Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-09-29 | Page 2 | Carter Will Help Government

CARTER WILL HELP government chicago sept 20 aberlin M carter formerly captain in the united army who was released from ehg leavenworth penitentiary sonio time ago after having served a five year sentence on a charge ot having embezzled several hundred dollars from the united states government through construction contracts returned to chicago today and was examined before special examiner richard wyman the former army officer has completed hla sentence and Is now spending his time and money in helping the government in its efforts to recover money and property alleged to have been embezzled by carter while government engineer at savannah ga the matter now in question Is in connection with civil suits filed in the united states circuit court against carter and bamo bomo ot his relatives for the recovery of tile property the entire case has been referred to special master wyman to adako report carter has aged considerably but he withstood a bard cross examination in an apparently fearless manner during examination an effort was made to show that previous to the real conspiracy h and greene and gaynor the constructors alleged to have been implicated with carter in defrauding the government had loaned carter money and placed him in a position so that when he was made engineer in charge and bad the letting ot contracts they might have a claim upon him carter declares hat he never borrowed money from greene or gaynor but that he had written them concerning his investments BO that they could also invest the examination will be taken up again tomorio