Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-10
GREENE AND GAYNOR
FLEE FROM JUSTICE.
DEFENDANTS WERE NOT IN sA-
VANNAH COURT FRIDAY
WHEN CASE WAS
CALLED.

SAVANNAH, Ca, March lin the
United States district court this morning
Judge Emory Speer estreated the bonds
of Benjamin D. Greene and John F. Gayn-
or, charged with conspiracy against the
United States and bench warrants have
been issued for their arrest.
William 7. and Ed B. Gaynor were In
court and were arraigned on the new IN
dictment recently found against them and
the others.
A plea of abatement was presented by
their attorneys.
The bonds of Greene and John F. Gayn-
or are for $4,000 each. Greene's bond IS
signed by James D. Leary, of New York,
and Gaynor's by William B. Kirk, OF Syr-
acuse.
In estreating the Greene-Gaynor bond
today Judge Speer said:
prompt and unremitting exercise OF the
executive powers Of the government until
these recalcitrant defendants, D. b.
Greene and John F. Gaynor are brought
to the bar of this court for trial.
They have been indicted by two sue
cessive grand juries for alleged frauds
upon the public treasury of the most stu
pendous character. If the charges in the
indictment are true, their speculationsl
| amount to hundreds of thousands, per-
haps millions. Of dollars.
''They were first indicted more than two,
years ago, and after successfully delay
ing the execution of the process of a.
court OF the United States and placing an
enormous cost upon the government in the
attempt to enforce its authority. They
were finally compelled to appear for trial.
at this term of the court. The term has
lasted for nearly a month. 1t has been
almost entirely devoted to the laborious
and careful disposition OF dilatory or pre-
liminary objections interposed- by their
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pear and plead, as they were bound to do
by their bond. in apparent disregard OF
the authority Of the law, they are now
fugitives.
They are both, learn men Of fine in
telligence. They as well as do their c0un-
sci here and elsewhere, fully understand
their duty to be present. The govern
ment officers have been at great labor and
the government itself at great expense in
preparing for their trial. Indeed, the con-
duct of these men, unexplained with re-
CARDS to their non-appearance. is an out
rage upon public justice. From the in
ception Of their efforts to delay or defeat
the trial upon indictment for the serious
charges preferred against them, this court
has done all in it's power to enforce It's
regular process to bring about the speedy
and impartial trial contemplated by the.
constitution in the usual and orderly man
ner established, not only by the statutes
but by the time honored precedents Of
the United States courts.
THE case dragged its slow length along
before the commissioner and district
jury in New York and was thence carried
to the supreme court Of the United States
and, after final judgment Of that high tri-
bunal, the accused were compelled to
come here for trial. It's most baneful ef-
feet is the example ii offered Of the paraI-
ysis of the law.
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of the crime charged. Ny remarks exclu-
sively relate to the manner in which the
process Of this court has been held up and
arrested and the unexplained contempt
on the part Of these persons Of its or
ders."