Omaha daily bee., 1891-06-27

lands and buildings that you were dupicat-
ing those vouchcrs
No. sir.
You thought by making these vouchers in
small amounts and to several people You
would be aole to escape detection by the
boards
Yes.
lu dividing up the amount into dollars and
cents, $3.50 for instance, how did you arrive
at the INTEREST,"
The number of months was known and it
was easy to find the interest
When YOU sent in your voucher you simply
doubled it didn't youi
Not exactly.
II $i56 81 was due Kelly you put that in
twicei
Yes sir.
For Liveringhouse 800 twicel
Yes.
All these went into the cash fund.-
Yes.
Who was Hickmanl
She was employed at the asylum.
Her voucher was duplicated!
No sir. She left the institution and we
kept her name on the list.
After she had left what was her salaryl
Twenty dollars.
After she left she was continued on tho
pay roll for five monthsf
Yes.
Did DR., Test certify to thisl
Yes.
How about Clearyl
He was out of money and asked me for
some | gave him Sl5. put it in the pay
roll as though he had not drawn it,
MIR. Liveringhouse then admitted that he
had been in CORES pondence with the board
regarding the duplicated vouchers for him
self and others. Two letters had passed be-
tween him and Secretary Allen. He also
admitted that in one of those letters he had
written that the duplicated vouchers were
the result of an error made in the haste of
closing the accounts of the biennial session
Attorney General-Now was 1t an error.
Liveringhouse-F'rom the showing it was
not an error; 1t was Intentional.
Then your explanation in the letter was not
correctl
Yes. | made an error in saying that it was
the salary Tor myself from October should
have said wages for discharged employees.
The secretary then produced the letters re-
ferred TO ana Mr.. Hastings handed them to
clearinghouse. He read them nervously and
identified them, remarkiug as he handed
them back to the attorney general that they
had been marked 'personal' TO Secretary
Allen, but that if the latter wanted to use
them, of course, he could do so.
Attorney General-There is no private or
personal mark on the pages. 1t may have
been on the envelope
The letters referred to are:
HASTINGS, Ncb June Is, 1s01.-J. G. Allen:
Dear Sir-l ask this personal favor that you
come out and see our books and allow me, In
and that you DO not make the matter public
until you satisfy yourself about the facts.
Those matters given to the public however,
innocent may be or excusable the error: no
explanation could be made II the public that
would reach the distance the first report
would The party that has been pursuing me
for two years that think is doing this. will
stop short of nothing to ruin me. Would deem
it a great favor If you would come out or stop
over on your way home or 70 McCook. trust
you will assist me in getting the facts to
9oa board y6I t%y form Let hSa5 rom
HASTINGS, Neb., June l3 ls9l-Hon. J. @.
Alien, Lincoln, Neb; After mailing a letter
to you yesterday ! received yours in refer
ence TO the vouchers referred to-
Would say in reply that in the rush Of bust
errors were made, among them those, referred
to in your letter. hut were discovered and re-
ported to the superintendent, ani, by his
order, the money WAS transferred to tho cash
fund and put on deposit in the bank inside
of forty-ei hit hours after its receipt. as our
books will show, where it has remained ever
since. He has also ordered that the same be
reported to your board in the quarterly report
ut the end OF the present quarter. | will
gladly appear before your board at deSig
mated time, but think IL would be more sat
isfactory to you and much more so to me to
have some member of your board or the full
board come out and look over our books ana
accounts, aud am confident these things will
be satisfactorily explained.
We would be very glad to have you come If
it's possible for you to do 50. Very respect
fully, j. W. L!vERINGHoUSE
Attorney General-How much more than
S5S2. "a did you draw on errori
Neutrality-suspicious..
How did you happen to draw just that
amounti
Exhausted the fund.
Any morei
Well, when Dewey & Stones bill came in it
went a little beyond it.
Did Dewey & Stones bill represent the
amount overdrawn!
| don't know.
What did the vouchers show to be the
deficits
Twenty-eight thousand four hundred and
forty-four dollars and twenty-five cents.
hat nttnta bad -.
deficitt
Twenty-eight thousand two hundred and
ninety dollars.
Why did you take the difference between
the. two and put it into the cash fund, sup
posing it would balance the appropriation
From the vouchers and the prospective
bills.
And you overestimated by Sl54.25s
We estimated Dewey " Stones bill at
$264. We credited this up at a guess. We
had bought the same material, but they came
TO more than we expected.
The attorney general then asked him
number of questions Of minor Importance,
and with respect to Livernghouses desire
to have the board go out 10 the asylum, the
latter's object was to explain the
matter to them satisfactorily. This
led to the question as to why
the witness was so anxious for the board to
learn all about it in June when he had CON
cealed it before. Tho answer was rather
| evasivc, that he wanted them to see the
books
Tho question of interest was then taken up,
and the amount paid TO each of the employees
before specified considered. Some of them
| had received interest, others had not. and
| this prompted the query whether any of them
| had really received their interest, and the re-
| ply was that they had.
Secretary Allen Showing payroll re-
ceipted with various names Who signed
| Lindvigs namei
Liveringhouse-I did. don't know who
signed Lapham's. had authority for sign
| ing Lindvig's.
'Are you interested in tho Grand Island
creamery"
No The assignment of my stock took
| place IN 1889, l think IN October or No
| vembcr.
In July did you have checks deposited in
| the Exchange National bank of Hastings or
| in the Adams county bank, and did any OF
| those checks go to protestt
Yes; in the Adams county bank.
| All your deposits were made there ana you
checked out of theret
| Only one check went to protest kept
| all my stubs with the amount l had checked
out on them. | added them up and in sub
tracing the total made mlstaKe, which
| discovered when got notice from the bank,
| / settled as soon MS got notice.
Attorney General-Do you keep the money
! you receive as steward and your own money
In one account; You mngle them togetherl
Yes. was oyerdrawu, but | dtdn't sus'
pect IL.
| He ,vns as lrod nv Spcretarv Allen IL anC