The sun., 1900-03-12
! HE STOLE TO GIVE PICNlCS.
PEtiLiAR DEFdLCLTION or 4 PITTS
RTRG TITr OFFICIdL.
=. T. Paisley. Chief Of Bureau OF Highways
and sewers, Carried Dummies on tho
Payrolls-Hs Juggling With Them-His
Desire tn ueIp Ills Ntrret CIeNnera.

y. 7. Paisley. Chief Of Bureau OF Highways
and sewers, Carried Dummies ON the
Payrolls- Juggling With Them-His
Desire I" Help His street Cleaners.
Pi1rsBu re-. Pa. March IL The case Of Sari-
uel I. Paisley Is said to be the dueerest In the
annals of public defalcations. Paisley Is ac-
cused Of having kept fictitious names on the
city payrolls and was forced TO resign He has
n line house, keeps butler aud other servants.
has horses and carriages. and Is generally con.
sidered man OF wealth in ready money and
real estate. and yet. strange to say. he evolved
fraudulent scheme that prohted him only
SlO,OoO, and II took him five years to
set that amount, To carry our his plan
Paisley had TO take into his confidence seven
forsmen in the Bureau 0; Highways and Sow
ers. OF which he was superintendent, and place
him self In their hands he had to carry ncti-
tious names and the names OF dead employees
along from month 10 month and year TO year.
frequently, in order 10 make the payrolls look
realistic docking" the dummies for lost time
laying them on on account OF slackness OF
work in the bureau. and ostensibly hiring them
again.
Al Any time any OF the foremen was likely TO
inform Paisey's superior. i. N Baelow. the
Director OF the Department oi Public Works
None OF them betrayed him. however. and yet
none is supposed TO have protlted financially
6J tho transactions. In this city the warrants
'or the pay OF street employees are received BY
the Superintendent OF Highways and Sewers.
who sends them out to the different districts
whore the men are employed In the case Of
the dummy employees Paisley drew the war
from the city treasury From private meino-
randum ofhls II is learned that 100 dummies
have been carried on the payroll.
II has besn found that 100 fictitious names
were added TO Palsl ley's force Ot men In ear
inR up the ruins OF big tire two years ago. to
recover the bod los OF men who had been X He'd
The payroils show that these dummies drew
pay for weeks work, and that for one SUNDAY
the hundred got credit for double pay for the
alleged days work. Th. names OF two oi Pals
eys house servants are on the payroll. but
they drew no money themselves Paisley was
generally suppose to be shrewd business
man and nobody can comprehend how he en-
gagged IN such clumsy scheme. unless under
the supposition that he only intended TO raise
small sum at first and was encouraged by
immunity to carry on his scheme In a larger
What seems % bear out this supposition is
he Tact that the payroll padding began about
i've years ago. when the street cleaners were
orsanized, on the New York plan and uni;
and heard ofthe esprit de corps which the late
Col Wating had aroused In the New York
White Wings, and that the paradas and pic.
hics and entertainments with music that Pais-
ley gave for the street cleaners we're paid for
out OF the money he got Illegally from the
city. In fact. he has sent out word from his
sick bed that any money he got from the city
IN an unusual way had not been spent on
him sell. and his attorney alabOrat"s this state
ment by saying thar the late Henry |. Gourl2y.
a. the time OF his death City Comptroller. de.
Amusement Of tho White Wings. and Paisley
considered his Ilans for the social relaxation
Of the laborers and their families an important
factor in his elevattng process.
IL Is said that the last White W ings pic
nlc was the real occasion oi Pasley's fall. One
10 take his wife to the picnic. on the ground
that the negro White Wings and their wives
and daughters would be there. and Paisley
The man took revenge later bv senjinR onony.
nous Letters to Mr.. Bigelow. telling OF the pay
roll padding.