The San Francisco call., 1898-02-02

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 himself from situation in which he found neither entertainment nor ,in- struction. The upshot of the matter was that he left court in company With the Darby Laydon volumes of cryPto- grams: :: In the afternoon MT. Chadbourne, a member of the board, displaced Mr.: Hafney, who! has been. a. constant at tendant at the side of Attorney Strat- ton. MT. :Chadbourne was concerned about the disclosure made by Book keeper Townley: as to-: moneys paid the board in 1894, prior to MT Colnonss appointment. One item of Sooo was identified under the. letter e. a pri- .vate mark of the bookkeeper, and at. this point the investigation was con fined by the ruling of the court, to the period comprehending the life or Chair- man Colnon. as member, beginning Tn
 Marcia, 1885. The amount named, It was testified, was paid to some mem Der of the: commission. and an 1ntima- tion. that sC" meant: Chadbourne @es- caped counsel for the Paraff1ne Com- pany. . The name of another member of that year has the same initial, MT. Coles. Which one of the.two members the: $500 item was checked aga1nst
 witness. can: not positively af1lrm; though he: is certain he was informed the: money was for one or the other. 7.
 George T. Wright. accompanied by: his client, s. E. Shade, with more books,4 sat all day in the jury box. #
 Books everywhere! t: $.: ~@ +, .:.- ..
 Mir; J. J.. .Keegan, secretary of the. :Harbor Commission, sat: deferent1ally in the rear of the court with the rec .ords of the board in his charge. ,. 2: <: When recalled to the stand after re: cess. it developed that. ex-bookkeeper: rrrl1< T <c a c Darby, Laydon & Go. several years ago in actions for recovery: The. cases were: entitled Darby Laydon & Co. ys.: City of Benieia, same Ys. Sacramento Bank, same .vs..: City and County of. San. Francisco: Dundon was then. a silent partner of: Darby Laydon x O.; and Supervisor. % For the purpose or .concealing his relations Townley was requested to serve as assignee In pros. ecuting the claims The one against the City of. San Francisco. was for the re- covery of about $Ss00 fol. work under a contract secured to the firm Of :. Mir. Dundon. as Supervisor. 7. Mayor Ellert
 held up the payment, hence the suit: Tn all these. cases MT. Stratton ap-s peared as attorney for Messrs. Laydon: and Dundon, or was consulted as such.
 ToWnley: afterward laid claim to col lection in the. suits for commission, and in the case of the judgment obtained
 against the city of Benicta attempted
 to collect. MT. McEneTney threatened to make it hot for him'A.if he persist ed, and on the advice of his attorneys
 he. abandoned the action: :: .:= :. : The present bookkeeper for Darby Laydon & Co, MT. Reed. was recalled and admitted that he made the erasures
 and alterations in the firm books,
 he: nf did not know: any of the t-attersons,
 but did know MT. Patterson. He sub stituted the word. advertising" for service" at the head of the secret :ex- :penditnre. page, but stuck to it in spite of the rigid examination Of coun- :sel for the. Paraffine Company and; of
 Judge Belcher, that he made the al'
 iteration of his own Volition, because he wanted ''to combine the two accounts. ''
 He. could not explain to the court satis-
 faotnrily :. why he had not opened
 a separate account for the firms ad- .vertising, which is trfflfng; why he did not let the service" account stand
 if his desire: as he averred, was =. to
 save; paper, and place the advertising account under Its separate head on the. same page; or why he had not indexed
 the advertising account after having erased !""service.' .: .>:.
 He did not know what the "service''' account meant; never. asked; didn't want. to: know, and yet could not .ex-
 plain why he had :nethodfcafly. eIl-
 deaVored to blind or destroy it. There was no other bookkeeper; he was the only one. When: pressed he did remember there was another account
 ant named A. L. + FinneYt who has been
 absent sick for; three. weeks at Mo
 desto or thereabolts. Kinney keeps the present pile record, but witness did
 not know where the previous one was :to be found. He did not know that it
 ever had an existence. - Judge Beleher
 toasted the witness fora while and
 then. dropped him. .. ]: The present pilebook disclosed : an
 item: "104 piles by recount" but the
 witness could not tell it's meaning. He
 knew, of no record in existence show. ing measurement of piles delivered to the Harbor Commission and the meas .urements charged. Reeds positive fg norance: and. forgetfulness made .eX- cellent evidence for the Paraff1ne Company's case. -: :.
 Granville w. Stewart of :SausaNto, the
 manager of the Pacific Pine Company,
 after a@long spell of uncertainty as to the facts about the relations between
 his: company and the Dundon- -Slade combine. admitted that the four suits of his company were dismissed as the
 result of an agreement. The Shade
 Company Is now buying from the Pa !, =.REII c AT N