The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-28
Balance unaccounted for, s6es.29.
WHAT MR.. JENKINS SAID.

DAaiCe unaccOuntu Iori tOOS.Zo.
WHAT MR.. JENKINS SAID.
The gentlemen named as paying the
amounts opposite their names into the City
Auditors office were at the dates men,
toned discbarging the duties OF chairman
OF the Committee for Relief OF the Poor for
the city OF Richmond. Only two OF them
reside at present in this city-to wit,
Messrs. William jenkins and Louis Wag-
ner. Mr.. Chesterman lives in West Vir-
ginia, but still owns property here. Mr..
English Is dead. A Dispatch reporter
called on Mr.. jenkins yesterday evening at
his place Of business, No. 1918 Main street.
When asked concerning the charges made
against the charmen OF the Committee for
the Relief Of the Poor he said
~ do not care anything about the mat
ter" and continuing, lsughingly, he re-
marked " | do not know Mr.. Chatiin and
| care nothing more for him than IL he were
a myth. About four years ago, believe,
w. Ii. Beveridge made a similar charge
against me before Richmond grand jury.
l did not go near the grand jury at all, and
gave the matter no attention, and that was
the last ever heard OF that affair. Super
intendent OF the Poor OF HenricO county,
Mr.. Vogeler, was sent for In this case. lie
told the grand jury that he had never paid
me a cent in his life. l never was before a
grand jury in my life."
"What will be the outcome Of this mat
ter?"
81 think Chaffin will make enemies. He
had better have gone to the Council and
sat there for six months before he said
anything. My experience in the Council
was that you could catch 4 great many
..,.t l. tI,o.x x.t,. Nv
opinion is that Bill Beveridge is at the bot
tom Of this whole affair. He is trying by it
to damage the Conservative party"
"What are you going to do about the
matter?"
81 am not going to do anything. / treat
the matter as il deserves-with complete in
difference. At one time had lots and gobs
OF receipts, and have now barrel full OF
them here somewhere. At one time could
have told everything about the work OF the
committee from memory, but it has been
six years since / was in the Council, L
reckon"
Mr.. Jenkins sat back and laughed light
ly and free, Just as an honest man with
good digestive organs and clear conscience
would at a good joke. He said he had lived
in Richmond thirty-two years, and had
never held any Office but councilman, and
he wished he hadn't held that, as he lost
money by it.
WHAT Mr.. WAGNER SAID.
Mr.. Wagner was found at his drugstore,
on Broad street. He was one OF the chair
men alluded TO in tine charges made against
those who disbursed the Henrico county
fund for the relic OF the poor. lie was
asked:
"Did you ever handle any OF the city's
money while chairman Of the relief OF the
poor of the city,"
81 never did, directly or indirectly.
More than this, the Auditors statement to
MIR, Chaffin's letter OF inquiry emphatically
shows that did not receive or handle at
any time any of the warrants received from
Henrico county for the maintenance OF the
poor ut the city almshouse OF Richmond"
"Have you any particular interest in the
talk about town touching your action as
chairman of the Committee for Relief OF the
POOry"
Mt has been reported to me by gentle
men of undoubted character and veraclty
that Mr.. Chaflin on last night had remarked
that l had collected $40 OF the city's
money, for which had not accounted. L
mean to hold him responsible IN the courts
OF law for the charge"
"What is your opinion Of Captain c. z.
Bigger as an executive ofliceri"
"He Is one OF the best L have ever seen.
He did not disburse the money at all. lie
handled the warrants from the county IN
tact.las received from the Superintendent
of the Poor Of the county, and deposited
them with the City Auditor. There Is now
in the Auditors office an unpaid warrant
OF Henrico county for Sl,3O0.50. There
was nothing in Captain Biggei's conduct,
while was chairman OF the Committee for
Relief OF Poor, to warrant the breath OF
suspicion. The change in the handling or
disbursing OF the IIenrico-county FUNDS was
made at the time l was made chairman OF
Committee for the Relief OF the Poor, ana
made, think, on my notion"
Mr.. Wagner produced a letter from Au-
ditor Royster Of date OF yesterday, IN reply
to note OF inquiry, in which the Auditor
said that at the commencement OF MIR. Wag'
ner's administration. in 1876, the practice
OF collection by the chairman OF the Com
mittee for Relief Of the Poor was abolished,
, and that he had not been known to him
(Royster) as the receiver OF such 1unds
since. This, OF course, relieves Mr. Wag-
ner OF any and all connection with charSes
of fraud in the matter OF the Henrico'
county funu Ior the Poor'
HOUSE BUILT BY CITY HANDS.
The Wig OF yesterday contained the
, following, which it gave as the utterancs
of Alderman r. B. Chaffin
, "I have information from reliable
: source that a member OF the City Council
had an clubhouse erected on his premise.
, by city hands; the material used belonged
to the city, and was hauled by city carts
Nv informant Colonel W. L. Cutshaw
CITY EngineeD did not give me the name nam,
+ of the councilman, but ne s .gorous"i'
; acquainted with the whole thing.
: Mayor Darlington accordingly addressed
the following letter to Colonel Cutshaw
WV Mayors OFFIcE,l
RICHMOND, Va, July q, 1857.
4 Colonel W. T.. Cutsha,r, CITY Engineer
4 Nv Dear Sir,-In the local column Of IN
n a