Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-13
THE DISQUALIFICATION TRIAL.
The Government S&iI Offering Testi.
mOny-Dr. Wales Explains the Cray on
Portrait Transactions.

After THE STARS report OF the Dempsey.
kfrkwood trial closed yesterday, Mr.. Marsh B.
Clark, the veteran messenger in the bureau Of
medicine and surgery, testified that the ink
produced in court yesterday and identified by
Mr.. Ames as the same as that appearing In re-
ceipts given by Carrigan to Mr.. Dempsey was
never used in the bureau. He was examined
and cross-examined at length concerning the
method of receiving goods at the bureau, the
stationery received, &c.
To-DAY's PROCEEDINGS.
When the court opened to-day, Brooks Shaw,
formerly laborer in the bureau of medicine
and surgery, was called by the government and
testified that small packages had been delivered
He had never known a wagon load OF goods to
be delivered there. He was cross-examined at
considerable length.
u Drs. Coues and Bloodgood, Of the Brooklyn
laboratory, were examined for the purpose Of
showing that good said to have been de-
i1yered by Mr.. Dempsey to the bureau and
laboratory had not been delivered there.
Peter A. Joyce. storekeeper at the Brooklyn
laboratory, gave similar testimony.
Dr. Wales was recalled. and testified that such
receipts given by Carrisan to Dempsey Was Vas
never used in the bureau. He said that he knew
nothing of the orders for diet registers, &c, ex-
tanned singly upon the requisition of surgeons
and not obtained in such quantities as repre-
bills for stationery he said that no orders for
such amounts would be given out except upon
proposals. He said he had never know
ingly signed these orders for stationery.
On cross-eXamination DR.. Wales was asked
about the payment of Mrs. Barnes for crayon
portraits on vouchers, charging the amount
paid to postage stamps. He said Crozet, o man
who claimed to be the director of an art insti-
tuition, called the Garfield gallery, took q con-
tract for making these portraits. After part Of
the work was done he committed suicide. Mrs.
Barnes then came to the bureau and asked to
be allowed to continue the work, as she had
succeeded CroZet, and the witness consented.
He did not know how she was paid There
was no reason, he said, for charging the pox-
traits as postage stamps, as they would be paid
ior out of the same fund as postage stamps. He
Knew nothing either as to the payment for pic
wilson remarked that portraits might be SO
described. eff it was picture OF me-" be re-
marked, ut might be called an anatomical
specimen"
After the recess Mr.. Wilson continued the
cross-exam1natfon of DR.. Wales. He read the
voucher made out in Mrs. Sarah +. Barnes
name for $27 for $40 five cent postage stamps,
photographing anatomical specimens, and let
tiers from surgeon General Gunnell, dated in
october last, inauiring about these vouchers.
To these letters DR.. Wales replied In reference
to the postage stamp voucher, that 1t was the
custom to procure stamps and send out bills In
the name OF some person aud he believed that
the bill was correct, In regard to the anatomi-
cal specimen voucher, DR.. Wales In reply said
that all the work ever done for the bureau by
Mrs Barnes was the execution Of three crayOn
portrai is.
DR.. Hudson was next examined as to the sta
t1onery received at the bureau, the kind Of ink
used, etc.