The Portland daily press., 1883-07-10
TEWKSBURY ALMSHOUSE.

More Sparring Between Mr. Brown and
Gov. Butler Chas. B. Marsh on the
Stand.
Boston, July 9.-In the Tewksbury hearing
to-day extrust % +. Ii. Nourse was crccs ex-
amined. His testimony related principally 10
rates OF transportation paid for coal, etc. He
had received poultry from the State almhouce
but had paid for it. Nourse identified the
manuscript OF . report made by Thomas j.
Marsh, Jr., 70 the trustees in relation to the
disposition Tor scientific purposes of dead
bodies. He said it was that of the whole
number OF dead be lies month received and
the amounts paid out on their account.
Mr.. Brown offered to put this in evidence.
The Governor objected, saying that a man
duce the original books on which the report is
said to be based should not be allowed to get
the benefitof what he says is in thoee books
in another way.
After long discueslon it was voted that this
report be placed in the hands of the chairman
TO remain until the book in DC s-e-sion OF Thc5.
j. Marsh, Jr, had been produced.
The report YVES called for, but Brown said
he had sent it to his office. A lively tilt en-
sued between Brown and the Governor the
latter remarking that it was boys play to allow
counsel TO send papers out of the &c om so that
an order OF the court could not be obeyed.
Charles B. Marsh was recalled He had
never heard complaints of shortage in inmates
cash accounts.
Adjourned until afternoon.
AT the afternoon session Mr.. Charles B,
Marsh continued his statements concerning
the inmatel' cash; he explained that the eras-
ures on their cash book came from his practice
OF paying cut small sums on demand to their
owners, and when an inmate ives discharged or
had died, OF erasing the figures and putting in
their place tho-e representing the balance
due; in case of death this remainder was al
ways paid over TO the State Treasury, as Mr.
Fairbanks might have, in ceveral instances in
which he said money was not accounted for
ascertained, had he made further inquiries.
After these details had been gone into at some
length, the Governor called attention TO what
ne considered to be the writing of figures over
the red linej that indicate the final payment
either TO an owner or u the State and submit
tsd the books to the committee with the re-
mark, MY theory is the-e books were all
made up for the OCCASION" Mr.. Marsh re-
piled, There would not have been any eras-
ures IL they had BEEN" The chairman returned
the books TO the Governor, after the members
OF the committee had carefully looked at the
marks indicated, with the statement "It Is
pretty clo3e question, Governor Mr.. Marsh
continued, that the notice of one Of the visits
OF which complaint has been made in 1877,
YVES received five minutes after the visitors
arrived.
To the Governor Mr. Marsh said that this
account which was all that there was, was
simply memorandum; he had previously
sworn that he had not made erasure3 to less On
the amounts, becauEe he had not his DC oks and
he did not rememtor; the question had been
changed very suddenly, aud he had fallen into
trap; he had not rememt cred any particular
case, so he had spoken as he did; he had chang
ed his manner of making and changing entries
as he had learned tJttJr how to keep the
books; he had no particular rule of keeping
thc-o looks, anyway; he had gone to house
Keeping three years ego; prior to that he had
lived at the institution since 1859; since he has
been hou, keeping, he has lived, partially, at
his own exI 5nes; he had potatoes from the
farm, and tometimt &C oked fc ID from the in
stltution; he could not Cee why he should not
as did others engaged in the same employment
i've at the St-t9's EXP eneJ; in majority OF
casel, icod sent from the institution to his
house was that which he had paid for and
which had been cooked in the almshouse kitoh-
EN- he has bought and paid for the coal that
heated his house: he paid on the 1st OF June
for grain which he had fed to his chickens dur
ing year and half; he had made this pay
ment TO the institution; he had kept no account
of what he had had from the institution, but
he knew very nearly how much grain he had
had; he has never paid for anything else COM
ing from the same source.