The daily gazette., 1881-09-28
AGAIN THE INVESTIGATION.

AGAIN THE IHvESTIGATI0N.
| Wftnssses wh % swear that they
Bought street Dirt from Patrick
Gardner.
Last evening City Councils special
committee to Investigate the charge
Of Patrick Gardner, late foreman OF
the street cleaning gang that Street
Commissioner Lewis p. Lynch was
guilty Of selling the street dirt and
selling the proceeds, met again to
continue the examination Of wit
nesses.
Mr.. John Dunn, proprietor of the
Swan Hotel testified that he bought
street dirt from Street Commissio
Lynch; he went to Lynch's Office, on
Sixth street, ard Lynch gave him a
written order on Patrick Gardner.
He paid Gardner Eve dollars and the
latter gave him a receipt. There
were fully ten loads In the amount he
got. Mr.. Dunn said he did not know
Mr.. Lynch, and applied to the man
who was pointed out to him as the
Street Commissioner. He thought
the Office he went to was on Sixth
street, but was not certain. He said
when he arranged with Lynch for
the d rt he agreed to to pay rs cents
load for 1t.
Mr.. Lynch being present, asked
Mr.. Dunn If he did not tell him
when he got ready to nay for the dirt
to pay the City Auditor. Mr. Dunn
said he could not say whether be did
or not, but he admitted that he did
not pay Lynch and that Lynch never
asked him tor 1t.
Mr.. Hayes Chandler said be bought q
load OF dirt from man on the street
last March. He did not know who the
man was, but one of the other men said
1t was "the boss" Being questioned BY
Mr.. Lynch a. to whether be was the
man who sold him the dirt Mr.. Chandler
said be wss not. The man he bought
from was not In carriage but was on
foot.
Mr.. Taylor, gardener for Mrs. Jones,
Eleventh and Market streets, testified
that about last May he purchased six
loads Of street dirt from Patrick Gard
ner. He made arrangements with
Gardner, who charged him fifty cents q
load. He paid Gardner but took no re-
ceipt.
John Collins aud Martin Grant, two
street employees, who, according TO
Gardner's statement, shoyeled snow
from Lynch's pavement during the time
they should have been working for the
city, were directed to be summoned 10
appear before the committee, and also
Henry Alexander.
Patrick Gardner was called by Mr.,
Moore and asked II he was still In the
employ of the city. He said not, as he
was discharged by the Street Commis-
sioner, together with John Collins,
owen Monahan aud three others. The
reason assigned for his discharge was
because he would not stay with the men
at their work.
Mr.. Lynch denied having discharged
Gardner, and said John Collins was
still at work.
Col. II. s. McComb testified that last
spring he saw some nen gathering the
dirt from Market street, aud asked IL he
could get some of 1t. The man he In.
quired Of directed him to another man
designated as the "forsmau," whe con-
tracted with HIM at once for SIX loads.
The DIRT was delivered, and the money,
three dollars, paid at his Office. A re-
celpt was taken for the money and the
receipt was signed by . man named
Gardner.
Mr.. Moore, of the committee, moved
that City Auditor Ball be summoned
before the committee and testify 10 re-
gard to the amount of money for the
sale of street dirt turned into the City
Treasury during Lynch's term of office
a. Street Commissioner.
Mr.. Barnhill moved to amend by ex-
tending the time Of this examination
TO ten or twelve years back, so as to
cover the terms of previous Street Com
missioners. This amendment prevailed,
Mr.. Moore alone voting against 1t.
Just before adjournment Mr.. Lynch
made statement to the committee,
speaking In bis usual tragic manner and
"before God and his holy
angels that he was innocent of this foul
charge" He intimated strongly that
Pat Gardner was . perjurer, and Pat
angrily replied, but tile wranele was
stopped by the Adjournment OF the COM
miLt00 nnLil LhiR pvening