Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-07-02

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them informal. but evidently 5ust had called unoS
the persons who had executed them and reaa;lv ,-ot
them 10 sign new, or duplicate receipts correspond,n
with the former in substance; but of course win
such slight variations. Of momeut aa we're seen to
be necessary to put them in proper form rhe well
known character Of Mr. Murden in this community
repealed the superstition that he would be the nstr,
ment. and the voluntary instrument Of a fraud,
and that OF the gentlemen upon whom he called made
equally improbable that they would concur with
him in it. Yet Auditor does not End the expla.
nation "satisfactory, but only anxious to find some
plausible pretex for the suspicious he is determined
to have, Tor to affect to have) sits down and sends
production Of these 'informal bills" With their
Corresponding receipts" lie adds also in his
letter: "One leading u,orc in rejecting the vouchers
OF old date in Mr. Murdcn's hand writing WIS the
conviction that all che receipts recently execu
tod 1t corresponding receipts given when the vouch-
ers bear date, although Informal were produced il
would materially change my view Of the claims, even
IT the inforuality were such as to preclude thc;r
passage as sufficient vouchers" Now the "ieadinr
notice OF the writer in calling for these old bills was
grossly apparent the worry face of his letter and
saw It at once but perfectly conscious of the entire
honesty Of all my transac tons and WILLING TINT bo
should show himself ut full length, deiermipcd to
let him have them for bis use; and called accord
ingiy as he says, few days afterwards at his office
ana ieit them With him, informing him at the time
that if he wanted any explanation of them WINS rem
dy to give it, and that the gentlemen themselves,
whose accounts they were, were almost oil of them
still living and persons of great respect bility from
whom he might easily obtain any further information
that he might want about them. Aner this I cali
ed upon him, on two three different DAYS but
finding that he had yet looked into then. las he
soid and stating my desire to to Norfolk he
observed that ! might do so when pleased and that
ne would look into thcm when he could find time g.
inform me OF the result. After this heard no more
OF these old bills till saw in his Report that he had
set himself down seriously to compare them with the
new ana formal ones' and finding (what he knew be-
tore be must necessarily find some small differences
oetween The two, which he fsnced be could use a
gainst me, he had concluded with his friend the Spc
retary to send copies of them off to the House, which
ae says VIII be found to the ri ght of vouchers No.
to a., each one being placed opposite to the bills
which have been made out Of it," He adds "How
Tar the manufacture OF 1929 corresponds with the
raw material, the reader may at glance" lob
sverve, 'the reader may see at glance"
Here he quite torgets that he is addressing his
honorable friend, and making a grave report for the
House, but evidently fances that he still writing
slang article for the Argus for which indeed the
bic differences which ''the reader NAV see at a
glance, should yet escape his notice. few of these
correspoudencies are here exhibited, land no doubt
he has taken good care to pick out the giarng
ones for his eri,6hon,) they SAVERS, Seed g.
Cooke 8 Co.'S and Granier's bills-only four-and
we shall see what sort Of a show no can make out of
them The first is that of Joseph SAVER, IA very
worthy man and well Known hore) and thus II re,d
"Ertrdeted from an original bill of 1854 go"
Navy Depsrtment,
Po Joseph SAVER
Q pieces Russian Duck, IL 90 90 90
Making "a sheets o5 M
Making "a pillow cases ieI Q 90
S4a 90
NoRFoLK, Dec. 10. 1917.
i Received ed Of Miles King Navy Agent at Norfolk
eighty seven cents, in payment of the above.
JOSEPH SAVER.
.Ne,o Biz.
Navy Department for the Navy Hospital
IN r.
August Goth, for "a sheets, g.. M
NonFoLK, August, 1919.
Received of Niles King, Navy Agent, FORTY two
dollars, IN payment Of the above bill
JOSEPH SAVER
ltere we have the articles, at the same price
making the sa,ne slan and the receipts according.-
Surely then, Mr.. Murdcn had some right to saw the
bills, correspond. But our Auditor who looks more
closely into things, sees at there q great diff
ference between thenn and il is that there are three
items 10 one and only too in the other Yes; but if
he had only looked little closely STILL he might
have discovered, that the item Of the old bill which
ID omitted in the new, to vt the three pieces us
sian DucR," was really implied in the two items of
the latter as is quite clear that the "sheets and
pillow cases must have been made and, very proba-
bly,, out OF "Russian Duck" But if he had wished
to crafty bis Dquistve turn of mind little further
ey fndlng out more particularly, how this important
difference had been made, and had written another
letter TO MIR. MurdsD upon the subject and request
ed him to explain the affair, he would have discover
ed that Mr. NJ. had made the mysterious alteration
himself, only to make 1t correspond" with the entry
of the very same account on the book Of The Navy
Storekeeper at the Yard, who not knowing in what
form SAVER had made out his account. had made his
entry IN his own way for the articles which he had
received without noticing the materials of which
they bad been made; and If he had yet further desired
to know the "ieading motive" which had led Mr.. NJ
TO make the chang, he would have learned
wha could not have failed to have been very crafty
ins! that Mr.. had done it purely 10 please him
that n, to put the voucher in the very form that he
required. This is the first Of the exhibition:
and really II is hardly possible to imagine one that
could have been more happily contrved 10 cast ridi-
cule upon the showman, his affected suspicious, and
real intelligence, and cover his whole character and
conduct as an officer with indeble Disgrace
The next bill is that Of Robert T. s eed. In gentle
man OF the strciest integrity and stands exhibited
in this way
"ETiraeted from an original bill Of S2.257 O5
Miles King,
1917 Bought of r. f. Steed
Dec. 4. DC bbbs mes. beef at Sl5 90, 600 0O
80 prime pork, % DC, Ola :
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