Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
WILLIAM b. CARR'S EXPOSE OF THE
PINNEY- BURR CONSPIRACY.

Sunday appearsan exhaustive exhibit, made by
William Il. Carr of San Francisco, of the
conspiracy land against himself by Burr OF the
Clay Street Bank, Culver of the Masonic
Bank and George NJ Pinney, the notorious
SCAMP and swlndler, who has cut such a
prominent figure in the courts and newspapers
of San Francisco, of late Mr.. Cars letter
opens rs follows:
deem it due to myself to give to the pub
Tic the following letter. addressed and deliver
cd respectively to the Masonic Savings and
Loan Bank, and the San Francisco Savings
and loan Society. | do so not merely to
attack others, but to give to the public the
history therein related, showing how feon-
ious conspiracy was engaged in by men pass
ing for respectable, by which the result of
their own mismanagement and greed might
be chargeabe to me, and the odlum of their
Ofenses be put upon entirely innocent men.
The public is entitled to this revelation, for
every art was used to prejudice it against me,
and every stQp in the performance OF the con-
spiracy, after it was fully formed, was adver-
tised to my disadvantage. The first result OF
this letter was a hasty dismissal of the case
against me The second was a solicited IN
tervieW, wherein it was admitted that had
correctly unraveled the plot Matched up, but
it was insisted, with such face as was possible,
that the bankers were themselves deceived by
false representations and appearances. |
wish the public to know how false this defense
Is, and therefore give to them the whole story,
az it was laid by me before the banks. A
careful reading of the correspondence will
show | think, that have not unjustly inter
preted it, or its attendant facts.
Then follows the evidence of the diabolical
plot formed by these men to rob him. Our
space is too short to review what is presented
and we make the following cOmpendious
comments by the Record Union of Monday
suffice 1--WE desire" says that paper, "to
call the attention of the readers of the Record
Union to brief summary, in another col
umn, of William b. Cars letter to the off
GERS of the Masonic Savings and Loan Ba'tk,
and those of the San Francisco Savings and
Loan Society. For the present We are dis
posed to consider this document as literary
production, or rather as brief in a remark
able case In any light in which the reader
chooses to view the document he will find it
to DO the most astonishing that has ever come
to his notice. Pinney received immense
sums of money from the above named banks,
for which no return was ever made. The
collateral securities, consisting Of navy pay
certificates, being worthless, and Plnney be-
ing bankrupt, the two banks sought to make
their losses good by compelling W. b. Carr
to pay Pinney's obligations, In pursuance
of this purpose they relied upon supposed
agreement between Carr and Pinney. in
which CAR, as was alleged, had contracted to
pay all Of Pinney's Indebtedness. The safety
Of the banks, the reputation and financial
standing of w. B. Carr, with many other in
terests. depended solely on the authenticity
Of this alleged agreement. In Mr.. Cars
brief h boldly claims that the reputed agree
nent was forgery, connected by the officers
of the banks for the purpose of shielding
themselves from the results of their own
criminal Encouragement of their fduciary
trusts TO succeed in this, as he alleges,
they formed felonious conspiracy that con
teuplated the utter ruin of innocent persons
Suits based upon the authority of this agree
legged guilt of Carr was heraldcd in the subsi-
died organ of the bank officials. As we
have said, everything that had been charged
against Carr and others in this connection
depended upon the question of authenticity
If the agreement was genuine, Carr and others
must of necessity go to the boards. Hence,
Mr. Carr devotes his attention mainly to this |
question. Accepting his statements as in
the main correct, the charge of felonlous con-
spiracy and forgery seems to be established
beyond the shadow OF a doubt And unless |
a compact network of unimaginable testimony |
Oh behalf of the bank officials can DO pro
iuced, the legal critic will be compelled to
accept the evidence offered by Mr. Carr as
practical demonstration of the truth of his
charges. He weaves q network of evidence
about the alleged conspirators, reinforces the
by host of aggressive probabilities,
pats them upon the defensive, undermines
their strongholds, captures their own guns,
and uses their own men to explode their
Taking it altogether, Mr.. Cars
reJoinder to the operations of the bank
officials is, upon the face of it at least, as
serrlhc in its action as the onward movement
'f glacier; it erodes, brushes, pHiverizes,
1t is not within the province of journalism
10 say what can or can not be educed bv the