The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-23

 ONES EXCUSE TREASURER HILL
Expert SOue Finds Forged Figures in Redang TCWn Records
 No Evidence to Indicate Man Who Held Pen

Bedding, Nov. 23-A subject of con- troversy and possibly a lawsuit in connection with the settlement Of ar rears against former town officials as reported by Accountant SouIe is $500 on Ex-Collector Gorham's rate books purporting to represent credits entered by Treasurer Hill of payments made him by the collector. When the
 selectmen went over the Gorham rate books last winter they found shortage of about g, 400. Subsequently MT. Hill pad to the town $1,141 of he claimed that the rate book credits
 were erroneous to the extent of $500 inasmuch as the figure "one" had been prefixed to three sums after these
 amounts had been correctly set down
 by him. The entries on his own books
 gave support to this contention as
 there was absent from them the in- itial figure "one' appearing on what,
 according to the dates. should have
 been duplicated entries in the other
 books. The finding of Accountant
 Soule on this matter upheld MT. Hill.
 He declared that taking into consid-
 eration a number of circumstances his
 conclusion was that the three figure
 'ones' in question had been interpo-
 lated and therefore were not an evil
 dence of indebtedness on the part of
 MT. Hill. MT. Soule expressed no
 opinion as to who had written in the
 figures nor did he tell the town meet
 ing one of the methods he used to
 obtain light on the disputed point.
 This method was scrutiny of the
 figures through a strong magnifylng
 glass a test which showed that the
 "ones'' had been traced in ink differ
 ent from that used in making the oth-
 CT figures MT. Soule also found that
 MT. Gorham still owed the town $360.
 few days ago the former collector
 called on First Selectman Sanford to
 ascertain if the $500 represented by
 the alleged false entry had been charg-
 ed up against him. He added that if such were the case he would be call-
 ed upon to make good money which. according to the individual credits on the hooks, he had never collected. To
 the others queries MT. Sanford re- piled that he could not fully explain
 the matter until he had consulted MT. Soule.
 The condition of Thomas Delaney, caretaker of Putnam Park who was fonnd unconscious last Sunday morn ing remains practically unchanged. He remains in a stupor almost con- stantly and although at times is re- yived sufficiently to take a little light nourishment he has never had fully Iucid interval since his prostration. The doctors hold out no encourage l ment of his recovery nor do they pro- nounce the case hopeless. Beyond i nronouncing the case one of apparent brain injury they do not define or | explain the malady.
 Rheta Child Dorr, the magazine writer who last spring bargained with 1 the Sanford real estate agency for the | George Keeler place in Pleasant Val | lev. did not complete the transaction | and the property was last week sold | to Miss Esther Waterman of South port. The latter is the owner of the | former Turney Sanford place which | adioins the Keeler tract of 13 acres. George O. Sanford and bride con- tinue to be the recipients of social at | tentions. Last Friday evening they were the guests of honor at a dinner given by MT. and Mrs. Marshall San | ford. It was a family affair and about 20 attended. On Saturday even
 ing more elaborate function was | given for them by MT. and Mrs. Ern- ory P. Sanford, sixty invitations be, ing issued. Whist was the principa diversion, there being fourteen tables | The making and flying of miniature l aeroplanes is recent pastime of tnt | Sanford school pupils. The machine. | are bought in parts. the assembling