New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-05

-. TIE EAvY HOsPITAI~-OUTCOME OF THE
INQUIRY ORDERED LAST NAY BY
THE DEPARTMENT
a. the outcome OF an inquiry ordered last
.,.v ny the Navy Department. jeremiah NJ.
n-,snan a contractor for the hubble" wall at
=. Nav Hospital together with his brother
-, Brosnan. and Ernest Noack. a sub-con-
-,tor were arrested Sunday night by Deputy
,..ed States Marshals Koch and Evarts on a
large Of attempting 20 defraud the Govern
.,t The prisoners were taken before United
s,.,ss Commissioner Morle yesterday morning
sSbeld in $1,000 bail each for examination on
,,rust : The inquiry, which was held at the
yavv Yard last May. was presided over by
RS G. White, a civil engineer OF the Navy, as
..n,or member The Tribune has heretofore re-
,srr.1 10 the case jeremiah Brosran. the con-
.-sc,or lives at No 90 Cumberlan6-st this city
erd ha. Az office in New-York- On July 0. 1893
Rresnan signed a contract TO construct rub
RIO NAL" in the hospital grounds at a stipulated
.r;,s o. $50 500 He made his brother, John
R.osran. superintendent Of the work and, as
has been said -Ul let the contract In addition
20 those already arrested, warrants are out for
Patrick Mcclure and Robert McMath 1t was
1,soovarAd after the work was we'll under
way that large part OF Tie wall was put To-
ce,her with drv brick and stone. the cement
heinc left out as alleged by Noack in the
examination, for Economical purposes. The
e,,oo,er,, was made ii is said. by DR.. Penrose,
,no has charge Of the hospital. At the inquiry
4. o,as brought ont So the complaint alleges. that
,,s-s was collision on the part of the contractor
ard those 10 whom he sublet the work. The
contractor jeremiah Brosnan. testified, in sub
stance that he wholly unaware that the
wall was not being erected according to specifi-
cations which stipulated expressly that the wall
was TO be laid with one part of clean. white
sand and two parts OF Rosendale cement If
there was any fault it could not be laid at his
door Probably the most important testimony
Was given by the sub-contractor. Noack He is
a German. and has not according 10 his state
n,ent. been in this country long. He said he
comp aimed frequently that he did not like the
way the work was being done, but added that
he had received his orders from John Brosnan,
Who had general charge Of the work and Nc
CURE According 70 Noacks testimony, series
OF signals had been gotten up by the Brosnan
crowd 10 warn the workmen Of the approach or
Dr. Penrose and other inspectors or the Gov
eminent II happened several times that when
the dry stone and brick were being put in place
tire INSPECTORS would come down to watch the
progress OF the work. AS they hove in slgnt,
The signal was given, IL was alleged, ana the
men were instructed or. rather, had been in
s.ructed previously. TO plaster everything IN
sight with cement. in order to make ii appear
that The wall was being laid strictly according
u contract. In this way, as the testimony mol
Gates Il was comparatively easy to deceive the
Inspectors who did not deem IT necessary 10
order the cement part torn out, in order to see
,ha false work underneath. The testimony
covers severa! hundred pages OF typewriter
manuscript