The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-12
PARKINSON CONDEMNED.


to investigate tho charges against
George c. Parkinson, president of the
Oneida stake of Zion, in Idaho. The
| report of this commission, while show
ing evident anxiety to be as lenient
toward Mr.. Parkinson as possible, is
III fact an emphatic condemnation of
him. This report was accepted by the
Twelve, as made TO them.
AS to the Casio case, which was first
investigated, the commission finds
Parkinson wrong in assaulting Caste
and IN the abusive language he used
toward him, but it finds that the re-
traction made by Caste .Ewas substan.
TALLY true. - This is because of the
bungllng of Caste s presentation of his
case and is IN fact, matter of default
rather than OF actual finding For Cas-
TO failed in the first place to state that
the letters he wrote to The Tribune
were true, as they were, Second, he
failed to state in his charges that the
confession extorted from him was false,
as II was In every possible view
1t was evident to anyone reading the
Casio charges that his case was weak
on both points, and left the door open
for the finding by default on these two
points, Still, the commission condemns
Parkinson.
The commission finds that Parkinson
drew the treasurer full pay for one
year when he did nothing whatever to
earn his money, and for two other
years when he did very little.
1t finds that while acting as treas
urer he allowed other officers of the
company to RETAIN in their possession
large sums of company bonds and mon.
ey, and that the treasurer made no de-
mand for the return of such funds but
on tho contrary, turned over to them
additional large sums of company
money.
They find that George c. Parkinson
transferred TO his personal account sums
OF money belonging to the company
which he used for personal profit, and
that he also collected from banks inter
EST on company funds, which he used
as his own.
With regard to the partnership that
existed between George c. Parkinson
Arthur w. Hart and S. c.. Chadwick
for the investment of company funds
and the diversion of the profits from
the same to the parties to the contract,
the commission finds that while there
was no direct evidence of this, "cir-
cumstantial evidence is such that we.
the committee, believe that company
moneys were so used.
On the charge that George c. Park.
inson transferred to his own account
and used for his personal benefit, funds
belonging to the company, the commls-
sion finds that he did so to the extent
of $4,000, depositing this to his own
credit with the Deseret National bank.
He checked this out to the credit of
the company except balance to his
own credit of $2606.41. The explana-
tion of the treasurer that this trans
ference Of the money from the COM
pany account to his personal account
was because Of an error in his books
is found to be unsatisfactory.
Another sum of $4,000 was trans
ferred from the company account to his
own by Parkinson, while, as the COM
mission says, "there was nothing to
show that the board of directors Off
cially consented to such loan.'
The commission finds that Parkinson
while treasurer disposed Of $4,000 of
the bonds of the company, retaining
$4,000 as commission for so doing, and
that the board of directors found this
to be illegal because Parkinson was
paid officer of the company, and he
returned the money.
The commission finds that Parkinson
wrongfully charged railroad fare
against the company when he was paid
that fare by the State of Idaho, We
might add, on our own account, that
the charge against the company and
that against the State Of Idaho, are
both fraudulent, because Parkinson
rode on a pass while charging railroad
fare both to the company and to the
State.
The commission concludes that the
arrangement for. keeping the accounts
of the company is largely responsible
for the unfortunate condition that ex
lists. In elucidation of which we would
add that Parkinson as treasurer was
the one who ought to have kept these
accounts straight.
The commission finds that while
drawing the pay of treasurer, Parkin-
son was responsible for the accounts,
and holds "that any irregularity which
may have occurred in the handling of
such funds is chargeable to him. The
commission finds also that there was
great carelessness in keeping the ac-
counts and that no proper system of
accounting was adopted until after
large amounts of company funds had
been received and disbursed
The commission finds that the treas
urer was wrong IN commingling the
funds Of the company with his own,
and that the reasons Parkinson as