The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-09
Leopold stern, Fugitive Bsltimore
Contractor, Located mt Toronto,
Where He Awaits Extradition.
SURRENDER OF G. W. BEAVERS
FORMER POsToFFICE OFFICIAL WHO
WAS INDICTED AT NEW YORK.
He Appears Before United States COM
missioner Hitchcock and IL Re-
leased on $1,000 Bail.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Sept. S.-Postmaster
General Payne, Fourth Assistant Bris-
tow and the sleuths of the Postoffice
Department now see the end OF the In
vestigation into the rascality and crooked
ness which has been going on in the postal
service for many years and which will be
fully uncovered and the rascals brought to
justice when the report OF heads Of depart
ments are made early next month. The re-
turn to-day of seven indictments against
unnamed persons leaves only a few moro
against whom the officials will press crim-
inal charges. 1t is safe to predict that
the total additional number CT persons
whose names will be presented to the law
officers Of the government for prosecution
on criminal charges, including those indict-
ed to-day, will be about twenty, more than
half of whom are outsiders, mainly con-
tractors who were engaged In furnishing
supplies to the government.
1t is also believed from the reports at
the department that when the facts ars
Summarized at the conclusion of the in
vestigation ii will be found that the to-
tai loss to the government involved in the
petty thievery win amount in the aggre-
gate to about s275.0o0. with possibly other
amounts not counted, because of the fact
that the statutes of limitations have run
against the offenders. the thevery having
been consummated more than three years
ago. Thus, while the postofiiee scandal has
not amounted to a disclosure of stealing OF
millions from the government. the number
of indictments that will be returned will
equal, if not exceed, those returned in con-
nection with any previous governmental
scandal, with the exception of the whisky
frauds in the seventies.
While the officials decline to make public
the names of persons against whom in
dictments were to-day found, IL is be-
lieved that most of them are outsiders. con-
tractors and supply furnishers or interme-
diary persons who not I'm the en-
ploy of the department. There is an air OF
relief among the officials of the depart
ment now that the end of the investigation
is in sight and it becomes evident that
there will not be such disclosure of
wholesale corruption as was at first pre-
dicted, and also that the thievery is con-
fined TO a small peculatton by large num-
ber of persons. and no evidence that per-
sons very high in the affairs of the gov
ernment were connected with the jobbery
that was in progress. 1t is believed that
Mr.. Bristow's report to the postmaster gen.
eral will be submitted early in October and
that Mr.. Payne will Immediately submit
report to the President. giving all the facts
in the cases as they were presented TO the
law officers. Just how successful tie lat
ter will be in making all the cases stick In.
of course, a matter OF conjecture. but IL
is claimed that in most OF the cases the
attorneys of the government are satisfied
that there will be no difficulty I'm securing
convictions according TO the indictments
found.