The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-14
VOUCHERS AND PAY ROLLS.
CONTINUED from eighth Pace.)

property return. He had given Mr.. Ster-
ly Instructions to keep locks of these re-
turns. When asked why he did this. he
said a lock was a part Of larger struc-
ture, and there was no reason to lumber
up the property returns with detail Of
that kind.
Don't you think, captain. if an officer
fails 10 observe the regulations in small
things he is liable not to observe them in
larger ones2"
That is not failure to observe the reg
ulations."
1T is not a great ways from locks to
book cases, is it?"
Il don't understand"
Il mean if you leave locks off the prop
erty returns you might also leave off book
cases or file cases?"
mo, that Is entirely a different matter.
A lock is a part of some other structure;
a bookcase is not"
The question from the Judge Advocate
as to whether Capt Carter knew a China
man named Clew Hall at Brunswick, or
knew that he had been employed on the
government works, created some amuse-
ment. Col. Barr said he saw nothing TO
laugh at in the question and Gen. Otis
called for order.
Il have no personal acquaintance with
any Chlnaman," Capt. Carter said.
Clew Hall, Col Barr said, a Chinese res
taurant keeper at Brunswick, appeared on
the pay roll as a rOdman. II that was
the case then he was no doubt a rodmau
Capt. Carter said.
Some correspondence in which Capt.
Carter asked permission to hire a watch
man for Fort Oglethorpe, and the granting
of the permission by the chief of engineers
was read. 1t seems an allotment of some
thing more than $1,000 was made for the
purpose. The pay rolls showed that w
Z. Newmis was carried as fort keeper.
WAS he a fort keeper" Col. Barr
asked.
HE was" Capt. Carter replied.
Did he live there" was asked
mo. he did not l had him working In
the office a good deal of the time"
And he took care of the government
property at the fort by serving as mes
Eenger in your office?"
HE took care of 1t so well that there
was nothing stolen from there while he
was fort keeper. / used to send him
down there now and then to look after
the property, which he did satisfactorily.
Capt Carter said the fort property was
taken care of all right. The fort keeper
was sometimes used by him as a mes
senger. He occasionally met him at the
train. He did not make him live there,
as others had died on account of the un-
healthy locality.
do you think it was a proper payment
TO pay man to take care of the fort,
and to use him most of the time as
messenger
1T was a perfectly proper payment"
was the reply.
Captain. were you not deceiving the
chief of engineeTs?'
Il was not deceiving the chief of engin-
GERS in any manner whatever"
Were you deceiving yourself them"
mo, sir; 1 was deceiving no one. New
mis- was employed as a fort keeper, and Re
fulfilled his duties 10 my entire satisfac,
ton"
Some more correspondence over tile mat
ter was read. Col. Barr asked if IL was
not apparent from the letters read that
the chief of engineers was under the i'm
preston that the fort keeper lived there.
HE understood that the fort keeper
was looking after the property"
"'At long ranger"
"Of course he was no physical protec-
ton when in Savannah, but he looked after
the property
Captain, you spoke of a code being in
use between yourself and your chief
clerk?"
YES"
did you prepare it?"
81 don't remember. Perhaps 1t was pre-
pared by my clerk"
You could express a phrase by a word,
could you not?"
Eyes, that was what the code was for"
"You could be in Idaho then and by
wiring him one word say Report my de-
parture today"
Eyes, sir. believe that is true"
And you could tell him to report your
return?"
81 think 50. don't remember all the
details
''Tnen if you were in Idaho and wired
Mr.. Sterly 20 report your return on that
day, that would be a falsehocd, would it
not?''
II did not do that. Taking a hypotheil-
cal case it would be a falsehood"
Capt. Carter stated at the time that he
had verbal permission from Gen. Thomas
L. Casey chief of engineers, who is now
dead, to leave his post on various occa-
sions. He had been stationed IN the South
for some time and was ~quite sick. Gen.
Casey gave him permission to go away
quite frequently, he said. No official re-
cord of the matter was kept
Capt Carter explained that there were
different kinds of absences and that the
kilograms he sent at one time and an
other, related to changes from one class
of absence TO another.
Captain, what date did you leave Sa-
vannah in 1892"
81 think il was June 30'
you had some checks made out?"
Eyes, had one with me that was filled
out took two with me, the other was in
blank. The one that was filed out was
for S345,O0O.'
Neither of them signed then?"
mo, sir. There was no money available
then"
"But you took the two checks with
your"
Eyes. did in preference to carrying the
entire check book"
why did you take these checks with
your"
81 took them to deliver them to the
company TO whom they were due"
"And 10 whom did you deliver them?"
81 delivered them to John +. Gaynor."
"Where?"
'He came to the University Club while
1 was at dinner on July 81
you dated them July 6?''
Eyes, as July was holiday, July 4
having fallen on Sunday"
"Was b. D. Greene at the University
Club with Mr.. Gaynor2"
mo sir"
"Did you see b. d. Greene in the Hofr-
man House on the 6th?'
"No. sir. l went to Washington at mid