The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
CARTER WALKS OUT FROM PRISON BARS Former Captain of Engineers is
 Now a Free Man DOES NOT HATE COUN TRY He Says the Best Years of His Life Have Been Given In Her Cause
 and He Still Loves
 America.
DOES NOT HATE COUNT

Leavenworth, Kans., November 2s.-A few minutes before O clock this morning Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of en- Federal prison at Fort tLeavenworth free man. At the gates he was met by his uncle, L. D. Carter, and immediately driven in a hack to the union depot in l this city. This last movement was a ruse to throw the newspaper men. whom he wished above all things to avoid off the track. At the union station he was met 'by a representative of the Associated 1 Press and while Carter still staunchly re- 1 fused to be interviewed as to his plans for the future he said:
 T will catch the Missouri Pacific train out of here at 5:14 o'clock to Kansas City, and there, after breakfast. will take the fast Santa Fe division to Chicago. 1 wish to spend Sunday with my mother, who is over-anxious to see me-" While awaiting his train the ex-army officer conversed freely on large num- Der of subjects, but always skillfully avoided the introduction of anything in regard to his conviction or his plans for the future. He spoke at length about the prison but even then turned the talk from himself to generalities.
 In regard to himself he merely said: "l am feeling as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Deprived to an extent, as l was of exercise, l could not hope to be better situated"
 The captain looked much older than when he entered the prison nearly four years ago, but showed no trace of i'll health
 It was thought last night that an of ficer of the department of justice might be at the prison gates to rearrest Carter on an old indictment, but such was not the case. When he decided to leave the gates were thrown open to him, and he passed out of the prison walls for the first time since he was brought into court here, during his attempt to obtain a re- lease by an act of habeas corpus. He was attlred just as he was on his arrival at the place of his incarceration.
 Talks in Kansas City.
 Kansas City, Mo-, November 2S.--During his short stay here, ex-Captain Carter talked interestingly of his future. Believing in your innocence as you do do you ever think of yourself as a sort of a man without a country?'" a newspaper man asked.
 1 Not at al," said Carter. ''Why should  | l? Just because certain men have done l me a terrible injustice that is no reason for me to feel bitter toward my country. No, have worked too hard for my coun- 1 try to feel bitter toward her. She has 1 had the best years of my life. 1 never wronged her as poor Nolan did in the story, and I love her.
 "As to my future, really have no plans. I must wait first to vindicate my self before the American people, "Will you consider your vindication complete, unless you are restored to rank in the army?'
 The ex-captain paused before he an- | swered.
 "Of course" he said, my vindication would not be complete without that. But l that's too far off. I can't talk about | that; can't consider it at present" "It is reported that you had an offer | from the Holland government to help in 1 the engineering work on the drainage | of the Zuyder sea-
 1 "I have no offer under consideration" l he replied.
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