The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-28


ed three years, and had techntca
training
Where did you get it?' "Rensel
laer Polytechnic Institute
when did you enter?" ''In 1906
"When did you leave there?''
''In the fall of 1907
Klein produced two slips of paper
said to be certificates from the facul
ty Of Rensellaer-and asked Mulvi
hill if it wasn't true that he lef
RENSSELAER, in November 1907.
L took a special course in chemis
try said Mulvihill, speaking of hi:
second year.
year and a freshman the second year"
observed Klein.
"All men are who have any condi-
tions,'' explained Mulvihill. well you
didn't pass your examinations? "No
all Of Them
What did you do from the time
you left school till you came tc
Bridgeport?''
81 don't know what that has to dc
with this said the witness.
We'll, if you're ashamed to tell,
won't press you. You came to Bridge
port in April?'' "April 2, 1903"
You entered the city engineers Of
ficeT yes" do you know how you
came to get the position?" II know
that my father wrote to me- pre-
sumo my father got it for me-
"What work did you do in the Of
f1ce?"
Whatever I was told ALL kinds OF
work.
Were you ever entrusted with any
work." ''Yes"
''You tried once to do work on Drew
Place, didn't you? You tried to give
a grade for the curb? Did you give
it wrong?" '"The stakes were marked
wrong. Tt was the only mistake
ever made"
'The only mistake you ever made!
How old are your Twenty three"
Wonderful" echoed Klein. "Only
one mistake and % years old"
THAT was the only work you were
ever entrusted with?' mo"
who paid for this work, did your
mo, I don't know. Maybe Mr.. Nc
Kenna did,
Tell us of any work. insisted
Klein, where you were placed in
charger" Park avenue said he.
Then Klein took up the question of
the so-called needless work.
you said they were measuring
what for?" IT don't"
Does It occur to you that the city
wants to know how much curb is
laid?" Its on record" replied Null
vihill.
docs it occur to you that 1t would
be important to know how much traf-
fic there was on Fairfield avenue?''
Mulvihill admitted that it might have
some bearing on the street work.
''But the grade of the street was es-
tablished by the State engineer ar
gued MulvihNL
yes, but the street was not COM
pleted?" "Well, not all Of it."
,rsv
boundary lines to the north of the
CITY" continued Klein. do you know
why?" Mulvihill didn't know any
reason why the boundary lines should
be measured
did YOU know these men were given
angles and measurements, and were
instructed to verify the boundary be-
cause 1t was reported that the monu-
ments had been altered ?" Mu1vihill
said the angles with which they went
to work were wrong anyway, and their
results wouldn't be right.
Klein then went into the matter of
the assault. He asked Mulvihill how
many days he had absented himself
without permission. He said only
two days just before his employment
ceased. He had been absent the
whole thl se years only about IL days,
and always with McKenna's permits
Sion 0AC6pl Tie ldSl lWO O6dyS
Didn't you tell him you didn't owe
him anything for the job, and didn't
you call him - - -?"
Witness denied these imputations.
'@You say you don't know these men
whose names Mr.. Judson gave you?"
81 don't know them"
Never heard Of w. D. Morton?"
mo, SIR
Didn't know he was one of the
experts in chemistry in the
mo, SIR
Never heard of him while you were
at schoo1?' "No, sir. We had the
greatest expert in chemistry in the
there
Eyes, 1 admit you are the greatest"
Klein. "But next to you,
you never heard of Mr. Morton ~
still unperturbed, replied
that he had never heard of Morton.
Mulvihill said it was not true that he
had delayed work by his absence from
the engineers office.
Eyes, SIR
"You believed them to be true?"
Eyes, SIR
''You investigated them to satisfy
yourself they were true?'
Judson objected to this line of ques-
tioning
Chairman Lavery ruled that the COM
nittee would allow Klein to ask the
witness what he knew about such
charges as were made over his sigma
ture
"It's a serious matter" said Chair
man Lavery.
"who told you about Livingstone
Placer" asked Klein Lewis BILL"