Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-07-18

yourself and your wife, in company
with the Board, had selected and
agreed upon the price of every piece
of furniture you asked the Board to go
with you into the Office where you
would geta reduction on the whole
bill, you took the matter up with Mr..
North and within the space of NOM
emit you were in an angry quarrel with
HIM after he had said to you he did not
see how he could make any further
reduction, you became angry and
abusive, called Mr.. North names, viii
fed his salesman, insulted the Board
and absolutely lost all control of your
self, among other things you declared
and served notice on the Board that
you would not live in house where
its furniture come from that house;
that at that time and place you acted
and conducted yourself more like the
inmate of an insane asylum, than the
superintendent of reformatory prison
Afterward and in answer to your ques'
ton, the Board declared that the bill
had in honor been bought and that
there would be no change, whereupon
you asked one of the members to help
you in some way to get out of the scrape
brought about by the loss of your
temper, that you had never eaten your
words and didn't want to do so at that
time. This member of the Board
called Mr.. North's attention to the
situa ton and asked him to in some
way relieve both you and the Board
from the disgraceful situation in
which you had placed them; where
upon Mr.. North entered into a con-
versation with you, which converse
ton was apparently satisfactory to
you, but we are advised and informed
that in that conversation you threat
ened to, IN the future, usurp the
authority of the Board in statement
to Mr.. North as follows:
I'm all institutions with which l
have been connected, have had sole
charge of its finances, haven't here
as you see, but propose to have, and
will have within sixty days"
We herewith present the affidavit of
j. H. North, marked "Ex. c." of which
the following is copy:
STATE OF Missouri, az;
JACKSON COUNTY, Do
JOHN H. NORTH of law full age and
being first duly sworn deposes and
says, that he is resident of Kansas
City, Missouri, and is the manager of
the j. H. North Furniture & Carpet
company and was such manager Fri
day. May 81, 1895, that ne is ac-
quainted with H. f. Hatch, the super
intendent of the Kansas State Indus
trial Reformatory at Hutchinson, Kan
sas, that he is acquainted with the
Board of managers of said reform
atory, that upon said day he had a
conversation with said H. +. Hatch in
which he, the said Hatch, referred to
said Board of managers as follows, as
nearly as can remember it:
I'm all institutions with which
have been connected, l have had sole
charge of it's finances; haven't here
as you see, but propose to have and
will have within sixty days"
This statement was made soon after
the purchase of bill of goods of our
house by the said Board.
JOHN H. NORTH,
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 22nd day of June, 1895.
]. K. COTTINGHAM,
Notary Public.
My commission expires May 10th,
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We further charge that after the
agreement had been made as to the
purchase of the carpets and furniture
at the two separate houses and before
the selection of the furniture was
made, in a conversation with Mr.. Arm
strong of this Board, you said, in sub
stance, "There is deal in this thing
somewhere and l will ferret it out. If
they wanted anything out of this, l
could get them a couple of hundred
dollars if they would only trust me. If
this Board would be loyal to him,
could make governors of them" Mr..
Armstrong replied to him, that he
didn't think there was any deal on the
part of any member of the Board; if
so, ne knew nothing about it; all Arm
strong knows is square and honora-
BILE deal.
We further charge that during our
stay in Kansas City, that you said to
the Board that you had been around
to the lumber yards in Kansas City and
obtained bids on a bill of lumber
which you claimed was needed for the
reformatory-no intimation or sug'
gestion of the requirement of any such
bill of lumber ever having been made
Heretofore to the Board. You de-
clared that you had received bids from
the lumber yards in Hutchinson, but
that you had neglected to bring the
same with you. You also failed t.
show us any bids from any other lum
Der yard in Kansas City, but you de
clared that the bid which you did ex
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