The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-30
CARTER'S BOND PURCHASES.
MADE CLOSE UPON HIS ISSUING DIS
BURsING CHECKS.


Wescott Denies That the Funds Used
by Carter Were Furnished by Him.
when Carter Was Charged With
Fraud WescOtt Refused to Keep
Carter's Securities Any Longer.
Johnson Finds Carter Received
one Third of the Spoils.
Atlanta, April i29.-The Constitution to-
morrow morning will print the report Of
Edward I. Johnson, the expert account
ant. detailed by Attorney General Griggs
10 assist United States District Attorney
Erwin of Georgia in developing the extent
of the frauds charged to have been per-
petrated upon the government by former
Cant. Oberlin M. Carter, now serving q
sentence in the military prison at Leav-
enworth, Kan.
Accompanying the report which was
made yesterday to Mr.. Erwin, is a state
ment from Mr. Wescott, Carter's father
in-law, in which he repudiates Carter's
statement that the assets in the affair
were Wescott's. Following are extracts
from Expert Johnson's report:
Deposits on Same Dates.
Feb. 10, 1S93-Carter issued disbursing
checks TO the contractors, which were de-
posted by them, for $4S, ,0O0 of which one
third is drawn out by them, and on same
date, Carter invests $4,000 in bonds.
Aug I, 1S93-Carter issued a disbursing
check to the contractors, which was de-
posted by them, for $S9,075, of which one
third, less SIS allowed for Carters ex-
them, and two days later Carter invests
$4,000 in bonds.
Nov 6, 1S9S-Carter issued a disbursing
check to the contractors for $4,000, of
which one-third was Withdrawn from de-
posit, and the same day Carter invested
$1,000 in bonds.
Dec. 4, 1S93-Carter issued disbursing
checks to the contractors, which were
deposited by them, for $63,O75, of which
cne-third, less $75 allowed for Carter s
expenses to New York, is withdrawn by
them, and on the same day Garter in
vests $21 900 in securities.
Jan. 8, 1S94-Carter issued disbursing
checks to the contractors. which were de-
posted by them for S49.575, of which one
third less SIS allowed for Carter's ex-
penses to New York, Is withdrawn by
them and on the same date Carter invests
S16,500 in securities.
Feb 5, 1S4.-Carter issued disbursing
check to the contractors, which was de-
posted by them, for $1,000, of which one
third was Withdrawn in cash by them and
on the same day Carter invests S1S,000 in
securities.
Sept s, 1S4-Carter issued disburslng
check to the contractors for $461, ,075. Sept.
H. 1894 cashed by them 1852, $40 Is. Depos-
tied by Carter on same date $103, ,022. IS, and
subsequently, invested by him, including
another collection Dec. 4, 1894. Of $4,000.
Kept Up the Divisions.
The report shows continuance of the
DIVISIONS month by month as the money
was paid by the government from the be-
ginning to the end of Carter's control at
Savannah, and on this feature of the re-
port the Constitution says the figures show
Carter's One-third of the spoils to have
been over $780, 600, exclusive of his share
IN the last checks for s575, 1880 which
We're paid over in New York at the time
CARER was about to leave the district
when succeeded by Capt. Gillette.
Wescott's Side of 1t.
Expert Johnson's report says that Mr..
Nescott, in written statement, gives
the government full access to his accounts
IN the banks and his private papers. Thes e
snow the examiner reports, that while
carter. frequently through Greene and the
Gaynors and otherwise, made Wescott a
neIostary of money, in every instance it
was turned over or invested as Carter di-
lected. These papers show also that whea
the nrst charge of fraud was made against
carter by the board of inquiry Wescort
refused TO keep Carter's securities any
longer
NeScott has furnished the government
WIN the receipt of Carter in the Cap
tdlhs own handwriting under dates of
OoF' II and 29, 1897, for all of Carter S
securities left with him and so returned
ny nm to Carter, amounting to over
Sio o~. the receipts specifying the Sc
curites in detail
Ihese securities did not include, how
ever all of Carter's investments made
since the beginning of his operations with
the other defendants This would indi-
cate the total loss to the government of
$200OOOO