The age-herald., 1901-12-08

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  eats with hearty appetite, and immediate ly breakfast is over hurries to the ofnce to assist at 'sick call"
 Seated at the desk shown in the in- terior view of the office Carter records the call while Dr. Thomas. standing in the barred doorway, examines the pris- oners as they report to him. After this Carter accom- panies the doctor into the west ward. where accident cases and patients with slight non-infectious dis eases are nursed to recovery.
 From the physicians dictation the cap tain records the daily conditions of tile cases. and repeats the operation a the east ward where more serious fever and other cases are cared for His work sell dom carries him to the consumptive ward, where prisoners suffering from tuberculosis are segregated. After this there is routine work in the office and errands to the other part of the prison.
 Sometimes when the doctor needs steady hand to hold a bandage or aid him in an operation Carter varies his duties to that extent. This occurred re- gently when many prisoners were wound ed in an attempt 10 escape.
 But it is the flowers that the prisoner loves the best In summer the yard in front of the prison hospital is filled with bright blossoms and thrifty plants. E,v- cry spare moment of the day the Cap tain Is there watering, trimming, weed ing, coaxing his flowers into bloom. Tu- lips. hyacinths dahlias and ali the old fashioned flowers that he can raise are found there.
 When autumn comes his possessions are transferred to the greenhouses at the west end of the hospital and there in blizzard or sunshine he guards the health of his floral patients with assiduous care.
 Record of Prisoner 2o94.
 The record of Prisoner 2094 is absolutely perfect. There is not a scratch against his behavior He has been a model pris- oner, and will go free, if all other att tempts fail, at the expiration of his sen tence, on November 2S, 1903, ten months having been deducted for good behavior.
 Carter's sentence began on September %, 1S99 but he was not received at this prison until April 27, 1900, and since that day he has received no visitors save his attorney. his brother, l. Stanton Carter of Chicago. and Col. l.. D. Carter, an uncle, of Oakland, III. Since that time. to, he has been protected from interviews by a special order of the attorney gen. eral at Washington.
 All of his interviews with his relatives and attorney have occurred in the office of Warden McClaughry, and have been mostly devoted to details of the coming trial in Chicago. When the day for the trial arrives Carter will be taken from the prison on a writ signed by Judge Kohlsaat, and accompanied by Warden McClaughry. will go to Chicago.
 He has agreed to go on the stand and to answer all questions that can be asked him. His brother and his uncle, who hav. held some of the fortune, now at stake, have agreed to do the same.
 Deposition will lA taken all over the country by Carters attorneys through officers of the United States courts, which will corroborate Carter's contention that the $700, GOO was given him by his father in-law, MT. Westcott, and that the se- curities whose ownership is to be finally decided, were purchased by MT. Vest colt with his own money-many of them before he ever knew Carter.
 In the agreement entered into a fort night ago by Horace G. Stone for Car ter and by Marion Erwin, a special as- sistant United States attorney, for the government, all the suits to recover this property are to be consolidated in Chica- go the property is to be turned over by Carter and his relatives into the custody of the court and the future ownership of the property is to be determined by the decision in this one case.
 If Carter is able to prove to the satis- faction of the bench that he had naught to do with the securities before they were given to him by his father-in-law, then his title to the property is safe If he falls he loses the fortune, which goes to the government.
 Carter's Request for Suits.
 After Carter had begun to serve his sentence of three years imprisonment he wrote to the Department of Justice ask ing that civil suits be brought against him to recover the property which the government contended he had obtained through irregularity at Savannah In this way he hoped to get before a court evidence he was not able to introduce at the courtmartial.
 Suits were brought by the government in Georgia, New York, New Jersey West Virginia and Northern and Southern Illinois. These cases have all been merg- ed into the one which is to be tried be- fore Judge Kohsaat. While this will not affect his reinstatement in the army even If 1t should be successful in proving ms innocence, it will result in a trial of the case on its merits. Until all the dispositions are completed no date will be pxed for the trial.
 In the argument for a writ of habeas corpus, the contention will be made by Carters attorney, MT. Stone that the court martial had no jurisdiction to in- fict all the punishment it did. It will be argued that no evidence was offered be- lore the courtmartial proving that Car ter got cent of the money out of the Savannah contract.
 The prisoners attorney will urge the Supreme Court to release the prisoner because the courtmartlal inflicted pun ishment on him for an alleged offence, punishment for which was prorerlv with other tribunals than those military.
 And while lawyers and courts are ar- ranging the preliminaries of a legal bat tie for great stakes, Carter Is serenely raising flowers and writing hospital Tsecrds.