The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-14
TESTIMONY.
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Real Estate building? Can you recall
A-Weu, he said, Il presume you
have been to a great deal or trouble
with me bothering about there Tor va
uations and looking after those Donos'
and" he says, I would like to nave
done something for you, but" he says,
81 can't very we'll" That was all.
Odd he say anything further
A.-Nothing further
Odd you have any further CONVEX
sation with him after that?
A--Not after that.
Q.-Pleasc state what you knew OF
those Comanche bonds prior TO the reg
istration of the bonds to the school fund.
When did you get them?
A.-The new bonds, 1 think, got IN the
office somewhere from the 18th to the
18th.
0.-They were registered on the 26th?
A.-YeS sir.
Q.-Who registered the bonds in the
Al registered them in the school
fund.
Q.-were you chief clerk or bond clerk
al that time?
O.-Whose businessis it. as a rule. to
register bonds in the auditors oTriceE
At is the bond clerks BUSINESS
when she is there
Q-Why did you register the bonds
on that OCCASION
A.-Because I was asked to;
Q.-When were the bonds regis
A.-The nth of August.
Q.-At what hour in the day or
night?
should judge L began work on them
abOut Z O'Clock. -
O-What time did you finish them?
A.-WeII. 1 don't know exactly now
Ia 4saN-
quite a while to register on the book a
hundred and twenty-three bonds
O.-How many hours were you en-
gagged at it?.
Al should judge ii would take INC
two hours and a half.
CIT was in the neighborhood OF
10 O'Clock before you got through
seven to half past nine?
Ayes. it would be all of that
O-What is the process of register
ing bonds in the school fund?
A-After they reach our once. we
register them in the book-just a mere
form of bookkeeping rather than reg
istratiOn TO the school fund
O-When those bonds were register
ed simply as bonds, what was done
with them? Who were they delivered
A.-Mr. GODDARD.
0-What time did you deliver those
bonds to Mr.. GODDARD?
Al didn't deliver them
about what time were they de-
livered to Mr.. GODDARD?
A.-They were delivered July 26.
Q-To him as the owner of them?
Ayes, sir.
Q.-PIease explain by the record
what was done in registering the Co
manche county bonds. Have you got
that record here?
Al have the school fund record;
haven't the other.
O.-Who was with you. if any one, |
when you registered those bonds?
AIR. Wells
Q.-Who else?
AIR. Kelly came in.
Q--What Kelly?
At. T. Kelly.
! Q.-Anybody else?
A.-No, sir.
Q.-Were T. T. Kelly, the state treas
urer. and Mr.. Wells and yourself there
most of the time during the time it
took you to register those bonds?
A.-Mr. Wells was with me most of
the time.
Q.-How long did Kelly stay?
A--Kelly came afterwards-came la
Q.-What time did Kelly come?
A.-WeII, L should judge it was half
past eight or maybe nine.
Q.-At night?
Q.-An this occurred, in the way of
registering the bonds, after seven
O'Clock at night?
Ayes. sir
Q.-Were you in the process of reg
istering when Mr.. Kelly, the state
treasurer, came in2
Al had just finished the book
work.
Q.-What else had to be done at the
time Kelly came there2
A.-The stamping of the bonds and
the coupons as property of the state
school fund.
Q.-Where was this done. this regis
tering?
A.-The registering was done - the
auditors office.