The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-04
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the Carter Court.yrarttai

the Carter Court.NInrttnI.
The court-martial which IL trying Capt
oberlin M. Carter OF the Engineer CORPS Of thu
United States army upon charges OF conspiracy
embezzlement, and conduct unbecoming ar
officer, all Of which grew out Of Carriers conneo
ton for many years with the Government worh
Of improving Cumberland Sound and the Sa
vannah River, continued taking testimony In
the board room Of the Army building yesterday
David N. Carvalho, an expert upon handwrit
ing, resumed his testimony. The prosecution
which is conducted by Col. Barr as Judge
Advocate, 10 seeking to show that there was
an intimate connection between Capt. Garter
and.the contractors who did hundreds OF thou
sands Of dollars worth OF work under his direc'
ton, through Michael A. Connolly, n clerk In
Cartor's office. Connolly was also a Commits
sioner of Deeds. and It is alleged that there
was a very unusual community Of interests
SSS rose Ans9n N; Bangs. the Gsyno na ot M; a
VINO figured upon contracts carried out under
capt. Cartcr's direction.
Az the session held on Wednesday MI. Car.
valho testified that q great many of the names
OF these contractors and others were Written
papers pSUe sGSS y Sen;n SGRtrs end t RrSpS q large sn humber
Of these signatures were made In close imita.
tton Of the genuine, ones: It 10 not asserted
purpose Of the proof Is said to Ie to show that
ali the T persons q nSriy IN i intepsst. end Il Is part Of the
accusation against Capt. Garter that he was a
stakeholder in tho Atlantic Contracting Com
nors and tho others did their work.
N furtherance Of this line of proof Mr.. Car
ber Of checks which Capt. Carter had drawn
upon the United States Sub Treasury here In
payment for some OF the contracts, and to
tho Endorsement were those of the persons
whose names were written. thereon. These
Bangs and afterward had been mado payable
70 one or another of the other contractors. Mr..
Carvalho testified that some Of the signatures
ten by Ii. D. Green and some by Clerk Connolly.
II was noticeable that whereas on "Wednesday
i GaeG'i and h i%Ita asda the IN ds worGs as0 r nSmiS si1no Of
the signatures which he declared had rot boon
written by the, persons named by them, Etes.
was brought into prominence In the short cross
examination which he was subjected to. when
the } sSgs, Ad tOp @s,t turned med. the witness over to
II notice. said Mr.. Blair, that you have not
used the word forged in your examination this
Mr.; Carvalho replied. a..
ts .R1d y2u s as9 the T son,. Iis'Fss SD, yesterday s;soa in its
should come forward and declare that they
gave Mr.. Connolly permission 10 sign them;
.%Corld you ST stu call the signatures forseriesf'
Have You any information from any person
tnht connolly hao not authority 10 sign tnesc
namesi"
Eyes sir; from one of the papers submitted
to me for examination, l know that he had no
authority to sign one of the names. About tho
others l have no information"
Then Mr.. Carvalho was asked about, the
signatures on a check, where the name of An.
Of tho paper and afterward completely oblit-
Grated by an oblong smudge of ink. Mr.. Car
valho had testified that he had removed enough
OF this smudgo Of ink to be able to read part Of
Bangs's name. and that it had been written
there by another hand than Connolly's, although
Bangs's signature, which appeared higher up
on tho back of the same check, was in Con.
nolly's writing, but written in close imitation
of Bangs's own writing.
by whom was tho erased name writtcni"
Mr.. Blair asked. II do not know with cor
tainty." Mr.. Carvalho answered, but I sus-
Mr.. Blair then brought out the fact that Mr..
believed that 1t was written by the
hand that wrote "Joseph L. Gallagher"
on one of the papers. This is supposed to be a
genuine signature. Bangs's signature in this
writing was not at all like a genuine one. while
the one Connolly had written was like Bangs'5
The erased signature" asked Mr.. Blair.
officer even If 1t only came under his
aye ~ The regular course OF passing upon papers.
And those which Connolly wrote are such
good limitations that no average disbursing
oiticer would recognize them as forgeriesi"
.. This ended Mr.. Carvalho's testimony. and
the session OF tho court was adjourned until
this morning.