The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-11-23
BANDITS.
Another Chapter Of Municipal Rob-
beries by Contractors.
INVESTIGATORS INVESTIGATING
Enough Moving Slowly, tho Pennsyiyania
Senators Arc Developing Facts That
shouia Lead to Arrests. Prosecution and
Imprisonment-- --Dlshonest Payroiis.

enough MOVING SLOWLY, tne fehnsyiShnih
Senators Arc Developing Facts That
shouia Lead TO Arrests. Prosecution and
Imprisonment--Dishon Payroiis.
i. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23 - Yesterdays
session of the senate nteinvestigatingc commit
tee at tho city hall was productive Of tho
most sensational testimony yet hoard, Sc
rious charges being made against Samuel
MoKoe, q carpenter aud builder, and also
Employed rs o bridge foreman on city
work. The name of Bridge Supcrintcnd-
emit O. A. Trik was also mixed up in tho
affair.
The charges against Mckee were tho
outcome Of testimony given by General
Agent Adds, and Thomas Warren and
Frederick II. Roll, formerly employed rs
laborcrs on bridge work, and went to show
that Mckee awindied the city out of con-
siderable money from May to September
Of this year
Agent Adds produced papers ho sworo
were correct copies of eight payrolls, COW
ering that period, to which were attached
affidavits Of Superintendent Trk that they
were correct According to the payrolls
Warren and Roll received s3 per- day. Both
men denied receiving that amount War
rem said he got but e. per day, and Roll
said he received only sl,5o The latter did
not know he should have received $3 until
yesterdays inquiry developed the fact.
The mon said Mckee paid them their
wages, and Warren added that he always
held biotter over the figures on the pay
rolls. The latter witness also said that
two Of McKee's sons were employed as APP
prentices at % a week. The payrolls
showed these were each paid 90 q day.
The other testimony before the com
mittee was of the same character as that
given on Thursday, in which contractors
for street paving and garbage collection
failed to comply with tho specifications.
E. f. Henson, who had been on tho
stand before, was recalled. He produced
three photographs of pier No. 80, the first
OF which showed lumber vessels which
were being unloaded, and eight carts
loaded with garbage. Several Of these carts
were wooden ones and the Others were OF
Iron, butall were owned and used by the
Philadelphia 1ncinerating company.
The second was another view OF the same
scene, and the third showed the garbage
hanging over the side of the barge loaded
with refuse and dropping into the water.
The witness then went on to say that
the cost Of removing the garbage by means
Of the scows from CallowhilI and Poplar
street wharves was at tho rate of s5 day
for each Of the six scows used. The tow.
nge TO Hog Island and return to the
wharyes was about $40 every two days
while the wages of the men necessary tc
do the work of trimming and unloading
the garbage would amount to about SIS q
day.
In this way the company did the work
for the average cost of Si742 per month
when, by incinerating the refuse, the cost
90 1t would have been 81, $50, at the rate o.
ei per load. BY loading the garbage OF
the scows, the witness said, 1t saved In thu
First district 81 ,o3o and in the Fifth dis
&rfct 81 $40 in one month. Mr.. Hensor
aid not know positively what became o
the garbage after it left the wharf, bu
supposed that 1t was deposited on Ho,
Island.
Frank p. Myers was called and asked 1
he had ever had anything to do with th'
removal of garbage from Chestnut Hill
The witness in answer proceeded to real
From a written statement, which set fortl
that he had been fighting the garbage null
sance for four or five years past. Hedwel
with emphasis on the dumping Of Rarbag
In the vicinity of the Bethesda Home. Th
action taken by him was in the interest O
tho home alone.
6ilas w. Petit, the committed counsel
Mas on hand yesterday for tho first time
and assisted Lawyer Freedley, and a
lawyer Pettit's request the committe
adjourned until next Tuesday week.