Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-09-19
MACHEN'S TRIAL TO
i. Be DRAMATIC one
Mr.. Bristow Declares 1t VIII
Guido the Star Route
Scandals.
FRIEND OF MASON is IN 1t
Man Who Is Said to Have Been Cio"
to the Illinois Senator Among
Those Thought to Have
Been Indicted.

Washington, Sept. 14.-"The trial OF
August w. Machen will be most dra~
matte" said Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow today. 1T
will attract more attention than the
star route cases." :.
MIR. Bristow intimated that he had
accumulated evidence that would sur
prise the country.
1t is reported on pretty good author
thy tina General Tyner was among
those indicted yesterday. and that g.
leading official of the city OF Detroit
was also indicted for participation In
the frauds originating III Beavers d.
vision. A personal friend of ex-Sen-
ator william Z. Mason was also men
toned as under indictment. He is sup.
posed TO be in Chicago. This man was
a close friend of Beavers. and was fire.
quently in the postoffice department
during the palmy days of graft, though
he made his headquarters In Senator
Mason'3 office at the capitol.
United States District Attorney
Beach today announced six persons
named in the seven indictments re-
turned by the grand jury last Tuesday
are: George w. Beavers, former chief
of the division of salaries and allow
ances, postoffice department.; August
w. Machen, former general superin-
tendent OF the free delivery SYSTEM;
James w. Irwin, former postoffice in
spector of headquarters at San Fran
cisco; George Fl. Huntington and Isaac
A. Mcclellan, both of New York city,
owners of the Columbus Supply COM
pany of that city, n Eugene ID.
Scheble, a Toledo, O., dentists and In
terested In the firm of Maybury & FL
lis, of Detroit, Mich. Letter box man
u%facturers, Beavers, Machen and Irwin,
are named Jointly in one indictment
for conspiracy TO defraud the United
States.
Another Indictment is announced
against EcGeihan Huntington and
Machen for conspiracy to de. raud the
United States, and still another against
the same three for conspiracy to COM
NIT bribery.
Schebel and Machen are indicted
jointly for conspiracy against the
United States, also for conspiracy to
commit bribery. Another indictment is
against Mcclellan and Huntington for
bribery, and the last is against Machen
strictly for accepting brtbes.
All indictments are based on tran
sactions relating to the supply of letter
boxes and package boxes and devices.
Some sensational charges are made
The indictment against Beavers, Erwin
and Machen alleges that the postal de-
vice and improvement company or san
Francisco was composed almost en-
tlrely Of western postal employees
n tina in 1900 1T set aside
| 1000 shares of stock for forwarding
it's interests and that armed with this
authority it's president, Daniel s. Rich
ardson, and Inspector Erwin came &c
| Washington, saw Beavers, Machen
Heath and others and got an order fol
equipping 2,OS9 letter boxes with theiI
device. The indictment says the com
pany was systematically relieved OF its
obligations in the way of paying
freight, Grating. painting and printing
| cards for the devices 1T was furnishing
| The indictment charges that Beavers
and Machen owned stock under as
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