The age-herald., 1900-08-18
Muffin on the Stand

Chief Mullin took the stand anu saiu
 q have sold fire horses, one to MT. Eel
 der for s40 one to MT. Graham for $2O one
 to Mr. McGavock for $i0 and Drennen &
 Co., two for $35 The money l received from
 the -Drennens I turned into the treasury.
 The first trade 1 made was with MT. Fies
 I got much better horse, and gave him
 $lO I think that was in lS9l The next
 trade I think was with MT. Fies the latter
 part of 1898, and I gave him $53 in cash.
 Later on traded with MT. Fox and gave
 him $35 cash
 'sWhen Mir Fox was Mayor in 1S93-4 the
 department was in need of a great many
 little things, and I asked MT. Fox if
 might not make trades without having to
 go before the board. I asked him il I could
 not keep the money I got hold of and use
 il in exchanging for horses and for other
 things needed. He told me to go ahead
 and get what was needed to keep the de-
 pertinent up.
 "When Mir Evans came into office l
 asked him about the same that l asked
 MT Fox, and he told me to go ahead and
 look after the interests of the department.
 He and the fire committee trusted to my
 judgment in purchasing new horses. l also
 mentioned the matter to T. T. Ashford,
 who was chairman of the fire committee
 and he gave his consent These old horses
 were of no use to the city, and were cost ing from SIP to $14 each per month for feed which the city had to pay.
 q don't think had anything to do with the sale of old hose and a reel to Besse- mer The chief of the Bessemer depart ment asked me if we had such that was not in use. and 1 told him that we did, and that he could probably get it for about
 s1OO Later he came up here and got it.
 It was paid for, the money going to the treasury"
 The chief had memorandum of the sale which was produced. A letter from the Bessemer city clerk showing that a check in payment and that the check was made payable to the Mayor of Birming- ham was read.
 Continuing the chief said: Some old hose went with the reel but I don't know how much.
 'I sold some old junk, refuse from the fire alarm battery, on two or three occa7 sions I don't know exactly what I got for it, but probably s7 or s. MT. Walton sold some old junk amounting to about SIP and he handed me the money. I looked to Walton to keep the third floor cleared up, and in cleaning it out he got the old junk and I told him to sell 1t. It was of no service to the city and had to be gotten out of the way.
 "I subscribed to some fire journals for several years and paid for them. The men | all read them and they are very useful 1 both to the men and to me. One of them | cost s a year and the other $2. I bought | two respirators to protect the men from l other $S. I bought some pocket spanners l which are used for coupling and uncoup- | ling hose at fires. I use them in cutting out bursted sections of hose and making new coupling. I have three that I use. | They cost s1 each.
 Received No Money "I never received any money for the hose | I let Dr. Roland have. It was some old rubber hose that was of no service to the city. It would not stand plug pressure for sprinkling around the house. Dr. Roland l asked me if I did not have some old hose that I could let him have. I told him I | could not let him have good hose, and he | said he didn't want good hose. never got | buggy from him, and he never paid for the hose. I got buggy from MT. Coch- rane which was known as the Dr. Roland buggy. I had it fixed up and traded it to MT. Gardner for piano which I regarded as uArth about sf5 or s75. It nAt Ia