Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-27
Borrowed Money Right And Left
 But Lost Track of It.
SAYS HIS WIFE MAY KNOW


 Tompkins Said He Thought Part of
 Heaven Was On Grand Street
 Evidence Brought Out to Show That
 He Has Borrowed Money from Men
 Under Him in the Factory, Although
 His Salary There Is $270 Month.
 It was late yesterday afternoon when George Tompkins, superintend- ent of the button department of the Scovill Manufacturing companys plant, got through telling how hard a time he has had in contriving to main tain himself and his family of five on $3,O0O year. This is the first time such proceedings have been held in this city in many years and the man on the witness stand has anything but pleasant experience. Everything connected with his household, his f. nancial conditions, his wages, his ser wants, if he has any, everything ill fact in his life is legal prey to the in quisitor B. R. Kelsey is the com plainant and creditor in this case. Tompkins owes him about S1 100 and Kelsey is determined to ascertain what property he has that is attachable, feeling convinced that he has been defeated in getting at his wages. All through the hearing Attorney Minor fired at Tompkins the question in var ious forms: "And you didn't care what happened to your creditors?" and Tompkins invariably answered.: They'll get theirs when I'm able to give ii to them.''
 Attorney Minor brought out that Tompkins is a Mason, that he is in sured ill the Heptasophs for S5,OO0, in the Royal Arcanum for $3,000, in the New England Order of Protection for S3,hiO and in tlle New England Mu- tual Protection company for $4O0. His wife is the beneficiary in each case.
 Within two months he said he bor- rowed S1OO from subordinate in the factory an Italian or Frenchman," ," to quote Tompkins, and could not re- call what he did with the money. Attorney Minor tried to get him to recollect, but in vain. Generally, he said he makes memorandum of his expenses but in this case he did not This mans name is Pace and he earns S1.7J a day and maintains wife and two children Being asked how he came to borrow from this man Tomp- kins said he was told, or had heard that the man had the money. He borrowed from this man before, and, concluding on this point said he would like to borrow now. The only other man under him in ibe factory from whom he borrowed was August Eng. He could not tell what he borrowed the money from him for. The sum was $200. May be- said he, 1T bor- rowed from Peter to pay Paul. He denied he had habit of borrowing | from the employees of his department, or that he had borrowed from any other of them but those mentioned. | But to Attorney Minors question he admitted that Davis, whose name in his schedule of debts is also an em- ploye. He said he often borrowed $10 l from this man and always paid him.
 He was sure there were no others he had borrowed from. whereupon he
 was asked if he had not threatened to l discharge some of the employees if they would not lend him money, to l which he replied that he never did.
 MT Minor said that he could show him ! that he had either forgotten or was
 mistaken, but witness insisted that he
 never did and finally challenged MT F replied that he could not prove them at this stage of the proceedings. Returning to his household expenses witness said he allows one of his sons, aged IT years, $2.5O a week, out of
 which he is supposed to clothe him. self He thought about $6 a week or $500 year in all was the estimate for clothing the family, yet when he came to details he accounted for $50 year only. Explaining this discrepancy he said he spent about $60 or $70 a year l for clothing for himself and his boys, and could not account for the expenses of his wife and daughter in that par | ticTlar
 i Court then adjourned with the un- derstanding that he was to produce a | statement showing his expenses and l in what sums he drew his salary for l tilc rast year. at tlla reXt caring. l Upon resuming this morning Mir
 Minor asked witness if he recalled borrowing from any other of his en1-
 ployes, and he said he did not. There
 upon he was asked if he borrowed | from four men whose names were mentioned and he immediately said | he did. He also admitted borrowing
 $75 from his neighbor $. F. Noera
 three years ago, and has not pand any part of it.
 Last month he drew $290 from tue
 Scoval company as wages and bor. l rowed $1O0 from his subordinate, Pace
 He could not recall what he did wirl l this money at first but after much I questioning he accounted for all of ii
 except S16O.
 I "Do you wish to go on record as I saying that you do not remember what l you did with the $1OO that you bor
 rowed five weeks ago from Pace :
 he was asked and he said he could not remember just now. The memoran dunn of the amounts of his salar, that he drew was taken up and il
 showed that on July 20, the day be fore an attachment was made on hi,
 salary, he drew all that was d,i.
 him, S70, and paid it for rent dua c
 F. Goss. Thus the writ was mad, futile.
 |; Last evening after the hoarIna
 Sheriff Rameth went to witness'
 house with an attachment for twt
 violins worth $400 and two other
 worth $25. each, which in his evidenc,
 yesterday he testified to having. IT, I rafIsad fo erivo fha f,, e+ +,-,, =, .,