The morning call., 1891-06-16
ONE POINT SHOWN.
The Investigation of Examiner
Thomas Z. Kennedy.
Candidates FOR Teachers Certificates Allowed
to Leave the Room, Return and Con-
clude Their Papers.

The Committee on Rules and Regulations
OF the Board of Education. with the addition
of the other Directors, held a special meet
ing last night to investigate charges pre-
ferred by r. Sumpter Anderson against
Thomas E. Kennedy of the Board Of Exam
! liners. of giving assistance to Miss Clara
! Tolman during the teachers examination
held IN this city in March.
There were present: Directors Decker
| (presding), Culver, Dunn, Sabin. Wood
| ward, Brooks, Hyde, Sewell and DuttOn.
| who met first in executive session, which
was not concluded until $3.50 o'clock
Prosecutor Anderson had subpenaed
| eighteen witnesses, but only three were in
attendance, and before they were examined
he demanded that the previous written
statements of Miss TOlman and other wit
nesses should be read, and then inquired
how he could procure her attendance for
further examination, stating that she had
been spirited away, and that she had stated
TO him her intention of going to Salinas 10
avoid being summoned al the investigation
Anderson went on in this way for some
| time, Sabln interpOslng critical objections.
! which finally imDelled the prosecutor TO say
TO the latter with all the fleTceEess Of which
he j, capable:
you tried to bulld0ze me once before,
but you failed, and you can't work that
game Low.
A WITNESS CALLED AT LAST.
He then requested that Miss LYONS state
ment be read. commenting upon her alb
sence, until the Chair peTemptOrily ordered
him to produce his witnesses.
Anderson first summoned X. d. Faulkner,
but before he was sworn changed his mind
and called Miss J. j. SWeeay, who testified
that she was an unsuccessful candidate at
the teachers examination held on March
27th, and when writing on bookkeeping she
saw Mr.. Kennedy at Miss Tolman's desk,
bending over her and looking at her paper
as if discussing it. Witness could not hear
the conversation, being too far away. Did not
remember Miss Tolman leaving the room,
but noticed her entering while witness was
busy with ore Of her examination papers.
She did not hear Kennedy say to Miss Toll
man Monterey and ''mUm'S the word"
| but Miss Lyons had claimed 60 have over
/ heard these and other similar remarks. In
answer TO a question by Hyde, witness said
she thought nothing Of kennedy talking 10
Miss TOlman 1t the time, all the examiners
being accustomed to talk with the eX-
aminees.
Afler some further crOss-fring between
Sabin and Anderson, the latter stated that
he intended to have an attorney at the next
meeting but on being informed that this
would not be permitted, remarked: well,
KNEW OF NO FRAUDS.
R. D. Faulkner being sworn was asked
By Anderson to state what he knew OF
1 these frauds, and answered that he did not
know OF any. He returned a negative an-
sweT to a number Of questions, such as,
" Did you not say TO me that you would use
| your influence with BabcOck 10 have this
investigation hnshed? Did you not say,
if Bah would only uubend toward Sabin,
| the Superintendent would get much more
| consideration? Did you not say that you
would like t. assist Bapcock TO q better
understanding with Sabn? Did you not
offer to resign from the Board of Examiners
| if would drop this pTcSecuuo3? Faulkner
stated that he had said, g will ask Bab-
! cock why he c0nspired with you (Anderson)
! against the Board of Examiners, and will
| brard him as l have you"
The witness then related a long, rather
! disconnected wholly irrelevant story to show
| how Anderson had tnGeayUred to assassin
! axe Faulkner's character in the estimation
! OF Miss Hattie Carr, teacher in the Va
! lencia Grammar School, by showing her a
letter written by witness to Miss Tulman, at
the latteT'S request. stating that she had
passed the examination.
ONE POINT IS GAINED.
The prosecutor asked a number OK ques-
| tons relating to the charges, to which wit
| ness returned long and evasive answers
| He finally said. being pressed for answers
! by a number Of Directors. that he had not
! seen Kennedy give Miss Tolman paper
| and did not know that the accused inspector
| had given her permission to leave the room,
! stating that nearly all the pupils had left
| the room for two or three minutes at some
| stage of the examination.
| Asked by the Chair whether that was not
contrary to rules, witness replied that he
| did not know it was. Woodward asked a
| great many times: did pupils leave the
| room while an examination paper was in
pTOgress?" Faulkner lodged this question
! successfully for some time, but it finally de-
veloped that pupils, when one paper was
| concluded, were given another, and were al
| lowed TO 20 out in the interim if they
! wished, and in SOme rooms even before the
| paper was concluded, and returning re-
sumed work and completed the subject.
Woodward thought this was suffic lent evil
| dence for the necessity of reformation.
| Anderson. who had evidently accomplished
| one Of his objects, and succeeded in entrap-
ping the Board of Examiners, was radiant
at the reluctant admission of the witness.
The investigation will be continued to-