The record-union., 1896-03-03
TIE POUNDMAO9ER FIGHT.
COOkSley Introduces Some Interesting
Af1daYitS.
He Claims That Healey Endevored to
Get Him to Present Fraudu-
lent Claims.

AT the meeting of the Board of Trus-
tees last night Poundmaster W. D.
Cooksley presented some interesting
affidavits bearing on the offer Of Daniel
Healey to take the office of Poundmas-
ter for the salary OF 500 alone, and
make no charge for dog scalps.
The affidavit of A. Grubbs stated that
on May Is, 1894, Cooksley showed him
two sacks containing dog scalps, one of
which he said contained scalps of dogs
that he had taken in Sacramento and
killed, and for which he was allowed to
charge the city. The other contained
scalps which he said were given to him
by Daniel Healey with the request that
he put them in with the other scalps
and charge the city for them.
Cooksley stated at the time that he
showed the scalps to Grubbs that he was
going to hand them to Charles Heisen,
who was on his official bond, with the
request that the latter return them to
Healey.
F. S. Smiths affidavit was to the same
effect, and also stated that Cooksley
stated at the time that he showed the
scalps to affiant that his object was to
have a witness to the fact that he did
not put the scalps given him by Healey
with the scalps that he was allowed to
charge the city for, but had refused to,
and that he was going to hand them to
Charles Heisen, and request him to re-
turn them to Healey.
F. M. Woodsons affidavit was to the
effect that in conversation with Healey
in front of his CWoodson's) place, in dis
cussing the question of bids for the po-
sition Of Poundmaster, Healey said sub
stantially: 'Cooksley is fool. If he
had come to my terms and signed a
contract with me to keep out of the
boneyard business for two years, I
never would have put in a bid for $50
to do the Pound work for Sacramento,
because man cannot make a living at
il at that price He has made his own
bed, now let him lie on it. I won't al
low any man in Sacramento to run me
cut of business"
Charles Heisen's affidavit stated that
on May 10. 1894, Cooksley brought him
q bag containing seventy scalps
with instructions to give them to Daniel
Healey, from whom ne said he had re-
ceived them, and stated that his reason
for having Heisen return them to
Healey was that the latter had given
them to him for the purpose of having
him put them with the scalps of the
dogs killed by him as Poundmaster,
and charge the city for them. Cooksley
said he would not do so, and brought
the scalps to affiant because he wanted
to be able to prove that the scalps were
returned to Healey and were not
charged to the city.
Mckay then asked Cooksley to make
whatever statement he wished to the
board
Cooksley stated to the board that he
was warned early in 1894 to look out
for Healey. In May of that year he
went out to get some of his scalps, and
Healey gave him a bag containing a
number of scalps and told him to turn
them in with his own, and he would
give him ten of them for doing it. He
had several more witnesses who would
swear to it. Healey had told one of
them that he was a fool not to turn
them in, as the Others had always done
it. He had also said that if Cooksley
did not come to his terms he would take
the place for nothing
Tozer said the Finance Committee
had decided before hearing these affi-
davits that the city should cease paying
for dog scalps, as it was too great a
temptation to individuals
Devine asked that the committee be
given a week more to report on the mat
ter, which was granted.