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COX OFFERS TO RESIGN
Governor Holds Up Resignation
Pending Audit of Accounts

Gov. Goldsborough made known
yesterday, at Ocean City, where the
summer capital is now located that
State Game Warden Franklin E.
Cox, of Fairmount, Somerset coun-
ty, had rendered his resignation,
but that he had declined to accept
it, pending an audit of his accounts.
Mr. Cox at first denied that he
had resigned, but when he found
the Governor had issued a state
ment to that effect, he replied,
Whatever the Governor says goes. :
Information as to additional debts
alleged to be due by Mr.. Cox came
10 light. Among them was claim
for $100 by Mrs. Katherine Fled
derman, proprietress of the Carroll
ton Hotel, who said a check given
by Mr. Cox for that amount cou-
pie of months ago had been cashed
for him at the hotel as an accommo-
dation. The check was returned
by the bank upon which it was
drawn, Mrs. FIedderman said, with
the report that there we're no funds
to meet it. Mrs. Fledderman said
the Game Warden promised to
pay the money, but had never done
so, and that she proposed to write
to Gov. Goldsborough about the
matter.
Another hotel to which the Game
Warden became indebted in a SINH
lar manner, it was stated, secured
settlement the first of~this month
after a threat to lay the matter
before the Governor.
According to Talbot J. Denmead,
who for a time acted as assistant
to the State Game Warden, but
gave up the work some months ago,
after Mr.. Cox. it is alleged, be-
came indebted to him for services
to the amount of $3.50, which, it
is claimed, remains unpaid, the
Game Warden had for some time
apparently been in fear of exposure
for his alleged irregularities and
was particularly concerned about
the probable political effect of
such an exposure.
MIR. Cox said to me some mon
tbs ago. said Mr. Denmead yes
terday, that he hoped matters
might be held off until the close
OF the period for which he was
appointed and intimated that he
would then drop out of the office.
He said that if trouble should come
before then and he be forced out,
it would kill him, politically
Mr.. Denmead left Baltimore yes
terday afternoon to spend the week
end with his family in Carroll coun-
ty Just before leaving the city
he stated that Mr.. Cox had not
come to see. him or made any over
lures toward settlement
Henry P Bridges, secretary of
the State Game and Fish Protective
Association, who, by making public
the charge that Mr. Cox had fail
ed to meet a bill for $50 for work
authorized by him and to be paid
for out of the State appropriation,
precipitated the Game Warden's
present difficulties, also, left the
city.
Governor Goldsborough an
nouncement that Mr. Cox had ten
dered his resignation was contain
ed in a statement given out by him
at Ocean City, in which he said
that Mr. Cox admitted his indeb
tedness to Messrs Denmead and
Bridges.
The Governor admits that Mr..
Bridges made the charges against
Cox in a letter to him in April and
says he supposed Cox had paid the
He gives in his statement MrCoxs
explanation of the reasons why he
used personal checks to pay State
bills and his claim that he did not
neglect his office.
The Governor gives also a state
ment of the amounts drawn by.
Cox from the Comptroller, but he
fails to give what Messrs. Bridges
and Denmead have repeatedly ask
ed for-namely, the itemized ac-
count of what Mr.. Cox has done
with the money drawn Mr.. Bridges
and Mr.. Denmead say that not
more than $500 Of the $4,000
drawn by Cox has been legitimate
ly expended. The Governor does
not touch upon this charge in his
statement. Nor does he discuss
the fact that Mr. Cox has cashed
a uumhar of wort h loss chnckS