Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-10
NO ARRESTS YET
Delay in Acting on Post Office
Indictments.
GRAND JURY ADJOURNS
SPECIAL COUNSEL HERE IN CON
sULTATIoN WITH OFFICIALS.
Have Gone Over the Tulloch Charges
and Will Report to the
President.

Another day has gone by without arrests
being made of persons indicted by the fed
eral grand jury Of the District Of Colum-
bia last Tuesday for completely in the
postal frauds.
Last evening inspectors left this city with
bench warrants for the arrest Of those in
dicted by the grand Jury who have not al
ready been arrested and placed under bond.
There are many rumors of those who have
been indicted, but besides August w.
Machen, late superintendent Of free deliv-
cry, and George w. Beavers, late superin-
tendent Of the division of salaries and al
lowances, no information has leaked out to
indicate with any certainty as to who the
indicted persons are.
1t was rumored today that two of those
indicted were in New York and one in Cali
fornia. In the case Of the New York people
there was time to make arrests this morn
Ing If there was no effort to elude the in
spectors, but officials at the department
awaited teleg-aphic advices of such arrests
In vain. 1t will not be necessary for an in
spector to go to California to make an ar
rest. That can be done on telegraphic or
ders II necessary, and the prisoner can be
held to await the arrival Of the bench war
rant.
A general impression prevailed at the de-
partment today among those who are in
terested IN the movements of the inspectors
that none of the indicted people is in this
city. Officially no information was given
out today In respect to the indictments
Special Counsel Here.
At the department today general atten-
ton was given to the arrival here of Mr.
Charles ]. Bonaparte, who came to the
city last evening. and will remain here un-
til Saturday evening" in consultation with
Mr.. Holmes Conrad. with whom he is as
sociated as special counsel of the govern
ment In the postal frauds cases. Mr.
Bonaparte was in the office of Mr. Conrad
In the New York Life Insurance Company
building early this morning He has come
the north. While he has been on his va
cation Mr.. Bonaparte has been In con-
slant communication with Mr. Conrad.
Messrs. Conrad and Bonaparte spent the
day In consultation with officials of the
Post Office Department. During the early
afternoon Assistant Attorney General Robb
was In their office going over the postal
cases with them. Later they were all at
the department in consultation with the
postmaster General. The morning and q
part of the afternoon they spent in agree
Ing on the wording Of their report on the
charges by Seymour w. Tullock, former
cashier Of the post Office of this city. in
relation to the conduct of the Post Office
Department.
The Tulloch Charges.
Messrs. Conrad and Bonaparte this morn
ing stated to a Star reporter that upon the
request Of President Roosevelt they had
taken up all the matter published in reia-
ton to Mr.. Tulloch's charges together with
the replies to these charges made by former
postmaster General Smith. and official doc
uments bearing on the case, in order to as
certain the truth of the charges.
Amy one who has read The Star" said
Mr.. Conrad today. will have read every
material statement entering into the Tul-
loch charges, and can form opinion about
them just as well as we have done.
We have been given books Of newspaper
clippings and various official documents we
have called for from the Post Office De-
partment and on that material we have
formed an opinion as to the truth Of these
charges"
Messrs. Conrad and Bonaparte have not
endeavored to secure any new evidence
bearing on these cases. They have not had
any conference with Mr.. TulIoch They
have merely made use of all the we'll
known facts in the case. in order to form
an opinion of the truth and Importance Of
the charges for the advice of the Presi-
dent. Their report is already printed, and
only requires final reading and agreement
on the language used in order to have 1t in
form to hand to the President.
The Grand Jury Adjourns.
The grand jury adjourned yesterday aft
ernoon until next Monday. when 1t is un-
derstood the other post Office cases will be
taken up for consideration. District Attor-
ney Beach, who has been conducting the
grand Jury proceedings in the absence of
Assistant District Attorney Taggart, has
summoned several witnesses to appear be-
fore the grand jury tomorrow, but owing
to the adjournment this testimony will not
be heard until next week. Mr.. Taggart is
expected to return next Monday and will
resume the conduct of the other cases now
pending before the grand jury.