Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-02-08
Alleged Corruption In the Pro.
VOst MarshaEs Office.
INVESTIGATION BY THE UNITED
STATES GRAND JURY.
TWO INDICTMENTS PRESENTED
AGAINST CAPTAIN NASH.
SPECIAL REPORT OF THE GRAND
JUDY.
CASES CONTINUED TO THE MAY
TERM.
CAPT. NASH RELIEVED.
HE is ORDERED TO REPORT TO
GENERAL HOOKER.
Colonel Nef Appointed Provost Mar
shall ad interim.
capt. NASH RELIEVED.
he is ORDERED TO REPORT TO
GENERAL HOOKER.
Colonel NeR Appointed Provost Mar
shaI ad interim.

Colonel Nef Appointed Provost Mar
shaI al interim.
1t has for some time been generally un-
derstood among our citizens that the United
States Grand Jury have been rigidly inves-
tigsting the conduct of the Office Of the
Provost Marshal of this Enrolment District,
and rumors of all descriptions have been
in circulation in regard to the alleged
corruptions developed in the course of the
investigation. Not desiring to anticipate
the legal and authorized proceedings in the
case, we have thus far refrained from ma
king any comments on the matter, but the
proceedings have reached such a stage that
it becomes our duty, in justice to the par
ties concerned as well as to the general pub
lie, briefly to detail the history of the pro
ceedings in the affair. In SO doing we shall
of onnraa nonfne ourselves to r simple
record of the proceedings, it being, for OBJ
vious reasons, improper, even were it pos
sibIs, for US to anticipate the trial of the
case by publication either Of theeyidence
which was presented to the Grand Jury, or
of that which Captain Nash will offer in
mis- defense.
PROCEEDINGS OF TIE GRAND JURY.-THE IN
DIoTNENTs.
The United States Grand Jury we're en-
pannelled and sworn on Tuesday, January
Sd. Soon after they commenced business
their attention was directed to the alleged
corruptions in the Provost Marshars Office
of this district, and a large part of their
time has Since been devoted to the investi-
cation of these charges. A large number o f
witnesses were called, and considerable
time spent in examining them. On Fri
day, January 2Otb, the Jury took a recess,
sdjourning until Tuesday, Jan. 31st. On
Thursday last, Feb. I'd, the Grand Jury
brought in two indictments against Cap
tain Nash, conformity with two of his en-
ployees. The first of these indictments is
for procuring and attempting to procure
substitutes for drafted men, being Provost
Marshal. It has four counts. The first,
stripping it of the preliminary forms com
mon to all indictments, charges that Fred
erick A. Nash, on the first day of December
1864.
-"unlawfully and feloniously did then and
there procure for one George Digter, who
was then and there drafted man in the
military service of the United States in the
Eighteenth enrolment district of the State
of Ohio, substitute by the name Of Charles
EIlaafA orI IfI fhor, nd hay- FbaI
acceptance of him, the ssid Charles Elliott,
as such substitute for him, the said George
Dister, by the Board of Enrolment of the
said Eighteenth enrolment district of the
State of Ohio the said Frederick A. Nash
then and there being the Provost Marshal
of the said Eighteenth enrolment district
Of the State of Ohio, and then and there be-
ing q member Of the Board of Enrolment
of the said Eighteenth enrolment district
of the State of Ohio"
The second count charges that Capain
Nash, on the same day,
odd then and there engage in
substitutes for persons then
and there drafted into the military service
of the United States, he, Frederick A Nash,
then and there being the Provost Marshal
of the said Eighteenth Enrolment dis
trict of the State of Ohio, and then and
there being member of the Board of En-
of the said Eighteenth enrolment
district of the State of Ohio"
And proceeds, in phraseology simi-
lar to that of the first count, to
charge him with procuring one Ca
eb Turner as a substitute for one George |
Wolf, on the first day of December.
The other two counts are in similar
phraseOlogy and charge Captain Nash with
a substitute for one Jacob Goepp,
IN the first day of January, 1865, and with
to procure substitute for one
Nicholas Helm, on the first day of Decem-
,sr, 1864.
The second indictment is for receiving
from drafted men, the de-
endant being an officer connected with tho
3oard of Enrolment. Italso contains for
cunts, and charges Captain Nash With
Giving compensation from the four -
d men named in the respective - =. a. =
he first Indictment, for putt ng IN ts anS.ti
l'es ana obtaining certif.ca s of exemn
ION LOT tnern' The last coup alone sineci-
oS 'ne @lp .yunt of money o'ileped To bava
: ''n eceived. 1t chsrg,e es that Captain
..sh received ths sum of $500 from Mich
,las Helm, for procuring VIM. Herbey as
ais substitute.
CAPTAIN NASH HBLD TO BAIL,
On Thursday afternoon Captain Nash was
arrested by Deputy Marshal DeWolf, and
in Court. He was held to bail in
he sum of 81 ,OeO, which was given by Mr..
Eorick, of Akron.
sPEc1AL REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY.
On the succeeding day, (Friday, Febru-
y 3d. the Grand Jury presented to the
'Ourt the following special report, a COPY
f which was, in accordance with their re-
uest, forw arded TO the Secretary of War:
To the Circuit Court of the United |
tates in and for the Seventh Circuit and |
Lorthern District of Ohio, January Term,
ss5:
We, the Grand Jurors in session at said
erm, regard it as our official duty to make i
special presentment of the following
lets;
FIRsT-We present and find that one
'homas Schools, German, unable to read
r write the English language, was drafted,
1 May last, into the military service of
be United States from the First Ward of
levelsnd, in the 18th District, and there
pom went to the Provost Marshal's Office
pay his communication of$S0O-was met at
le door of the Office Ivy man unknown
} him, who inquired b is business, and, be-
lg told, said he would get him off for
l50 then asked if he was citizen,
sholls replied that he was had taken
1t his first papers (mesning his dec
ration Of intention) and exhibit
d it. The stranger desired Scholis to wait
littla in the hall nnfsida the nfina nf a.. |