Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-08

the tax receipts9
What was done with that excess Of
$319.95g
Were receipts obtained for itp
Where are those receipts?
Are the names of alleged taxables
filled in to'them?
Where were the names obtained from
that are filed into those receipts?
II the names are not filled in to the
excess Of receipts obtained by the add.
tional sum of S319.95, what disposition
are you making of them-will they be
returned to the county collector?
Where did this amount of money
S4,6le in all, paid by Messrs. Stewart,
Bach and Mahaify to the collectors fol
tax receipts, come from?
Was it received by subscription from
people in this city?
Was any of it and what share exactly
or approximately received from parties
outside Of the State of Delawarep
Will you produce the list of sub.
scrihers?
Now, in order that this committee
may know actually, or even approx
mately, what amount of money the
county has lost through the alleged
malfeasance of Collectors Dougherty
and Mckee, will you state whether,
during the time of what is known as
the political campaign OF last Novem-
Der, tax receipts were obtained in bulk
by purchase or any other method from
Collectors Mckee and Dougherty by
your party managers or others acting in
their behalf?
Do you know of any bargain, bearing
any similarity TO the one now in evil
dence Chat between Messrs. Stewart,
Bach and Mahatfy, and Mckee and
Dougherty) having been consummated
during or in the neighborhood of the
recent November campaign, whereby
tax receipts were obtained in bulk,
whether signed, unsigned, dated or not
dated, stamped or unstamped, from the
collectors and handed over to your party
managers or their representatives for
money, for the promise of money, or on
account of any other concession of
valueg
Who were the parties to that bargain ?
When and where was it consum-
mated?
Was that money handed to the col
lector for his Tor their) personal use, or
was there any intimation, expressed or
tacit, that it should be paid into the
county treasury?
From whence were the names OBJ
tanned that were filled in to the blank
receipts?
Were they filled in, or any part of
them, from the delinquent lists of the
previous year,
Common rumor states that a large
number of blank receipts received by
your committee or their agents from
Messrs. Mckee and Dougherty were
hlled IN with names, were handed to
voters and then, after being used at the
polls, were brought back to the Repub-
lican headquarters, Seventh and Market
streets, or to soiNe other place, and sub.
sequentiy destroyed. This. /. IS alleged.
was most carefully done in order that
there could be no "eyidence Of inc..t-
edness 10 the county represented ~ the
receipts thus issued III slc.. d Wholesale
manner" Have you my knowledge,
personal or indirect, that may aid this
committee in any way in obtaining light
on these common runors?
Who was the first TO approach the
other9-by intimation, suggestion or
any act or xpression-Messrs. Stewart.
Bach and Mahaffy or the colectors2
Did you hear reference of any kind,
previous to the bargain of this year to
the extreme pecuniary distress Mckee
and Dougherty were in at the time as
Offering easy opportunity Of access to
themY
Did you hear, previous TO the actual
date of the bargain, that Messrs. Mckee
and Dougherty had made repeated and
fruitlcss application to the Democratic
party for aid 1?
Did you hear any one, previous to the
time of this bargain, state or suggest that
il would now be an opportnne moment,
Tor words to that eifect) 70 obtain ali the
receipts needed from Mckee and
Dougherty, or anything to that effect?
IL is obvious to all who have closely
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