The Portland daily press., 1897-09-13

parts of a harness but after keeping oo
} long time had brought them pack. +ion
} Gen. Mattocks ended the exam 4noi-
of the witness here and Mr.. Rounos t AZ,
him in hand. In reply to questions MI s.
Kennard said that the last quansi'y o ~,
} oats which had been bought had peu.
very poor. He had told Mr.. Staples apou >
: it and he had examined the oats ana eoiu y.
} 1T was all right. The horses have nu ,e
eaten it well and of course they -" -
fallen away great deal. In repy AZ At
} questions by Mr. Rounds he said tn 1h
!, since the giving of salt-petre to tne
horses had been stopped the horses hso
not been sick. 49,
ss--Mr. Leighton here asked what me
chairman was trying to prove py uliis
} salt-petre business. Mr. hennara saI.l
that he thought he was trying TO Ply
that the giving OF the sait-Pe. nw hnt
killed the horses and he didn't know pao
what it hadt though he should never p9 -
lieye it. When asked by Gen. Mattocks II
he considered the giving of salt-pe5fe "
horses good treatment for souno ALL
mails the witness said he did. Ia
Teamster Hall employed by the cry
wassthe next witness. Witness, wenc W ~
Meserve in there with q woman OF pau
repute. sMeserve gave no explanation
about the woman being there on tn ma
Sunday. The matter was never lnVesGl,
gated to his knowledge by Mr. ferhap9
or Mr.. Staples. Mr.. Staples hau asAeu
the witness who he was working LOT on
4 one occasion. The witness was called 10
the office to explain taking out pair =, OF
horses without Mr.. Staples's orders. Inc
witness said that he had never nauleo
any material belonging to the Guy 70
private parties to his knowledge. he haa
hauled one load of sand to Franklin wharf,
| by Mr.. Stap les orders.
L Oxx7oC n
said that he had never hauled any mate
rails to private parties to his knoWledge;
He had never hauled any sand or graVel
to Wilmot street to be used In the con-
Etruction of a private cellar. On one
occasion the witness together with seVeIai
other men had worked in making SLED
bodies to be used in hauling snow. Ihese
sleds had been used by the city for a
while and afterwards had been USED py
Mr.. Staples.
Mr.. Staples had employed the witness
for the city three years ago. he owen
Mr. Staples q small amount of money and
was in debt beside. Mr.. Staples hadidrawD
his pay up to last spring. Witness SAID
that Mr. STAPLES did not always take
money from his pay envelope. In regard
to the woman being in the stable on that
Sunday with him, he said that she had
come there after a small boy and had
only been there once when he was there.
The witness said that the story as 1t had
been stated was without foundation in
many ways and that 1T had been spread
about town to hurt him. The witness
said that he had never hauled any sand
to the properly Of private parties to his
Il knowledge.
Alderman Rounds asked the witness if
he had ever stated that some OF the people
had better keep still and not talk to the
commission or they would get 1t in the
} no
said anything of the kind.
4 Teamster Albert S. Pickett said he had
never hauled any sand or other material
to private parties. Witness afterwards
said he had hauled some sand for MIR.
Hutt on Hancock street and had put the
name on the slip and supposed the city
had been paid for it. MIR. Staples had
ordered him to leave it. He had never
hauled any sand to Franklin wharf or
the continuation of Maple street. The
witness said he had never been suspended
for being intoxicated. He had never said
that if anyone told anything to the COM
mission that person would suffer. He
never had authority for making such a
statement.
Teamster Charles S. Fairfield, the next
witness, had never hauled any material
to private parties that he knew of. One
of the horses which he drove had died of
"black water" This was i'll June and
DR.. Gage doctored him. Witness said the
horse had good care. He had seen the
boss of the stable put in about half cup
full of salt-petre in the grain of the horse
which afterwards died. This was one
Sunday night.
F.W. Webster was asked about the gray
horse which had been taken away from
the city stables. A Mr.. Woodbury. had
taken the horse away and it was said that
a blanket had disappeared at the same
- ft1rh ny. t,n rvytt ho6 hoo
cursed by Mr.. Staples and had frequently
heard him swear at some of the other
| teamsters.
William A. Donovan. teamster en-
ployed by the city had taken away gray
horse from the city stables by orders of
Mr. Staples. The horse had been taken
| to blacksmith shon When noon came
ness asked Mr.. Staples about him. Staples
had told him he had got rid of the horse.
4 The animal was worth $40 or $50 to a
farmer. He had seen the horse once since
| in a farmers wagon. When witness
asked MIR. Staples where the blanket was
he said he would look after it. Witness
i had never seen the blanket since. When
asked if he had ever hauled any material
to private parties he said he had hauled
half single team load of crushed rock
for Mr.. Marks the printer This was used
in Mr.. Mark S yard. 1t was valued at
about fOrty cents. lie did not Know
whether this load had ever been paid fol
or not.
Charles II. Dammery, the city time
keeper for the street department said that
Mr.. Staples had some OF his own teams al
work for the city in 1897. These teams
were worked under the name of Johr
Murray Witness had heard Mr.. Staples
swear at the employees of the city. AS he
expressed it Mr.. Staples commonly talked
in this way. Witness said that he had
asked Mr.. Meserve where he had beer
with load of sand one time and that he
was told he had taken the sand to the
wharf. He supposed it had been taken tc
Franklin wharf. Meserve had told wit
ness that Assistant Superintendent Morse
had told him not to take any account Of
it, Afterwards Mr.. Morse was asked by
witness if he, the witness, should take
any account of the load of sand and Mr.
Morse told him not to make any account
of it.
Gen. Mattocks asked Meserye, who was
present, to tell what he knew about haul
ing this sand to Franklin wharf.
Meserve got up and said he could moi