The San Francisco call., 1908-03-15

were exceeding the appropriation and
that we would have TO run things very
close to make up; that Frank was very
much worried about it. / then ran
things as economically as ! possibly
could d--almost used the sweepings off
the floor-and then on top of that they
ran bills in on me for $3.50
.sFo HE'LL WITH TURKEY
When I was about to leave. which
was near Thanksgiving, | was talking
with Julian about things l wanted him
to attend to after / left Among other
things, said Julian, whatever you
do don't forget the turkey for the in
mates, and Schmitz, who was there.
said: ITO hell with the turkey; that
will have to go over till Christmas
time
"The commissary at the city and
county hospital told Rogers that he
was receiving meat from Convey, and
that il was 50 vile it was unfit for use.
"In September, 1906. Mr. Ruef was
informed about the condition of af-
fairs at the almshouse and subse-
quently an investigation OF the books
was made by MYRTLE Cert, accountant
for the grand jury
AT the time the Brennan grand jury
was in session it wass arranged that
the Jurors should visit the almshouse
and look things over. Eighteen men
We're expected and a spread was pre-
pared for them at the Cottage There
was enough ordered for a banquet for
a hundred men, but only three or four
OF the grand jury came out.
"A man named Edward Williams,
who is a brother in law of Phil Grim
Minis. is connected with Shook & Co.
I'm the conversation Mr.. Rogers had
with the mayor. Mr. Schmitz stated
that Julian was g bad man and that
they had had trouble with him before.
He also said: L will have to remove
my brother on the first of the year
1 also visited San Mateo and found
Mr. Currie, who at that time was very
i'll with consumption. Mr. Currie cor
roborated in every detail the state
ment of Mr.. Rogers, and his statement
is as follows:
Statement of Mr. Arthur NJ Currie.
taken at San Mateo, June 26, 1907,
1870 p. m.
ALMsHOUsE GRAFT
Il first went TO work at the aims
January IL. 1904. l went in at the
same time as Frank Schmitz
The first thing we did was to in
vestigate the accounts of the inmates
, the bills of all contractors, or, in other
words, to try and find out if there had
been anything wrong with the previous
administration. The result was we
found that the previous superin-
tendent had taken money belonging To
/ the inmates, and that the firm OF
Shook & Co. (James A. Shook & Co.
had cheated the almshouse. At that
time the grand jury made a kick, but
they concluded that there was not suf-
/ hcient evidence TO act upon. The
/ trouble was that Shook & Co had
/ friends on the grand jury.
/ The next ] noticed l heard Shook &
/ Co. being denounced from end to end
! but at the same time I saw Shook al
the almshouse being wined and dined
Then in 1906 Shook & Co. had all the
contracts at the almshouse Frank
/ Schmitz helped Shook & Co. TO get al
/ of the good contracts for supplies al
! the almshouse and this firm supplied
practically everything used at the in
stitution.
Then the commissary at the aims
house, man named r. P. Julian, who
was the go between for Shook & Co
and Frank Schmitz went to work with
4 Shook & Co. direct as outside man fol-
them.
THE rumor was that Dr. Ward went
4 TO Frank Sohmitz and told him thai
Julian must resign, so Schmitz wen
to Shook & Co. and told them they
must give Julian a job
This left the alrnshouse without
commissary for the time being, an,
Frank Sehmitz took up the duties O.