The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-03-16

, terward the mother and two brothers
Of Dolly. who had been living in a
very humble way, bought and moved
into a nice red house on U-st N. w.
The house was newly furnished from
| top to cellar. While the Gaynors
lived in New York. Mrs. Gaynor made
weekly trips to her mother.
! The evidence in possession of the
! department of justice shows steal
| ings in the Savannah harbor con-
tract amounting to $2,172,3O9.06.
This case involves one Of the
most remarkable instances OF the
! conclusiveness of circumstantial evil
dences ever before the courts. The
circumstantial evidence consists of
, figures compiled by Mr.. Edward L.
Johnson, an expert accountant en-
| ployed by the government to analyze
and tabulate the checks secured from
! the various bands at which Greene,
Gaynor and Carter did their business.
and from the books of the New York
| stock brokers where Captain Carter
| invested his savings. From Johnson $
analysis, the government lawyers
have been able to trace every division
of money between the three alleged
| conspirators and to trace the share
of Captain Carter to the bonds and
stocks which the money bought.
If Captain Oberlin M. Carter had
been less methodica1 and thrifty in
his habits, Greene and Gaynor would
have a much weaker case against
them. Strangely enough, the evil
dence shows that Carter never did
anything with his ill-gotten gains
but to invest them Immediately in
gilt edge, low interest bearing rail-
road bonds and stocks. and he never
spent anything but the interest. Thus
1T happened that when the govern
ment detectives and lawyers set to
| work to ferret out the workings of
the conspiracy between Greene, Gay
| nor and Carter, they had little trou-
BILE in following the trail
The Trail Was Plain.
The divisions took place in New
York. This was quickly shown In
viz CNiuCiitC BdIHcd IIoIH UIdHy
sources. When the government made
| payment. it was found a third went
to a bank in Savannah where Gaynor
kept money for carrying on the bust
ness; another third went to a bank
| In New York where Captain Greene
kept his deposits, and the other third
went to Carter, who either put it In
the Union Trust company or deposit
ed it with Reed & Flag or other
brokers in the name Of r. F. West
colt. The latter was his father-in-
laws name
But most remarkable as an indica-
ton Of Captain Carter's careful and
thrifty ways is the fact tht in every
| division, and some Of them involved
hundreds Of thousands, the third
| awarded to Captain Carter was in
variably increased by an additional
payment of SIS. This puzzled the
accountants until they finally discov-
cred that. when the agreement was
| first made, and Carter was quite a
poor man Gin debt. in fact). the other
| parties to the conspiracy evidently
| had undertaken to pay Captain Car
ter's expenses for the trip to New
| York, making an allowance of SIS
| for this purpose. This payment was
| continued during all the years the
stealings went on, and the expert ac-
| countants found 1t necessary to add
| this sum in every division" in or
| der to make the total correct.
| showed is seen in an account of the
second division. This was under the
big contract of 1892. 1t appears that
Greene Gaynor and Cartar bad rnr,,,