Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-10-29
Tho City Treasury Audit.
To ne Editor of he Commercial Is.


In your valuable paper, tissue of Oct. 9Th, )there
appeared II communication signed &C." making
a false and unjust attack upon Mr.. Jas. Wooley
regarding the reports of the amount of Mr. KILL
gore's defalcation.
Since said issue, have waited in expectation
OF reply from Mr.. W. but knowing his aversion
to newspaper notoriety am not much surprised
that none has appeared. AS however said COM
muncation is calculated to grossly misead the
public, deem it but proper to say few words
IN defence OF the truth, and in justiflocatn II of
Mr.. w.
The first report ALLUDED to, based solely on the
books Of Mr.. Killgore, and showing deficiency
OF s62lO.04, was given to the Finance Committee
as the result of the audit of said books in the
usual manner, and before any test of the same,
by comparing the receipts with the deposits in
bank, had been applied. AS was originally in
tended however, this test was afterwards made
and the second and correct report was the re-
suit.
This second report shows the exact difference
between the absolute receipts, verified and ac-
lnowledged, and the actual deposits in bank,
and proves that Mr. H. received S4340.29 more
than he deposited which fact is we'll known to
MIR. X. himself and his reported denials of his
being in default can subserve no good to him in
the end. The results unqnestionably correct and
states the actual amount of the deficiency, and
this could have been obtained long ago, but that
under the instructions of the Finance Commit
tee, Mr. w. was first directed TO audit the books
OF mr. ~ hh usual III Sucn cases, anu tnlb made
IL necessary to go through, item by item, the
work Of three years.
Tho difference between the two reports shows
the errora arrived at in this books between the
making of said reports to the Finance Commit
ter. amounting to 1870.65.
The 578.SS which g. makes such prominent
feature Of his communication, is OF no moment
Whatever affecting the trle amount of the
defalcatiou. 1t il merely what it purports to be
in said report, VIZ difference between the
corrected showing of the books, (full they are
of conflicting and erroneous itens) and the true
result az obtained by deduclng the total depos-
It'd from the total receipts, and was put in in
that shape, because 1t was not deemed worth
while TO spend more time in working the books
to any closer approximation to what was known
as the true result.
Again, G.. knows he gives false impression,
by implication, when he says tive will know in a
short time not year the exact status, &C." He
know full well that MIR. W. had not been year,
nor half a year, at Mr.. KS accounts. The IN
yestigation into said acco UNITS was not COM
menccd until tho latter part of February, 1874,
and was finally concluded in the forepart of
August, 1874, and during all this time, such OF
the current work as related to the new books,
opened by Mr. W. for the city, was attended to
day by day, rs also various other duties of NOM
ent imposed on him from time to time by the
| Finance Committee.
And now how about this short, sharp, and de-
cisire examination by Gen. Lansing
| When is tle public to know the result which
is to make ali things lovely, and to apnihilate Mr..
| WOoley? When is the inquest to be begun or
| if it be so important to the interests Of Sc,
why ia it not begun at once Isn't there some
little gas about this, empty as air, as there as
auredly is about the rest of "G's" communica
| ton J.