The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-06-22
4 LITTLE oRooKEp MATTER,
Patrick Diiion'slAccounts Did Not Cor.
respend With The Money HE Col.
lected as Building Inspector.

Patrick Diiion'slAccounts Did Not Cor
respend With The Money he Col
lected as Building Inspector.
It may all have been just a littl,
error on the part OF Excluding In
| spector Patrick Dillon, but be that a.
1t may the city treasury Is better of
to day by eighteen dollars than 1t
was two days ago.
II all came about, too. through the
diligence and watchfulness of Build
ing Inspector, Daniel Dohl, an inspec
tor who inspects.
Some days ngo. while Mr.. Dohl was
making his daily tour of inspections,
he dropped down to see how tho Pu'
sey y Jones Company was getting
along with n new large iron and brick
building which they were putting uD,
The inspector, recoilecting that his pre-
deceasor had not boon very particular
about issuing building permits at tho
proper time, stopped Into the Office OF
the company and asked them il they
had permit giving them permission
to do all this work.
Ihay replied that they had. Mr. Dohl
did not doubt what the firm told him.
but returning to his Office he examined
MS stub hook, but could find no record
OF any permit having been granted to
INC Pusey ~ Jones Company. He re-
hrni made search and found per.
mt Issued TO them signed by Patrick
Dillon. Tho permit was on tho regu
lar blank, No. 1889, dated April IL, 1892.
nni waS for an IRON and brick build.
ing, tho amount paid for the permit
being SIS.
Inspector Dohl took tho permit, and
returning to his office made a search
In his stub-book until he came to No.
l.5?, when 10, and behold. instcnd OF
finding any record oil permit having
been issued to the Pusey and Jones
Company the record was that il Ind
been issued to Philemma Chand Ter,
upon which 80 had been paid for per-
mission to make repairs to No. S24
Esq, has his law Offices.
Mr. Dohl notified City Auditor Bill
lany OF the matter and that official
promptly notified Excluding In
spcctor Dillon of the discrepany that
had been found.
The result was that yesterday Mr..
Dillon appeared at the office OF the
auditor to see MIR. Billany about
IL. After being informed that he had
not paid over tho SlS, MIR. Dillon pro-
missed to send him the amount yes
teruay. which ho did according to
promise. The city auditor turned tho
money over to tha city treasurer as
soon as ne received IL.
1t is said that the matter will be
brought before tho City Council to.
morrow night, ana it may result in an
investigations. No other cases are
known whore Mr., Dillon has retained
money collected for building permits
but there are in his stub book three
pages, six permits To page. where
There Is no word or entry made OH the
stubs to Indicate what became of the
permits. They are missing, but for
what purpose IS entirely unknown.
Another little matter connected with
the olllce as Mr.. Dillon performed its
duties would lose nothing by lnvesti-
CATION. IL is this: Does the tax of 80
cents levied on the permits for sink
Ing .prtvy wells. brlong to the city or
to tho Building Inspector "a his per.
sCnhl perquisiJes! building Inspector
DOM considers that such fees belong
To the city. und since lie went into Of
lice, lie 10th OF May. he has turned
INTO the city treasury SIG OF such fees.
MIR. iillOn, 1t is said always main
tained that these fees belonged to the
Inspector and never made any return
ui tEem to the treasury during his
whole six years of public service. 1t Is
not alleged that there Is anything
criminal against Mr.. Dillon in keeping
this rttvy-wall tax, as it has been a
IN coed question where 1t should go,
the law being somewhat obscure on
TINT point. Tho differences between
the actions OF Mr.. DOLL and Mr.. Dillon
is that the first gave the benefit of the
doubt TO the city and tho latter took
tho benefit OF the doubt to himself.