The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-08-07

him. Con,i ..ered him pretty prompt
pay. | think We have had few claims
against him since May End. They
were paid n far as remembered
promptly. sam Met LELAND note |
considered ,ohuld have been paid by
Met LELAND. lIinchman was cndor-
ser and aid it.
MAJOR \. HINCITMAN.
For government says: 1t was at
my request that Rogers N Scruggs
examined my books. Photographed
them mt Dallas. Rogers had been
my hookcopcr four or five wears
They had worked at my book, | think
three or four days before they found
the trouble in them. They then sug-
gc>tcd that we invoice the debris.
They discovered one mistake of about
5000 in about Il day or two. had a
branch house AT lIill>boru of which
MIR. ChildreSs had charge, the books
had cot behind. sent MIR. Rogers to
liill>boro to >traightcn them up. The
Branch seemed to be behind. II seemed
they had made money, but books did
not show up enough assets to balance,
MIR. thildrc>s explained that he had
turned in ii GOOD deal of paper Ia the
" AGO house for which he had not got
credit. He said when he got proper
credit it would be all right. said all
right wanted it made right. Mr.
Childrc., il appears charged mcrchan-
die. and credited IIillsboro House he
should have charged bills receivable.
never noticed the mistake till after
the tire. We dealt with good many
factories. and with some we kept
accounts gross. We kept them that
WAY because we shipped Il good many
goods ont. and charged them gros..
that wa, our Instructions. For in
stance we received rcapcrs at S225
each. and wherever shipped ont, We
charged the same, and sent bill to
factory when in fall we settled up. We
accounted To factory for sales. and
took ont my commissions. that is the
common way to keep them all over
the state We kept several accounts
that way when Mr. Rogers was my
book keeper, photographed Mr. Rogers
hccau~r he had been my book-kccpcr,
and Il good one. | believed he would
4cl al my actual loss, they spent two
or three days on the books. NCruggs
uult ana went away, ana Rogers con-
tmlrd. They had to look through
merchandise expense, and freight ac-
counts. Mr.. Rogers said, that after
throwing ont everything doubtful in
the accounts. there was at least $4,000
worth of goods in the house burnt.
suppose there was at least
NluOUO in the house burnt for
Whrh We had no invoices. The rca-
son we he'd no invoices was that in
drawing in the branch houses il was
lInclnman Ia llinchman. All the
goods were mine, and We were not
very particular about invoicing them.
these goods. All we would do wa, 10
credit them with the goods. II, near IL
WE could at cost. Mr.. Paine went 10
llillsboro To ship lot of goods from
there a short time before the fire. |
told him to keep an accurate account
of the goods 50 he could credit the
llill>boru house and charge to mcr-
chamdi,r. He reported thai he began,
but ON account OF the lack Of help he
simply put down the items the best he
could | think it figured up $3.50,
but oN ng to some of the good, being
ru,lrd We credited the branch with
$1,000 There was no invoice of these
goods. | WAS sick AT my house. |
sent " ord to Mr.. Aldrich to come up
there. wanted To know why he had
not done n he agreed To do ON II note.
| asked him why he did not give me
the time he agreed to on the note,
and told him would let ii 20 by
protest, because the time was not what
hc had agreed 70 give me. 1t should
have been thirty days after maturing.
That was all the business | had wit tn
him. did not order IL dollars worth
of goods from him at that time. Mr.
Aldrich passed through here three
different times aud solicited an order
from me-. and the third time told him
that A. Il reward for his perseverance |
would give him an order if he would
give long time and low rates of inter
est. could get along without the
goods. | was handling ten or twelve
different kinds of plough> of the Al
drirh house at that lime. some dav,
nttrr tho Murray trouble wa, told
,Lnt \Idrirh ,yn. .irk at The hotel
.aid that tbouoh he had treated m,
badly would Oh tn see him. If rould
do nuythiuo for him. went IA So,
him md tnId him if there wos any.
thino could do for him would do il
never made any apology TO him. and
had none 10 make. remarked thnr
We were in InN about the Nurra,
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