The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-03-03
Charged With Conspiracy, ENLIGHTENMENT
ard Untu;unlng Conduct.
ALLEGED 10 HAVE HELD STOCK
In tho Hippiro Construction Company
many Forgerios Trnccd by monns
OF nm Expert In Handwriting
Large sums OF Money Paid oui ON
the Checks.
New York NInrch Q 1909

% a.. on charges Of conspiracy, embezzle-
ment ana conduct unbccomin,, an officer.
convened In the army building here to-day
C"l. Thomas +. Barr. assistant judge adj
Vocate general. stated that he would offer
vouchers and checks given By Cant. Car
ter in payment for work done from lam
'iary TO June, 1895. in the Improvement of
Cumberland Sound, Ga, and other times
ana that he would introduce in connec
ton oral testimony
Inc hfst witness called was Conrad N
Jordan. ,cN-sub-trcasurcr of the limited
states in this city. AIR. Jordan identified n
large number OF checks drawn b., Captain
omrter on the Sub-treasury TO the order of
contractors employed in doing the wSrk Of
Improvement in Savannah harbor and M
Cumberland Sound, Ga. Some of these
S :; ~! were drawn to the order Of Arson
.,,, nan;'S, put the greater nymber to the
order of John +. Gaynor preSdent or Ed
~. raEhor. treasurer CT the Atlantic Con-
tfiictnS Company.
The checks were for amounts y,r,,t,,
from $iS,C00 TO $4,000. The aggregate WAS
not stated but must have been q couple of
was briefly croSs-eXamiuc.d nv Frank -
lilalr Of Chicago one of Captain CAREERS
iGur c4unsel!ors, whose Questioning was
directed to show that some of the checks
might nave been paid TO the bank runner
or TO some other person not nominated in
s snH check; Mr. Jordan admitted the posi-
Oily cl TINS, but denied the probability
ne object OF Mr.. Jordnn's Testimony
WIS TO TO establish the payment OF moneys
ihnn, 'i IL GSn,'ty OF persons who received
WAS IN charge Of the defendant It's csnc.
cihi fettlncncc lay in the fact that Captain
Garter is accused of having held stock in
me Empire Construct on COMPANY which
rs charged WAS subsequently, lnetamor,
phosed INTO the Atlantic Contracting Com
nIhF, winch, by or through Captain Car
ter was awarded the contracts Tor ucn riv
an OF lie SI.C0O,uoJ worth OF work done I'M
der MS supervision during; the last ten
David \. Carvalho, an Expert in hand
WI tin%. the next witness. identified GER
,ain napcrs presented as exhibits IN the
ease winch had hccn given him for exam
nation. Some OF these were bills present
ed by the Atlantic Construction Company
ana Sncd by Edward III. GaylI1r Cuvui-
no testified that in all Of the eases the
GaEnor signature had been written by the
On two rcceipted bills Mr.. Cavalho sn;d
The Edward II. Gaynor signature had not
been written by the same person who
wrote the name on the bills when pre-
Continuing, th,, witness said that the
signature OF Edward II. Gaynor treasurer,
ON az receipt for $3.50, 1880 being genuine
and admitted, all the fifteen signatures OF
Edward II. Gaynor on the monthly hill
were i.lEcriGs or simuations OF Edward
IT. Gaynnr's handwriting. An exhibit con-
| tanning the admitted handwriting Of Mi
rhacl \. Connolly, commits s!oncr was talk
IN mp Tor comparison, and from u study OF
forged or simulated signatures of Edward,
II. Gaynor We're written by the same par-
son who signed himself Michael 4. Con
noly, commissioner AIR. Connolly was
Captain Carriers private secretary ana
held the Office OF L. S. commissioned at
Savannah.
Mr.. Carvalho testified that propos,l for
work on Cumberland Sound II 1874, by
An$on NJ: EangS, was iil!td in by Michael
y. Connolly, in his opinion. on one of The
nngcs of this proposal the signature OF W.
7. Gaynor which was certified ana sworn
to before Michael A. Connolly, the witness
Sn.d. was the handwriting Of Michael 4.
Connolly.
proposal for work at Fort Cinch, Fla,
by William II. Walsh Mr.. Cavalho said,
was iilied In III the handwriting Of John f.
Gayn"r. Mr.. Walsh, the prosecution has
held, was an empoyc of the Gaynors at
the time he bid on this work.
Tho guarantee bond of William H.
MHaish, me witness said was made out in
he handwriting of John j.. Gaynor. Two
signatures of Arson NJ Bangs were de-
c!ared to be genuine and smother was
pronounced 10 he the handwriting of Mi
chacl y Connolly. The Endorsement, VII
under the words PAY to the order of John
+. Htynor,' MIR. Cavnlho said was not th,,
hard writing Of William II. Walsh: he
could not say whose writing It was The
words above the signature We're written by
Colonel Gaynor.
The proposals OF 7. Sanford Ross and
dredging the Savannah River, he first Of
"hch was Is cents and the second lSI
a.
mat the prices in the two bids had been
filled in with the same ink. lie dcduccI
ms from comparison of the wo"d
eighteen In both proposals. There was
similarity between the handwriting, but
he could not say the words had been writ
ten by the same person One of .hcsa
bids wns that which President Jacob Paul
sen OF the Savannah Dredging Company
testified was written by clerk in his
Office.
In II supplemental article of agreement
Tor dredging in Cumberland Sound which
was not approved. all the signatures were
genuine. Mr.. Cavalho said. except that of
Niliinm T.. GaynOr. the witness To the
document. which was in the HANDWRITING.
of Michael \. Connolly. -Four SIGNATURES
to paper connected with Arson NJ Bangs
were al written, he said, by Michael A.
Connolly.
The contractors bond under the big con-
trnct for s;G0.nNo, uro which Arson II
Bangs and Eugene Hughes were surctips
| for the Atlantic Contracting Company, MIR
| Chrva!ho said, was written by Michael a.
| Connolly, including the name of w ~
Gaynor rs an attcstant of the document
Several words ana figures II The document
I however, were not in Connoly's handwrit-
The signature on bill of Arson NJ
| Bangs FIR work on the contract Of 1891 I'm
Cumberland Sound was forgery. the wit
/ hess said. The same WAS true of Mr.
! Bangs signature on the lccgirt ana on the
| subsequent voucher in the same work
! All of the vouchers connected with this
| Work from December. 1871, 20 June 1y9j.
/ We're gone over II the same way Some OF
| the signatures, he said, were genuine
while others. he stated were written by
Mr. Connolly.
| The proposal of tho Atlantic Contracting
Company for Improving Cumberland
! in cVcicuCc. Judge advocate Barr read
/ n resolution adopted by tho directors of
! the Atlantic Contracting Company. in con
/ ncciion with this contract. signed by VIII
! liam II. GaynOr. which signature, MIR Car
valho said, WAS written by ar. Connolly
! Several other signatures of William r.
! GnynOr wore also pronounced forgcrics