The Washington times., 1919-02-13

bakery he has never called a girl "a
liar"
For years, Mr.. Greer said. officials
Of the District had been calling on
him and telling him everything was
/ all right"
Asked whether Mr.. Peterson, the
| labor investigator with Mrs. Van
| Wrinkle, made such a statement he
said:
"He said those children had
| better than he had when he was
a boy. He said he had to sleep in q
| hayloft"
Did you or Mrs. Greer. on the oc-
casion of their visit, whisper to the
children to say you are sixteen? ]"
asked his counsel.
He answered in the negative.
On cross-examination, Mr.. Greer
said Mrs. Van Wrinkle was not liz
the room when Mr.. Peterson gave
the BAKERY a clean bill of health.
Was Grocery EmpIOye.
Greer testified that he was en-
ployed for about nineteen years at
Burchelrs, a grocery establishment.
Asked why he quit, he said:
The old gentleman died and the
young man (his SOM and I had dis
agreement"
Wasn't that disagreement over
your accounts?" asked Assistant Cor
pOration Counsel Barse
NO; he was doing a lot OF talking
and 1 left"
Didn't he ask you to Ieave?"
"No, he did not"
He gave you to understand that you
could leave, didn't he?" asked Attorney
Barse.
"Sir, sir" Greer replied.
On redirect examination, Mr.. Greer
said he went to his lawyer, who called
up the younger Burchen and the mat
ter was dropped.
Attorney Barse inquired at length
into Mr.. Greer's financial affairs.
He brought out that Mr.. and Mrs.
Greer own property in the District.
the last total assessed valuation OF
which was S21,413, besides the $4,000
farm in Virginia.
No Mortgages On His Property.
When he began to purchase prop
erty nearly twenty years ago, Greer
said. some of it was purchased on
terms. Asked If he still owed money
on any Of his property. he said:
cages, 1 don't owe a cent on any Of
it."
Attorney Barse asked Greer a series
OF questions, based on charges byl
District witnesses that he had been
guilty Of immortality in his home. HeI
denied all.
Did you ever keep a ledger ac-
count to see whether the orphans
were an expense or a prOft?" asked
Attorney David, on redirect exami-
nation.
Greer said he had kept no such
record, but that Mrs. Greer may
keep one"
Herbert J. Linthier, who took the
stand for the Greers. said he owed
his success in life to the training
he received in one Of the Greer |
garages. His instructor in auto |
mobile repairing, he said, was John |
Greer, a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Will !
liam A. Greer.
Linthier, for several years an i'm
mate OF the Greer bakery. married /
on September 30, last. one of the /
girls from the institution.
The witness testified he was now |
getting S125 a month driving a |
truck for the Motor Transport Corps. /
Was Always WrII-Trcated.
Linthier said he was always well !
treated at the Greer home; that he I
was well clothed and fed and that !
never until the present investigation /
had he ever heard or any charges |
against Mr.. Greer's conduct toward I
the girls and boys in the home.
On cross examination. Linthier ad- |
mitted that some wec;Ss ago he called !
on Attorney Bar5e and that after the !
conference Mr.. Earsc agreed not to ,
call him as a witness because o. the I;
recent death OF his wife.
He admitted he was In the office !
Of Mrs. Van Wrinkle, child Welfare
agent of the Police Department,