The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-03-16

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they think, that you will admit
it. Show how you do admit it, if
you please, colonel.
AFFIDAVIT or. s. a EDMUND.
S. A. Edmund, being duly
sworn, deposes and says:
That he has read the reply Of
J. w. Carter, A. L. McEachern,
! G.. n. Oliver, A. L. Bullock and
! D.. S. Alderman To the first re-
port made by the board of audit
and finance, in which the Ques-
ton is asked why the report OF
the board Of audit and finance
was submitted to affiant, S. A
Edmund, behind closed doors at
night, days before the report
was made public, or any one else
was all0Ncd to see it: and he has
also read in the Red Springs
Citizen the reply Of The board
of commissioners of Robe
son couuty, signed by j. W. Ca :
ter, chairman, in which, in sub
stance, the foregoing charge is
repeated. in which it is stated by
the sait j. w. Carter that the
said report was read TO affiant by
the attorney of the board nf au
dit and finance on Friday night,
Decem Der 10Th =, 1907, the altega-
on that said report was rel d
to atfiant on Friday night, Decem-
brr 20'h 1907, being rep. ated in
two different places in the last
reply.
, That the statements contained
! in the original reply of the COM
+ missionerS, and the second reply
signed by J. w. Carter, chair
man, are untrue; that affiant did
not see said report, or any part
of it, or know anything of it's
, contents, until Saturday, Decen
f. Der DIST, 1907, at or about sun
set, when he met N. A. Mclean,
attorney for the board of audit
. and finance, at the street door Of
Mclean & Mclean, and in
f. some conversation with the
said N. A. Mclean afianl
. remarked to him that be
f had heard that the board of au
f. dit and finance would whitewast
I the officials of the county who
had been under examination
. that N. A. Mclean then and
| there told him that the report
| would speak for itself; that the
= board Of audit and finance had
y filed the report with, and fol
somtime it had been, in the
hands of the printer, and woult
= be out in full on Monday morn
p ing; that as it had become, By
J. the filing of the same and by its
+ being given to the blisher O
q The Robesonian,a public record
!. affiant or any body else who desit
l. ed to see it, was entitled to do Sc
that be, N. A. Mclean, woulC
not have allowed any one to ex
q anime said report but for the fac
2 that the board of ;udit fnanc
had completed it and filed it 70
publication, and that it thus be
came document which anyOn
/ who desired might examine; tina
T. affiant then expressed a desir
-e to see it and went up into tn
o. Office of the said N. A. Mclean
Is when it was shown to him jus
e about dark, but before supper
y on Saturday: December ,21st
10 1907. hat the statement cor
he tanned in the said reply that sal
report was shown to affiant O
o. Friday night, December e
y 1907, by N. A. Mclean, or an
'e one else, or that aftiant kne,
u anything of it's contents at thu
Ill time, or knew anything of it
+ contents until Saturday night
T. Decem DER Dist, is absolute
d without any basis in fact; tina
ID affiant did not see N. A. McLea
1t at all on Friday night. That a
Is faint examined said record an
d. it was signed by A. B. Pearsal
;. Graham McKinnon and J N
D. Butler when affiant first saw
X on the Saturday night afore
c. said.
Is That affiant may have stated q
s some time in causal conversatio
t. that it was probably Faiday nigh
lg when he saw the report, but
We is now absolutely certain, an
m states it as an unquestione
fact, that he did not see it unit
ut Saturday night, December Dist
TX sometime after il had been file
" with the editor of The Robe
I'd sonian.
rs S. A. EDMUND.