The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-13

| ing for the board under one name, and
a certain member-now l have TO be
] personal in this natter-from the
| Fourth ward, sent word down there,
this have
Mr. Thomas-Not meaning Mr.. Ham
| mond.
Mr.. Newmau-I have. never rccog
nized but one member. because that one
member seems to do all the talking
here | can see but one member from
the Fourth ward when / look over tho
body and note his transccndental abili-
ties. Mr.. Hammond says but very lit
tie.
Thomas Comes Back.
Mr.. Thomas-That is the first credit
[ have gotten from that source in two
years.
Mr., Ncwman-Word came TO me that
there were too many of one name work
ing for the board of education. This
brought in the charge of nepotism. |
lmmcdiatcly well. the excuse was that
it would imperil his chances of election,
as there was an election coming on in
the fail. 1t would somewhat imperil his
chances for election, being on the same
side, apparently. religiously speaking,
as he was. And the Americans, who.
ever that might be, would certainly get
him; that they would hand him a lemon
IT these parties working under one
name would keep that matter up. To
avoid such dire calamity as that /
called my boys off. ] told them TO get
out and don I work for them any longer
The younger boys I am speaking of
now. And they fell out. But they had
more sense than l had, for they went
back again of their own voIition and
against my permission or my charge to
hn 20 fhoe aud ,t..,l-
far as l have been implicated in his
change Of names, | stand in defiance
of any man or of all men TO say that |
ever suggested such thing to Mr..
Bridwcll or any other man on Garth.
Mr.. Thomas might Just say one
word. that this information is very in
tereStlng as TO my fears of reelection,
and as to the means / took to secure it,
| suppose that came from the same
source that lntimated that / might
have plural wife and certain Gentiles
had found it out and that they were
using me as bait in this threatening
exposure to rid the board of my labors.
Relatives Employed.
At the beginning of the second ses-
sion of the investigation, Mr. Thomas
took up pay rolls 1895 and 4S9S. which
show the employment by Bridwcll of
oCNCu VI Ills IeldUlNCS, y. w, DdllSlG, IL
son n,in-law, being the additional rela-
tive, whom Bridwell paid the generous
wage of $3.50 day to ride around in
an automobile and haul material. such
as nails, to workmen Dansie IS EN-,
ployment was merely an accommodation
to him. Mr.. Bridwell explained. In the
case of John Allen it was developed
that the board or Mr.. Bridwell has
nothing to show that Allen ever re.
ceived his money for carpenter work
Pay roll 4796 showed that Arthur
Smith, painter, was Arthur Newman.
carpenter, sometimes Mr.. Bridwell
said that he employed his relatives
only in emergency cases, but Judging
from the pay rolls the emergencies must
have existed most of the time, as the
names of his relatives are found on
most of the pay rolls for the last twelve
or eighteen months And mono of the
time sheets bear anybody's o. X.
Your relatives kept time on one an.
other. I guess, didn't they7" queried
Mr. Thomas.
When Mr.. Thomas alluded to ]. S.
Lewis as a relative of Mr.. Bridwell,
the witness became real angry and,
striking the desk thunderous blow
with his fist. declared that Lewis is no
relative of his "He is d brother-in
law of my brother" said Mr. Bridwell.
The investigation will be continued
at 7:30 CLOCK Friday night.