Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-07
Tho Mccarthy Investigation,

The Mccarthy Investigation Committee
held another session last evening. There
were present Assemblymen Ellison, Jones
and Hazard. Kilsby, the San Francisco
deputy, was called as q witness by the de-
tense, and submitted to long inycstiga-
ton by counsel for the defense, counsel for
! the prosecution, and members of the COM
mit;ee. Witness testified that he generally
gave Mccarthy q rough draft of each
months business, from which the lat
ter made his reports Had they
not believed that the supplemental report
could be made at any time, the SUMS with
! held land embraced in that report) would
! have been turned in sooner, and witness
would have been more careful in the man
ner OF keeping the accounts. Witness said
that certain small sums were received from
time to time for aifidavits which the
clerks reserved as perquiaitcs. Did not
consider these sums as belonging to the
State; they were no part Of the statutory
fees OF the office. In answer 10 an inquiry
witness said he had seen letter from Dep
uty Leakc to Mccarthy. suggesting the APP
pOintment OF lady friend TO q position in
the Office, portion of the salary
10 be devoted to d campaign fund
Witness said he was the cashier OF the
Office. but never kept a cash book, other
than the desk-blotter. which cannot be
found The money embraced in the sup
elemental report was some Of i in the safe
Tor month or 80 before that report was
made. Sometimes witness would take
money from the safe and sometimes Nc
Carthy you'd, for various purposes Some
soft OF memorandum was always kept of
these drafts Never spoke 80 ANYBODY but
AcCIr,hy about there being $1,000 in the
safe belonging 10 the State that had not
been turned in prior to March, 1884. Those
employed in the Office knew there was q
large sum of money in the safe. Witness
testified that the offices of Mccarthy do not
AZ this une owe the Statea cent The pur-
pose Of the supplemental report was in
tended to take up ali sums OF money re-
CcIYed and save the Stale from loss Had
at all times some kind of record that would
show just what was due the State. The
books were not checked up every month,
partly from carelessness and partly from
lack Of time, owing to the pressing duties
of he employees. Witness denied that he
bad any knowledge of the desk blottcr
having been purpO~ely put out Of reach
lie admitted that he did not claim 70 be-
an expert book keeper.
Mr. 0E0nnor, Of the Controllers Office,
was called by the defense TO testify as 70 the
proper manner for determining from any
officers buoks the sum due the State VIZ
ness said that the only method of deter
mining the result would be either 10 accept
the iootinEs or go over the items.
llhls was intended To sUbstantiatc the
statement made by KilSby, in reply to a
question by Hazard, that lac could not at
any time tell the exact condition of the
funds Of the Office without going through
the accounis.l
Witness, in reply To q question BY MI
johnson, stated that he had been profes-
sional book-keeper FOR a long time, snd had
never known OF a correct system of book
keeping that did not include cash book.
At l0,45 the committee adjourned till 7
O'Clock this evening