The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-06
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Of VANDER:B:||l||.TS: ).
Told Greene That He Once Kept
One Citizen Out out OF
Jail.
RELATION 10 CONTRACTS !
Received Large Sum, Says Wit
ness, for Influence With New
York Central.

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SAVANNAH CA, April 5.--Thc divls-
Ion Of profits gained from the govern
mont work In this district OF rivers and
i hart1ors was explained TO tho Jury IN
& the Greene and Gaynor case to-day by
Benjamin y. Greene, one OF the defend
u ants who occupied the stand through,
put the session Of the Federal Court.
& His version made X. r.. Wcstcott, father
ln-law OF Captain o. NJ. Carter partner
Z In the Savannah contracts, sharing pro-
n FITS equally with Greene and Gnynor,
who according to Greene paid Wcstcott
$4,000 or 10000 without the scratch Of
afpen having passed between them ana
+ merely to secure Wcstcotts Influence
when they should seek Il heavy contract
TO be let BY the New York Central Rail
K road.
Relations With Wescott.
Tho witness said that about 5000 900
4 worth OF brush was used In the 1892
contract IN excess OF the amount can
vasscd for and that about s311,ooO was
4 saved In not using stone. Captain Greene
denied that he was n party to any
e oppression q OF Contractor Twiggs. He
, said that Twiggs was In nowlsc n COM
n petitor OF his company. In reference TO
1.-THE charge that the specifications had
Stl1een so drawn ns 10 favor The defendant
4 contractors the witness Haid that he
L knew nothing of It and rs n matter Of
fact, did not think that they were 50,
drawn. He went into n detailed elucida-
4 tion OF his position.
Captain Greene was asked particularly
about his relation with r. r. Wctcott,
\ Carter's fathers in law. He sal he met
him III 1890. After Carriers marriage he
seldom ever sa W MIN Carter. He said
he did not think he had seen Carter
one hour In the aggregate in Savannah
since 1889. He denied that Z. Carter or
ii Westcott were interested with him In
the Orange, MI, sewer contract though
a 7Nestcott owned considerable property
there. Asked about Westcott's relation
with the New York Central Railroad
witness sale colt had often spoken
/ OF his intimacy with Sloan and the 4
Vnndcrblts. sa 4}-5g
q !.-He told me that he had kept w. Fl.
Z YnnderblltEout OF jail. and added. 'Wha t
do you think OF that7'5" said the Wit
Z ness: SIG showed me 4 letter OF condo-
4 lence from one OF the Vanderbilts at the
time of ibis daughter's death, and re-,
&ferred to the younger Vanderbilt as the
Share in Profits. Z
The witness said that Wcstcott once
offered Carter 100000 to come to New,
York and go, in the real estate !t business
with him. s8 Eli FIX S Il.
Greene claimed that NNestcott was a
partner in the Savannah contncts. and
shared In profits. one third Of which woe
paid him regularly IN tn the time Of
Wes,cotts departure for Europe. Carter,
however, was given not a cent, and
was not Mt all concerned. he said. The
: witness denied that he or Gaynor had
been flRltives from Justice from 1895 to
1902 Then, when the second indictment
was found. after they had come to sa-
yannah to plead to the first, ana were
under bono, {. Greene and Gaynor went 10
Canada. I'VE had no time for delay,
he slid. ''The notice came Tuesday OF
Tho second Indictment. We had to start
for Savannah or Canada. am not par
ucularly proud OF It. but we let 1t be
Canada. ~,
ri nv Judge s.. S.YAdams for the state.
Thc~ IS admitted that he and GAY
nor. while in Canada. mad regarueu.
themselves as fugttves from Justice. In g.
would have been willing ne sh'u, :. ~
nave been tried in New York. "h nGs
he lived.
Large Profits.
AZ the night session. Greene SAD that
+he profts he &and Gaynor haa maze
tro,, Tie 1896 contract. amounted to over
four hundred thousand dollars pelore me
work was stopped%by Major Gillette car
ter's successor ,s,3. ~. a., !, -,
At the conclusion OF me c ~
Z, Greene. numerous photographs were
i,ntroduced showing the work In progress
in savannah harbor, when the d ''
rested its case, a., i.
The government closed Its case al lo:4o
o'clock. Argument Will begin tomorrow
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