Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-10
FOUR INDICTMENTS
IN HOPEWELL PROBE
Prince George Grand Jury Be-
gins Sweeping Investigation
Into Lawlessness.
STRIKING CHARGE BY JUDGE
West Urges "CleanUp" of Town.
Magistrate Is Charged
With Bribery.
STRIKING CHARGE BY JUDGE
'By a staff correspondent)

PRINCE GEORGE COURTHOUSE,
VA August 3-Beginning tho most
sweeping Investigation ever UNDER
taken i'll the criminal annals OF vir-
ginia. special grand jury in the Cir
cult Court OF Prince George County
this afternoon found four indictments
In connection with the bribery and
graft revelations at Hopeyvell the site
OF the big Du Pont powder plant.
The probe VIII he resumed on Friday
morning. The mon against whom
true bills were found arc:
William st. Paul Pulliam, magis-
trate of Bland District. who until re-
Gently presided over the Police Court
at Hopewe!l. He IS charged with ac-
ccptinE bribcs.
John Porter, former lieutenant OF
police. dcposcd last Tuesday. charged
with offering bribes TO other officers.
Fl. w. Pollard, former policeman,
charged with accepting bribe to
protect" poolroom
Tony Beccssi. cabaret proprietor,
who acted as interpreter in the Police
Court. charged with bribery.
PULLIAM ONLY ONE
NOT YET ARRESTED
OF the four men against whom pre-
sentiments were made, Puliiam is the
only one who has not been arrested.
The other three out OH bail The
magistrate formerly lived in South
Richrnond, and Is widely known in
Prince George.
The grand jury was able to make
only fair start to-day, and at Z
o'clock tonight Judge Jesse T. West
q
to give the prosecuting officers suf-
ficiert time to prepare additional in
dictments and gather further incrim-
mating evidence materially affecting
the Hopewell situation which is now
available.
The charges against W. D. Hender-
son. chief of the liopewell town police
until his removal by Judge West last
| Tuesday. together with his associates
were not reached by the grand Jury
to-day. No attempt was made by the
body before its adjournment TO go into
anything but the bribery and graft
revelations. and this feature of condi-
tions at HopeweIl will be completed on
Friday. after which the other forms of
lswlessness will he taken up.
ATToRNEY-GENEn POLLARD
IN COURT ALL DAY
Commemorative Attorney Timothy
Rives ana George Z. Wise. of Rich
mond, who is assisting in the prosccu-
tion, will at once begin the work of
preparing more than 100 indictments,
charging bribery. gambling. liquor SELL
ing, operating disordcrly houses. and
other illegal acts. 1t is believed tina t
before the grand jury completes its
work. there will be more than $50 in
dictmerts returned. Attorney General
John Garland Pollard was in court all
day.
Judge Vests charge TO the grand
jury imm ediately after court convened
was in many respects one OF the most
striking utteranccs ever delivered
from the hcnch. The court went fur
ther than judges usually do in out
lining conditions which require inves-
tigation. He told the jurors that II
the situation was anything like il had
heen represented to him, that the law
lessness at Hop"well constituted a
cancer on the body polite" He did
not mince words in referring to the
did he fail TO tell the grand jury what
is expected OF them.
You are acting not only for Bland
District" Gin which lIopewcll is To-
caled), but for Your county and your
State as we'll" Judge West told the
grand jury. The eyes Of Prince
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