The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-13
SCHOOL INQUIRY
MADE SWEEPING
Board Now Seems Determined
to Probe Scandal to
the Bottom.
NEWMANS IN LlMELlGHT
ASSUMED NAME USED TO ES-
CAPE EXECUTION.
NEWMANS IN LIMELIGHT

The inquiry which a being made into
the internal affairs Of the board of ed
ucation is assuming a wider scope than
was at first the intention. The commit
tee on teachers and school work met
few DAYS ago and held an investigation
into the loss of some tools. Little came
out except that about S4.eV worth OF
tools had been lost from the manual
training department and S5-lZ worth
from the other departments. The COM
mittee adjourned until yesterday, when
members of the buildings and grounds
committee were also present, and the
inquiries were largely into the doings OF
the sons of William J. Newman menu
Der of the board, who were employed
by the board as carpenters and in other
capacities.
W. J. Newman was present and as
sumed the role to some extent of at
torney for the defense where his sons
were concerned. The committee began
a rather exhaustive investigation and
adjourned, to be called together by the
chair.
Nearly a score of witnesses were
waiting in the board rooms when the
meeting opened. The members of the
board present were Mathonihah Thorn
as WIZ gISSiuCu III TIE duHOiACC VI lAiN
chairman, Byron Cummings: w. J.
Newman, Judge H. P. Henderson, J. T.
Hammond and Superintendent D. II.
Christensen, with L. p. Judd, clerk of
the board.
David Crockett Newman.
The principal factor developed was
that one of Mr.. Newman's sons had
been placed on the pay roll under an
assumed name, and that this was done
by the foreman by the direct order of
G. NJ. Bridwell, superintendent of build
ings and grounds, who told a different
story to the newspapers few weeks
ago. This was testified to by the fore
man, E. H. Evans.
Evans said that it was David G. New
man who was so entered on the pay
roll under the name of David Crockett.
other entries were made of Theodore
Newman & Brother. He said that this
was done by order of BTidwell, his i'm
mediate superior, who said there was
an execution out against young New
man.
Evans hesitated when asked what sort
of carpenter T. J. Bridwell, brother
of the superintendent of buildings, had
shown himself when he worked under
him, but finally stated that he would
said the Newman boys did good work
when working under him, and that only
one of them had used an assumed name
so far as he knew.
Wherein is it an assumed name?''
asked W. J. Newman. My sons name
is David Crockett Newman. and to
avoid a Luke judgment Illegally secured
at Murray he dropped his surname"
Judge Henderson couldn't see it that
way. Il would say that your son used
a fictitious name, Mr.. Newman. Did ii
not conceal his identity?''
That was the intention" said Mr.
Newman.
Principal George Il. Eaton of the
High school and Mark G. Brown. prin-
Cipal of the Oneqush school were heard.
but knew little about the Newmans
except that Mr.. Eaton had found fault
with s. A. Newman's work when he
was first at the Union school, but after
he had impressed the duties of the jan
itors upon them, Newman was not so
bad. He was inclined to be dictat5riaI
with the teachers.
Newman's Sharp Retort.
When Mr.. Brown was giving his evil
dence, there was a tilt between Mathon-
ihah Thomas and w. j. Newman. Mr..
Newman began a eross-examination as