The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-03
TENDERS HIS
 RESIGNATION Inspector Holden Leaves the Government. HIS PECULIAR TROUBLE Storey Cotton Company Had Loaned Him Money. ,Omcers of Concern Now Fugftives froa Justfce--Had Recommended Is-
 suance of Fraud Orders
 Against Them.
HIS PECULIAR TROUBLE

Philadelphia, April 2--George c. Hol- den. the inspector in the United States postal service attached to the Phi1a- delphia inspection division, wno admit ted yesterday that the Storey Cotton Company, most of whose officers arc fugitives from justice. advanced S1.100 to him as loan for q few days. has sent his resignation to wasnington.
 Holden says that he received tho money and paid 1t back few days later without any understanding or agreement with the Storey Cotton Company that he was to protect tho concern against investigation by the Postoffee Department.
 He. however. admitted that in ac- cepting the loan from that concern. he was indiscrset and thought 1t best. h view of the evidence in the case, to send his resignation to the Postoffice Department at Washington.
 The discovery that Holden received a loan from the Storey Cotton Cons pany was made Thursday, but was not made public until last night. A rec- ord of the loan was found while United States District Attornies Stewart and Sweartley of this city were making an examination of the books of the de- funct concern. for the purpose of get ting further evidence against Stanley Francis, who is under arrest charged with being an officer of the Storey concern.
 Holden Present.
 Holden was present when the dis ooyery was made The loan was en- tered in the general cash book and read:
 April 2s. 1902.
 George Holden. $f1oo"
 When the entry was shown to HoI- den hs was greatly surprised to find that it had been entered on. the books. His explanation at the time was that 1t was a personal loan.
 The matter was immediately reported to W. W. Dickson. inspector in charge of the local division. who in turn com- municated the facts to the Chief In- spsctor at Washington.
 By direction of P0stmaster-C General Cortelyou, Inspector Mayer of the New York division has been sent here and is making an investigation of Holden's connection with the Storey Cotton Company Inspector Mayer started work on the case yesterday and return- ed to Washington, where he had cons ference with Chief Vlckery. He cams back to this city tonight to continue his investigation. He declines to dis cuss the case in any way.
 Holden says that 1t was a personal loan from F. Ewart Storey. and he bee lieves that the item was placed on tha books to do him injury. Since the loan was made, he says. he has sent three separate reports to Washington, recom- mending that fraud orders be issued againt the Storey concern.
 Holden Interviewed.
 Philadelphia. Pa, April 2.--Inspectoz Holden tonight, in an interview. told how he came to accept the loan from Storey. He said he had been sent to the offices of the Storey Cotton Cons pany to make an investigation as the result of a complaint. While there hs met Storey. Holden was about to leavs the office when, in conversation with Storey, he (TIolden) incidentally men- tioned that he had to go out and raisa some money quickly to tide himsela over in a stock transaction. Storey told him he would lend him the moneys and Holden replied that he could not accept a loan as he might have to in- vestigate the company at future time. Storey, Holden says, assured him that the company was doing ie- citimate business and that he would never again have occasion to look into the affairs of the concern. Storey in- sisted, he said. in helping him out and Holden finally accepted a draft. Holden says he realized few minutes later that that he had acted indiscreetly and made every effort to pay the loan back as quickly as ne coulu. rms no uAu sA 8 few days.
 The Philadelphia Record tomorrow will say that in spite of Holden's de- claration, Harrison J. Barrett. form erIy of the department of justice at and nephew of the late James Tyner, who is involved in tho post office scandals, was the attorney for the Storey Cotton Company while he was actually connected with the de~ partment of justice. Asked if 1t waa true, as Holden contends, that Barrett was responsible for the failure of the post ofice department to Issue fraud order against the Storey company ana that he was their lawyer. United States District Attorney Stewart said tonight:
 T can only say the investigation in- 70 the Storey affairs and the discovery ,f certain papers seems to partially ,ear out that contention. I know what ne got"