The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-03

the Atlantic Contracting Company.
which by or thrOughi Captain Carter
was AWARDED the contracts fog nearly ali
the S1,OOOOOD worth of work done in his
supervision Turing the last ten years.
David \. CarvalhO, an expert in hand
writing, the next witness, identified GER
| tain papers presented as exhibits in the
| case which had been given him for eX-
| animation. Some of these were bills
presented by the Atlantic Construction
Company and signed by Edward II.
Gaynor. CaryalhO testified that in all
of the cases the GaynOr signature had
| been written by the same man.
On two receipted bills Mr.. Carvalho
said the Edward III. GaynOr signature
had not been written by the person who
wrote the name on the bills when pre-
scented.
| Continuing, the witness said that the
signature of Edward II. Gaynor, Treas
urer, on a receipt for $3.50, 1890 on the
genuine and admitted, all the fifteen sig
lures of Edward ii. GaynOr ON the
monthly bill were forgeries or simulta-
| tions of Edward III. Gaynors handwrit-
! ing. An exhibit containing the admitted
| handwriting of Michael A. Connolly,
| Commissioner, was taken up for compar-
| son and from a study of this Mr.. Car
valho said that the fifteen forged or
simulated signatures of Edward II.
| Gaynor were written by the same person
who signed himself Michael A. COnnol-
| ", commissioner, Mr. Connolly was
Captain Carriers private Secretary and
held the office of United States Com
missioner ut Savannah.
| Mr.. Carvalho testified that n pro-
| nd ~
| in 1894, by Arson NJ. Bangs, was filed
in by Michael A. Connolly, in his opin-
| ion. On one of the pages of this pro-
pOsal the signature of w. L. Gaynor,
which was certified and sworn to be-
| fore Michael 4. Connolly, the witness
said, was in the handwriting of Michael
A. Connolly. \ proposal for work at
Fort Clinch, Florida by VIM. II. Walsh,
Mr.. Carvalho said, was filled in in the
handwriting of john +. Gaynor. Mr..
Walsh, the prosecution has held, was an
employee of the GaynOrs at the time
he bId on this work.
| The guarantee bond of VIM. II.
Walsh, the witness said, was made out
| i'll the handwriting of John F. Gaynor.
| Two signatures of Arson NJ. Bangs
were declared to be genuine and another
was pronounced TO be the handwriting
OF Michael \. Connolly. The indorse-
ment. VIM. II. Walsh, on the back of Il
check dnler the words pay to order of
John +. GaynOr," Mr. Connolly said
was not the handwriting of VIM. H..
| Walsh; he could not say whose writing
| it was. The words above the signature
were written by Colonel Gaynor.
| The proposals of p. Sanford Ross, and
| the Savannah Dredging Company for
| dredging in the Savannah river, the first
| of which was IS cents and the second
| 1874 cents were presented. Mr. CarvalhO
said that the prices i'll the two bids had
| been filed in with the same ink. He
! deducted this from a comparison of the
word eighteen" in both proposals. There
was similarity between the handwrit-
ing, but he could not say the words
had been written by the same person.
| One of these bids was that which Presi-
dent Jacob Paulson, of the Savannah
| Dredging Company, testified was writ
ten by clerk in his office.
In a supplemental article of agree
ment for dredging in Cumberland Sound
which was not approved, all the sigma
lures were genuine, Mr.. Carvalho said,
except that of VIM. f. Gaynor, the wit
ness to the document, which was in the
handwriting of Michael 4. Connolly.
-Four signatures to a PAPER connected
with Arson NJ. Bangs, were all written
lie said by Michael A. Connolly.
| The contractors bond under the big
contract for 100000 upon which An
son NJ. Bangs and Eugene Hughes were
sureties for the Atlantic Contracting
Company, Mr. Carvalho said, was writ
ten by Michael A. Connolly, including
the name of w. T. GaynOr as an at
testant of the document. Several works
and figures in the document, however,
were not in Connolly's handwriting.
| The signature on a bill of Arson NJ
| bangs, for work on the contract of
| 1894 in Cumberland Sound was n for
gerry, the witness said. The same was
| true, he stated, of Mr.. Bangs sigma
| tule on the receipt and on a subsequent
voucher in the same work. All of the
vouchers connected with this work from
December, 1894, to Jnne 1895, were gone
over in the same way. Some of the
| signatures, he said. were genuine while
others he stated, were written by Mr.
| Connolly.
The proposal of the Atlantic Contract
ling Company for improving Cumberland
Sound, datd September 8, 1896, was of
fered in evidence. Judge Advocate Barr
read n resolution adopted by the direc-
tors Of the Atlantic Contracting Com
pany, in connection woith this contract
signed by Win. r. GaynOr, which sigma
ture Mr.. Carvalho said, was written by
Mr.. Connolly. Several other signatures
of VIM. r. GaynOr were also pronounced
fOrgeries. The court then adjourned un-
| til tomorrow.