Evening star., 1903-07-21
All Kinds of Comment.


Brooklyn"
All Kinds Of Comment.
The fact that Beavers has not been ar
rested, when an indictment has been duly
returned by the grand jury. has caused all
kinds of comment here in Washington.
Friends of Beavers do not hesitate to de-
clare that the government does not care to
press the prosecution Of the man who has
been indicted for fear of his discriminating
others who are high up.
Friends Of August w. Machen former
superintendent of the division of free de-
livery who was indicted several weeks ago
dcfraud the government, and who is under
large bond, contrast the absence of delay
in dealing with Machen with the slow pro-
cess of fetching Beavers to the mark
Dispatches to The Evening Star from
Brooklyn indicate that District Attorney
Youngs is seeking to avoid IA disclosure OF
the evidence upon which Beavers was in
dicted. That would have to come out to
considerable extent if the accused postal
chief were taken before United States
commissioner in Manhattan.
Beavers up to the present time does not
know what the evidence before the grand
jury establishes concerning the charge
Former Representative briggs paid him
something like s1,G9o his share Of the
Brandt-Dent Companys commission to
Drigga.
Beavers Counsel Talks.
William w. Seabury of Morgan & Sea-
bury, attorneys for Beavers, made the
statement to an Evening Star representa-
tive in New York that their client would
be produced at any time in Manhattan or
would go before United States commits
sioner there.
ION Saturday, July 49, we were informed
by Col. Youngs United States district at
torney for the eastern district of New
York, that two indictments had been found
by the federal grand jury Of the eastern
district against our client. George w. Beav
ers" Mr. Seabury said. We informed Col
Youngs that Mr.. Beavers would be in our
Office on Monday morning at II 80 and
would be prepared to respond to any pro
cess that he might have for him. Mr..
Beavers was in our office at that time and
we again communicated with Col. Youngs
and stated that fact to him. We also Of
fered at that time to produce Mr.. Beavers
before United States commissioner for
the southern district for the purpose of u
preliminary hearing.
This offer Colonel Youngs did not care
at this time to accept We also communi-
Gated with General Burnett, United States
district attorney for the southern district
and informed him of our willingness to
desire.
while have had no opportunity to
examine the indictments which we are in
fC Crmed have been found against our client
scnally prefer to go at once to Brooklyn
and there plead not guilty to any indict-
n,ents which may have been found against
him. AS Mr.. Beavers counsel we have as
sumed the responsibility of declining to al
low Mr. Beavers to adopt this course.
The course of action adopted by the
government in this has been to find
an indictment summarly against our client,
without affording him any opportunity to
know the nature of the charges against
him or the character of the evidence which
he will be obliged to meet upon the trial
Claims It is Irregular.
This procedure is irregular and extreme
ly unfair to any accused person, inasmuch
as 1t denies him the opportunity of a pre-
liminary hearing before any officer and pre-
cludes him from ascertaining anything of
the nature of the charge against him until
the date of his trial.
For some weeks past our client has re-
sided in the borough of Manhattan attend
ing to private business matters and at the
time the indictments were found against
him in I@ooklyn Mr.. Beavers was in the
borough of Manhattan. This circumstance
entities Mr.. Beavers to a preliminary hear
ing here, before the commissioner in this
district.
We may add that the reports repeatedly
circulated in the press to the effect that
Mr.. Beavers has at any time offered to turn