Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-23
The Missing $500 Package.
A CARD FROM FRANK r. NEW.

CARD FROM FRANK r. NEW.
Mr.. Frank r. New, whose name has been
connected with the loss of package contain
ing $500 from the Treasury of the United
States during his fathers administration as
Treasurer, publishes the following:
Recent publications in Washington, here
and elsewhere. have charged me with diShOn-
est practices while an emplOye in the office of
the United States Treasurer more than two
years ago, and connect my name with the dis
appearance of certain packages of money 1t
seems strange this discovery was not made
sooner. There is not the slightest ground for
myself and others that the malicious ISLANDERS
of irresponsible scribblers' shall not pass any
longer in silence. 1 now offer the public GER
connection with this matter, which explain
themSelveS-the testimony of officers i'm charge
of the United States Treasury and others who
ought to know the truth in regard to those
hbelOus charges. Mr.. Guthrie cashier of the
United States Treasury. was said by one paper
to be authority for these charges His letter,
dated at Washington, February Is, says:
Ny Dear Sir:-I am in receipt of yours
of the 18th inst, and beg to say that am in no
way responsible for the newspaper paragraph
to which you refer: The name of Frank r.
the examination before the committee was
Mr: A. w. Wyman, who succeeded j. C.
of the United States, February IA, to his pre-
"My DeaT Neao:-I have yours of the 18th
statements as you report, but have understood
there have been such publications. AS mat
ter OF fact know that Frank New had no
while you were Treasurer, but undoubtedly
some one not friendly to you perhaps has
taken the occasion to ring him in this matter,
who don't know. About the 81, ,S3O.5O-it has
been proven the money was there the day the
count was made and transfer from you to
thoroughly investigate and write, and says
Your two letters received: this morning
went to. see Sherman and had a talk with
him, and then had a talk with the gentleman
to whom Sherman gave me note, who was
one of the committee, or board, appointed to
conduct the investigation, and who has pre-
o
but that you turned over the $500 package;
it was accepted and received, and passed
from st and haze credit for it.
in the evidence taken"
Mr. John c. New, during a recent visit to
Washington, to investigate this matter, writes,
on March 5th:
"It affords me great pleasure to say that
Frank is fully and entirely exonerated from
Guthrie and Wyman say that it was impossible
for him to have been Implicated in them or
either OF them, and his name was not even
mentioned in the testimony taken.''
The first package referred to was lost before
was employed or even in the Treasury. The
second package was taken from room more
than a hundred feet distant from the place in
which was employed--a room which / never
entered. / have other testimony, not neces-
sary now; but, before closing, permit me to
say that know all illusions in this matter to
me or John c. New, then Treasurer of the
United States, are villainously base fabrica-
tiOns, without the slightest foundation in truth.
l earnestly request newspapers which have
published these attacks upon me, and given
them circulation, to do me, in measure, JUS
tice by publishing this communication.
FRANK II. NEW.