National Republican., 1874-05-29

alley? A. Yes, tir; they char yed TO the square
l40; it don't cay alley. It leaves It open to an
assessment TO every poor property holder in
there. If they had put 1t TO the.alley 1t would
be different thing.
@. It was proper TO be charged to that alleyi
A. Yes, sir; that is my opinion. They could
have said her place as easily as they could
have said square 40 and think that would
have been the impartial way of doing It.
l. Q. Then the dirt you hauled down 10 B
street, for what purpose was that hauleds A.
Mr. Clark was to put the pavement there and
bad the fllingto do. He came upto ask IL |
could spare the dirt to let him have 1t. His
| son and he were partners.
| %. That went into the contrsct and the con
tract was paid for, was It notl A. No, sir;
| there was no contract.
Q. You did not get anything for it. A. No,
sir; not any contract; L did not get anything
| for it.
Q. Mr. Clark had q contract Aldo not
know whether he had or not.
Q. Was he doing it for nothingi A. 1 do not
| suppose he was. He is not so liberal
| Q. Do not you know that he was executing
a contract there, and wanted this dirt TO help
him carry it out3 A. But that was not paw
ing me for 1t. Mr.. Clark was ordered to put
the dirt in there just the same as we were
doing. He was getting paid for N street.
Q. You were getting paid for fill in every
instance when you took the dirt awayl A. No,
sir. took no pay except for number of
yards took from Attorney General Williams
place. Not one cent anywhere else.
ing this sileyi
The Witness. What alleyi
9. In the square you speak of-140. A. No,
sir; never asked pay for II. If they had given
me the alley should have charged nothing for
| the other. :. .-..o
Q. When yon were doing this you supposed
they would pay you for the flll A. No, sir;
went to do Mr.. Williams work, and l ex-
pected to be paid for the other. Since have
been boy nine years old, have been an Or
phan and have had to work myself along, and
| neTer met with any party that treated me
so badly, and deprived my family Of my earn
ings, as have been done in this case. do
not see any use Of your cross-questioRing me
| about it.
/ 0. There would not have been any difficulty
If the Board of Public Works had paid you for
the filling of the alley! A. No, sir. They were
to pay for the work done in and around Attor-
ney General Williams place. asked pay of
| the board for taking of that hill, and nowhere
else at all.
l. Q. Who told you to take the earth down to
the fill on B street under Mr.. Clark's con-
tracti A. had the privilege from Mr.. Hill
when l took it there. l never claimed any
haul, or ever got anything for It. Mr.. Clark
his earth there. He got nothing for that haul
down there. His haul was measured from N
street to about Seventh and B. I never got
anything. and never asked anything; but when
was doing this other work l went to Mr.. |
Shepherd and told him. 1 said am In need
of little money. He said: ~ will give you q
nots to the board, and they will make settle
ment with you. When you have it measured
up that can be deducted from it." He called
some man, whom they styled doctor. They all
rank from brigadier generals down to captains, |
colonels, aud so on, there.
Mr.. Msttingly. You know DR.. Tindall, do |
you noti A. No, sir but he was little man,
and was q very clever little fellow. The Gov
ernor called him and told him to give me
note; and he gave me q note. He says to me,
"Do you understand thatP says, siNo, I do
not" He says, "When you go down there I
just call that OF to whoever you give It, and |
it will be all right" carried the note to Mr..
johnson and gave 1t to him. When went to
SEQ Mr.. Willard, he said he did not know any
thing about the work, and would have nothing
to do with It. A day or two afterwards |
called to see the Governor again. He said 1t
was very singular, something to that
amount. That he would see about It. So l
went down there and saw Mr.. Willard and
asked him if the Governor had said anything
to him. He said, "This is twice you have been
running TO the Governor about this work"
said, "Yes, and twice more If necessary" 80
eventually Mr.. Cluss came up and knocked US
of from the work, and said Il was wrong that
the work had ever been done, and thefa was
too much done now, and told me to quit that
night. said would do so. He sent an en-
gineer up and measured it. then went to see
the Governor, and told him about it. He spoke
in very emphatic language, and said that the
work should not be paid for while he was Gov
ernor. He said that Glen. Hill was an idiot
if he ever ordered it to be done.
Q. What objection had the Governor to pay
ing for this worki A. I do not know He
said he would not pay for it. showed him
the order for It, and he said he did not care
anything about the order.
Q. It never occurred to you when YOU were
doing the work that there could be any possi-
BILE objection to the Board of Public Works
paying for it, did It'll A. No, sir. I didn't
know what Arrangement was Made between q,
the Attorney General, for the Attorney Gen. !
eral hardly ever spoke to me. Mrs. Williams
was frequently about the place; she attended
to all the work herself there. The General $
was always of at his own place. 1 do not
think the General hardly knew how the ar !
rangement was. do not believe the General 7
had anything 10 do with it. So far as 1 ever
saw of him he is a perfect gentleman.
By the Chairman: Q. Do you think there :
was anything ungentlemanly about this per- Z
formancel A. think ought to be paid for
my work.
Q. mean up to the time they refused to
pay you! A. No, sir; If had fifty or one hun v
dred thousand dollars, and General Williams 3
or Governor Shepherd had come to me, they !
would have gotten the last cent. No man ap-
preciated them more than /.
Q. Your complaint really is, that you did I
certain work, and have not got your pay for itl
4. No, sir: have not. l even had to sell my t
horses and carts to pay my men off Christmas, v
and have paid the last penny owe. f
By Mr.. Wilson: 2. How much work did q
you do on the Attorney Generals premisesl
A. We'll, that is the measurement. v
Q. What is the amount-the number of b
yards removed from therel A. Nine thousand I
four hundred and eighty six yards.
Q. Who measured that for youi A. Mr.. U
Franklin.
@. How much of that have you been paid t
for7 A. Two thousand one hundred and thirty
nine dollars and eight cents. There Is q bal t
ance yet due Of 81 ,S92.O7. /
Q. How came you to quit the work. A. Mr..
Cluss came up, and knocked US off from work. 1
That was just about the time they talked about
having an investigation mp here. Everything
went on well up to that time. Mrs. Williams I
herself told me TO 60 on with the work until
the board told me to stop. She was perfectly I
willing to have the whole place taken down.
TESTIMONY OF d. c. FoRNEr.
D. C. Forney sworn.
By the Chairman: @. There was q gentle !
man by the name OF Reinhard here few days .
ago, who brought your name somewhat before /
make some explanation. A. Yes, sir; just ,
wish to state, in that part of his testimony
where he says shared profit with Mr.. Brown,
he is mistaken. never shared any profits, or
had any money transaction with s. P. Brown ,
that had any connection with the Board of
Public Works. ,
Q. Is there anything elsei A. No, sir; that
is all know of.
TEsrMoNT OF CLEMENT HILL.
Clement Hill, sworn
By the Chairman: Q. Were you superintend-
ent Of this work done by Riley & Clsrki A. }
] was, and gave them the contract.
Q. State now what you didl A. received q !
communication from the board authorizing me :
to introduce gas into the premises of Mrs. ,
Williams soon as could, and have such
grading on the premises as might be requisite.
Now the word premises" led me into = mis-
or about two lots on which her house vas Quilt
Acting on that / put this work ont. When that !
work was about being finished bill for alleys
and avenues was sent in by days labor, or ,
what I call "piece-work." / approved It, but 7
the board rejected It, and sent Mr.. Franklin to
measure 1t. The two approxmsted 50 nearly
that do not know which was paid, but it was /,
arranged 70 the entire satisfactionof all parties