Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — Carter's Stealings Located. [ARTICLE]

Carter's Stealings Located.

Officers are said to have found the whereabouts of nearly all the $722,05# which Oberlin M. Carter, former captain if engineers, was convicted of stealing while he had charge of harbor improvement work at Savannah, Ga. The money is invested in real estate and securities, and ft Is expected that a considerable sum will be recovered for the government The arrest of two or three well-known men charged with knowingly protecting Carter’s operations is likely to follow. Carter is now serving a five years’ term of Imprisonment in Dea ven worth penitentiary as the result of conviction by a court-martial. The government lost $2,500,000, but much of this went to Carter’s accomplices.