Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-01
"Frauds On the Fsdsral Treasury.

tins GARnfNER CAsE.-The following ar
6cie from the Dsmoeydfic Monthiu Rsrieu
page 7S. exhibits the great Gardiner case in
light Of much interest and legal curiosity
The aathor IL no friend Of Gardiner, an,
merely writes what he regards as his duty a
an American citizen HE views are, there
fore. entitled to peculiar consideration az ,
disinterssted observer of this ease''
The above is the introduction given b,
the New York National Democrat. or
Thursday last, to its republication of thu
article therein alluded to. Having few
words to say about that article. and the
many similar ones which have been pub.
aished over the country, we, perhaps, had
better take this opportunity to say them,
rs follows, viz: < '....'
1t is an ingenious attempt to palate the
Gardiner fraud, written, not by "disin.
terested observer" but. by . party on
whom we can place our finger, who now
seems only to breathe by and through
connection with the accused. 1t is filled
with misrepresentation of the testimony
on the part of the prosecution, ISLANDERS
upon the witnesses, and palliations of
frauds on the Government generally. This
Gardiner case is in a nutshell. A man
obtains more than four hundred thousand
dollars from the Government of the
United States, upon papers alleging that
very recently he was 90 extensively en-
gagged in working silver mines, (employ-
ing 30 many hands therein, dealing with
50 many parties in the course of his busi-
ness, &c.,) as that on being driven from
the works, his loss was half million of
dollars. After being paid nearly that
smount, it is discovered that some of the
papers on which his claim is based are
forgsries. He is prosecuted for the crimes
OF perjury and forgery, and some 5000 900
Of the money paid to him is so attached
IS that it will probably find its uay back
into the National Treasury, unless Gardi-
nes IL acquitted Of the criminal charges
hanging over him. --"
docs any man, with an ounce of brains,
believe, that if it were possible for the ac-
clsed to place in the witness box any of
the hundreds of persons who are alleged
to have worked for him 80 recently at
mining, he would have failed to have some
Of them there7 Can any one believe that
II it were possible for him to have pro-
dnced in Court q single man of the hun
dreds with whom he must have traded in
carrying on the business, he, too, would
not have been brought on the stand
No-common sense teaches that, when by
80 doing be could at once have saved him
self from further molestation by the Gov.
eminent, and have forever secured himself
and the other parties to whom portions of
the attached 100000 nominally belong,
in the possession of this money, he would
have produced such witnesses, if any such
exist. Does any man in his senses he
lieve that he could have worked such
mines, in such manner, 50 recently, as al
legged, without its being possible to find
some such witnesses Of the fact!
De, We take it that no man lives who has
attentively read or heard the testimony
in the case, without having come to the
conclusion that the abstraction of the
large sum from the Treasury paid on this
claim, involves bold and shameless fraud.
how happens it that the jury failed to
convict him at the recent trial! We
point, in the first place, to just such pub
locations a. that noticed at the head of
this article. We are satisfied that per-
sons in Washington connected with the
press, are paid by the accused to represent
the case a. this Infamous article presents
it to the public. We know. too, that the
position in society of those who stand in
the background in this affair, is having
undue weight; there being not few
around us who conceive that in aiding
AMI abetting this transaction, they deserve
credit Tor sdroitness, rather than to be
kept (at the cost of the Government from
doing more harm, which we at least con-
ceiye to be the reward to which more
than one Of them is fairly entitled. I'm.
fortunately We are without space in
which to point out in detail the infamous
points Of the article, the publication Of