New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-17
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE SCHOOL SCANDAL.
CONSIDERATION FOR THE POSITION OF TEACHER

Capnon situation in the East Fourteenthst School, was
continued before Commissioners Gross Lewis and SANDS
in the Committee Room Of the Board OF Education
yesterday afternoon.
OF the charge Chairman Of the Board OF Tfis
tees attended the meeting held in the seventeenth
Mr. vanderpoei here proposed to prove that at that
meeting the charge was made against tba sSynatbne
then said about its going 70 his we anu LII
The counsel argued that If it did 20 to ms VIE OF hn
dren it went through Hennessy thereby proving ehaI
Hennessy received the money which he has denied
witness e ,y saw a the he
Responsible that remark was Srog, hpo i Wy ebi
charge that he aaa ss s%e '0 10
Crosse xamnedI had heard OF the transaction DeIo,S
Mr. Mills at the meeting said II Mrs Hennessy or his
children had received 1t Mr. Hennessy liable thls
after Hennessys remark already SPOKEN ~, oi H,i
of Trustees we told him the Trustees could not investl
gate the matter he said he wouldn't go before the Board
Of Educaton told him the Trustees had no power 10 III
'i Harvey H. Wood testacd-Am inspector was
present meeting spoken Of Mills stated that Mss
Cannon had given Hennsssy 500 as present iOr is
children replied that he was going 70 hate n o
before the Board of Education as ne was gonH W 10
elected the Assembly and would introduce Oil apo
ishng the Office Of Inspector; to the charge nc had
nothing to do with any money that went to his wife and
children Mills said he was Just as responsible as II he
Observation-Disclosures heard of this affair from the
Janitor Of the Fonrteenthst school last - t
the time came and he would be shown up; nays Sen M
Frstst school, the Principal Of school PRESENT.
made suggestions AS to what she was TO swear 10;
hs sq place and T' Mr. Mills and called her
TO assure her that she had to do to tell the truth
saw in papers that Hennessy had tried TO INTRODUCES
clause into the Charter aboishing the Board of Inspect
ors can't remember that ever had conversation win
to touch matter at the proper time he meant to
bring it before the Board OF Education Hennessy was
President of the Board Of Trustees OF the seventeenth
Ward.
John Burns swornI was present at the meeting spo
that Miss Cannon had paid Hennessy 500; Hennessy
took the floor denying that he had received the money
and II his wife and children had he was not resp0nslDe
he was very much excited he said he worth $4,000
rossexamined- was some hard feeling between
Hennessy and Mills; Hennessy was angry; NILS came
on invitation, and was to be treated az gentleman
Edward Lane sworn was @ e a. e an ee Wes
messy denied it there was great confusion ana excte
ment, and got so excited 1 can't remember what was
Andrew Mills recalled-I attended the meeting spoken
o. at he request o. The P S at NV house she said that
she had handed the money to Hennessy VINO had gwen
We s before the trustees he informed that
they had power said would have the matter IN f
wife and children had received tho money he was not
Cross xamined-I know Kerr; he was janitor Of the
school he told me the occurrences he resigned his
Office the ls of January last told Kerr to tell the
She volunteered the information that she had paid the
money didn't report the matter Immediately FOR qua
ward l saw Hennessy but never told him of the
charge; / made 1t first at the Board OF trustees
elected to the Assembly, knew Of this charge before
went to Albany S q" S Tla Walked p
secondave; with him one night don't remember that
the Board of Education; did not prompt Miss Cannon
on her examination only advised her to keep cool
that the affair would not inurc her. think this was
after the meeting in the Seventeenth Ward her conr
nation was rejected she had heard was going to M
lure her. This closed the evidence in support OF the
chaTsgI counsel for Hennessy moved for the dis
charge Of his client the ground that not enough 10
him had Seea where S sys e was mo-
present when she gave tine monTy he t San naa
enough show that she knew the wrong she was com
hitting, and artful and intriguing woman He
then pointed her to OF the questions put
to her on her cross-examination which was that
tall, dark gentleman was win HenneSsy wnen sne
dicted herself grossly she was unworthy OF belief lie
pointed out many pa ss ts Wa
riated and carried out by Miss Cannon and Messrs
Commissioner Gross-we have no power to dispose Of
this cause; Committee appointed to take testl-
mony and report to the Board.
Mr. Hamett contended that the Committee had no
power the matter it should properly be tried by the
demanded that it report Immediately in order that the
Board should decide whether or not the accused must 20
into a defense.
The motion was denied.
John X. Hennessy, sworn on his own behalf-Am one
of the Trustees of the seventeenth ward and have been
for year and half; know Mary T. Conner recommended
her a teacher Mr.. Rochelle introduced her to
me about months he asked me 10 get the poor girl
position in "a school in my Ward agreed to do what
could for her because she was poor girl she called on
me twice, to bring her application, and once TO
bring a recommendation from the school from which she
graduated she never offered me any consideration nor
did Rochelle ever tell 1 to have
any; she never gave me an envelope containing money!
saw her last Friday weeks, after my return from Al
bany she came 70 my house and said she had made the
her that was wrong; had what could for her,
she orphan she had told me so; she went away
crying have procured appointments for some eight or
ten young in my Ward, and never received money
from them; have also appointed gentlemen, but have
appeared to be the poorest of all.
Crosse ned-Rec letter from Miss Cannon
Exhibit shown Never had this letter written Fitz-
simmons wrote 1T he Is my clerk never authorized him
asking advice about the report OF receiving the 500
didn't the before it went; never dictated it
knew what was IN it; had not told him the charge
urday night told he thought he had written let
ter; didn't ask him what was in it, think asked him
not didn't ask look it; Rochelle first brought
Miss Cannon about l6 months ago. she said she
C la4 hr %o % f eo If for Se sh
offered any presents; didn't tell her couldn't
ocSer nsss n r sf once intro
duced the principal of the school to her; saw her
her In the school; her In secondaye., in
Third Fourthaves; when saw her at my house she
applicants told her 50 at Mrs pavis's; she was
the report going around. and that it false that
the same night 0f the meeting OF the Trustees when
| l demanded an investigation; have known Ro-
chelle eight nine years; had been for some time
trying TO get her appointed to school, heard OF
my wife children receiving any money from her she
gave me two envelopes one containing application,
and the other recommendation she said nothing about
either OF tuem being "ove letter !" when she at
my house she offered to write letter generating
me, but would not take it, told her she had done the
mischief and nothing could save her; recommended
her last my colleagues last March, heard the report
for the first time when received the letter from her;
had heard 1t week before that, from one Of my col