The Penn's Grove record., 1903-09-25
SENATOR GREEN'S ARREST
New York Politician Accused Of Com.
plicity in iostal Frauds.
Ne i Charged witt. Paying Bribes IL
Order to Furnish Zine Record.
ers TO Government.

Blnghamton. N Y.-Senator George
=. Green, President Of the Interna.
tlonai Time Recording Company and
chairman Of the Republican County
committee, was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Charles S
Hall on two indictments recently found
against him by the Federal Grand jury
=. washington, charging Mr.. Green
lointiy with George w. Beavers, OF
BROOKLYN, with conspiracy to defraud
the United States Government and
charging Mr.. Green with giving brides
Ane government was represented by
United States District Attorneys 6. B.
Curtiss and Z. Z. Arms and by In
spector Mayer. Mi. Green was repre-
scented by James I. Rogers, the Broome
county Assemblyman ana Republican
reader on the floor Of the Assembly.
= plea Of not guilty was entered to
DOM OF y indictments and bail was
SET IN 10000 on each indictment. Jonas
Al. kiimer qualifying as surety.
"A formal examination into the
cnarges brought against Mr.. Green
VIII be held before Commissioner Hall
Mr.. Green will at that time be repre-
sented by John B. Stanchfeld. a Demo-
cratic attorney, Of Elmira, and r. r.
Iuthili, Of this city. The Indictment
recltes that Green, as President Of the
international Time Recording Com
pany. undertook to furnish and did
furnish, large numbers Of time record
ers to the Postoffce Department
through George w. Beavers, and In SO
doing committed several offenses
against the United States.
The Indictment then sets forth that
Green and Beavers, on December II,
IoOl, entered into an unlawful agree
ment. whereby Green undertook to paw
Beayers ten per cent. of all sums paid
to the Time Recording Company for
all clocks and supplies furnished the
government, and that IN the same day
Green gave to Beaversa personal check
Iof 800, drawn on the Knickerbocker
Iru Company. of New York, to in
nuence Beavers decision to the detri-
ment Of the United. States.
1t Is further charged that on January
10, l9O2. Green gave to Beavers a draft
on the Seventh National Bank Of New
YORK for $3S1.18; another check on
April 26. 1902, for $418.36, arr another
on October s, 1902, for $S42.SS.
The second Indictment is wordel
much the same al the first and con-
tains eleven counts.
The fourth count sets forth that
Green and Beavers ~conspired on De-
cember 18, 1901. by sending out an Of
fetal letter notifying certain officers
that time recorders had been ordered
for them, the letters having been un-
lawfully signed with Beavers initials.
The tenth and eleventh count deals
with a check for $1O42.SS. which, it is
alleged, was given to Beavers by Green
on behalf Of the Time Recorder Com
pafy on October 8, 1902.
Senator Green has been Chairman
OF the BrOome County Republican Com.
mittee for eight years and served two
terms as Mayor of Binghamton. He is
the general manager of the Yauui
Paper Company of Mexico, with offices
in New York; is the owner Of the Dore-
mus Stamp Cancelling Company OF
Washington, which has figured promf-
nently in the recent Postofice Depart
ment Investigations; is the President
OF six or eight large industrial corpora
tons, director in about a dozen others,
and in many ways has for years been
the most prominent business man OF
this city.