The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-20
NEW WAY TO GET RICH.
Plymouth Frnsier Had His Daughter
Draw Money Orders for Him.

Plymouth Frnsier Had His Daughter
Draw Money Orders for Him.
Plymouth Frasier was given a pre-
liminary hearing before United States
Commissioner Edwin C. Ryals yester-
day afternoon. and was held under
bond to await the action of the grand
jury of the next term of the United
States District Court. on a charge of
appropriating to his own use the money
order funds of the postoffice at Linn
erick, in Liberty county.
The charge against Frasier was made
by Postoffice Inspector William H.
Lewis, who, acting under instructions
from the department, has been engaged
recently in making an examination Of
the affairs and accounts of the office.
He found a very apparent shortage of
$175.55, which there had been no re-
turns to cover.
The assistant postmaster at Linn
erick is Anne Frasier, a negro girl, the
daughter of the postmaster. When she
was asked by Inspector Lewis for an
explanation of the shortage, she told
him that she had turned over the
money order fund for safekeeping to
her father, and when Frasier was
charged with having used the money
he acknowledged the corn.
He was arrested and brought to Sa-
Vannah. At the examination before
the commissioner, Frasier's explanation
of the reason for the shortage was
about as reasonable as that he had
given the inspector. which Mr.. Lewis
had not found himself able to accept
In it's entirety.
The prisoner told the commissioner
that the whole trouble lay in his ina
bility to keep accurately a set of
books, and that he had been under the
impression that the office had been
making full returns for every month
that his daughter had been in charge,
until Inspector Lewis had told him
otherwise. 1t seems that the postmas-
ter is a nonresident of Limerick and
that the Frasier girl has had entire
control of the office for a number of
months. The fact is that there have not
been full returns for any single one of
them.
1t is believed that the girl is about as
guilty as her father, but because of her
youth. and the fact that she evidently
acted under her fathers influence or
coercion, she has not been arrested, but
will simply be removed from the Office
she holds.
Inspector Lewis says that there never
was any actual collection of money for
the money orders which Frasier appro-
priated to his use. or that this feature
is at any rate minor one in the case.
Frasier had a scheme that any day was
worth two of that. Whenever he felt
that he needed few dollars he Just
got his daughter to draw a money or
der in favor of himself or some Savan-
nah merchant, and this he came to the
city and collected. He managed in this
way to keep ahead of the game for
some months, but naturally, after a
time, the little plan excited the suspi-
cions of the government. The office at
Limerick was drawing more money or
ders than it was returning funds to pay
and Inspector Lewis was sent down to
Liberty county to find out what was
the trouble.
Frasier gave bond in the sum of 5000
for his appearance at the next term of
court. He is a genial sort of rogue, and
there was nothing of conscious guilt
In his manner when he babe everyone
in the commissioners office an affec-
tionate adieu and took his departure.