
of New Jersey, SIS.
"The President of the United States
of America.
s'To the Marshal of the District of
New Jersey,
"Greeting;
You are hereby commanded to
summon Francis A. Butler. Clinton
L. Larabee, Louis G. Beekman, Jo-
seph p. Tumulty, Theodore F. King,
Martin Spooltra and Woodrow Will
son. if they be found in your baili-
wick. to be and appear before me,
Richard Stockton, a United States
commissioner for the District of New
Jersey, at the federal courtroom in
the postoffice building, Newark, on
the 10th day of December. 1912, at 2
O'clock p. m. and give testimony, and
the truth to say, in a cause pending
before me, wherein the United States
is complainant and Seeley Daven-
port, Jacob Dunn and Peter Dunn,
defendants, in behalf of complainant
Hereof fail not, under the PEN
atty OF the law, and have you then
and there this writ.
'Given under my hand and seal at
Newark this 10tn day of December,
A. d. 1912.
"(SeaD RICHARD STOCKTON.
UNITED States Commissioner"
When Commissioner Stockton was
asked whether he considered 1t es
sential to have the Governors testi
mony, he said:
1T is for the district attorney to
decide whether or not he can get
HlOng WlLnOuI H. Oul II 10 MY uuly
to subpoena aim. He is the COM
planning witness"
The three taciturn woodchoppers
"Snake" Davenport, Pete" Dunn
and Jake" Dunn, who appear little
dismayed by the grave charges
against them, are now thought to
have had their imaginations fired by
lurid moving-picture melodrama'
shown in Dover last spring. Dover
is but twenty miles by trolley from
Wharton, which is the town nearest
TO the bleak wilderness of deserted
mines in which the men had their
homes.
William Stanley, brother-in-law OF
the Dunn boys. appealed to Commits
sioner Stockton for pass to the
county jail this afternoon.
He said the arrest of the two wage
earners of the family had left the
others in desperate straits. The par
ents are both nearly ninety. They
share an old cabin with an invalid
son, Sandford, who has a crippled
foot; simple minded daughter and
three other girls. Two sons have left