The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
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| vened in the Army building here to-day.
Col. Thomas F. Barr. as the judge ad-
vocate general, stated that he would offer
| in evidence vouchers and checks given by
Capt. Carter in payment for work done
from January TO June. 1925, in the improve
ment of Cumberland sound, Georgia. ana
at other times. and that he would intro
duce in connection oral testimony.
The first witness called was Conrad N
Jordan, eX-sub-treasurer of the United
States in this city. Mr.. Jordan Identified
a large number of checks drawn by Capt.
Carter on the sub-treasury to the order Of
contractors employed in doing the work
of improvement in Savannah harbor ard
at Cumberland sound, Georgia Some of
these checks We're drawn to the order of
Arson NJ. Bangs, but the greater number
to the order of John f. Gaynor president.
or Edward II. Gaynor treasurer of the At
lantic Contracting Company
The checks for amounts varying from
SIS 10 $4,000. The aggregate was rot
stated but must have been $4,000 Mr..
Jordan was briefly cross-examined hv
Frank p Blair, of Chicago. one of Capt
Carriers four counsellors, whose question
ing was directed to show that some of tie
checks might have been paid to the bank
runner or to some other person not named
on the check.
Mr.. Jordan admitted the possibility of
this, but denied the probability. The OBJ
ject of Mr. Jordans testimony was TO es-
tablish the payment of moneys and the
identity of the persons who received them
in connection with the work which was in
| charge of the defendant. Its especial perth
| nence lay in the fact that Capt Carter is
| accused of having held stock in the EN-
| pire Construction Company which. as
| charged, was subsequently metamorphosed
into the Atlantic Contracting Company.
lNaI. H. -.
| awarded the contract for nearly all the
| $7,0OO.0O0 worth of work done under his
| supervision during the last ten years.
David N. Carvalho. an expert i'm hand
| writing, the next witness, identified GER
tain papers presented as exhibits in the
case which had been given him for exam
! ipation. Some of these were bills pre-
scented by the Atlantic Contracting Com
| pany and signed by Edward H. Gaynor.
MIR. Carvalho testified that in all of the
cases the Gaynor signature had been writ
| ten by the same man.
On two receipted bills, Mr.. Carvalho
said the Edward II. Gaynor signature had
not been written by the person who wrote
the name on the bills when presented.
i Continuing, the witness said that the sig
nature of Edward II. Gaynor, treasurer,
on a receipt for $3.50, 749 3d. being genuine
and admitted, all the fifteen signatures of
Edward II. GaynOr on the monthly bill
were forgeries or simulate of Edward H.
Gaynor's handwriting. An exhibit con-
'taining the admitted handwriting of
Michael A. Connolly. commissioner, was
taken up for comparison and from
study of this Mr.. Carvalho said that the
fifteen forged simulated signatures Of
Edward II. Gaynor were written by the
same person who signed himself Michael
A. Connolly commissioner
Mr.. Connolly. was Capt. Carter's private
secretary and held the office of United
States commissioner at Savannah
Mr.. Carvalho testified that a PROPOSAL for
work on Cumberland sound in 1894 by
Arson M. Bangs was, in his opinion, filed
in by Michael A. Connolly. on one of the
pages OF this proposal the signature of
w. 7. Gaynor, which was certified and
sworn to before Michael A. Connolly. the
witness said, was in the handwriting of
Michael A. Connolly. A proposal for work
at Fort Clinch, Fla, by William II Walsh.
Mr.. Carvalho said. was filled in in the
handwriting of John f. Gaynor. Mr..
Walsh, the prosecution has held was an
employe of the Gaynors at the time he bid
on this work
The guarantee bond of William II
Walsh, the witness aid, was made out in
the handwriting of John f. Gaynor. Two
signatures of Arson NJ. Bangs were de-
clared to be genuine and another was pro-
nounced to be the handwriting of Michael
A. Connolly. The Endorsement william
H. Walsh" on the back of a check under
the words PAY to the order of John r.
Gaynor," Mr. Carvalho said, was not the
handwriting of William f. Walsh; he
could not say whose writing Il was. The
words above the signature were written
by Col. Gaynor.
The proposals of p. Sanford Ross and
the Savannah dredging Company for
dredging in the Savannah river, the FIRST
of which was for Is cents and the second
1874 cents were presented Mr. Carvalho
said that the prices in the two bids had
been filled in with the same ink. lie de-
duced this from the Comparison of the
word eighteen" in both proposals. There
was similarity between the handwriting
but he could not say The words had been
written by the same person. one Of these
bids was that which President Jacob Paul-
sen of the Savannah Dredging COMPANY
testified, was written by a clerk in his
office.
In a supplemental article of agreement
for dredging IN Cumberland sound which
was not approved, all the signatures were
genuine, Mr.. Carvalho said exceDt that
of William F. Gaynor the witness to the
document. which was in the handwriting
Of Michael A Connolly. Four signatures
to paper connected with Arson M
Bangs, were all written. he said Nv
|
bond under the big contract for $3.50 900 up-
on which Arson M Bangs and Eugene
Hughes were sureties for the Atlantic
Contracting Company Mr.. Carvalho sod.
was written by Michael A. Connolly. in
Guiding the name of W. T. Gaynor as an
attestant to the document.
: Several words and figures in the docu-
ments, however, were not in ConnoHy's
handwriting.
The signature on a bill Of Arson NJ
Bangs for work on the contract of 1894
in Cumberland sound was a forgery. the
witness said. The same was true he
stated. OF Mr.. Bangs signature on the
receipt and a subsequent voucher of the
same contract Some Of the signatures
he said, were genuine, while others. he
stated, were written by Mr.. Connolly. TIE
proposal of the Atlantic Contracting Com
pany for improving Cumberland sound
dated Sept. 8, 1896, was offered in evidence
Judge Advocate Barr read a resolution
adopted by the directors of the Atlantic
Contracting Company, in connection with
the contract signed by William T. Cav
nor. which signature, Mr.. Carvalho said
was written by Mr.. Connolly Several