Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-02
MRS. FORMAN HAS
LITTLE INTEREST IN
HUSBANDS FATE
"News of Him Will Come Thro'
Strangers" She Says-Expert
Finds Books Badly Bungled.
FORMER CITY AUDITOR
WAS MORE THAN CARELESS
Errors and Omissions Abound
in Accountable Entries in
Ledger for 1909 and 1910.

'If any word comes of the where's
abouts of George Forman it will come
through outsiders" said Mrs Forman.
wife of the missing city auditor to-
day at the family home 178 North Sec
ond street.
81 am satisfied that he will not COM
municate with me-" she went on. 4
cannot say why 1 make this state-
ment, but 1 know in my own heart that
he doesn't intend to write to me. We
are not making any effort tc locate
him, and I know too, that no eEort
is being made by anybody to locate him.
If anything is heard of him 1t viii be
through strangers"
All during her talk Mrs. Torman
showed that she cared little, and IL
dicated that there is some foundation
for the stories at the time of the city
auditors disappearance that his domes-
tic relations were strained.
A report submitted to the Common
| Council last night by Henry Wilmot,
! the expert accountant assigned by
Price Waterhouse & Co. to examine
the missing city auditors books, fur-
nished another proof Of muddled con-
ditions in the office. 1t showed that tho
missing city official was careless almost
to the point of criminality 1t was
shown that there isn't any money miss
ing. This was not regarded as un-
usual. as the auditors office hasn't any
direct access to the cash of the CITY,.
But the books through errors and omis-
sions, were in the greatest confusion,
and the expert had hard work tracing
entries and striking trial balances Tne
work of the expert and his assistants
will be harder from now on, as the
books of 1909-10, up to the time OF
Forman's disappearance, don't show q
lsingle entry
The report in it's entirety is as fol-
lows:
!. Experts Report.
After consultation with the City
tCounciI, we adopted November l, 1906,
as the opening date, that being one Of
the last dates on which trial bal
ance was published by the auditor
In accordance with the legal requires
ments. In this trial balance several
differences were promptly found, as,
for example the balance of the sewer
bond 1897 sinking fund account was
stated at $6,O91.91, instead of s4,291 .91 e
"It being clear that the auditors
books were not in balance at November
1. 1906. we decided to try an earlier
date. viz, January l, 1905, and found
that the books were then In balance
with the exception of an error of SO.
This difference ought eventually to be-
located, but for present purposes we
have allowed it to stand and it, there-
fore, appears in every subsequent trial
balance.
"a trial balance of January l. 1906,
was taken off after locating. several err
rors, as for example, an omission to-
credit vailsburg Improvement certlfi-.
cate account with $15,375.
.'The books of January 1, 1907, were.
then balanced after correcting various'
errors such as the omission to charge.
Joint outlet sewer account with Sl2,o2t.i
"In the year 1907 many errors in foot
ing and posting were discovered, ana
after giving effect to numerous clerical
\ corrections, we brought the books into
balance as of January /, 1908 with the
execution of the difference of $40 before
mentioned).
"For the year 1908 the Journal was
only partially posted by the auditor,
and we have completed the posting to 8
supplementary ledger.
mo entries were made by the auditor
in his journal or ledger in the years
1909 and 1870 and we shall proceed with
the writing up of the books as soon az
the trial balance of June l, 1909. has
been taken off.
"This necessary preliminary work has
been performed by two junior ac-
countants at SIS per diem each. We
propose now, in addition to a senior
accountant at $25 day (under Mr..
wiimot's direction), who will agree the.
auditors records with the returns from
other departments and with the SUBJ
sidiary books, and see whether the
auditors books reflect the true position
of affairs, ETC."