The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-09-29
'Did you ever examine

MI. Eitason-'D lu you ever eAainlno
the error listsY"
81 never did,"
Mr.. Eliason-"Dldy you rely on them.'
/ Eyes SIR"
Mr.. Eliason-''You did not examine
the duplicates"
| mo sir never saw them.'
| Mr.. Stewart rs he was leaving Of
fered to exhibit the stubs OF his cheek
book to corroborate his statement,
but nobody wanted TO see them, every
body was satisfied with his straight
| forward statement.
Mr., +. f. Bach, chairman OF the First
District Republican Committee, was
called, qualified and testified as fol-
lows:
81 was here during the holidays,
from sometime before Christmas un-
til January 8, | think. While here.
was making arrangements for that
part OF the committees work known
as paying taxes. Mr. Stewart came to
me and told me OF Mr.. McKee's offer
and asked me what he should do.
told him to go ahead On january 5,
met Mr. Stewart, Marshal Mahaffy
and Dougherty and Mckee In Post
master Stewards office. They then
and there agreed to tho proposition
they had already made and were paid
81, 800 in advance, l counted out the
money and Mckee took 1t all.
Both Dougherty and Mckee were
present. continued MIR. Bach. Mckee
took all the money and wrote re-
ceipt. DuuFherty wished t1 divide
the money equally between himself
and Mckee. Mckee, however, would
not agree and gave Dougherty Gl0G0
He said that the Levy Court was push
ing Dougherty harder than him. No
4 hat lat is.,
81, 500 signed it, and told Dougherty
not to sign it, that it was not necss-
sary. Dougherty, however, insisted
on signing the receipts and did SO, at
the same time remarking to Mckee: We
sink OF swim together.
II saw them sign the receipts; the
five men | have named were In the
room. We were to pay for receipts
according to their face; our object
WIS expressly to qualify the Republic
can vote OF the city; no such question
ever came up that tho money was to
J belong personally to the collectors;
we were to pay taxes; the collectors
; needed tho money; on January Sd,
| they wanted $S00O, then $4,000, and
then took what we had. $500; do not
know OF my own personal knowledge
/ what was done with the lists furnished
by the collectors; went away January
q; WIS present March 10 by engage
: inent: the amount named by Mr.. Stew
art Is correct; l counted out $1,000 In
4 gold myself; left the Notifications of
the lists md the amounts to others
, MIR. Mahailv uperlntended that The
4 az counts thnt / saw were made out Oh
=, envelopes in which the receipts were
J delivered. There were so many al
: 40 and SO many at so cents and sc
i on. MIR. A., Il. and G did not pay ful
their own receipts to the collectors.
! There being no other questions tc
l. ask, Mr.. Bach was excused.
United States Marshal, II. G. Ma
n hatly was then called and qualified.
. 3ir. Mahatfy testified as follows
| was in Postmaster Stewards Office
0 when Doughetty and Mckee received
the 5l,510 and also the final sum; ths
i lilst WIS ON account, the whole fol
! poll tlXes and some small property
lakes for 1890; the lists were furnished
l. by the collectors at their own sugges
ton; they needed funds, the Levy
g Court was pushing them, they had
I asked the Democrats and got no help
the face value OF the receipts was to
= he paid the collectors were to fur
nish list of all the persons who had
not paid their taxes which they did.
had charge OF the work. | called to.
t gethor five or six men from each ward
5 and the lists we've gone over. The
b Republicans were all marked with ar
IL. A list OF the Republicans was thei
:. made. ana from these the tax receipts
E were furnished from 1t; the first list
L was made by the collectors; alter the
} Republicans had been marked, they
7 were copied OFF, and tho receipts were
: made from this copy; there were two
payments made; there was no intima
ton that the money should go any
! place than into the county treasury
i never saw the duplicates.
In answer to n question from Mr.
a EliasOn Mr.. Mahaffy said he never saw
+. the error list
: Senator Higgins being qualified, Mr.
: Ellason suggested that Mr. BradforC
ask him questions about the same
d line he asked others.
n Mr.. Bradford Senator ] will ash
Il you ifyou lad any personal knowledg,
OF the payment OF the s 800 Spoken
e Of"
/ Senator Higgns-"Nono at all"
. Had you any knowledge Of the tina
Ii payment
/ Il had no personal knowledge of tn,
payment whatever"
It Did you lean of tho fraudulent re
= turn until after March,"
e = knew nothing of the matter unit
= ~ NM " iNNiFsT lft'diiit llubilf- VIII
d Ne"y much surprised to learn of tbs
t fraudulent return"
+ that was about the time the news
d papers took up the matter?'
II "AS far rs j can remember"
10 You have no personal knowledg
il Of the NATTER
4 None ut all"
Senator Higgins then retired.
d William G. Mallaify and c. Leighton
i Mahouey testified to making tyne
q written copies OF the list OF those 10
| whom taxes were paid.
10 Mr.. Mahatfy stated that In copyin
Is the first ward two leaGcs were turned
O. and some OF the names OF the Secont
ic ward got mixed with The First ward
which was u mere clerical error. III
S lists, when completed, We're rcturne
IS to H. G. Alithally.
The afternoons Investigation wa
+. here brought to close, and at a.
+ O'Clock tho committee adj burned unit
o l o'clock p. IN. to-day.
Give Us n Call.