, 1876-03-30
THE COUNTY HOSPITAL.
Makes Unpleasant Charges
Against Bailey;
And Says tho LATTER Made Crooked
Propositions to Him;
Bailey Explains and Denies tho Statements

I. was 1umorod nbont tho County 1,nl,dinG
yesterday that Ms]so I'a1oy. tho Superintendent
Of buildings, had acted rather quoozly In la no.
gotiattonB will Contractor Se1ton to compel him
to cease work Gil tho foundations for tho bud-
Ings now in courpe Of construction on tho Eitoof
tho now County 1Iopp1tal. It was charged that
made by tho Change, mud thnt iao also Indirect.
) mado some sug5eAtlous through q
third pntty that q compromise could DO cirectcd.
III order to find out tho truth or talAi!y Of tloao
Statements, n TgmrsE reporter was detailed 10
scaroh ont tho bo:tp,u facts In what loolss inst
nov like very osll. not to say rather erootoJ,
transaction. Tho rapersor first called on
Ancni1EcT cocnnAaE
at hia Office In tho Nixuu Binding, corner Of
LaSa1o md Monroe slrcotu. Said tho reporter 1,
"What do you know In regard to a1iho Bailey
having told Sexton TINT tioro was monoy in tho
job In casn tho founhas!on-walls for tho new
hospitnI-kichcn wcro Hunk tlaerer ~
"NotliinE: ohly What was kaid about tho
County building. You'd better Heo Hs1ton,--
ho'll tall you all about 1t.
".l5Mt, by-the-by," continued Mr.. cochrane,
"doit yon think 1t rather queer that l,atloy
should hnvo Btampod my plans as in accordance
with tho city ordinance. WHOM ho insisted before
that they were not? Tho requirements of tho
city or!tinauce arc that foundations 10 laid bo-
yond tho froet.lino, and apociiies no dopth for
laid In comens II went inches dropor in
that ground wonllt not got M eoltd founln-
zion aB do now in the hnrd, yellow clay, nt a
dopth Ut 81 feet. Aside from tllat. I lay tho
wsllH y N te"t under ground, by rafting i foot
Thts'mas all Alr. Cochraus bud to say. THE
noxt man called upon was
... stls. =. ]. SEXTON,
tic contractor for tho work, His of}ce Is ut
Nos. 5S md 10 pac!tio nyenue, wle1o TI1E Tn1n-
uNE reporter found lin. Tho frat question put
10 Mr. Sexton waa Whether Mike Bailey had told
him that S10,UoO OF sl2, 900 moro money could
10 1nndo by him By tinking tho walls incuos
deersr; Said tue c9ntrGctor
Friday morning last eaw Afr. Dailoy for tho
frat ind only tlm0 on tho County Hospital
grounds. Wo grnstod oach other cordially, mud
lio took RIO to ono sido anti said that tho walls
we.e not dcep enough by incheU, according 10
whispered eonildentially IN my car that 1t would
make u,ntlcr Of difference to 1De but that ~
Was o good t.ing, md could matfo from 5lO,-
000 to 912 Uo0 ont Of tue COUNTY for extra work."
"What did you reply Z"
VI hadn't tlnlo to pay much JUS. then, AZ my
tennis wero coming in so fast. but norely re-
pliod that was II tho building hutineBs, and
Cook County waB a. good ~ anybody to work
for 40 fat as pny NGH concerned"
"pd hH my my more n ri, on sa. tho subject :"
tho story to lin Just as ho had whispered 1t to
me-"
"whst did tho foreman ropiy7" =
"1Io had nothing to say. lie merely told
mo-"
QUEER, VERY QUEER.
"Dld Bailey tell you tho walls would hays to
10 taken down ~
9tkolhtng OF tho kind, then. 10 made no
such proposition undera point OF law or any
thing elBe-s
Ibid lie tlon complain Of tho mortar
mo. sir. That's tho renson eaia he wna
sneak was tho contractor for the work, and
tho only person 10 talk 10 who should havo made
tie correction. II such wore tho facts.'
II ddnt got notice, na told you previously.
Before loft tho ground Friday, 1lt, Cochraue
canlo over. aud sail TINT Batloy had boou In Lis
Office. and said that the mortar wns not good.
where think tho dirt came 10. am using The
best mEteriaIs for making tho morsars that aro
obtainab]o."
..DId Bailey maI1c my otbor crooked suggos-
tiop7"
but FRIDAY evening last two mcu callcd upon
ny foreman OF carpenters, Frank Conuors, at
tho County Hospital and profeasod to DO 3liko
Ha,iey'n frlcnsls. They told Copnora that they
conid ts Il for mo rith NikS ]. a. Bailey, 70 keep
accommodation, that they could fix tho thing
all right"
"WLat lil you think Of that2"
II thought tho proposition Was absurd.
conle and 70 just na often aa 10 rloasod,-that
his actions wero nothing to me-
"Ncse any tet1na sugEoHted2"
"No. But the tondency looked that way, and
suspected something wrong and t4atn why 1
spoke TO Mike Bailey In bis oiilco as did slon.
day last."
Tho uext move on tho carpet was to find Con-
nors, aud 500 what ho lad To say on tho subject.
lie was discovered at tho Hospital grounds.
CoHNEns' RTOnY,f
"Dll any of Alike lIailsy'a friends como to
you aud suggest that a. arrangement on Ills
part could 10 rnade With Boxton 30 that ho
wonld 10 bothered no moro by hm3"
"ieu."
"Wlo wore tho partlos who made tho propo-
Thoy vore William Kelly, 9as-atsor In the
building, and lila brother"
"Wlio is ke!y?"
-" ilo iv friood of Dailoy's, md political
Horker In fIs warl."
Swell. Az near ~ can remember, lo ro-
nueated mo to ask Euxton sl,othet 1lo would like
to have Mike Ialley stop coming hero. told
hlm that supposed Mr. soxton dldnt want to
Du you talk to Mr. Boxton about It p"
.'Ycs, ! told him. believe. that night"
"wAat did ho Bay 7"
"1fo saitl ho didn't caro- cont for 1li1,s Bailey.
lie could como Aua 60 whon no plonsod, il 1t
Ibid Kelly make any positive domapd for
eTccting tho coulpromiaoS"
mo. lint 1t looked to mo as though tho
thing wonld llayo worried that way"
'.Do you th1.k Bailey suggesteaa thls thing p
KelIy 60 10 ono aldo for q confidential talk, tho
othor lnorning2 Vol, HOLLY told NO that he anil
bailey talked tho thing over thon, And that la
(KellY} told him not to DO anything ,till ho had
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