The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-23
CAPT. CARRIERS
LAWYER IS HERE
He WILL TAKE EVIDENCE.
COMPLETING CHAIN TO STORY OF
CLIENTS INNOCENCE.

Government Comes Up Before
Judge KOhIsaat i'm Chicago Some
Time This Winter.
Hon. Horace G. Stone, leading coun-
sci for Oberlin NJ. Carter, ar
rived in Savannah yesterday morning
to complete a chain of dispositions
which he says will complete the over
wheIming evidence he has secured as to
his clients innocence of the charges
of which he was found guilty by the
court-martial and for which he was
sent to the Leavenworth penitentiary.
Mr.. Stone left Chicago some weeks
ago to go to New York, Quebec, Wash
ington and other points where the gov
eminent has instituted suits against
Carter. He has been securing
evidence which he says is overwhelm-
1ngly convincing of the innocence of
the former captain. Savannah is the
last place he will visit. During this
week dispositions will be taken before
United States Commissioner Hewlett.
Property Never COnhscated.
''I have not yet seen a correct state
ment of the affairs of Capt. Carter in
the papers," said Mr.. Stone. THE
statement that his property. to the
amount of about 100000 was confis-
Gated by the government was simply
absurd.
II had an agreement with the au-
thorities that the property belonging
to Capt. Carter. which was the basis
of suits instituted by the government,
be put in the hands of a receiver and
be held subject to a decision of the
courts as to whether or not Capt. Car
ter was really guilty of the charges
on which he was convicted before the
court-martial.
Carter Working Hard.
1.-THE case will come up for final set
Element before Judge Kohlsaat in Chi
cago some time during the winter.
Since his release from prison Cant.
Carter has been devoting all of his
time to working on this case, securing
evidence which he has every conf
dence will eXonerate him entirely.
IF he is eXonerated the property
now held by the receiver will be turn
ed over to him, but if the finding of
the court-martial is upheld by the
Judgment of the federal courts Judg-
ment will be taken against the prop
erty, now held and the claims of the
government satisfied.
Convicted on Suspicion.
when Capt Carter was tried be-
fore the court-maT'tial he was con-
victed on the suspicion that the money
he had spent came from Greene and
Gaynor," said Mr.. Stone.
He testified that all of his money
above his salary came from his mil
Nonaire father-in-law, Robert f.
Westcott, of New York, and he tried
to get Westcott to appear and testify
TO the same effect, but Westcott fled
10 Europe, after refusing to testify
In Carriers behalf and everybody
thought that he fled because he could
not testify that he had given Carter
his money.
1.-The evidence is now overwhelming
and all one way, and mostly in writ
ing, that Carter told the truth when
he testified that all his money came
from Westcott. and that he never re-
ceived a penny from Greene and
Gaynor, and WeStcott's flight to Eu-
rope, as 1t now appears, was to save
himself from being investigated and
not to save Carter.
After Selling all of Carriers papers.
and after seven years of the most
thorough investigation, even the gov
eminent will not pretend that Carter
ever received a penny from Greene
and Gaynor, but the government is
now compelled to claim just what
Carter testified before the court-mar-
tial, that Carter got all his money
from Robert f. Westcott, and the
written receipts which Westcott took
from Carter when he gave Carter the
most of it. have been found among
Westcott's private papers and are now
in evidence.
Money Came From wescOtt.
This, of course, shows that the SEN
tence of the court-martial, which was
based on the claim that Carriers money
did not come from Westcott, was all
wrong, as it conclusively appears now
that 1t did all come from Westcott.
But in order to keep up the fight
against Carter as long as possible, the
government attorneys have discovered
new and brilliant after-thought.
They now claim that Westcott himself
got some money from Greene and Cav
nor and that Westcott got scared after
Carter was arrested and skipped the
country.
''Westcott told Carter that the money
he gave him was what he CWestcott)
tntended to give to his daughter Car
ter's wife, had she lived, and that as
abe had died, he wanted Carter to have
Il. Carter believed everything that
Westcott told him in those days, and
that is what ruined him.
Playing Both Ends.
'Tt would be a very strange thing
n the government could convict Car
ter before the court-martial on the
ground that the money did not come
from Westcott, and then turn com
pletely around and beat him again
on the ground that it did come from
Westcott.
THE day is not far distant when
the courts Of Justice will decide these
questions and in my opinion they will
hold in no uncertain terms that Car
ter never got penny from Greene
and Gaynor, and never got a penny
dishonesty from anybody.
Tor three years / have studied ev-
cry transaction in this case from be-
ginning to end and / have not the
slightest doubt as to Carriers honesty
IN every particular.
There is one thing. however, that
nobody wifi dispute. even now, and
that is that although Westcott fed,
and Greene fed, and Gaynor fled,
there is one man who has never fled
and that man IS Capt. Oberlin NJ.
Carter.
Carter Did Not Finch.
HE made the best fight he could
before the court-martial. He took his
unjust disgrace. without fiinching. He
took his punishment IN the peniten-
tiary without a murmur, and he is
still fighting 10 have the real truth Of
all these matters fully known.
HI4fc Kvorlf here iu Cayappah q.