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


SIR Conner for So. this was paid % J. a..
Cornell. Tor which I have hls receipt. and
s-ase8 emily ] paid MIN $50 10 fuA pay
uert Ila- Was between tle FIRST of Dc-
tolt- and the ninth ~ November. iss5. In
vas ll-- before he got oat ot his position.
] orir had rhre- Transaction with Air.
Cornell FOX cot il some financial tr1u-
Dies and -4U5eQ IDENTIFY sod our fp lr. COM
ar. the purclas .nE agent 81 the Central
rallr1ll. some ~ that city iron went 10
John Eurrke. The first iron I got was
from ROGERS. I remember Rogers wel he-
cause ~ aannel me 20 much Tor the
money This man thar / was telling you
about weighed about 1Gl 90 10 pounds ]
know him when ! see him. 4 don't think
De- j. in THE employ % the city now. he
didn't have the appearance Of a laborlng
man. BE seemed 60 be a KIND Of boss. He
wore dark blue suit Of clothes. and
Thought be was some clerk ~ the employ
OF the city. He came In the little Office
down there and both he and Fox walked
on piece and when NJ. Fox came back
De asked me n ] had any money. and ]
told him yes and then FOX handed me this
receipt To was written in ink to the best
of my recollection. I didn't write the re-
ceipf myself. i have got all the weights
home or iron that we got from the old wa
Ter works. Some OF the crematOry
7 don't know where Fox Is at the present
i-iue- he made failure Of this busi-
ness. ] suppose ! was the only one that
got the best or him. am positive that
We exchanged scrap iron for wrought. {
am positive that some OF his iron was city
IRON. ] can't call the name Of this man
hat gave this receipt 7 don't know the
foreman Of the street and lane depart
ment. We got iron from the scavengar
department. streets and lanes and from
the crematory; some Of this iron came
from the exchange. from that little yard
'aek OF the city exchange. This man IT, a
great deal redder than / am. ] will tel
you this, / think be looks ike Mr. Bar
Teit ln the custom house. lie Is built
something like Barrett That So trans
action was not with the water works. I
don't know Mr.. Lotion. / paid the dray-
age ON the water works iron; IL was paid
70 Welsh. the drayman. I know Mr.
Dreeson. This water works iron consist
q % old hydrants. and stuff ike that.
When be got iron from the street and lane
department IL consisted Of old broken
sewer traps lamp posts. etc. From the
sraNenger department stoves. old plate
ana STUN ike We got from the crematorv
we got six and half tons Of this stun
MT FOX was pretty hard customer and
] had 20 keep him under control He hir-
ed Mr.. Baker 10 buy iron on commission
ana when ] found out ne was not treating
me right / g0I after him about H. Mr.
Baker bought some OF this iron from the
around town.
Mr.. NJ. l.. Exiey. sworn: I was taking
the stun from Mr.. O'Brien's stables be-.
fore / got the street sweepings In addl-
ton TO his private stables / got the
mis- receipts hem. This recent Is for 3S6
loads; mat l can identify by the price
because i paid him so cents for his own
stables and p cents ! know I paid for
the street sweep.ngs. You will notice tbat
TINS receipt shows difference I'm the
stun from his stables and the price of
street sweeplngs. Some Of this was street
sWeepings. / am sure OF that. / had HIS
stables by the year for SlC0 and paid
him quarterly. BY this receipt IN seems
palu MIN Sa5.53 IN fun for this stun for
-FOUR months. This receipt here is $35 I
knew j was buying street sweepings Mr.
% Brien had charge OF the street and
lanes, and l suppose he had authority
10 sell these street sweepngs. Eventually
his stun became useless This contract
mad with Mr.. O'Brien ran over some
thing like a year. / paid him altogether
MS. AZ. / told him I had to stop taking
H. because II was too poor. and that he
Deter get another customer. He told me
II did not take IL he would have to dunn
IL in the street l don't think ANYBODY
TOOK II after | gave 81 up. do not get
~ from MIN now. or course, / knew
was buying street sweepings. II all OF
this stun had been stable manure the
price would have been 50 cents. Here is
a receipt / got from Mr.. o 'Bi1en
A. Iune J. 1894.
TO w. !. 0Brien. e''0''
To SS tickets. at p ceuts ...........$96 rs
Less one blank ticket ............... 25
Balance ..~.....;...;....,......"....s96 50
Received payment,
Alderman Kolshorn read the foiiowing
letter:
Savannah. June 5, 1S96.-To Messrs
Lester Screven and Kolshorn, Investiga-
ting Committee, &C., City. Gentlemen:
Mr.. w. n. Peck has employed us to re-
present his interests in the Investigation
OF the scrap iron matters" and we would
be pleased to have the privilege of examin-
ing Witnesses who appear against him
and also TO be present at the giving of his
testimony. Yours respectfully,
MacDonell & Gordon
Alderman Kolshorn: ] object to any at
torney being present here.
Alderman ScreVen: 1 don't see that
much good would result In their being
here.
Request refused.
Alderman Kolshorn read the following
A. N N1anuey, Clerk of Council, city.
Dear Sir: ] received your favor of the Bra
inst, requesting my presence as a witness
in the investigation to be had this after
noon by the Special Committee OF Council
as to alleged sales of scrap iron, manure.
etc, by city employees" A matter of
much Importance to myself which re-
quires all my time win prevent compli-
qnce with the request: even II II did not
and 1 attended the meeting of the com
mittee, l could not enlighten them as TO
any sales of scrap iron, manure etc, by
city employees" Yours very truly,
City, June 1, 90
Richard Fogarty, sworn: Mr. Wheeler
came to me in March, 1895, last March. and
he asked me If l would haul some scrap
iron to IIehoe's foundry. Well, now,
could not tell how much I charged him,
because 1 didn't have any interest in il
except TO haul the stun After hauled the
iron Wheeler told me that as soon as Rog-
ers collected the money from Kehoe that
he would pay me for the drayage Well,
had no more to say about IL until Wheeler
gave me the money. That's all l know. /
don't think any one was present when
Wheeler asked me TO haul this stuff There
was no one present when he paid me, be-
cause we were up on the platform of the
crematory and the negroes We're walking
down below. l don't remember how many
loads I hauled as / was telling Mr.. Rogers
a few minutes ago, 1 didn't remember how
many loads l hauled; never put it down
didn't see any money paid to Wheeler I
haven't a word to say about anybody's
business, because l didn't see him get the
money. 1 only hauled one load. I think. to
the best of my belief. that this was the
second load hauled from there. To the
best of my recollection the bill came to
about SIS. I got 75 cents per ton. My wa
CONS carry nearly $500 tons, or something
like that. I do a little farming ] never
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