The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-12
A PENSION BY FRAUD.
"A coLoRED PREACHER AND TWO
OTHERS UNDER ARREST.

Uncle Sam Beateu Out of ST. 900 by a
sharp Trick Rev. David Wright
solomon Washington and Kate
Glover TO be Tried for Defrauding
and Attempting t8Defrand the Gov
ernment by Fraudulent Pension Ap-
plications.
An interesting case was before United
States Commissioner Frank Lamar yester-
day and occupied the greater part of the day.
1t was the preliminary examination of Rev.
David Wright, Solomon Washington and
Kate Glover. alias Corinne White, all col
orei, who were bound over In the sum of
$500, each for defrauding and attempting
90 defraud the government by fraudulent
pension application. Wright and the
woman gave bail, but Washington in de-
fault of bonds was committed to Jail.
The evidence shows shrewd plot
whereby the government was defrauded of
over $1,000 in pensions paid to Corinne
White in the name Of Kate Glover, the
former having drawn about SOC a year
from 1876 ~, to about two years ago in the
name OF the Glover woman, the alleged
widow q James Glover, a colored man
who served IN the Union army during tie
war, II naSouth Carolina where in fact,
the real Kate silover, who lives at Beaufort,
remarked after the death of her husband
and never applied for nor received q PEN
sion, althoug she was left with six children.
HOW THE CASE STARTED
It appears that two years ago Corinne
White lost or rnislaid her pension certi acate
or 1t may have been DESTROYED by h~e by
the burning Of her cabin, as set forth in
afiidavits fled last year for rene = al of
her pension, as she has been unable to draw
from Uncle SANS strong box since the dis
appearance of the certificate. J. B. Steed,
spec al pension examiner, was detailed to
. look intaths case. and as afesult re found
that the real Kate Glover ID now residing at
Beaufort, the wife of William Aston,
and had never applied for a pension On
I the strength of her affidavit and other docu-
mentary evidence, Steed swore out the war
rant for the arrest of Wright, Washington
and the alleged Kate Glover" ali of this
city.
Il seems that Washington, who is a
carpenter, ooncocted the plan as far back
as 1875, and supporting it by the necessary
affidavits had the pension allowed, which
was interrupted by the loss of the pension
certificate. Then Washington got Wright,
a preacher and plasterer, TO make affidavit
that the Whige woman was Kate
Glover. widow Of james Glover, and
Wright and the woman made affidavits be-
fore John H. Deveaux, notary public,
which we're witnessed ty L. B. Toomer,
and had not the government investigated
the matter the fraudulent pension would
have again been allowed, and Washington,
Wright and the White woman would have
shared the proceeds.
CAUTIONED no swEAR STRAIGHT.
The testimony Of Solomon Washington
was taken, and while IL was in progress
Comm ssioner Lamar had to caution e
4 witness against swearing falselg. Wash
ington testified that the woman pre- -ent
was the wife of Jerry White, and had
never been married to James Glover. and
that she is not the one who received the
pension. After the caution of the court
Nashiugton said that the Waite woman
had filed papers as the widow Of James
Glover; that she was in a bad condi ion
and he helped her get the pension; that he
knew she was the wrong Kate Glover
ard had no right TO the pension money,
and that her first claim was filed by PEN
sion Agent Bell The witness then said that
the white w man is not the Kate Glover
who went before Col. DAveaux, but that il
was the Kate Glover at Beaufort who made
!. the affidavit, and whose claim the witness
repre- ented: that tho Beaufort Kate
Glover had received the check for the pc T.
cashed. He denied getting any part of the
money, but says that Kate Glover gave tine
witness wife, Hates daughter, now
dead, some of the monev; that
there was contract to give Bell some
money, but it was never done in the pres
ence of Washington. Washington said
that he explained to WRIGHT that Corinue
White was not the real Kate Glover, and
that Wright knew it when he took hold of
the case. Wright was at the wedding of
Kate Glover. He was to take $50, knowing
IL was the wrong woma =, and Washington
said the balance was TO 60 to Kate Glover
at Beaufort
THE RIGHT KATE GLOVER.
David Wright testified that Washington
brought Corinne White to him, that she
was Kate Glover, his mother-in-law: trat
her house had burned down and her pension
certificate bad been destroye 1; that the
woman also said she was Kate Glover.
Wright had not seen Kate Glover for ten
or twelvsyears, and did not know the diff
ference, and assisted In making out the two
sEiidavits, one of which was in his own
handwriting He said that he did not know
the woman was married t. Jerry White.
He admitted having made afiidavits Nos.
ard g. Ia February and March, 1888, before
John II. Deveaux, and claimed to have
done so in good faith upon the representa-
Hitsu Va tAIA tAo LQ9
reported condition Of the latter having
enlisted his sympathy, and he was in nowise
interested from pecuniary point of view
The testimony Of the White woman was
of character to still further complicate
the matter, showing that when the plot was
exposed the parties interested in the job all
tried to blundor out Gift. Corinne testified
that her name Is not Kate Glover, and she
had never claimed that it was Before the
war, she said, she belonged to William
Manning of Crawford county, moved to
Laurens county during the war, and lived
there for three or four years, when she
moved to Albany, and after eleven years
moved with her husband. Abraham Davis
down on the Macon and Brunswick road,
living there until last November, when she
said she moved TO Savannah, which s @
said she bad visited off and on for five years
previous to her removal here.
NEVER WAS IN CAROLINA
She never was in South Carolina and
never was married to james Glover, and
sne added with emphasis, never in my
IKE She sad that she never knew Solo,
mon W Washington until she moved TO Sa.
vannah, and has not known him long be-
cause OF her short residence here. She said
she never fled an application for pension
e. tne widow Of James Glover, and sne de-
nied signing Any of the affidavits bearing
the name OF Kate Glover. She denied, too
ever nayirg had any conversation with
David Wright CT Solomon Washington
about pension papers in any particular. Al
the close NJ the examination. when Com.