The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-17
MORE FRAUDS
 UNEARTHED Further Disclosures by MI. BristOW, PRoFLIGATHExPENDITURE The Heads Of departments Got Rake of.
  Hsath Got sao,ooo of stock Of Can eslling Machine Company on Promise to Order from the
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 Washington, Dec. le.--rhe full report of Fourth Assistant Postrnaster-G General Bristow was made public today with the exception Of the exhibits, which are with- held, because of the pending criminal triale. The report reveals many new facts brought out by the month of inves- tigation and not embraced In the abstract snade public fortnight Agc. These arc
 mostly in the way of important suppie- rnentary information regnrding the d. lsged connection of executive oficers Of the department with fraudulent contracts for supplies. alleged efEorta to promote mining stock among Poatofilca Depart ment employees. irreguiarity in outside postohlces. etc. Nil x
 The report speaks of pr0dixate expendl- ture for Bundy time recorders, Couttnu- ing, 1t states that Hugh Mex. Landon. Secretary of pneumatic cancelling ma chine company. testified during the in. vestigation that in this city in 1D0e. when he came for orders, Beavers referred him to g clerk named H. Clayton Gran. .'as the man to do business with, I and that in a personal conversation. Gran said. You know none Of us is hero for our health. The Government is not iibeFai in the matter of it's salaries and 1t costs much to live in Washington" '.
 Cancelling Machines.
 Edward s. Allen. now a clerk at the Cleveland. O.. postofzfce. testified that reports he made on the merit sok the Hampden cancelIing hnackiiia were not satisfactory to First Assistant Pcstmae- ter-Generai Heath or Go Beavers. and says he was. plainly advised that it was Mr. Heath's desire that these machines be installed and the desire of Mr. Heavera nd kfna. , ing derosatory to the machine. He says he was forewarned of this by his hrotliar. then chief clerk of the First AsaIetalt Postmaster- zeneraL and thereafter. AIlnn testtfed. he simply Installed the machines and refralned from any comment. The machines proved worthiesa
 The fepaFt saya that Ix. H. Wfns1as7z s9s silaustpn. M. T.; Of the eanceiliue machine cpnlpany. told ifikpectofs that hS s fore the order of June 90. 1900 was given for 100 Dpren1us canceiifnw nlaGlinss. fsN6 hundred shares. 4ace value s3n.o0o. df tha stock of the company was trAnsferfstl to F1rst Assistant Postmaster-Ge General Heath with promises to order not less than 300 machine at S225 each. porAant4s admitted to the inspectors that TruesSseiR told him subsequently, that the Stock which Green asked them to contfibubs was to be transferred to Perry s. Hesth m consideration of receiving a lafye of- der for machines. f t. ,sl
 Heath Incriminated. sr'
 Truesdale said that the payments which Beavers alleged were to be di- Wded with Heath were made with the positive knowledge and approval Of George Green and W. 10. Doreunte I,he evidence against Heath was sub.alktad to the Grand Jury here but the dietrict attorney decided that 1t was not sum- cient to warrant his indictment.
 Concerning the case of H. IT. Rand who was appointed assistant superinterd. ent of the salary and allowance division In April 1903, though his duties were con- fined to the postmaster generals oaice, the report says:
 Chief Clerk J. J, Howley of the first assistant postmaster generals oflice tes- tined that shortly after Rand came 10 Washington. he told him he had an option on a Mexican mining property and was looking for some one with S2,0O0 to go into # with him, asking Howiey If he had that amount Miss Mae c. Woods testlned that when she. as stenographer, was writing letters for Rand he talked to her about buying some stock in his mines, but she declined to invest. Mrs. Clara c. Bangs. clerk employed in an ofEice adjoining Rand's. stated that Rand had asked her if any of the people around there had any money. She said she thought Machen and Beavers had 1t all and not long after that he told her, hA said that they had made 1fschen presi- dent of the company, that. the stock was advancing rapidly and 1t woulQ be a good thing for her to put some money into 1t"
 ''All officers or employees of the depart ment who own stock declared that they neither bought from nor were solicited by Rand. Mss W ood and Mrs. Bangs tes- tified that the meetings of Rand's com pany, the National Capital Copper Min ing Company. were usually held during office hours.
 Rand's Business Methods.
 Mrs Bangs testified that Rand reauir- cd so much of her time to attend to his correspondence relating te private schemes that she complained that she could not keep I'D her regular office dtl- ties. and Miss Wood who succeeded her stated that her time was taken lip aI- most wholly with correspondence relating to Rand's private business
 Mir. Bristow says that Rand was "in- discreet in his official relations"
 "A. W. Machen thought he saw through Rand" Mfr. Bristow says. "A direct con nection with the Postmasfer General and
 
 some of his mining schemes. Rand proba- ply was not aware of Machen's real pur- pose. but coming into the department as ne did, as the personal appofntee of the Postmaster General, 1t Is unfortunate that he should have allied himself with Machen so as to become his partisan de- fender when charges were filed against him.
 Regarding the sale of promotions in New York City and Jersey City. the re- port mentions Bayonne. N. J.. as also involved and says that while Otto F. Weis. the registry clerk at New York. now dismissed. and an Intimate friend of Beavers. says he collected from $500 to si0.0O0 for the Legislative fund.- for the clerks. Weiss bank account where these .unds were deposited, aggfeSated $1s,i5A, md Mir. Esristow expresses the opinion that this represents the amount of Weiss collections, Weis stated that he usec bout 500 Of this money for expenses and hat the balance of s6,000 or S7.O00 he paid Benjamin Parkhurst, Ian intimate friend of Beavers and superintendent of