Evening star., 1902-03-10
GAYNOR IN CANADA
WITNESS IN CARTER CASE WANT
ED I'm GEORGIA.
He and B. D. Greeme Declared to Be
Fugidves From Justice
There.

Mystery still surrounds the whereabouts
of Colonel John F. Ga9nor and BENJAMIN
Dwight Greene, who failed totappear in the
United States court at t1savannah, Ga, on
Friday, to answer to The charge Of con-
spiracy to defraud the United States gov
ernment In the Oberlin NJ. Carter case.
There are very good reasons for befiev-
ing that Colonel Gaynor is in Montreal. He
left the Hoffman House last Thursday, and
gave such instructions as to the forward
ing OF his baggage as to Indicate that he
was going directly to Savannah where the
other defendants in the case made their
appearance on Friday. Some of his bag
gage was actually forwarded to Savannah.
On Friday afternoon Mrs, Gaynor hur-
riedly packed several trunks In their apart
ments at the Hoffman House. and in
formed the clerks at the hotel desk that
she was going away that evening. The
clerks assumed for some reason that she
was going to Washington to visit her moth
er, although they say that she did not
make the direct statement that she was
going there. She merely said she was
going away.
Shortly after six o'clock Mrs Gaynor ap-
peared in the office of the hotel with
travelling bag, and, as she was about to
order a carriage, she was informed that
some one in Montreal wished to talk to
her. She stepped into the telephone booth,
and after talking for about five minutes
away.
The man In charge Of the carriages at
the Hoffman House says that she was
driven directly to the Pennsylvania rail-
road ferry at 2}d street. This Information
was given with marked willingness and
promptness, while information concerning
the Gaynors in all other departments Of
the hotel was extremely meager and very
reluctantly given
All knowledge Of the telephone talk by
Mrs. Gaynor with Montreal was denied by
the hotel management. but a man who
knows Mrs Gaynor and her husband was
standing near at the time and heard the
hotel attache inform her that she was
wanted at the telephone by some cne in
Montreal. He saw her enter the telephone
booth and then leave the hotel with all
haste.
1t is also known that Mr.. Gaynor visited
Montreal about six weeks ago end upon
his return stated that he would soon go
back to Montreal for the winter sports.
The Gaynors have made their home at the
Hoffman House for three years, and every
effort Is made there to protect the secrecy
OF their movements
Inquiries at the Gaynor mansion in Fay
etteville, near Syracuse, Colonel GGynCr's
home, yesterday failed to bring CIlt any
information as to his whereabouts. The
rumor had spread among the cOlonel's
friends and neighbors in Fayetteville and
Syracuse that both he and Captain Greene
had arranged to go to Nicaragua, as the
extradition treaty between that country
and the United States will expire March
"a. and II these men desire to put them
selves out of reach of the United States
authorities Nicaragua would be a safe
treat for them. :. al
The rumor had taken such definite form
as to name New Orleans or San Francisco
as the ports from which they were cx-
pected to sail. An acquaintance of Colonel
Gaynor's at the Hoffman House said yes
terday that he would not be at all sur
prised if Colonel Gayuor were to turn up
in no pl
had acquaintances and interests there, and
that the extradition laws between that
country and the United States were as ia
vorable. to fugitive from justice as the
Concerning Mr. Greene's- disappearance
there is equally as great mystery, but his
whereabouts occasioned less talk In New
York yesterday, because he has not been
so prominent Colonel Gaynor, w. b.
kirk, his bondsman, and j. ID. Leary, Mr.
Greene's bondsman. all lived at the Hof-
man House, and since the indictment ct
Greene and the Gaynors Greene has been
a frequent visitor at the rhotel and has
spent much time In consultation with his
former associate in the Atlantic Contracting
Company.
B. D. Greene and John F. Gaynor, &C.
PENDANTS In the Greene-Gaynor con-
spiracy case growing out of the Carter
frauds, have been declared fugitives from
Justice. Judge Emery Speer Of the United
States district court Saturday issued bench
warrants for them. They have defaulted
upon bonds Of $4,000 each. When the case
was called their attorneys said they had
no idea where their clients were.
Judge Speer had the names of the de-
PENDANTS and bondsmen called three times
and then issued bench warrants. In doing
so he said:
This is a case which calls for prompt
and unremtting exercise of the executive
powers of the government until these re-
calcitrant defendants B. D. Greene and j.
F. Gaynor are brought to the bar Of this
court for trial. They have been indicted by
two successive grand juries for alleget
frauds upon the public treasury of the most
stupendous character If the charges in
the Indictment are true their peculations
amount to hundreds Of thousands, perhaps
mil Of mi