The age-herald., 1900-04-30
EXPERT REPORT 0N
 CAREERS ACCOUNTS
From Figures Shown Govern-
 ment Lost $2,00O,0OOs
EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT
After Issuing Disbursing Checks to Con- tractors Garter Would Immediate ly Invest in Bonds or Securi"
 ties-Very Interesting

Atlanta, Ga., April 29.-The Constitution I tomorrow morning will print the report of
 Edward I. Johnston, the expert account
 ant detailed by Attorney General Griggs to ! assist United States District Attorney Er-
 win of Georgia, in developing the extent
 of the frauds charged to have been perpe- trated upon the government by Captain o.
 M. Carter, now serving sentence in the
 military prison at Leavenworth, Kan. Ac- 1 companyng the report, which was made fyesterday to MT. Erwin, is a statement from MT. Westcotf, carter's father-in-law,
 in which he repudiates Carter's statement
 that the assets in the affair were West l cott's.
 Following are extracts from Expert Johnson's report:
 ''February i0 1S9S-carter issued disburs- I ing checks to the contractors which were
 deposited by them, for s4SOO0; of which one | third is drawn out by them, and on same
 date Carter invests $16,OOO in bonds. August T. 1S93-Carter issued disbursing check to the contractors, which was de- posted by them, for $39,075, of which one- third, less $75 allowed for Carter's eX-
 penses to New York is withdrawn by them, and two days later Carter invests $13,0OO in bonds.
 November 6, 1S93-Carter issued disburs- ing check toNthe contractors for SlS,0oo or
 which one-third was withdrawn from de- posit and the same day Carter invested $6 GOO in bonds.
 December 4, 1S93-Carter issued dis
 bursng checks to the contractors, which
 were deposited by them, for $63,075, Of
 which one-third, less $75 allowed for Car
 ter's expenses to New York, is withdrawn | by them and on the same day Carter in- | vests $21 900 in securities
 January 8, 1S94-Carter issues disbursing checks to the contractors, which were de-
 posted by them, for s49,575. of which one
 third, less $75 allowed for Carter's ex- l penses to New York, is withdrawn by them and on the same day Carter invests | $16500 in securities.
 "February D. 1S94-Carter issued disburs- | ing checks to the contractors which was | deposited by them, for $54OO0, of which one-third was withdrawn in cash by them, | and the same day invests $1S,000 in se- | curities. September s. 1S94-Carter issued dis | bursting checks to the contractors for $461, 1 075. September Il, 1894, cashed by them,
 s152, ,5lO75. Deposited by Carter on same | date $103, ,022.7S, and subsequently invested l by him, including another collection De cember f. 1884, of S53, ,00O"
 Continuous 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 nD fan tilra of ha
 port the Constitution says the figures show | Carter's one-third of the spells to have been over s55O,ee exclusive of his share | in the last checks for $575 749.90, which were paid over in New York at the time | Carter was about to leave the district
 when succeeded by Captain Gillette.
 Expert Johnson's report says that MT. | Westcot in a written statement gives the
 government full access to his accounts in | the banks and his private papers | IheSe show, the examiner reports, that | While Carter frequently through Greene | and the Gaynors and otherwise, made | WeStcott a depository of money, in every | instance it was turned over or invested as | Carter directed These papers show also l that when the first charge of fraud was made against Carter by the board of in-
 quiry, Westcott refused to longer keep | Carters securities.
 Westcott has furnished the government with the. receipt of Carter in the captains | own handwriting under of October II and | 29. 1897, for all of Carters securities left with him and so returned by him to Car | ter, amounting to over s40000 the receipts specifying the securities in detail. l government of two millions of dollars | These securiteis did not include, how | ever, all of Carter's investments made
 since the beginning of his operations with the other defendants.
 l This would indicate the total loss to the | government of two millions of dollars.