The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-09
INDICTED GAUGER
FAILS TO SHOW UP
Burroughs Absent When Case Is
Called, and Court Issues
Capias.
FINDS EIGHT TRUE BILLS
Grand Jury Returns Indictment
Against Nathan and Morris
Wcinstein and Others.
FINDS EIGHT TRUE BILLS

| w clnStcl1l ana Others.
oren r Burroughs. the indicted gov
| eminent gaugcr who was to have
| answered yesterday to an indictmen,
charging him with collision in the
| Broad Rock revenue frauds. failed 10
! appear yesterday morning, when the
| case was called in the United States
Dlstr!c, Court. A capias for his ar
rest. returnable forthwith. was placed
in tho hands OF the United States mar.
| shall for execution.
Burroughs has been out on bond
since last summer, when tho cnse
| against him resulted in a mistrial ,rbe
late +. b. i'owle. OF south Richmond
furnished bail In the sum of &, 200
NJ his hrst trial Burroughs was de
Tended by Attorney ID. Lawrence
Hrohcr OF Norfolk. who called to his
assistance Attorney !. o. Wnedenburs.
The appointment of Mr.. Groner 10
the district attorneyship LEFT Bur
roughs without his former counsel
| when tho case was called yostordav
morning Attorney Wendenburg volun-
teered to defend him and asked for
continuance of the case TO the nex,
term OF court. Judge Waddili refused
~ grant continuance. and issued q
c"P'as Tor RurrouChs's arrest
In Town Monday.
Burroughs. who lives In Ncwoort
News, was In the city Monday ana
icit Inc Impression that he would no
on mana l" answer the charges aEains,
MN when the case was called M
one could be found yesterday who knew.
where ne stayed while Ia town. lie IS
said to be In feeble healtll-a fact ina,
brought the conjecture Yesterday ,ha,
he may have fallen suddenly III
Inc PauSer was indicted Ia 1n-;,
l3l2. on the charge OF accepting bribnn
from the Broad Rock Distillinr Com
pany TO permit certain quantities ar
distilled spirits manufactured al tho
company's plant in Chesterfield County
20 pass untaNpaid The principal Wit
ness against MN was Ethelbert Elmore
"hc-tme bookkeeper OF the dist,Ilc,-y,
VINO. 1t Is charged, acted as the 70
between In the Illicit TRANSACTIONS h.
tween the government employe and the
ulStiierF owners Elmore was alec
chiet witness for the government in
me cases OF the United States against
the Broad Rock officials. who nov
await prison sentences for their part
In the frauds
Returns Eight Indictments.
The grand jury yesterday returned
eight .nd!rtmcnts trun hin w,e
round against Nathan Welnsteln tho
seventeenth Street merchant. charged
with fraudulent conceal!ncnt of assets
me Indictment which contains four
counts. sets forth among other things
that on December 27. 1912 Wains,oIr
concealed Il quantity OF clothi,,,. hats
caps, etc. belonging 10 his estate with
intent TO defraud his creditors L.,,r
iher, the Indictment charges that rho
defendant made false oath 10 n netition
in bankruptcy filed by him and tb,t
on January !. 1918. ne testified false
~ before Referee in Bankruptcv
Ihomas Is. Snead tina, ne owed $3.50 TO
one Morris Wcinstein
An indictment against AIorris wei,
stein charges in two counts that no
fcloniously presented under oath en-
the bankruptcy hearing that Nathan
cinstein was indebted TO him in the
sum of $3.50.
Violation Of White Slave Act.
Minnie Hahn. alias Minnie smith.
hllas Minnie Frcucndorfcr was indict-
cd I'm three counts for infractlone q,
the white slacc clause OF the intor
stat" commerce law The tru.. bin sets
forth that she paid the transportation
of three women from Philadclphia 10
Alexandria, and that she brought the
women to Virginia for immoral Dur-
poses. The crime is said to have bcen
committed last January. a like in
dictmcnt. charging the same offrnse I'm
fIt
from New T'rk so Norfolk. was re-
turned against BENJAMIN Kaplan
true bill was found by the grand
jury against W. j. Minor. who Is
charged with presenting to postinas-
ter John NJ. Griffin, OF Fredericksburg
in September. l9l2 a fraudulent claim
for duplicate OF Il money order
winch he claimed he had lost The
value OF the money order was $40
al ,.I.
alias Frank johnson. was indicted in
TWO counts, charging him with break
ing into the post office at Alberta
runswick County, last January. ana
stealing stamps 10 the value of 500
Charged with Causing Death.
An indictment returned against An
tonic Gonzales. until recently n sea-
Whiting, an American owned vessel
charges him with responsibility for
the death OF Joe Enos, a seaman on
the same boat. who was washed over
board off the North Carolina coast
when the schooner ran into heavy
gale
1t is charged that Gonzales uniaw-
fully While IN charge Of the wheel of
the vessel. failed and refused TO keep
her on her proper course, and failed
10 surrender the wheel TO the captain
Of the boat when ordered to do so
go FAILURE to obey orders while tho
vessel was seeking to reach a haven
at Cape Lookout, off the North Caro-
lima coast, to avoid a storm which
was fast approaching, it is charged,
caused the schooner 10 run out OF her
course in such way rs to be eX
posed to the full force OF the storm,
in tho course OF which Enos was
washed overheard.
y second Indictment charges Con
zalcs with an assault upon Frank l..
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