Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-06
new INDICTMENTS
Involve Six More Persons in
PostoAice Frauds.
Additional Charges Found Against
Men Already Implicated.
Said to Include All the Evidence De-
partment Now Has.


dlctments We're brought in by the SUI
preme court for the District of Column
bia, today, as the result of the inves-
| tisation in the post Office department.
| Several of these findings We're against
persons who have already been indict-
ed. The new indictments involve James
n. Tyner, the late assistant attorney
general for the post office department
and his assistant, Harrison j. Barrett:
James I. Metcalf, superintendent of the
money order system of the post office
department; Norman Metcalf, his son +:
Harry G. Hallenback, president and
general manager of the Wynkkoop.
Hailenback & Crawford Co, of New
York, the firm which for several years
supplied the department with it's money
order blanks, and VIM. D. Doremus,
who is connected with a house which
has been supplying a stamp cancelling
machine.
There were additional indictments
against August w. Machen, former
superintendent of the free delivery ser
vice, George w. Beavers. former chief
of the salary and allowance division:
W. Scott Towers, who was~in charge of
a sub-station of the Washington City
post office and State Senator George A.
Green of New York. In some cases
there We're several indictments against
one person.
Three indictments charge Tyner and
Barrett with conspiracy and two addi-
tional indictments charge Barrett with
agreeing, while still in office, to re-
ceive fees for services rendered or to
be rendered in cases pending before him
as an officer. All the indictments are
founded upon the treatment by Tyner
and Barrett of the business of the So
called Bond Investment Companies.
The indictments cite specific cases in
which Barrett. while still in office,
sought or agreed to receive fees, in
which. after Barrett retired, Tyner re-
ferred clients TO him and approved new
contracts at his suggestion without
even reading them over. The principal
charge against Tyner and Barrett is
that of misconduct in office, in OBJ
structing and preventing the due and
orderly administration of the law.
The charge against Hallenback and
the Metcalfs is that of conspiracy to
defraud the United States. The COM
pany of which Hallenback is the head
had Il contract with the United States
TO furnish the postal service with its
money order blanks. Norman Metcalf
was employed as clerk in the office of
the Wynkkoop, Hallenback & Craw-
ford Co. at a salary of $50 a week 1t is
alleged that conspiracy existed be-
tween Hallenback and the Metcalfs in
that there was an agreement between
oil,
of the forms Suipljrl by the company;
that on accom-, pf his agreement the
forms We're printed on inferior paper:
that only one side Of them lthogra Pied,
while the contract called for the lith-
ographing of both sides and that by
other devices the company was enabled
to save large sums of money at the eX-
pense of the government.
The new charge against Machen is that
of accepting a bride in connection with
the delivery of badges worn by rural free
delivery carriers which We're made by
Charles J. Heller of Philadelphia.
There are two new indictments against
Beavers, one charging him with accepting
So each on a number of book typewriting
machines sold to the government by w.
Scott Towers. and the other alleging mis-
conduct in the purchase of stamp can
ceiling machines from w. Doremus. Tow
ers is also indicted in connection with the
transaction with Beavers on the charge
of agreeing to pay Beavers $25 on each
machine. Doremus is indicted for defraud-
ing the government in the sale of his
cancelling machines.
The present understanding is that the
series of indictments is the last which
there will be any present effort to secure
and the post office authorities generally
consider that the departmental investiga-
ton is at an end.
Mr.. Tyner has been connected with the
postal service in many important capaci-
ties for years. He is from Indiana. He
was postmaster general from July r. 1876,
TO March l., 1871, and subsequently he held
the Offices of first assistant postmaster
general and assistant attorney general,
from which latter office ne was dismissed
by Postmaster General Payne. last
spring, following Mrs Tyner's abstrac-
ton of papers from the department safe.
Mr. Tyner is nearly 50 years old and in
grave physical condition. suffering from
a severe case of paralysis.
Mr.. Barrett is a nephew of Mr.. Tyner
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