The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-08
BAIL BONDS ESTREATED
ID. ID. GREENE AND JOHN f. GAYNOR
FUGITIyES FROM JUSTICE.
Were Under Indictment for Participa-
ton in the Carter Frauds
Judge Speer's ExcOriatiOn.

SAVANNAH, Ga, March Tn the
United States District Court, this morning,
Judge Emory Speer estreated the bonds OF
Benjamin d. Green and John F. Gaynor,
charged with Conspiracy against the United
States, and bench warrants were at once
issued for their arrest. William T. and Ed
ward II. Gaynor were in court and were
arraigned on the new indictment recently
found against them and the others. A plea
in abatement was presented by their at
torneys.
The bonds of b. d. Greene and John F.
Gaynor are for $4,000 each. The Greene
bond is signed by James ID. Leary, of New
York, and Gaynor's by William b. Kirk, of
Syracuse. Judge Speer took occasion to
announce from the bench his disapproval
of the manner in which the missing de-
PENDANTS have treated the case against
them. He said they had been trifing with
justice.
Judge Speer said: This is a case which
calls for the prompt and unremitting exer-
else of the executive powers of the gov
eminent until these recalcitrant defendants,
ID. b. Greene and John +. Gaynor, are
brought 10 the bar of this court for trial.
They have been indicted by two successive
grand juries for alleged frauds upon the
character. III the charges in the indictment
are true their populations amount to hun
dredS of thousands, perhaps millions, OF
dollars. They were first indicted more than
two years ago and after successfully de-
laying 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 dispo-
sitiOn of dilatory or preliminary objections
iLterposed by their counsel and when final
ly ordered to appear 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, l learn, men of fine in
telligence. They, well do their coun-
sci here and elsewhere fully understand
their duty TO be present. The government
officers have been at great labor and the
government itself at great expense in pre-
pairing for their trial; indeed, the conduct
of these men. unexplained with regard to
their nonappearance, Is an outrage upon
public justice From the inception of their
efforts to delay or defeat the trial upon
Indictment for the serious charges pre-
ferred against them, this court has done all
in its power to enforce its regular process
to bring about the speedy and impartial
trial contemplated by the Constitution in
the usual and orderly manner established
not only by the statutes, but by the time
konOred precedents of the United States
courts The case dragged its slow length
long before the commissioner and district
jury in New York and was thence carried
TO the Supreme Court of the United States
After final judgment of that high tribunal
the accused We're compelled TO come here
for trial and its most baneful effect is the
example it offered Of the paralysis of the
law