The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-24
Sensational Result of the
Post-OffiCe Inquiry.
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Postmaster General Bristow. Postmaster
General Payne also was notified. Mr.
Bristow asked authority to have Mrs.
Tyner elected from the office. The au-
thority came too late. When the in
spector returned Mrs. Tyner and her par
ty had left The safe on being examined,
was found to be empty. The affair ere
ated much excitement among the inves-
tigating officials, but the news was con-
cealed carefully from the public. Two
inspectors were dispatched to the Tyner
residence to receive the papers. Mrs.
Tyner refused to give them up saying
she was acting under the direction of
her husband She told the inspectors, so
they reported, that they had right to
the papers as Mr.. Tyner was still assist
ant attorney general and, moreover in
sisted that the papers were all of a pri-
vate character. The inspectors reported
that Mrs. Tyner declared the papers be-
longed solely to them and she announced
emphatically that she did not propose to
have her papers submitted 20 the scru-
tiny of the inspectors.
1t is suspected at the department that
the papers have some connection with the
recent conduct Of the office Some weeks
ago a turf investment concern whose af-
fairs were aired in court, alleged that
its operations and working methods had
been sanctioned by the assistant attorney
general for the postoffce department. The
charges involving the office of the As
sistant Attorney General, and a lawyer
formerly connected with that office, were
ventilated very generally at that time
and an investigation was ordered by the
Postmaster General.
This was really the inception of the
investigation that has spread into every
part of the department. The complaints
crystalized into a formal request for
Mr.. Tyner's resignation signed by Post
master General Payne on March Q, last.
Mr.. Tyner had been in exceedingly bad
health for a long time and had visited
the office at only rare intervals, .leav-
ing the office entirely in charge of his
assistant for months at a time. He is
suffering from an unusually severe case
of paralysis and in consideration of this
fact the request for his resignation was
bas ed on his i'll health. Mr.. Tyner then
sent in his resignation to take effect
May l, and it was accepted.
The announcements of these develop
ments were made by Postmaster General
Payne late this afternoon to a large
number OF newspaper correspondents In
a voice that trembled with emotion he
said that he regretted to have to say
that he found it necessary TO remove
from office the assistant attorney general
for the department and after speaking in
a general way about the facts that had
developed, said the story was best told
q yroi ob no
read in a most feeling tone. Then he
announced that he could say nothing
further on the subject and that he pre-
ferred not to be asked any questions. He
was asked if any arrests would be made
as the result of the abstraction and if
any one else in the office was involved.
He said that these were matters which
he could not discuss; that it rested with
the attorney general, to whom the pa
pers would so as soon as the record
Of the case could be copied and submitted
The case, however, he added, will be in
the hands OF the Department of Justice
tomorrow and what further steps will
be taken will be decided by the attorney
general. He did not care to venture any
prediction as to the outcome.
Mr.. Tyner has been in the service very
important capacities for many years. He
is from Indiana. He was at one time
postmaster general. He is one of the
best known men in official life in Wash
ington. He and Mrs Tyner and Presi
dent and Mrs. Grant were intimate
friends.
An effort was made tonight to obtain
a statement from General Tynor or Mrs.
Tyner but met with no success. Mrs.
Tyner apparently took the matter very
coolly.
Mr.. Tyner Is in a very weak and al
most helpless condition from his long
He remains in his room most
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