The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-25
AFTER CAR ER'SCASH
DISTRICT ATTORNEY HERE TO
TAKE TESTIMONY IN FAMOUS
CASE.
HEARING WILL BEGIN TO-DAY
IN U. s. COURT ROOM BEFORE SPE-
CIAL EXAMINER HEWLETT.

VIII be Conducted by Mr.. Erwin.
Will he Directed Toward Proving
the Conditions Surrounding the
Purchase of stock by Savannah
COncerns-SimiIarT Testimony Has
Been Taken i'm Several States IN
the Union - Savannah the Last
Place to he Visited.
The taking of the last of the testi-
mony to be used in the now famous
Carter case will commence this morn
ing in the United States circuit court
room. The hearing, as first announced
in the Morning News. will be before
Special Examiner William r. Hewlett
the questions being propounded by
United States District Attorney
Marion Erwin, who has conducted the
investigation in the Carter case, both
in its criminal and it's civil branches
almost single handed almost from
from its inception. The preparations
of the questions was begun on the oc-
casion of Mr.. Erwin's visit here during
the first part of the month.
he ObJcCI VI tic lllLGl IO6dlOllCS Will
be to disclose the manner in which the
ex-captain of engineers came into pos
session of the stock which he owned
in various Savannah enterprises at the
time that he was first prosecuted by
the government. This investigation
has been conducted in various parts of
the United States where Capt. Carter
invested money. In all, the govern
ment hopes to recover about $455, 900, of
which amount about $4,000 was in
vested in Savannah.
In Savannah Concerns.
The investigation will be directed
particularly in regard to the invest
ment in the Savannah Brewing Com
pany. Propeller Towboat Company, Sa-
vannah Lighterage Company, Edison
Illuminating Company, and in transac-
lions with Messrs. William w. Mackall,
]. Randolph Anderson, Bierne Gordon
and M. A. Connally. The money, or a
large part of it, is now in the registry
of the court, awaiting the determination
of the case. An array of counsel will
represent these several parties.
The answers of the defendants were
filed nearly a year ago, at which time
they were made public. In these the
defendants acknowledge the purchase
eX-captain of engineers, but aver that
they were not aware of the existence of
any conspiracy but acted throughout in
good faith.
Mr.. Erwin Here.
Mr.. Erwin will arrive in Savannah
this morning. Since his visit here on
the 5th inst. he has been busily en-
gagged in preparing the dispositions
which he intends to PROFOUND. He
has spent much time on the case and,
1t is said has every phase of it at his
fingers end.
Besides the enormous amount of tes-
timony taken by Mr.. Erwin to show
the disposition of the funds by Carter,
he will introduce at the hearing in
Chicago 10000 pages of typewriter tes-
timony This constitutes a part of
the record in the Greene aynor re-
moval case and the Garter court-mar-
tial, and is introduced by consent of
counsel. The funds invested by Car
ter and recovered by Mr. Erwin are
deposited principally in the registries
of the court in Virginia, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois and
Georgia.
The work now engaged in by Mr.. IT.
win is the tracing of the funds from
the point where, in the removal case
in New York, the government claimed
that Carter invested his share of the
embezZled funds which were divided
between him and Greene and Gaynor,
to the reinvestment in the properties
which the government now has tied
up. All of this has been accounted for
but 100000. which amount the district
attorney claims was expended in at
torneys fees.