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President Roosevelt responds to Representative William Livsey Jones by assuring him that letters have been sent to Internal Revenue Collector Benjamin D. Crocker and United States Marshal George H. Baker. Roosevelt has informed them that any action against Jones will not stand.
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1908-09-23
President Roosevelt is proud to hear Arthur William Merrifield is excelling in his position as United States marshal. Merrifield does not need to worry about the money until he is ready to pay it. Roosevelt agrees with Merrifield regarding Japan.
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1907-08-13
Stanley Wellington Finch informs Attorney General Bonaparte about Special Agent William E. Johnson’s action regarding liquor traffic in Indian Territory. The Department of the Interior does not want to withdraw Johnson from his current work and would not do so unless requested by President Roosevelt.
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1907-09-13
U.S. Marshal Rounds acknowledges several messages Attorney General Bonaparte has sent pertaining to the trial of Senator William Edgar Borah. Borah’s friends believe he will not receive a fair trial. Rounds says he is confused by this concern and explains that he has done nothing to prevent Borah from receiving a fair trial. Rounds requests that Bonaparte begin an investigation to satisfy himself about the truth of the complaints.
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1907-09-07
Newspaper article regarding the suspension of deputy United States Marshal Alfred B. Colquitt over the alleged mistreatment of a prisoner.
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1905-11-07
President Roosevelt directs Attorney General Bonaparte to communicate with the War Department regarding the question of having a United States Marshal inspect some messages. If the Marshal needs soldiers, Roosevelt says, they will use them, but it would be better to have a definite statement regarding whether they are needed or not. Roosevelt thinks that having civil authorities patrol the line and only resorting to soldiers in the case of a mob would be preferable.
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1908-02-10
Rudolph Forster relays information to United States Marshal Lewis on behalf of President Roosevelt, informing him that Senator Nicholas Longworth has wired expressing the desire for the current deputy marshal be detained.
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1906-10-03
President Roosevelt sends Attorney General Moody clippings and a letter. If possible, Roosevelt wants to remove United States Marshal Vivian J. Fagin at once as he has “been behaving so badly” that it is “probable he is a little out of his head.”
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1906-09-12
President Roosevelt tells United States Marshal Abernathy that he should not catch live wolves as part of a public exhibition while he is a Marshal. If he catches them on a private hunt that is fine, but doing it for the public would look too much like Abernathy was “going into the show business.”
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1906-06-04
President Roosevelt confirms that James C. McCabe’s comrade, Porter, was his uncle Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt’s brother-in-law. Porter’s nephew, Grosvenor A. Porter, has just been named marshal of the Indian Territory.
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1906-03-03
President Roosevelt encloses a telegram for Senator Clark that explains the allegations against U.S. Marshal Ben Daniels. If Clark thinks it is wise, Roosevelt will make it public, and gives Clark permission to make this letter public. Roosevelt notes that “there is no man in Arizona more justly dreaded by the entire criminal element than Ben Daniels.”
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1906-02-22
President Roosevelt encloses telegrams about United States Marshal Ben Daniels from Arizona Territorial Chief Justice Edward Kent and Louis C. Hughes, the editor of the Tucson Star. He believes that bad actors in Arizona want to discredit Daniels.
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1906-02-19
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from District Attorney Joseph L. B. Alexander regarding United States Marshal Ben Daniels, which he would like Senator Clark to put before his committee.
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1906-02-01
President Roosevelt sends Charles Erskine Scott Wood excerpts from a report by Francis J. Heney regarding former U.S. Marshal Walter F. Matthews’s conduct in connection with the land fraud trial in Oregon. The report shows that it was essential to remove Matthews to achieve justice in the case.
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1905-12-21
President Roosevelt looks forward to seeing British hunter Charles Robert Eustace Radclyffe and agrees that those living on the ground are the trouble with game killing, not the sportsmen.
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1905-01-13
President Roosevelt requests that Attorney General Knox report to him as soon as possible about U.S. Marshall D.C. Bailey in Colorado. Roosevelt recalls Bailey being charged with the same offenses a year and a half ago; if he has committed them again, he must be fired.
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1903-06-26
If there are charges to be brought against United States Marshal Leo E. Bennett they should be brought quickly. President Roosevelt asks Frank C. Frantz if that was the marshalship for which he was applying and requests details “at once.”
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1901-11-01
Jane E. Filkins reintroduces herself, having become acquainted with Theodore Roosevelt at the First Dutch Reformed Church when he was governor. Her husband, Clinton N. Filkins, was appointed Deputy US Marshal by Edwin Denby. His term ends next March, along with Marshal Samuel G. Victor’s, as per the Revised Statutes. He scored high on his recent stenographer and typewriter examination. Against her husband’s desires, Filkins asks Roosevelt to help find Clinton a Civil Service appointment.
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1911-11-14
C. D. Elliott promised mutual friend Judge Alston Gordon Dayton to visit Theodore Roosevelt if he was in New York City. He was the US Marshal in Dayton’s district and is now an Adjutant General. Elliott is alarmed at the current political conditions and fears the present leadership is lacking. He will be in New York City on Thursday and Friday and would like to visit.
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1911-10-25
Arthur William Merrifield hopes he is fulfilling his duties as United States Marshal and promises to get the money he owes President Roosevelt. He suggests Secretary of War William H. Taft visit Thomas M. Laffin while in Japan. Laffin is a loyal American who has insight about Japan, since he has lived there for twenty-seven years.
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1907-08-07