The herald., 1897-11-19

He told me IL paid and did not get my
old place would be given another.
There il the Cambria street school
he said. told him frankly that the place
belonged to Miss Dick and that would
not buy It.. then asked II paid the
money and was not elected who would
get the money. and when he replied that
would get 1t back demanded to know
what assurance he had of that. He took
me in his buggy to the Wilcox block and
stated on the way that he was going to
get a guarantee that would satisfy me-
was told to wait outside and he went
upstairs. He was gone two hours and
when he returned he stated that he could
not fix it, but that my time for making
| the payment had been extended until
Saturday. I then went to my friends and
returned the money I had borrowed.
Meeting Axtell the next day in the Of
flee of the board I handed him a note
undated and unsigned, which read: No
further negotiations That ended the
first chapter of this matter and it rested
for months. although 1 expected to see
it in print sooner than this.
AXTELL ACCUSES ADAMS.
ION Wednesday, November 10. only
last week, Axtell came to me and volun-
tarily stated most positively that he had
represented Adams in his dealings with
Phillips, Emery. Cooper and myself.
told him at once that he had given us a
dirty deal and he replied that at the time
he had had the assurance that there
were others back Of it. Said L: 'Axtell,
it is common talk that you paid $400 for
your own position This he denied most
emphatically, declaring that he had not
paid one cent and he added that out of
the money he had handled he had not
retained cent. Only a moment before
he had stated that he representations.
There is much more to this that has not
been told, and which may never be told,
but I have said all care to say about
it,"
PHILLIPS STATEMENT
Prof. Phillips was even more reticent
about the matter than Prof. Keppel. At
first he refused to make any statement
whatever. but the information that
part Of the story was-already known
and that all would certainly be published
led him to make the following statement:
"On the Saturday a week before the
employees I met Axtell at a social en-
tertainment. AS had known him for
several years and had been associated
with him in fraternal way, and know
ing that he was close to the members of
the board of education, 1 asked him how
stood with the new board. He looked
wise at the ceiling and hemmed and
hawed a while and then replied he did
not like the looks of things. I asked him
what he maant and whether there was
another man in the way. He acted very
and finally said that there
was another man. I then wanted to
know what to do, to which he replied
I am going to talk plainly to you. Now,
don't say anything about this, for I am
going to put myself in your power. This
matter can be fixed tried then to find
out what he meant, although of course
I knew about what was intended. He
go, however, although I wish now had,
but went to see another member. On
the following Monday AXtell came to the
Sentous school and was closeted for
quite while in the Office with Cooper,
the janitor. 1 met him as he came out
and he said: Now I've fixed that Job
up and l will be ready to attend to yours
in a day or two. In RESPONSE to de-
mand to know what he meant, he plainly
told me that 1 COULD SECURE MY
POSITION AGAIN BY PAYING ONE
MONTHS s SALARY FOR IT.
That settled it with me and from that