, 1881-01-15

done"
TIL, rEnsosAt-rnorEvrs wAn,ASr,
TINT there lavo been attentions In Tho realty
II couldn't tell tint. mn not eonycrsnnt
enough Will tllU miitter to know about that"
tv a!aHG wrnnn; Y!' ever sect t'o le'soa'''toper'
=" 80. nnf know nothing about It,"
a,.a liaSe q; 20" ever bccn III tic County Clerks
Yes, AM often engagcd over there"
,xarr,i, a yan % "SeF Gull Tor personal'property
1,r .Snt 4sa 5,enenHsr; have for tho 11ye
"ls II usual tlIlnE ior tax-aEentss 10 cal1
for t!ic rerso1in-,lr1perty warrants Y"
ulhc ohiy reas!,n lEnil .Woiild llnve for
calling for 1t would b. IL find u;.l wltilt soma
ntn's WIS nssesse!E. Ii l,c asi:c,l ii clerk, the
:, Could j. yxa'ni'lo Ii without e. 1 clerk be-
!" "Np, slr: 1ne.cr did, They always told
Nie what tho assessments were"
,,"as "nglr't pI;obcy Il Booth Know what their
"ltell the,n md they send . check"
~. "ls ta5 tue only 'ira you did business for
II 10 business for lots Of firms"
"I,ut that + tiie nniy ono Whose ASSESS
msnts {. Hss Msrs : reduccd?"
"Suppose three otl!cr OF these firms stnto
t!,at yon nt!cM! !, 70 tho tux matters, are they
II don't know what to say rs far as tint IL
are not telling tlla truth"
"llaye yon dono business for uny Of these
oths; !!Nd'n ''%"'s ?"
., "It ,tlloy soy yon lave, thoy don't tell tic
Mo, / put In a petition for Montgomery
Ward & Co., but don't know w1nt tho Coufl-
T. Board iId with 1t. l don't beie'o 1t got
,,,,ls! ni,ia yo, n, put In petition for Lotion &
mo, sir"
"Sf "RoIH q!'on'l to their bus'ness'"
a." .""Sapgosq, s AR Mr.; 13lldrch says he gave you
You dla nothing for Randall. Hail & Co.
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did you over work in tho County Clerks
Yrs, at tho time Gen. ,Licb was thero,".
pue!!e%' Ms5s the w'F'''''' books open to. 'a'
"No, sir,-nover saw them. II people
wn''tod e SEQ tle'n they lad to go and ask
,."I, ,"DiI = ;eH;, s'erk stand by while man was
"Onu III, e..ell s!tla.of you MI tic tlnle.'
"Tlen ntl outsider couldn't u!ake altcra-
II don't see ROW le could.n .....,
"ls It your lslea that TUG changes wero
t1Atlg BY sOlIe one IN the uitice?"
No, sir. lnvp III, idea aooutit. don't
SEQ how 1t could b0 d0HD by nn outsider, II
there were alterations
ATT Is POSSIBLE FOR 4 TAX AGENT
TO make an. arrangement. with merchants
and have Il clerk inside 10 do the work."
- don't kn9w l,ow 1t could be done, but
SUPPOSE It could ho ts"nc:" ..,
tho rcal.es,ato warrn,,t us well as tic persol-
al.property warraHt?"'
~, "iIow IL could l know anything about
-, Would ,, they alter ono without altering
II don't know how that Is. I don't know
what they can do. liayo no Idea"
oais hst ' tleJS H. Sss fsR y altering Tue real
don't know anything about It. | can't lntl
out wlsnt ll8o uurG would be III altering tho
Collectors book when tho Assessors buok Is
" DO you understand That it has hccll tho
habit heretofore Of the Assessor to check tho
warrant with hts books9"
,, !" ! q, aon't h kn9w. ], 1ncver was in tho Col
:" Unless tl,at had been tho practlee what
risk Wos1ld there 10 III changing tho war;
=" / don't know. l don't know what they
srTst pig tssy g' uso to prove the amounts in tho
"'rl,ey never 1lnyo done 1t until this yenr."
It should be Stnten that AIR. Futon is q
nervous nln1l, AMI Ills nervousness lnny ac-
swcrs.
WHAT TAy1.on sAfs.
The reporter saw Mr. Taylor, tho manager
Of. roboy y lsooth. who couldn't toll how he
paid Afr; Eatot!,wwhetl,or, ~ the l1G or the
ysh' ynx Is HI s swsvS, IS ,o 'st St D5a 5 l% sr Sy IT,
rowea nioney. and they hal SQUARED ac-
counts. Nj. Eaton had attended to the tux
matters ut thu tr,n for four 0r 1.-Two Year,, Htll
neoh9s 10 laa always found him stralght and hon
It Is not believed that either Eaton or
Gleason had llaMl III the work
ono T. thG G coHnty " CaGrks 1ssi h4'. That
fos at'ax IL Stss2 " ss ha ays sS%Sst nas t~u' i
erasures AMI written In thirty-Blx figures ut
ono, tno, or ut dllferunt tilncs, with
out being detected. 4 strongly cnrroGoratiya
ssssss st He' e H. iano sntase oss fs'sss e. % @
reduced on Assessor Drako's books. Tllls
was tho only Instance out of TIC seven wllero
tl,nt WIS long: JHst 6efor9 sedIng tc ,a ~,
ehecked them with l!le originals. a1ld thu
two correspondent. Wien the copies reached
tho County BUILDING they wcrc put i'lto tho
vault. and, accorsl!ng TO the clerk IN charge
q t!leln. i'9 outsId0r over called fur o1le.
Yet, when tho rcslucc, assessments woro dis
| covered nn the warrant. reference to tic AS
scssor'a duptlcate IN the vault disclosed That
the vallSati1n OF the .neTcllendise Of llaMil,;'
from 6l3,0o0 to $1,000. tho latter amount l,ay-
ing been transferred to tho warrant, and
nnsx tis ta*ss o Y ,,v ths 5m e extended 9, thHt
alteration wes asie bsfore i1 tic book ' ioft liz
Assessors Office, but thfB IL absurd. for dis