Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — CUBA FRAUD REPORT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CUBA FRAUD REPORT.

Bristow Says Rathbone Is Only Less Guilty than Neely. Official investigation of the Cuban postal frauds, made by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow has resulted

in the declaration that Director General Rathbone is guilty of gross official neglect and also of fraudulent practices; that his guilt is only less than that of Charles F. W. Neely and the latter’s subordinate accomplices, and that deposed Postmaster Thompson of Havana is involved in the network of fraud. These findings are made publie in the report of

Mr. Bristow. Mr. Bristow finds that Neely’s embezzlements aggregated at least $131,713, and says he was justified in recommending the removal of Director General Rathbone. Whether or not the latter was guilty with Neely in the embezzlements, he says, there can doubt that in the matter of unauthorized per diem allowances, personal expenses and warrants cashed and unaccounted lor, he unlawfully appropriated to his own use money of the Cuban revenues. For this, Mr. Bristow says, he believes Mr. Rathbone should be required to answer.

E. G. RATHBONE.