The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-03


Maj. Rand the manager at the club
iate yesterday afternoon told the story Of
capt Carters arrest at the club house
mere IS not much to say about t.
though, remarked the Major .Earlv
TINS morning a man came up here aud
| asked for Capt. Carter. | sent for him
ana just then the Captain himself came.
down the hall The man stepped up 10
nun and a short conversation followed
!! Iheh he and the officer went quietly out
| the back way, TO Governors Island. | un-
derstand'
That there was a lack of the drama of
sensation, in Capt. Carter's arrest is in
perfect accord with this officers person.
AMY and his private life. In the New
York Athletic Club Carter was barely
Known, except by name, and oven in this
! way 10 very few. Until the neUspape
uisc iosed that Carter was a member of the
cub and was living there. few of his fell
low members had ever heard Of him. The
most OF them would not know him to-day
if they saw him.
Farther Proceedings Expected.
It was currently reported in this city.
| says the Tribune, and there were similar
whispers in Washington, that further pro-
ceedings were inevitable in the matter of
improvements at Savannah harbor. Log
| lcally, II was impossible for Capt. Carter
TO commit the crimes of which he is adj
Judged guilty, without the aid of other
persons Indeed the very charge of con-
spiracy involves the cooperation of several
persons In the specifications against Car
ter John T. Gaynor, of the Atlanti Con-
tracing Company, was named az an ac-
complete. and so was Capt. B. D. Greene,
also of the contracting company. The AT
lantic Contracting Company consisted of
John F. GaynOr, William T. Gaynor, Ed
ward II. Gaynor, and other persons, one of
! " " nr Of no
Engineer corps of the army.
John F. Gaynor's home is near Syracuse,
and he has been leading member of the
| Democratic state committee. Recently he
came into the public prints in connection
with his marriage TO a young woman in
| Washington. He went abroad with her
and then another woman declared that she
was legally married to him and was his
wife. Recently he returned from abroad
| but had no explanation to make regarding
| the charge of bigamy laid at his door. He
| had been living a the Hoffman House, but
yesterday was said TO have gone out of
town.
Senator Thomas c. Plat last night said
there was no truth in reports that had
| been published 10 the effect that he had
| tried, TO intercede with the President for
| Capt. Garter. He said he was not in-
| terested in Capt. Carter's case, and had
no knowledge of it except what he had
seen in the newspapers.
The Specifications DisapprOved.
The specifications in charges II and III
disapproved of by the President. says the
| sun, were not sufficiently important to Sc
riously affect the case against Capt. Car
| ter. In charge IL specification z related
| to a charge that he prepared pay roll
for certain alleged laborers knowing the
| same to be false Specification s alleged
! that a false claim had been paid the At
| lantic Construction Company for the al
| legged construction of ping, while twenty
| eight feet charged for was not the con-
struction OF piping, but the driving of sew
en- guide piles for which the company
should have paid. Specifications 9 and 10
related 10 the same claim that he had paid
| for the guide piles, which were for the
| convenience of the company
In charge III specification alleged that
| Capt. Carter had made a false statement
| TO the war department about alleged new
| soundings having been made which show
ed that 100000 instead Of 100000 yards of
mattresses would be required, which state
ment was said to have been known by
! Capt. Carter as false and made to de-
| ceive.
| Specification 4 charged the payment Of
| certain alleged persons as laboreTs, none
! of whom had rendered any service. Spe-
| cifcation referred to expenditures for
material in the driving of The guide piles,
| as do also specifications and Z.
| Specification IL was that Capt Carter
| had failed TO account for Sl3210 said to
| have been received from one Alfred Hirt
on account of a delay in returning a div
| ing outfit
Specification % was TO the effect that in
! a personal report TO The chief of engineers
! lie reported himself present at his 5 ation
from March . to .. 1897, and that such re-
| port was false, as ne was absent from his
station, in New York, and that his report
was intended TO deceive.
More Disgrace TO Come.
The order of the Secretary of War dis
missing capt. Garter from the army was
! placed in his hands nj the time of his ar
| rest This will not be the end of his dis
| grace Capt Carter is 10 be sent 10 Fort
Leavenworth, and Immediately upon his
| arrival there he VIII be placed in prison
| garD. To add further to his disgrace the
| order of the courtmartial that the finding
and sentence shall he published in his
home paper will he properly executed by
| the War Department. Capt Carter came
! from Portsmouth, O., and it is the inten-
| ton of the department to select a news
| paper mt that place for the publication Of
| the courts finding and sentence. This will
| be done in the regular advertising way by
| the war department, and it is not certain
| that the puhlicat ion VIII be confined on
! tiTeiN 10 tDdl CITY. lllbUE0 II WAS du~
/ nouncod to-day that there Is no intention
! 10 make any publication Of the affair Of
! fcially in any of the Savannah papers.
| This publication constitutes what is known
! in the army as dismissal with cnominy,
/ and is recommended by courtmartial in
cases only where the crime is regarded as
/ an aggravated offensc and corresponds 10
! the action Of tho French court in direct
ing the breaking of Dreyfus' sword.
Lcavenvorth Prison.
| Leavenwortn prison. where Capt. Carter
| will be confined, is just being finished, says
! tho Herald. III a steel cell in tho big gray
! rile of granite and brick the convicted man
| VIII spend the five years of his sentence.
! Among his prison companions will be des-
neradoes from the border. moonshiners
| from the mountain thieves who prey up
on the cattle ranges Indians, and yagI-
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