Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-06-24
CHIEF luE7CALF OUT
Head of Money-order Division,
Postoifice Dcrartment,
IL Dismissed.
MORE INDICTMENTS EXPECTED
Grand Jury at Washington Reported
To Have New Bills Against
Machen and GrofIs.


mary dismissal of james 7. Metcalf,
chief of the money order division. Mr..
/, Metcalf, who is from Iowa, has been
in the employ of the department for
i the last twenty-one years, most of the
tinte in the money-order division, of
which he has been chief for several
years. For efficiency, honesty and in
| tegrity he has had an enviaDle record.
The division under his charge handles
annually enormous sums of money,
last year the amount of money orders
reaching S7oo,000,000. and the loss
4 through fraud has been enthusiastically
small
why sIetcalf Was Fired"
Mr.. Metcalfs humiliation grows out
i of his attempt to persuade the lowest
bidder for the contract for supplying
the government with money order
blanks 10 withdraw from the contest,
leaving the company that is now fur
nishing the blanks to stand as the low
est bidder. The Wynkoop, Hallen-
beck Crawford company. of New York
now has the contract, which expires
Sept. 3. Among other competitors of
the company for the new contract is
Paul Herman of Rutherford, N. j., Il
former employee of the company. Her
mans bid was the lowest, and, ac-
cording to calculations, it proposes
saving to the government of about
$4,000 n year.
Moro Indictments Looked For.
10, nd i,,c in1, \, q
been investigating postal affairs prob
ably will bring in five indictments
5 against persons involved. Assistant
{ District Attorney Taggart, who has
5 the case in charge for the government,
E was Mt his office earlier than usual.
and was busily engaged in going over
the indictments.
Although every effort has been made
to keep the public in ignorance of the
action to be taken until the papers
We're ready for presentation by the
grand jury, it is learned on unques.
toned authority that the jury has
voted to return indictments against
August w. Machen, Diller B. Croft
Samuel A. Croft. George q. Lorenz
and Mrs. LorenZ, the two latter being
residents of Toledo, o. The specific
charge, it is understood, will be con
spiracy to defraud the government
Action Comes Quickly.
The fact that new indictments would
be returned against Machen and the
Croft brothers has been talked of fol
some time around the court house, but
it was not expected that action would
be taken so soon. The sensational
is feature of the days probable proceed
a ings is the connection of Mrs. Lorenz'
70 name with the transactions which lie,
n. toithe arrest of M'achen and the Groffs
T. AT the time of the arrest storie
G. We're in circulation that there was
go-between, but the information a
1T hand then was not conclusive enough
j, TO establish the identity of this partic
o. ular party. Whether or not Mrs. Lor
Is enz acted in this capacity is not known
but it has been suggested that this 40
between was woman.
Tho Tullooh Charges.
Postmaster General Payne has mad
30 public all the documents and report
of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Ger
eral Bristow bearing on the Tuloc
is charges. Following are the chief feat
= ures of the documents:
Mr.. Payne in Il memorandumaccon
" panying the report says some of Tu
u loch's charges are directed against til
nd late President Mckinley, who needs n
ok defense, and against former Postma,
he Ter General Smith, who has replied fc
himself. The report of Fourth Assis
Il. ant Postmaster General Bristow tell
j. in detail how the inquiry was starte
IL at the time the Washington postoffic
IN. was transferred from Postmaster MI
II lett to Postmaster Merritt
Name of Heath Used.
es Various exhibits are attached to IL
N. report composing the results of inve
d. legations by inspectors showing tn,
efforts to have Irregularities owe
looked and that in one case the nan
rs Of Perry S. Heath and of tire postma
y, ter general himself were used to bae
l.. up threats.
- Double pay-rolls and dummy pa
% rolls and irregular vouchers are 1
stanced Mt length. The inspector, 1t
as shown, urged that the responsibllit
~, for the many illegal appointments, IL
payment Of two salaries to one and Il
- same person and the disbursement
=. thousands of dollars for which pra
~ tically no service was performe
w. should be placed where it properly b
ns longs and the many abuses &C