The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-20
FREE IN TEN WEEKS
rx-CAPT. OBERLIN Nj. CARTER
WILL SOON BE At LIBERTY.
TO FIGHT FOR HIS MONEY
,vwEDIATELY UPON RELEASE
FROM LEAVENwORTH PRISON.

IL VIII Have Served Less Than
Four Years Nov. rs - His Chief
counsel in Chicago Writes That
cant. Carter Has Given Out no In
+eryfeNs i'm Two Years-Says Con-
victed officer Will Yet Prove His
Tunocence and Recover His Money
From Government.
In a little over two months Oberlin
NJ Carter, ex-captain of engineers in
tbe United States army, will be given
his liberty. Nov. rs he will leave the
federal prison at Leavenworth a free
man.
Capt. Carter is not making any
statements for publication, and has not
made any for at least two years. All
alleged interviews with him during
that period have been purely imagi-
nary. All letters sent to him are for
warded to me unopened"
In a letter to a Savannahian Horace
C. Stone, Esq, of Chicago, chief coun-
sci for Capt. Carter makes this state
ment. Coming from one who is au-
thorized to speak, and, too, almost up
on the eve of the release of ex-Capt.
Carter, Mr.. Stones letter will be read
with a great deal of interest by those
who know Capt. Carter, and by those
who have kept up with the Carter and
Greene and Gaynor cases. In his let
ter Mr.. Stone says:
Will Defend His Suits.
Upon Capt. Carriers release from
Fort Leavenworth, he will devote his
entire time to the suits which are now
pending between him and the United
States, in which the question is to be
determined by the United States courts
whether or not he ever received any
money out of the work done under his
charge, either from Greene and Gay
nor, or from anybody else. He has, no
doubt and I have no doubt, that he
will be able to prove beyond a question
not only that he never received any
money, directly or indirectly, from any
work done under his charge, or from
Greene and Gaynor, or improperly
from any source, but he proposes to
show Furthermore beyond any question
exactly where he obtained every pen
ny of the money which he now has or
ever had.
1T was no doubt a great mistake
that he did not make such a showing
before the court martial, and his bit
ter experience has taught him not
to make such a mistake a second time.
He unfortunately assumed before the
court martial that a man was inno-
cent until he was proven guilty, but,
In the present trial, he is going to
show in detail not only that he never
received a penny from any work done
under his charge, either from Greene
and Gaynor or from anybody else, but
will also show where every penny of
the money came from which he now
has or ever had.
Where the Money Came From.
THE question of where the large
amount of money came from, which
is now in court awaiting the decision
of the court, has never been passed
upon either by the court martial or
by any court, although the public
has been led to believe that this ques-
ton has been passed upon time and
again.
THE claim by the United States that
a large amount of Stolen money has
been recovered is purely imaginary.
The United States authorities knew
before the year 1900 that Capt. Carter
had received a large amount of money
from his father-in-law, Robert F. West
colt, and that this money was in the
possession of Robert F. Westcott's son,
and later on in the possession of Capt.
Carters brothers.
But no effort was made to touch
this money until few days after Capt.
Carriers father-in-law, Robert F. West
colt, was accidentally killed, and then,
without any notice to Capt. Carter
nearly all this money was placed in
the hands of receivers, appointed by
the United States courts, to hold the
money until it should be determined by
those courts whether any of it had
been wrongfully obtained from the
United States by Capt. Carter or by
anybody else.
Money in Receivers Hands.
Those receivers still hold the money
and up to the present time the United