The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-06-30

check and money to Bailey late in the afternoon of June c. After that for n
 while there were hardly any complaints, | or the POS complaints read to the board | by Bailey only received ninety-seven. The ninety-seventh complaint was
 given to me about 6 o'clock on the af-
 was held, At that meeting POS com | plaints were made to the board.
 On cross examination by Attorney
 Ely, Contractor Swaync stated that he
 had never had list of the POS names
 and had never seen any such list. He had received the ninety-seven from
 Bailey. These were read from the file | and the residences were put down by | Swayne in his book. The question of | the contract between Farnham and l Swayne in reference to the ownership
 of some pigs was called up. The contract was drawn up by Clerk Bailey. He was also asked in reference to the article which appeared in the Register. He
 said th't he had told the story to a | Registcr reporter at his home, but did | not r,Eollect whether or not he said anything to the reporter about pigs or
 Law ence. swayne also said on cross examination that when he agreed to glvo Bailey the $50 month, Bailey
 sajI to him, "Ill keep out false com
 plaints and save your contract"
 On cross examination by Attorney
 Asher, Swayne testified that he had
 been a resident of this city about a
 year before he got the garbage con-
 tract, that he was born in Lancaster
 county, Penn, and was forty-four years
 old. He was in the milk business in Boston prior to coming to this city and
 prior to that time he had been in the
 drug business in Philadelphia. Has any of your property been des- troyed by fire?" asked Attorney Asher. Attorney Hamilton. Objected to. You must conflne yourself to the sub
 ject matter of the direct examination. Attorney Asher. "We claim 1t. This
 man has brought charges against these two officials and we have right to go ipto his whole life. If We can show
 that he has been guilty of arson or en-
 gagged in any nefarious business, we
 have the right to introduce 1t as show
 ing that the witness is not a credible
 one.
 Attorney Hamilton still claimed that
 the matter was not germain to the in-
 vestigation, that there was no record ot
 any such transaction, and that he had
 never been charged with the crime by
 any one and 1t was manifestly unfair
 to try to introduce such evidence.
 Attorney Asher stated that he ex-
 pected to show that Swayne had had
 trouble with insurance companies in
 reference to the adjustment of leases
 by fire and that he had been charged
 by these companies with the crime of arson. ... l
 The members of the board considered
 the question of the admissability of
 the question for some time, after which
 they decided to exclude 1t and the cross
 examination was continued on another
 tack.
 In replies to queries by Attorney Asher, MT. Swayne said that Dr. Wright had spoken to him insthe ball
 way on the night of the meeting after the session. There were others there but we went away so that they could not hear the conversation. Dr. Wright spoke first and said that he wanted to meet me on Orange street. He did not tell me for what purpose. He whis- pered in my ear. When we met the next morning on Orange street. the first thing he said was: Nov give me $500 and I'll fix the thing up and save your contract" He said it very low at first and as did not hear him, he said ha ofv, fVH tone. told him couldn't do 1t. He then said"Give me s20O in a shake and I'll tend to it. After a short time I told him I'd give him the money the next pay day. To this he said: "That will be all right and I'll keep out the complaints" He did not tell me how he was going to do this. The converse .tion took place between and 10 o'clock in the morning. don't recol- lect telling the Register reporter the published statements about Wright. I was to give the money to Wright the next pay day, June g. I have never made. sworn statement about the charges against Dr. Wright and. Clerk Bailey. tt
 In reply to question from Commis- sioner Graves, Swayne said that when Bailey received the money he believed that he put the money in his pocket and the check somewhere else. When gave him the check Bailey said: You'd better endorse the check" and endorsed 1t. Mir. Mix was there all the time. Bailey acknowledged at that time that there were some false com plaints and said that he would stop them. He also said that Bailey under stood that,the moneyswas for this:pur- pose and he received 1t with that un- derstanding. . ',r
 Rutherford Trowbridge, residing at l 70 Grove street, testified that he had | lived there three years and had never | made any complaint to the board of | health about the non-removal of gar bage between February 1 and May 23, l and that no one in the house had made | any such complaint. Like testimony l was given by Mrs. Charles Pickett of 46 1 Spring street, Mrs. William Arnold of l 112 Dixwell avenue, James w. Schur- 1 man of BOA Greenwich street, John Met | calf of 14 George street, Mrs. Beckley l of 23 Wilson street, Mrs.. Mary Rey- | holds of 43 Putnam street, Mrs. Thomas | McNerney of 43 Putnam street, Mrs: | Eliza Carroll of 3s Redf1eld street, Mrs. c. Murray of 997 Grand avenue, Mrs. George L. Warren of 147 Howard ave- nue, Mrs. F. O. Mansfield of 322 George street, Mrs. T. A. Colbert of AS Putnam street, James U. Mitchell of 253 Green wich avenue, Max Brahm of 125 Court | street, John H. Maher of 236 George utroat Inhn K Inhnafnr, ff a77 Oroho rd