The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-17
NOT TO Be FOUND
GREENE AND THE GAYNoRs,
WHERE, OH WHERE, ARE THEY.
GOVERNMENT DOESN'T KNOW.
GREENE IN EGYPT AND WHERE
ABoUTs OF GAYNORs UNKNOWN.

Even With an Order From Judge
Brown, Directing the Removal of
the Defendants From New York to
Savannah, the Government Is Said
10 BE nt n Loss How 10 Proceed.
John Gaynor Recently Married
Another Wife, but Hasn't Been
Heard From since-Condition That
Confronts Government Is That
Everybody Has Expected.
Where are Benjamin D. Greene and
John E., Edward H. and William T. Cay
nor? Judge Brown. after weary months
of waiting, has handed down an order d.
recting their removal to Savannah. to
stand trial for the crimes with which they
are charged. but no one of them is known
to have been arrested.
1t was said here yesterday that the gov
eminent did not know where any of the
men are, and this is certainly true in the
case of Greene, who as long ago as last
January, again demonstrated his claim
TO be considered the brains of the Carter
Greene-Gaynor conspiracy. He took
firm hold on the forelock of Father Time
and, seeming danger in the air, sailed
for Europe. When last heard from ne
was in Egypt. 1t is now stated that all
the other defendants have followed his
example, and that the government does
not know where TO look for them.
Col. John Gaynor was in New York not
a very long time ago, and, in accordance
with his invariable half-yearly custom,
he was reported to have married a wife.
The event was the occasion of much jol-
LITIGATION among the Coloners friends, who
called upon him in large number to ex-
tend their congratulations and fehcita-
tions.
The condition with which the govern
ment is confronted is the identical one
which everybody has expected who has
followed the erratic course of the pro-
ceedings and the interminable delays that
have characterized the case from the
very inception of the effort to secure the
removal of the men from New York to
Savannah to stand trial. Nobody has
thought that when Judge Brown at last
rendered a decision and ordered the re-
moval of the men here, as of course it
was known he must eventually do, that
they would be on hand to answer or be
arrested.
Greene, the Gaynors Carter and Michael
Connolly were jointly indicted on Dec. g.
1889. year and six months ago. All of
that time the government has been trying
to get Greene and the Gaynors from New
York. Connolly, who was then in Havana,
was arrested there and brought to Savan-
nah by an officer of the government secret
service, and has been here protesting a
perfect readiness to stand trial. ever
since. But in a year and six months the
government has not succeeded in bringing
Greene and the Gayors back to the scene
of their crimes. If reports. bearing every
every indication of authenticity, are to be
believed, the government is no nearer that
contamination devoutly to be wished"
than it was when the first start was
made. As somebody has aptly said, 1.-The
combined Republican pull of Ben Greene
and the Democratic pull of the Gaynors
would make double action. triple expan-
sion, high grade locomotive look like thir-
ty cents"
Col Gaynor has stated that he never in
tended TO be brought back to Savannah,
and for the past year it has been be-
coming increasingly evident that he knew
what he was talking about. Evidently
If IL be true that he and his fellow de-
PENDANTS have just recently skipped the
country, the source of his information
cannot have dried up or given out.
Attorney General Philander c. Knox has
taken personal direction of the prosecu-
ton of the several parties to the conspir-
acy and of the several phases of the gov
ernment's case against them and it is said
he is going to do everything man can do
to cause the arrest of the defendants
their removal to Savannah to stand trial
and their conviction when they are tried
Even with the defendants abroad how
ever, the governments prospects are
brighter than they have been while they
were in New York. year or two ago a
defaulting railway official was found in
Morocco. and though the United States
have no treaty of extraditon with that
country. the Sultan gave the man up
promptly. 1t is believed that the official
heads Of other countries will prove 10 be
equally obhging and that about the best
thing that could happen would be for
some foreign country. cause their arrest
there and have them brought directly to
Savannah. That would solve several prob
lens at one and the same time.
The possible punishment that can be
meted out to the defendants, should they
be convicted, is not very large, the max
imum being a fine of $4,000 and two years
In the penitentiary. So far as the fine is
concerned, 1t is a mere drop in the bucket,
compared with the immense sums of
money, aggregating $2,532, SIC. of which the
defendants are charged with defrauding
the government.