Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-08-17

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your marking your bid in certain
manner, l can detect it if it exists
Saw papers passing between them
think G. drew out copy book which
he said contained a lid for books, Du.
lany saw it; 6. said he did not receive
it from the board didn't say who gave
it to him, but said he was acting in a
| private capacity; in a half houl they
separated, agreeing to meet again al
| Oakland, Deer Park or Bedford; it
was understood that G. was to furnish
Dulany with certain bids; am certain
this gave Dulanv an unfair advantage;
] believe an object of the meeting was
to show Dulany bids; the main object
to discover crookedness.
Cross-examined by DR.. Getzendan-
ner:
Met DR.. Getzendanner July 20; in
the afternoon he asked me to hunt up
| Mckay; don t remember whether he
said Cochrane had permitted Thos.
Paul, jr., to make copy of Dulany's Z
old bid for the purpose Of enabling
Medairy to bid under; mentioned
something about it, but gaveno name;
DR.. Getzendanner asked me to go to
Baltimore and give Mr.. Dulany a copy
of a copy of an unofficial bid made
| by Baltimore house; l made a copy
but did not 90 to Baltimore as DR.. G.
was not disposed to pay my expenses;
there were written instructions on the
third rage Of the copy, showing how
Dulany was to fix his bid to detect the
supposed fraud; Getzendanner told
Dulany at the meeting in the woods
that he had elected that secluded in
terview because We have men in this
county who are continually spy ing
about, who are reporting matters that
do not concern them, and our object
which is to detect fraud, would be
defeated. DR.. Getzen tanner told Du-
lany that unfair advantage had been
taken Of him, in that copy had been
furnished another Baltimore house,
and that therefore he gave him now
copy of an unofficial bid in orde, that
he might be able to discover supposed
fraud. Dulany said, "Well Dr.. this
will enable you to detect the fraud
but it won't do me any good" Dr..
G. said this meeting must be kept
or all efforts to get to the bot
.yg a's fraud will be useless, and
the pe.fvtl..rr viii not be detected.
/ The meeting then az, rrned until .
o,clocN : III.
Afternoon SESSION.
Or. G. II, Getzend>nner testified:
, d. my endeavor to find ouy Gt1i.fair-
ness N the part of Mr.. Cochrane, i
expected to implicote member Of the
board, namely DR., + L, 1enberg. If nv
information from outside pa. ,::as prov
ed true. Thomas paul, ir., stated q
me that he had written Mr.. Medairy,
q Baltimore publisher, that money
would be needed to bribe Dr. Fun
denhcrg. His reason for saying this
was that Cochrana might nos be able
to control Nj Dicl1ias0ns vote as he
had promised, and that two votes
were essential to success. Mr.. Paul,
lr., never insinuated to me thai DR..
Fundenberg could be bribed, nor did
he ever indicate to Inc that Mr.. Coch-
rane could be corrupted.
Witness being asked why he did
| not consult with Mr.. Dickinson IRE
naming member Of the board) with
regard to supposed Irregularities of
Cochrane instead Of calling on Nc
Kay, Dulany and Bell all outsiders,
declined to answer the question
Upon a recent visit of Mr.. Medairy
to Frostburg, he called upon me and
seemed to he sure of his man, and
submitted certain books he wished to
introduce in the schools of the county,
and said he would pay me we'll for
my trouble in examining them. I re-
marked, that smacks of bribery, and
he mus suppose | would accept pay
for doing my sworn duty. He an.
swered this is not a corrupt sugges-
ton. It would be simply oompensat-
ing you for your time and trouble. 1t
was after the conversation with Me
dairy that Thomas Paul, jr., showed
me the bid. My object in urging Mr.
Coc!rane to write on the publishers,
to get in their bids not later than
Tuesday, before the meeting of the
board, was to give him ample time to
open bids, as understand he agreed
to do. Mr.. Cochrane did not write
as requested.
| Here Mr. Cochrane asked witness
where he got one Of his (Cochrane's)
| postal cards, which he held in his
hand; also, whether it was not direct
ed to W. J. G. Dulany & Co., Balti-
more. He declined answering either
question. Witness resumed: Iswear
most emphatlcally that Dulany or any
person in his behalf never offered me
any money or other consideration
Mr.. Dulany never stated that he ex-
pected to profit by any information ]
might have of fraudulent transactions
Of the Examiner. Mr.. Dilany said
he did not wish to profit by any ir'
regularity, but I want to post you as
to the methods adopted in awarding
contracts, and he advised me of Ger,