The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-27
VOL. KILL.

| up ahead Uf iiIe.
| Mr. t'rpies Whose duty. Il IL. Mr. Dene.
gri, for orders ~ he written Il, t6at booke
| Mr.. Dcnes,i: The Inspectors and his As
staut.
Mr. Prydc: Don't you sometimes enter
orders
! MIR. Denrgri: YES, sir, have done SO, but
| don't think bavc done so since you have
been inspector. have cancelled an order
| with lcad-pcncil, btit don't remember to
| have sent M order for change in meter.
MIR. Pryde: Mr.. Denegri, did you not re-
nsark that bad brought you into this thing,
and that
WOULD RErENT OF IT?
Mr.. Denegri think / might have said 1t.
- Mr.. Pryde: Did not say that | wanted a
! clean Investigated cF it. e, H.,
Mr.. Denegri Yes. think rou did" =.
Mr.. Prytlc: Was the office door open when
YOU came into the hall on TUESDAY.
! Mr.. Dencgri: Yes. sir; and the boy was
cleaning up in the hall.
CHRISTIAN sCnAFFER RE-EXAMISEp.
Mr. Kelley Mr.. Schatier. tell us all you
know about those altered figures.
Mr. Schafer: Tuesday about B or O'Clock
Mr.. Wood was sitting ut the window and l
stood talking to him. Mr.. Dcnegri stepped
| into the Office aud took seat in front OF the
| first desk and took out the order-book. In a
lew minutes he said, "Schaffer, who made
this tigure?" He had his finger on the first
| order. of a certain page, which was dated on
the 24th 1t was OH the top of the page. lie
| pcinted 10 the figures "a. asked who wrote
| tho order. He said Mr.. Pryde. | had not
looked at it, but remarked that if he
| Prydc) wrote the order he must have
made the date alio. He then showed me
another order. which WAS the tirst on
another page. He asked me the same ques-
ton, and | S,id it looked like knowies's.
asked him if he made the figure. He said
no. \ few minutes afterwards Mr.. Emmett
knowles came in and Mi. Denegri shut up
the book and put it in the desk. Mr.. EN-
nett Knowles told him to SO on Fifth street,
nj 80. and turn ON the gas. This was about
/ o'clock. | am sure that it was Oh s'ils
occasion. the occasion OF Denegri's first visit
to The office. He took the gas key or stop
cock kew and went of. | did not see HIN
IrnccrT again until the next morning.
Soon after he left. pryde came In the Office
and took seat ut the desk. Mr.. George
i Prince now came in and asked to hnve bis
y:lS turned on, aS he had returned from
visit to the country. Prydc said all rlshtt,
and asked if he O'riuce) had his buggy with
him. Mr. Prince said yes. Told me 10 go
with Prince in his buggy and turn on lils
.;,S. which did. 1t was now past 4oclock.
left Mr.. Prydc, Mr.. Knowles, and Mr.
Wood in the office. l think. though L am
not certain, that Mr.. Wood was there. Ar.
Prince brought me back, and | found Mir.
rrydc aud Mr.. Mccarthy in the oftice. !
think this must have been about O'Clock.
| Al tCl2 Mr. a
state of Princes meter. which he entered on
the book. 4 few minutes later went out.
When came out Mr.. Pryde and Mr.. Nc
Carthv were sitting in the window in the
hall. | told MIR. Prydc that ] WAS going
home. It was about y o'clock. On We'd
nc-day murrng | got to the office about
quarter 10 3. No one was there then, and
everything was closed up. stepped down
to see you about some gas bills. wanted
an opportunity of defending myself. | went
up again and found Dcncgri and Page.
think, in the office. Soon afterwards the
other men came in. My attention WAS first
called to the alterations when the ordcI-booh
was wanted. never knew it until then.
Mr. Kelley: Who had the locks put upon
those desks:
Mr. Schatfcr: Mr.. Fryde, about week OF
, ten days ago He generally kept the keys
though during the day lie left the keys with
Mr. Page.
Mr. Kelley Did you ever see Dcnesri
/ have the keys
Alr. Schailcr: No. sir
: Mr. Kelley. Did YOU ever see Denegri have
t the book at any other time than when he
showed it to you:
Mr.. Schaller: No, sir.
Mr. Kelley: Did he havea pen i'll his hand
:, then?
j Mr. Schatltr: No, sir.
Il Mir. Kelley: Huvu you any reason to be
lievc that he altered those figures?
{ Mr.. Schailer: No, sir; have not.
Nj. Kelley: Could TINT erasure and those
alterations have hcen made without attrac'
ing your attention:
Mr. Schatler: No, sir.
Mr. Kelley: want you TO say, in the pres
, ence Of these gentlemen, if YOU have any
= calsc to believe that Mr.. Frankn's tigurcs
have been altered, and if 50, who altered
them!
Mr.. SchMiler: | only think that
! MR.. PRSDE ,xNsw SOMETHING ABOUT IT,
! though won't swear to it. | think so be
: c.itse Mr.. Franklin told me about two
months ago that there were three bill
against him. He had been away, and thest
bills were lying OH the desk at one time. L
was about O'Clock in the afternoon. | wa
y in the office, and Mr.. White was making Ou
, | gas bills. Mr.. Franklin stepped in, and
| told him that he was the very H,an | wanted
| to see. He asked me for what. l told hin
that there were three gas bills that were
against him. He said, "iou are mistaken
they have been paid" l told him if the!
were he needn't pay them over again.
had been Watching these bills because l haC
charge of the delinquent lists, and knew they
were not paid. | went into the Auditors
office thelf and got the check-book, and
, found they were not marked paid. | took
the book, put it before MIR. Franklin, and
, showed him where the bills were, and that
he was mistaken about their being paid. He
, said, Never mind they are paid. whether
they are marked so or not. l have the re-
, ccipts for them" / tore up the three old
bills then, and told him to look up the re.
ceiptS, and when be came down again to
, bring them. ] sald that it often happened
that persons paid and they We're not checked
OFT. lie said
THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
will have it attended to, l forgot to say,
however, that Mr.. Franklin told me thut Mr.
/ pryde had paid those bills and he had the
receipts for them. thought he had the reSu.
lar office receipts from that remark. This is
about all that know to connect Dir. Prydt
with it. ! had IA conversation with Mr.
Pryde and told him that Mr. Franklin had
been there to see about it. think | told
him that Franklin had told me that the bills
were marked paid but had not been checked
of. / don't think Mr.. Pryde made any re.
| snnnSe | don't remember that any one else