The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-20
REFUTED
General Heppenheimer Re
plies to Senate Commit
tees Accusations.
VOORHEES, WITNESS DISCREDITED
The ~Ex.Comptroller Shows by Aft
davit That the Steel Vault
Contracts We're Honest.

penheimer has haen ,,ncovered in con-
nection with the state House fraud in
vestigations at Trenton with unpleasant
frequency. because at the time of the
| occurrences covered by the investiga-
| tons he was the COMPTROLLER of the
State. and because as the head of the
State Financial Department all the ac-
! counts criticised had necessarily to pass
through his hands
General H~ennenbeimer kent his own
counsel until the whole case against him
had developed and finds at the end that
he is criticised NV reason of two of tho
DEVELOPMENTS before the committee
There is first an intfrnation that he was
recomnensed for closing his ayas IA Mil
Inns & Co.'s overcharees for furniture
supplied to the State House INV favors
thrown to him bv the firm in. the fur,
nishing of his own house on van Worst
| Square. and the committee deftly pointed
a fitting leather covered lounge. of
which it caught a glimpse. toward his
house as well.
THAT lounge" said General Heppen-
heimer yesterday. was purchased for
the Comptroller's office. and it is there
now"
As to the furniture supplied to his
house by the firm he exhibited a de-
tailed bill from Mullins &. Co. dated De-
cember IS, 1898. for S. S32. 95. and three
checks on the Second National Bank of
Hobken in settlement of it.
BOOB AND steel, CASINOS.
A second matter about which the GeK.-
eral has been criticised is the payment
to the A. B. Dick Company of Chicago
of about $21, 400 for steel castings fitted
into the vaults of the State House de-
partments. The castings were made on
the Dick Company's order by the Hoff-
man-Keefe Office File Company of Chi
cage, III. H. H. N. Booz of Philadelphia,
the expert subpoenaed before the COM
mittee, testified that the work could
have been done for $1,000.
'Booz showed the animus that
prompted his testimony" said the former
State Comptroller, when he claimed
that he was the Trenton agent of the
Hoffman Company, and that the Dick
Company had. in taking the contract,
invaded his agency territory. These afd-
davits 1 show you charge that Booz,
having pretended to work for one COM
pany while engaged to another, is hardly
a creditable witness. and this letter from
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Robert b. Pattison, formerly Governor
of Pennsylvania, to me telling of the
ovonoro+;on = inro.t.ua+;nn au
ny al lh~VesIs@'ihs coih-
mfttee OF John Il. Scott, secretary OF the
BOARD of Public Buildings and Grounds
- ~ po,..u,no.;a C4o+o aon;+o1 -
a. Inc EehnsylVdlifa 0t3te capieai al
Harrisburg, from charges of eXtort.on
made against him nv Rooz would seem
TO indicate that a favofste pastime Oh
his star witness of Senator Voorhees, in
xestioa t;no oonomittaa oo,sasts in snn;rob-
ing the honor of State officials.
The former COMPTROLLER exhibited the
.nda,i+r .nd f,ra,shaa oon;as af tban,
@Aiuasies' anu oopieS VI {
for the press. That made by Albert B.
Dick of Chicago nresident of the A. r.
ST. C~-ese laams-aa ~
LICK feailfnneu the reasoh-
ableness of the bill against the State. A
moro imnortant and less disintarested
- ~
afiant was Horace }. HoHman OF NO.
sworn statement shows the reason why
Booz may have made an honest mistake
- -. It ~ 49,
the cost OF the work. II was as already
said, with the Hoffman7Keefe appliances
that the storage vaults IN the several
dssa..s 49, - So 1m
departments IN the state mouse were
fitted, and Mr.. Hoffman, the affiant, is
the inventor and patentee of them all.
PARTICULAR WORK.
Tn his af6adaVit MIR Hoffman StataS