The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
INCOMPLETE AUDIT.
SHOWS SHORTAGE
IN HOME FUNDS
r. o. BEERMAN FOUND 1T Diff
CULT TO SECURE ALL NEcEs-
sARY FACTS AND FIGURES.
new PLAN or MANAGEMENT
Dismissed Superintendent, w. T. Boaz
10 Missing From state With Next
Term Of Circuit Court to Begin
Next Week.


Next Wcek.
Contrary to expectations, no copy OF
the report of Auditor F. Q. Beerman
on the financial affairs Of the Ten
nessee Orphan Home or Of the pro-
ceedings of the executive session of
the board OF directors held Tuesday
at the home was released for publica-
ton today. The auditors report was
incomplete, but 1T was sufficient to
convince the members OF the board
that there have been gross irregular
tiles In the management Of the home
and that hundreds and perhaps thou
sands Of dollars Of the homes money
has been Incorporated.
The entire afternoon Of the direc-
tors meeting was consumed in the
hearing and consideration Of the audi
tors incomplete report, which Mr..
Beerman has been compiling for more
than six weeks, and q resolution was
adopted ordering the audit stopped
and a final report On the facts and
figures secured made Immediately.
Auditor Beerman presented ledger
with missing leaves and stated that
missing checks and vouchers had
made 1t very difficult for him to ar
rive at an accurate estimation Of the
total Interpretations or shortage.
He said that he could give very in
complete report and he was instruct
ed to do this at once.
Mr.. Beermans incomplete report
and audit covered the entire financial
record of the institution since its
establishment about ten years ago
under the treasuryships of John w.
Fry, John e. Jackson and the dis
missed superintendent w. T. Boaz.
It was also ordered by the board
that a stenographer and bookkeeper
be employed to have charge Of the
business Of the home while the active
management will be under Mrs. G. B..
Alexander and Mrs. Granville Lips
comb, matrons, and the executive COM
mittee headed by Judge John w. Fry.
This arrangement it is believed will
preclude any laxness in the manage
ment of the home.
G. C. Member, secretary of the state
board of charities, by whom the inves-
tigation of w. T. Boaz' management Of
the home was begun and at whose in
stance the indictments against the
dismissed superintendent were re-
turned by the last session Of the
grand jury, attended the directors
meeting and took an active part in the
discussion of the auditors incom-
plete report. 1t was partially at his
suggestion that the audit was ordered
stopped and final report made.
The morning session of the board
was devoted to review of the affairs
Of the home since the dismissal OF
Boaz under the supervision of the
executive committee Everything was
found TO be satisfactory under the ar
rangements that have existed during
the past two or three months and the
home to be in flourishing condition.
Only two members OF the board
were absent, and all of those present
expressed themselves as being de-
termined that the Tennessee Orphan
home shall be continued as success
ful eleemosynary institution of the
Christian church. They believe that
they have found solution of tho
proper method of management and
that in the future there will be no
circumstances that will permit OF
criticism.
The meeting Of the directors Tues
day was called by the president Of
the home, J. C. McQuiddy of Nashville,
who presided. for the special purpose
of receiving a report on the progress
that was being made on the audit. The
board found that missing checks,
ledger leaves. ETC., would make 1t
practically impossible to complete the
audit, but sufficient evidence was
found to convince the members that
Boaz's management OF the finances
had been grossly irregular.
Although Boaz was indicted at the
last session of the grand jury, more
than six weeks ago, he has not been
located and neither the state officials
or persons connected with the home
know where he is. He left tho state
about the time indictments charging
him with gravely improper relations
with the inmates Of the home were
returned and has not since been To-
Gated. His friends declare that when
the time comes he will return to face
trial. but the prosecution is skeptical
OF this assertion and feel that II will
be necessary to take out extradition