The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-06

AndreaD SaxIehner.
them, he was instructed to stop il and re-
| port to the Office. Jan. l. 1898. he was
promoted ana placed in charge of the en-
tire work
Lieut.. Rees and Marion Twiggs made
inspections of his work without notice to
MIN Mr.. Twiggs called his attention to
the specifications at the time and meas
ureo tne mattress in accordance with
them. He testified to a misunderstanding
! with the contractors, resulting in the non
payment for certain work, and the dis
charge OF an inspector for neglect of duty.
capt. carter was frequently on the work
ana MADE very rigid inspection of it, ON
one occasion Col. Craighill came with him
ana saw a multiple mattress go into the
! work.
Col. Barr asked the witness how long II
| was after he had rejected a certain mar
tress he was relieved as inspector. II NAV
! nave been two months, but Mr. Ensey did
not remember. The Inspector removed for
carelessness on the work was named Hale.
MIR. Ensey identified a letter written bv
| Capt. Carter to himself. calling his atten.
| tion to errors in his stone reDorts and
! IRON reports. Col. Barr introduced the
letter. The errors We're referred to as neg
| ligence. on his part, and he was ordered to
| make new reports
| Col. Barr questioned the witness at
| length on the subject of the softness of
| the river bottom at certain places. He
! had stated that he could run a pole from
| thirty to forty feet down into the bottom
| This was before the board of inquiry. Mr..
! Ensey- said he merely stated the matter
| from memory. He knew the bottom was
very soft at the point in question, and he
| knew pole could be pushed down there,
but he did not know absolutely whetherS
it would go ten, twenty, thirty or fifty
| feet.
Mr.. Ensey. at the request of the Judge
advocate, gave the detailed story of an
| encounter with Inspector s. M. Hale,
| few nights ago.
81 was with Mr.. Connally and another
party, whose name I do not remember"
Mr.. Ensey said. I'VE met Mr.. Hale and
asked him to go with US and not to have
| any hard feelings. Hale was under the
influence of liquor he was drunk. He
| said he had had enough of this business.
About that time his hat fell off and he
blamed it on Mr.. Connally. Hale used a
violent epithet, and threw his hand to his
hip pocket. He was known to carry
pistol at almost all times, and sometimes
two. At this point I interferred, and Mr..
! Connally, to whom the language was adj
! dressed struck Mr.. Hale"
Didn't he knock him DOWN." Col Barr
asked.
HE did," was the reply. ''when Hale
threw his hand to his hip pocket, he
| should have been thankful he did not get
| shot" WA
Didn't he deny that he was armed?'
| Col. Barr asked
HE did afterward." was the reply. He
was very humble after the occurrence
| cot al
Mr.. S. F. B. Gillespie, deputy clerk of
| the United States Court, testified that he
knew w. H. Ray and Henry Berg, whose
names appeared on bidders bonds for
! the Atlantic Contracting Company. He
| had certified to their justification, and
said they both had appeared before him
and had sworn to the value of their prop
! erty as stated in their Qualifications. This
was denied both by Ray and Berg, who
said they had never appeared before
commissioner to take such an oath. Mr..
Gillespie stated that they were before him
each time.
Through Mr. Gillespie were also introduce
! ed the papers in connection with the case
| brought by Capt. Carter against the tug
| Ripple belonging to the Atlantic Con-
! tracing Company for dumping ashes in
! the river, for which the company was
recently fined $3.50 Other paper in Grim
inal proceedings for similar complaints
made by Capt. Carter were also intro
duced.
He believed w H. Ray was a wealthy
man. Ray was before him on several oc-
casions and signed bonds. He knew Berg
was ship chandler, but knew less about
him that he did of Ray. Berg said he
had never signed a bidders bond before
Mr. Gillespie.
The court adjourned shortly after
o'clock and met again at 4:30 o'clock In
the afternoon. Mayor McGiffin of Fer
nandina was the first witness then sworn.
He testified that he had frequently seen
the work done there and that he consid-
cred il good work He considered Florida
rock a good stone for the purpose for
which it was used.
Mr.. w. J. Watson, in addition to the
foregoing testimony stated that if he ever
appeared at witnessing the signature of
w. H Ray on a bond he saw Ray sign
his name at the time
Inspector T. J. Daniels was then called.
He testified that the mattresses which
went into the work were up to the speci-
fcations, and were what was called for
by them. He had received instructions
10 see that the specifications were carried
out and had followed them. On the cross
examina lion Col Barr introduced an affi-
davit by Mr.. Daniels, in which he had
sworn before j. W. o. Sterly, notary pub
lie that the mattresses were not up to
specifications. He also introduced a let
ter from Inspector Daniels TO Capt Gill
lette making practically the same state
ment. The letter and affidavit, Mr. DAN
iels said. were due to the fact that he
rad been shown a military fascne mat
tress by Engineer A. S. Cooper and told
that IL was in accordance with the speci-
fcations and that others were not I'm
der those circumstances Mr.. Daniels said
he had stated that the other mattresses
were not according to specifica lions. AT
the conclusion of Inspector Daniels testi-
mony the court adjourned until 1880
o'clock this morning.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
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