Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-15

cldcd the evidence was permissible as be-
ing explanatory. The defence reser7ed
the point.
Mr.. Shelton was asked TO tell how his
attention was called TO the alleged forgery
Of the books. He said:
My attention was first called 20 IL on the
I'd OF March when / was making up the
delinquent-list. When got TO Bill GAG l
noticed that IL was checked in figure en-
tirely different from Mr.. Williams's, who
had checked on that day. made memo
randum of IL. / took il to be Mr.. GrymeS's.
i then continued to make out my delin-
quent-hst and had IL signed by the Audi
tor. i then asked the Gas Inspector and
Mr.. Knowles to look at the figure.
NOTICED THE pIYFEREscE.
He was struck with the difference in the
figures, and we concluded that we would
look upon the Treasurer's book Of the
24th of February TO see If the bill appear
cd there. We looked but couldn't find IL
and reported the matter TO the Auditor.
Every one in his Office denied having
checked it,
The Auditor and Mr.. Knowles went TO
see If the Treasurer held check for it.
We cot all the 1reasurer's books and made
diligent search, but couldn't find this bill
on any of the Treasurer's books at all.
q. What was next done!
A. On Wednesday, March 4th, j was in
the Auditors office when Mr.. Childrey
brought Mr.. Grymes in the Office aud con-
fronted HIM with the charge.
q. What charge?
A. About those bills not being on the
book. He first showed him this receipt.
CONFRONTED WITH THE RECEIPT.
@. Tel about this.
A. He showed him (Grymes) this re-
ceipt exhibiting the bill receipted by
Grymes) and asked him whose receipt it
| was. He asked him TO look on the Trea-
surer's book Of that dsy TO see If it was
there. He said IL was not. He then called
for my bill-book, put his fingers on it and
asked whose figures these were. Grymes
said they were his.
Mr. Childrey then asked If he could give
any explanation. He said he could not
and that all he could do was to give an or
der or the Auditor for that amount of his
salary.
We proposed to Mr.. Grymes that we
would make another search of the Trea-
surer's books to see if we could find the
mistake. We hadn't turned over more
than q couple Of pages when Grymes told
us that il wa. MT worth while 10 look any
further, the bill was not on the book.
O. Did Mr.. Knowles and yourself con-
clude that you would make thorough
search of the book on that day!
A. Yes, Sir.
o. You say Mr.. Grymes said to you: II
amt worth while looking any further. 1t
is not on the books. Then Mr.. Knowles
took the receipt out of his (Grymes's) hand
and went out of the Office?
SAID THERE WAS SOMETHING CROOKED.
A. Yes SIT When Grymes started out
proposed TO give him list of the bills.
He said there was something crooked about
that business and that the evidence point
ed to him. told him was sorry to con-
cur in that opinion.
@. SO he admitted that the figures "a
were his?
o. He told Mr.. Knowles that it wasn't
anv use looking any further?
A. Yes, sir.
At this point Major Stringfellow said:
"Mr. Shelton, you say that the figures
on this book were admitted by Ar. GryInes
TO have been made by him. Independent
of that admission, would you have the
slightest doubt that they were made by
himi
A. thought they were his.
O. Are YOU not certain they were bis.
A. No. SIR. To my knowledge and belief
think they are his figures.
o. 1t struck you in looking over them
| that they were different from the others
A. Yes, sir.
O. Whose figures are those Immediately
| preceding and succeeding that bill?
A. To the best of my knowledge and be-
lief they were made by MIR: Williams: -,
O. Mr.. Williams was the clerk in the
Auditors office-was Grymes in that Office
very frequently?
A. Yes, sir. ,,
o. Had he occasion to see his (Ar. Will
| liams's) writing very frequentlyI
! A. He saw the entries certainly.
| o. He saw them so frequently that he
must have been very familiar with MIR. VIII
liams's handwriting2
A. Yes, sir.
CONFRONTED WITH THE CHARGES.
O. Who was present when the Auditor
| confronted Mr.. Grymes with the charges
A. Mir. Childrey, the Auditor, Mr..
Knowles. and myself. l think Mr.. WI
| liams was also in the office. but If so he
wac some distance off. l don't remember
| about that There were some customers
" o. w We're they all intimate with Mr..
| Grymes!
O. You were the first to discover these
figures? l understand that you made
| mark and went to the Gas-lnspector.
| A. Yes, sir.
o. Who did You GO to then ? =,
4. | brought the Inspector in. showed
| him the figures, and then showed them
| to the Auditor. ~,
O. The latter concluded they were MIR.
| Grymes's figures?
A. | don't remember whether ne dld OF
not. He instructed us to make further
| examination,
| o. So when Mr. Grvmes was brought in
| in the presence of four or five gentlemen,
| they had gone of, gotten the receipt, pre-
| pared the books, and determined IL was MS
writing? Had it ever occurred to you
| whether they ICere his figures?
A. You will have 10 ask the Auditor ABOUT
that. IL is my duty TO my superior officer.
| n inst wanted TO know whether any
| of these intimate friends (the latter words
with sarcastic emphasis) had made 1T
known to Mr.. Grymes that they were
making this investigation. On that 1rea-
| surer's book please tell me how many hun
| dreds of gas-bills we're paid on February
There are 115 on that book, sir. That
| is not oil of them, though: n. c,roo
Q. That's the book that MIR. urymes
| kept?
A. Yes, sir.
| THREE ENTERED RECEIPTS.
| n VIII Won please tell me how many
| nsxsons entered receipts on that book?
Mr.. Shelton, after some reflection, an
s,rared. II should say three-Mr. Grymes,
Mr.. Childrey, and MIR. Reynolds"
| o. Who is Mr.. Reynoldsf
| 4 HIS first name is Robert.
| % What office is he in?
| a don't know that he is i'll any.
a. What was he doing making entries on
that book ~. Ch;Id,ou
a. Who made the entries immediately
above and Immediately succeeding the
two entries of the Thalhimer bills that We're
"a Mr.. Childrey made the one above ana
Mr.. REYNOLDS the one below.
| HOW THE DAIy REPORTS ARE MADE.
| n Won saw that the books were brought
IN az 2 o'clock and report made OF the
anonnt received. Did anything accom-
nenv those books, or did you take the
boois then and add up? You. didn't say
hat the report accompanied the BOOKS
:. there book called the settiement-book
That ia brought into your office!
'ii No. SIR. There is what is known as
'u9 n o What DO you call the book that ac-
companies the report
n is a sheet of paper. -,
~ In whose handwriting are the adol-
4 ,,ons ON that book madel
Alter some examination Mr.. ohelton
sa,d. aThat is q hard question TO answer"
Hereupon Captain Wise said to the Wit
ness. "You have been speaking all day
nso,,, fonres. and / now ask VINO made