The San Francisco call., 1908-03-15

that office. if there were any to take
up. However, Julian was at the aims
house all the time. eating and sleeping
there. During the time Of the earth
quake he lived there for about a
month. In addition to boarding and
lodging at the almshouse while work
ing for Shook & CO.. Julian also kept
his horse and buggy at the stables of
the institutions.
GOODS NOT DELIVERED
''At the time of the earthquake Shook
& Co. supplied everything to the aims
house, everybody else being out of
business, and I am morally certain
that half of the goods billed were
never delivered
Frank Schmitz said to me one time
when we were talking in general
way in regard to supplies, etc: While
the goods may not come just as the
bills call for they were offsets for
goods that he had received in another
way such as wine, beer, cigars, poul-
try and such things as he used to en-
tertain his friends at the cottage.
He said to me one day Do you
think ] do it myself?' ] said. / don't
know. Frank; it's none of my business.
And he said. of course not; ] could
never do that myself
THE next thing / remember, as
kept the books at the almshouse, it
came under my observation that the
firm of l.. Scatena & Co., who had a
contract with Shook & Co. to- deliver
potatoes at the almshouse, sent a tag
out each time with the teamster on
which was noted the correct weight
of the load of potatoes. When the
bill would come from Shook. & Co. for
that load of potatoes 1t would be raised
! all the way from 500 to 1000 pounds.
Scatena's tag would say, SO sacks of
potatoes $3.50 pounds and Snook's s
bill for that date would read, we will
say, 80 sacks potatoes, II, 900 pounds
They did not even take then trouble
to keep off even numbers. ! took these
tags. pinned them to the bills and laid
them on Schmitz' desk as mute evil
dence. did not wish to say anything,
but If he was willing to sign for goods
as received when he had the evidence
before his eyes that they had not been
received, l had nothing more to say.
He signed Ill bills, and so it went on
until the graft investigation came.
/ Then he got scared and he told me one
day that he was going to go and see
Shook and give him hell: that they
must try and fix things up; it was bad
to have it that way. He knew that
| Scatena's books would not agree with
the books of Shook & Co.
COULD ALTER BOOKS
He came back that night, or it
might have been on the next day. and
/ said that he had seen Shook & Co.
and that they had some erasing stuff
/ by which they could alter Scatena's 8
4 books. He said that Shook & Co. and
himself were TO give Scatena's book
/ keeper $50 for which he was to come
/ down on d Sunday and alter Scatena' S
books TO correspond with those of
/ Shook & Co.
Mote: Tag attached is one taken
| from Scatena's teamster. A. Ruef has
| two similar tags in his possession.
"On Wednesday evening. February
| %, 1906 about o'clock, was driving
/ in a buggy with Frank Schmitz and
we met Convey, the butcher. l re-
member that it was a payday, as we
were riding to the almshouse with the
money. Convey and his wife were
coming back from the almshouse and
when we met both buggies stopped and
we talked a while. Then / remember
] that Convey paid Frank Schmitz the
sum of 1892 for some pigs that Frank
/ had turned over to Convey. These
pigs were raised at the almshouse and
/ were fed on barley belonging to the
| almshouse. Convey said that he had
been very glad to get this barley fed
4 pork, for there was a great scarcity
of any kind of pork in the market just
then. Schnlitz told Convey that those
! pigs had not been fed on swill at all