The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-20

] aout know what ne may think or what i
he may know: have no idea what he does /
know about f. ] paid Bags for the use I
Of his teams. His driver did the work, 4
ana 7 don't suppose he saw one OF the I
loads He was down there once in "a while. 1
but Basgs was the man paid the money ]
to, his accounts show what paid him 4
for so many loads from this place, and so 4
many loads from that place ] received /
the following anonymous letter to-day
Sir Your testimony VIII do you no /
good. Plenty OF r8Om out OF city. a word i
TO the wise is Sufficient. Nun Sedd."
. lock upon this letter as a practical joke !
on the part Of my friends. However. If /
anything comes Of % will know it in 4
day or Two. Opdyke Is not the man who /
3 received This So
W. II. Peck sworn; I know the nature /
I or the charges against me. I asked the /
mayor what / was 20 do with these /
things our at the crenatory. that they |
We're in the way; he told me to sell them I
and turn the money INTO the city treas
Z ury. ] told him I would have TO pay out i
l some thing TO pick this iron up, asserting |
7 IL and hauling h from the Cgefna tory. He I
I told me he did not want ne to lose any
thing. I then went down TO Kehoe and |
asked him what he would give me for /
7 this scrap. He told me he would give me 1
I the same as before S5.25 per ton Rourke /
I offered me s425 FOR e.. And I said: Well |
: ! Will send 1t to KehOe X amounted TO /
$3.50. 1 came up here and cashed the /
I check and paid McGrath for hauling the /
stuff and got his receipt and then I came /
! up here and turned the balance into the |
] treasurer's office. That very morning a |
I dead COW came out here and had her |
/ skinned and 1 sold the hide for S135. paid |
/ a darby . cents for skinning her and |
/ turned in S.l0; this last lot sold amount
Z ed to $3.50, but kehOe refused to pay |
| for il. Air. Willink sent me down there
/ TO collect the money, and Kehoe said We
/ would have TO waft. saw the young
man, kehoe. .Jr. He said / would have
TO wait for his father, that he couldn't
! pay this amount until he saw his father.
1 started to get into the buggy when old
/ man KehOe called me. He asked me If
there was any work at the crema tory,
| and l told him no. l told him l came
| down to collect that money for scrap
| iron. He said: well, We don't intend to
| pay that bill until we get some more
! work. We have got more scrap than We
| have work" I told him he had gotten
very little scrap from me. He said he
had made arrangements with Rogers to
| buy this scrap. l didn't make any ar
engagements with him like that. He said
when he got some more work he would
pay for the iron. / said; Suppose you
don't get any more work. We'll" he
| says, Il don't know about that, but / am
not going to pay this bill at present" Then
| he wrote Willink a letter in reference to 1
me- In speaking TO me he spoke as If he
was speaking to Willink. He said that
some people who are elected
office, but they will get fooled I asked
him II ne was abiding 10 me and he said
no. Then he sat down and wrote Willink
a letter, stating maybe had conscienti-
r.
He has done all the work at the crema-
tory since October last, except these last
| repairs. We did not give any Of the
1 work TO ROurke. In reference to these
CRATE bars, Mr.. Baker visited me several
times and wanted to buy them. We had
about twenty-eight or thirty of them. !
asked him what he would give for them
and he said 50 per tom, and told him
| / could get more. When 1 took charge
OF the crematory Wheeler was not there.
He came around in two or three days
4 Ean1 al1vaN I'd H..
corn. When 1 first went there they were
hauling this corn. l don't remember ask
ing Wheeler anything about these CRATE
bars. When 1 took charge there was very
little iron there. The darkies there told
me that the iron was always sold ever
since they had been there; one or two
have been there since the crematory was
built; they didn't know where 1t was haul
ed to- They said 1t was generally hauled
by Fogarty and McGrath. l also heard
that he gathered up all the tin cans out
Soap Factory bought them for $50 per
1000 These men got 50 cents and Wheeler
81. The hands Strengthened the cans. 1
asked Wheeler for the time book, and he
said II must have got into the furnace.
Mr.. kirkland pays me 81 for horse hides
and cents per pound for COW hides; the
skining Of the animals Is discontinued be-
cause we couldn't get the men to do the
work. Mr. Wilink sells the ashes out
there. Some OF these ashes were used on
that Gwinnett street road. One of the
! Wheeler had given him. The darby sold
the iron for So Wheeler got this money,
telling the darby that he had orders from
the mayor to turn the money in and to
pick up all the iron and sell it. One of
the negroes told me he had $3.50 worth of
| bottles; Wheeler told him he could have
the bottles; when he came back from
town after selling the bottles Wheeler
asked him to see how much he had got;
| Wheeler took the money and handed the
negro Sl.50. When I went there I found
no on1g oil ala s1a1 oil
tools at the crematory and carried them
off with him.
b. o. Rogers sworn: When 1 took
charge of the crematory there was large
pile of old iron there I went out there
to take an inventory of what was out
| there; the pile of iron was on the west
side of the crematory. introduced my
self to Wheeler. He claimed that this
iron belonged to him. He said DIR. Har-
ris had given it TO him so he sold 1t.
was working on this side of the town then
and they We're busy repairing the crema-
tory. There was some iron work to be
done. Wheeler told me 1 would have to
have lead ring to go on top of the furn-
ace. l went to see Kehoe bout it, also
| spoke to DR.. Falligant about 1t. After
| awhile another pile of iron accumulated
| in the dump and DIR. Falligant told me to
clean up the grounds and get the iron out
or the way. l asked him to give me the
| old iron. He gave it to me and l had it
picked up and sold 1t to Kehoe for $39
don't exactly remember when that was
going down town, and if l did to go by
| kehoe's for him and get some money for
| him. L got a check from Kehoe for the
| money and turned it over to Wheeler. 7
cashed the check first and gave the money
| to Wheeler. l think l tOk charge of the
! crematory in February l know that
| Wheeler stated to me that he had sold
| iron before. I don't know what Cleary's
duties We're there; he never staid around
there after he got out of office. I never
sold any iron to any one outside of Kehoe.
| Baker bought some iron from Wheeler.
! wheeler picked up these old rails; he said
it was wrought iron, but that Kehoe
wouldn't give him enough for it, l col
| lected $40 from Williamson for Wheeler.
No receipts passed between Williamson
| and myself. The mayor sent me a letter
about these matters last October. stating
that 1 couldn't have any more Old iron.
He said everything must be turned into
the city treasurer, and 1 have handed
none since. 1 collected this $40 before 7
got the mayors letter I received no $40
| from Williamson 1 went 10 see Will
| Hanson only once. l have never gone 10
| Williamson and offered to sell him iron.