Criminal investigation

Billings F. Cash informs Attorney General Bonaparte that he is convinced that Calvin Cobb and Governor Frank Robert Gooding were involved in timber fraud. The special agents involved in this case – Gorman, Goodwin, and O’Fallon – connected this timber fraud case to a senator who is serving as the prosecution in the trial of the murder of Governor Frank Steunenberg.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-23

Creator(s)

Cash, Billings F. (Billings Franklin), 1859-1924

Secret Service Agent Flynn presents an extract from the report of Frederick M. Tate regarding the suicide of Lulu Grover. This includes testimony from several neighbors and possible relatives about Grover’s personal history and life in New York City.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-15

Creator(s)

Flynn, William J. (William James), 1867-1928

Silas McBee sends the text of Judge Speer’s statement which he made to the Grand Jury in Savannah, Georgia. McBee also expresses his enjoyment of his talk with President Roosevelt the previous day.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-09

Creator(s)

McBee, Silas, 1853-1924

Richard Croker, as the Tammany Tiger dressed as a cardinal in England, receives long distance news about an explosive “Tammany Investigation” in New York. Caption: Croker Wolsey. — I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, / And, from that full meridian of my glory, / I haste now to my setting. I shall fall / Like a bright exhalation in the evening, / And no man see me more. [Shakespeare, Henry VIII, act 3, scene 2].

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-02-06

Theodore Roosevelt asks if Katherine Bement Davis could investigate the person’s situation in the enclosed letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-01-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt discusses an investigation into charges brought by Harry Balfe against Robert Watchorn. Roosevelt instructs Herbert Knox Smith to discuss the charges with Hotchkiss.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt encloses a memorandum, sent from Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer, to Senator Burkett on the “infamous character” of former railway mail clerk Darwin M. Ruger. Roosevelt encourages Burkett share this letter with Ruger himself, and relay these facts to Ross L. Hammond, U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for Nebraska, and Daniel Swanson, postmaster of Fremont, Nebraska, as well as warn “all reputable citizens.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-16

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Missouri Senator Warner that Attorney General Bonaparte disagrees with the appointment of Judge Daniel P. Dyer as District Attorney due to his advanced age. Roosevelt believes that this position requires a man of “courage, ability and independence” who will not be swayed by bias, as Roosevelt expects the District Attorney to prosecute Dyer’s son Daniel Dyer Jr. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Charles J. Bonaparte for his recent letter discussing the aftermath of the criminal investigation into the conduct of Post Office officials. Roosevelt called it an “exasperating fact” that in cases like these “moral certainty” is difficult to achieve.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt requests that Francis E. Leupp visit the Blackfeet Reservation to investigate certain matters pertaining to the Native Americans as indicated by Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

David C. Imboden is an advocate for the organization of a National Investigating Bureau.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-06

Creator(s)

Imboden, David C.

William Dudley Foulke writes to President Roosevelt regarding Francis Augustus MacNutt, who is accused of divulging secrets. Archibald Loudon Snowden, who had previously agreed to write a statement, now refuses to write one. Foulke believes this disqualifies Snowden to offer evidence regarding MacNutt’s guilt or innocence. Foulke suggests Roosevelt send someone trustworthy to resolve the issue.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-30

Creator(s)

Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935

Francis J. Heney describes his work as a special federal prosecutor working to gather evidence to prosecute San Francisco Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz and political boss Abraham Ruef. The message is in cypher, for which the key is unknown.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-14

Creator(s)

Heney, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1859-1937

Secret Service operative William J. Flynn writes to Chief Wilkie regarding his investigation of the Constitution Club. Flynn spoke with the club’s secretary, Charles T. Belles, who said he misplaced a letter from President Roosevelt and admitted the club printed circulars containing Roosevelt’s name. Belles promised that Roosevelt’s name would not be associated with the Constitution Club and gave Flynn information about the club’s organization. Flynn also visited the printer of the circulars and spoke with the police to find out whether any of the club’s directors were known criminals.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-14

Creator(s)

Flynn, William J. (William James), 1867-1928

Edward B. Linnen is still under suspension. As Linnen was strongly recommended for his position by Governor Richards, Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock is withholding action until the governor returns from the west. Hitchcock also awaits more information from Washington and Oregon for other investigations, and some of that information will not be available until the trials being conducted under Judge William Henry Hunt, which resume on September 5. Linnen believes some of the evidence presented in those trials will seriously compromise Senators Charles William Fulton and Joseph Ralph Burton.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-26

Creator(s)

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1835-1909

Attorney General Moody is following the case of Edwin Sanford Holmes closely. District Attorney Morgan H. Beach is doing everything within his power in the case, and believes no one else is incriminated in the scandal.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-09

Creator(s)

Moody, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1917

Representative Dixon writes to the Secretary of the Interior regarding allegations about James H. Monteath, Agent of the Blackfeet in Montana.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-23

Creator(s)

Dixon, Joseph M. (Joseph Moore), 1867-1934

The Assistant Attorney General for the Post Office responds to allegations of misconduct while serving as Attorney General.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-27

Creator(s)

Tyner, James N. (James Noble), 1826-1904

Mahlon Van Horne is charged with failure to respond to requests for postage stamps and generally performing poorly as Consul at Saint Thomas.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-02

Creator(s)

Unknown

After a complaint by Willard Parker, Captain Lantry ordered an investigation of the address, 35 West 43rd Street, for violations of the liquor tax law. The necessary evidence was obtained and arrests were made. The building remains under surveillance.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-04

Creator(s)

Lantry, John J.