The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-11-20
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tcon inu,d from n. 1t Paee)
looking over one of his bills witness found
that lac had only charged three cents a foot
for lumber that had cost him four cents.
Upon redirect examination by Mr.. Whalen
witness said the much talked Of team Of
horses is owned principally by his mother,
but the family In general owns them.
The horses were bought with Patrick NJ.
Moons money. He could give no idea when
the team used in 1896 was bought.
Last night you said, with no uncertainty
about your statement, aud no qualification,
that your brother was a partner in this
lumber business, and that he shared IN the
profts2
1 didn't mean in the lumber bu mess. 1
meant in the team.
Don't you know / asked you whether he
was a partner in that busiuess2
l don't remember now. | was q little eX-
cited at the time by the different crooked
questions.
Did you consider it a crooked question
when l asked If your brother, p. NJ. Noon,
was a partner in the lumber business
i don't remember now.
You remember that question, don't you?
/ don't know how that question was now.
Don't you remember now that ! asked
whether your brother, Patrick, was a partner
in the lumber business
l remember that you asked me If he was a
partner in that business. lie has nothing to
do with it.
Don't you remember that you took an or.
der in your hand and said "he is a partner in
this business, too"
/ couldn't say.
Don't you remember that yo1 said that ?
don't know.
He was a partner in the team, was hep
When either of us had mouey to spare we
bought things that were necessary to be
bought.
You and your brother, Patrick
Then this team in 1896 was bought with
your money and your brother, Patrick's,
money!
l guess I loaned him some to buy it. l
helped him.
Has your brother, Patrick, any money in
the lumber business
No.
Don't you remember that when 1 asked
you that question yesterday afternoon, and
you answered that he had ?
don't remember. He had nothing to do
with the lumber business.
Has he any money in il ?
Whenever l wanted 500 and 1 knew he
had it 1 would ask for it.
DO you mean to say you didn't swear yes
terday that your brother, Patrick, had money
in his lumber business2
If 1 swore to it l didn't mean to swear it.
Then everything gotten out Of you yester-
day was wriggled out Of you, and you didn't
mean to say anything you said yesterday?
You kind of slipped it out of me.
Don't you remember that, after you left
the stand yesterday, they nearly ate the
head or Of you for the way you testified,
and then you come back here to day to try
and smooth the case.
l don't know that 1 would allow anybody
eat the head off Of me.
VI. j. Dunahoc was next called. 1 reside
mt Lost Creek and have lived there about 80
L.- Iii. ~. Id G-1-LN Haaa#A.
was my brOther-in-law. In 1896 he told me
to do work at Lost Creek No. 2 school house
! repaired the fence, clubhouse, windows, etc.
and fixed up the cellar. AT that time l was
i'm the installment business. My general OC-
c~upation is working in the mines. sometimes
in the instlllment business and sometimes IN
the insurance business. 4 worked about 81
days at the school building.
The witness was positive in his statements
and said the bills upon which Mr.. Whalen
examined him were correct, or he would not
have sent the bills to the School Board. He
said he did not divide the money he re-
ceived for the work, or any of it, with any
member Of the Board. lie quit the Install
ment business to do the work at the school
building because it paid him better at the
time.
P..J. Moore, of VAUDEVILLE, sworn During
part Of 1896 l was an agent selling school
supplies and part of the year teaching school.
In that year l sold five normal charts ex-
planning grammar and arithmetic to the
West MahanOy Township School Board. The
market price for the charts was $50 each. !
do not know that the list price was $22. so. !
did not sell the same kind Of charts to the
Gilberton district for S27.50. l sold the
charts at a lower figure than $50 to only one
district and that was done in East MahanOy
Township, where the general agent had
offered the charts for $27.5O and to make a
sale witness was obliged to meet the figure. ]
] did mot paaaiya fha pVIar For tho pnopau nu
the West Mahanoy Township sale, but re-
ceived a check. ! did not divide any of the
money, or my commission with the School
Board.
R. H. Cox, of Brownsville, called and
sworn. Unmarried. Family consists OF
seven brothers. Six of them are voters. ]
am a plasterer and employ men. In 1896
employed four, five or six men. Sometimes
more and at others less. l did work at the
Brownsville school house for West MahanOy
township in 1896 upon request Of Director
Donlan. l took the director to the building
to see the work while it was going on. and
also after the work was done.
The witness was frank and answered all
questions quite promptly and in a manner
that left no room for speculation as to what
he meant. He got a check for the money
He got an order and endorsed it. He was
before the Board because it was claimed that
his bill was too high and he had to explain
it. He gave no part TO any member Of the
Board, or to anybody for them. He gave the
check to his mother and he knew she didn't
give any of it to any Of the Directors.
N. w. Beddall, hardware merchant, Shsn-
andoah, was called to testify as to the prices
of window panes and locks in connection
with the evidence given by the ]janitoFs. Mr..
Beddall put the prices near what the others
testified TO.
Thomas G. Evans, shipper at Hammond
colliery, said that between June, 1895, and
June, 1897, Mr.. Carey, ST., got coal to the
amount of S34.4O.
John H.. Hughes, shipper at VIM. Penn
colliery, said during the same period Carey
got $500 worth of coal.
Henry Joyce, recalled. 1t was found that
his bill called for $3O.65, while the actual
amount footed up $2O.65. Asked what
amount he received, he said he didn't know.
Did not know he was eXoneTated for taxes in
1896, but thought he paid his taxes. He was
directed to bring his tax receipts down on
Monday.
Frank Garvey, Of Brownsville, has a
nephew married to p. j. Ferguson's sister.