The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-28
NEWEST ASPECT
OF ONEIDA CASE
Affidavit of Expert Accountant
Shows That Books Are Badly
Muddled.
MAY TAKE WEEKS TO
ARRIVE AT THE FACTS
Leading Counsel for Plaintiff
Said to Have withdrawn
From Case.
BY @. E. ARNEY.

Special to The Tribune.
MALAD CITY, Idaho, June 27.-up-
on the decision Of the court after argu'
ment at 10 clock tomorrow morning
on the motion of Judge Richards, at
torney for the Onieda Irrigation dis
trict Will depend the future of the
trials of the case of the district
against Arthur w, Hart and the
case of the district against the recovery
of it's bonds from the j. n Ireland
d Company bank of Malad. If the
motion quoted below is granted the &C.
cumulation of the evidence prepared
by Expert Orson Rumel will be
woven into the record of these cases at
length an in detail which will take
many weeks to hear,
The great surprise In the cases came
today when Judge Richards of Boise
announced to the court that the two
leading counsel, George E. Gray of
Poeatello and Joseph e. Davis of Pres
ton had abandoned him, neither of them
being present and that he had always
sustained the position of an assistant
TO them at a nominal employment from
the Oneida Irrigation district.
Here IS the affidavit presented by
Judge Richards in court this morning;
Text Of Affdavit.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
Fifth Judicial District of the State Of
IDAHO In and for the County OF Oneida.
Oneida Irrigation District. a corpora
ton, plaintiff. vs. Arthur ". Hart. de-
fendant.-Copy Affidavit
State OF Idaho. County OF Bannock SIS
Orson p, Rumel being first duly sworn.
on oath, deposes and says. that he has
been engaged in the business OF accoun-
tant continuously for period of about
twenty-six t26) years; that this affiant
mas becn engaged in the investigation
of the accounts involved In the above en-
titled cause from August 1st. 1907, to
June 10th, 1908. that the trial OF the Is
sues OF fact in the above entitled cause
VIII necessarily require an examination of
long account involving thousands of
items. in these Items from small amounts
TO several thousand dollars each, a total
OF about eight hundred thousand dollars;
that the period over which said accounts
run include about five years, involving
large number Of small and large items
That there is no other means OF de-
termining the exact amounts involved In
the Issues herein other than the examina-
ton OF these lons accounts and the TAX
Ing or such an account is necessary for
the informa tion of this court before any
Judgment can be rendered IN this action.
Complicated Situation.
That from the information that this
eiflant has acquired by reason of the in
vestlgation of the facts embraced within
the issues OF the above entitled cause this
affiant does not believe that it will be
possible TO present the facts embraced In
such account before a court in a period
OF less than from thirty to sixty days OF
continuous presentation Of the testimony
relating to such accounts: that in order
TO arrive at the balances Of such accounts
this affiant has been compelled to pre-
pare about fifteen charts because of the
fact that numerous accounts of others
necessarily enter into the accounts that
must be investigated in arriving at the
items embraced in the accounts OF the
above named defendant.
This affiant does not believe that IL
would be possible for even a referee 10
report on the accounts necessarily In
volved In the above entitled cause in
period of less than thirty days or In a
manner that would In any way give this
court the necessary information before a
judgment could be rendered in this cause
that from this affiant's long experience
as an accountant he Is not aware OF any
method by which this court could arrive
at a conclusion whether or not the de-
fendant is indebted to the plaintiff other
than by an investigation of all the ac-
counts Of the said defendant in relation
to such district
ORSON P. RUMEL.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day Of June 1910
GEORGE e. GRAY,
(SeaD Notary Public.