White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-28

pital and replied hat he bid three
times. 1t later developed that some
time ago he submitted a bid for a
frame building that vas then under
consideration by the commissioners
When Attorney Zurich confronted the
witness with the figures submitted
by the different bidders. slowing the
bid submitted by the witness himself
on one occasion to be approximately
5000 higher than that of Contract
or Wallace and on the other occasion
to be about $4,000 i'll excess of the
Wallace bid. he said, Il guess they
are right
Passing over the technical matters
as to where a beam or a step might
best be placed, the attorney turned
| his attention TO an examination OF
the witness upon matters contained
in the report of the grand jury rela-
tive to the hospital and which con-
tanned the findings of the committee
of which the witness was a member.
The witness said that the committee
| went to The Office of the recorder and
| auditor, but when questioned on the
figures he said that Mr.. Middagh put
them down as he called them off
from the bills pertaining TO that class
of work with which he was most ia
miliar. while Hogan called off the fig
ufes from the bills in like manner on
| work pertaining to Inc heating plant.
Counsel asked the witness, You
have no interest. of course, in this
! case, nave you?' and the witness ad-
mitted that he had Ito a certain ex-
tent" But when counsel attempted
to question the witness as To how
much he contributed to defray the ex-
| penses of the suit the objection of
| opposing counsel was sustained.
To leading questions put by the
examining counsel the witness sair
his committee had worked conscien-
~tiously. with but one object in view,
and that to get the true facts and
figures without malice toward any
one. He said the committee got from
the recorders office the figures in re
lation to the cost of the county hos
pital and the extras" mentioned,
which were later embodied In the re-
port of the grand jury. Attorney Ju-
rich then called the attention of the
witness to that portion OF the grand
jury report wherein the statement
was made that the county hospital
had cost the taxpayers of White Pine
county to that date the sum of
$61 ,9S2, and that the commissioners
had allowed Contractor o. NJ. Wal
lace more than $4,000 in extras,
and asked il that was not said In
the report. and the witness said. The
report does but | didn't have any
thing to do with the report. signed
my name TO 1t but | wasn't on the
committee to make up the report"
When further pressed by counsel
as to whether he read the report over
before he signed II the witness testi-
fed that he was not in the court
house but was up town when the re-
port was being made up. and that
when he later went to the courthouse
1t was just read over in a few min
utes after they had wasted all kinds
of time on other matters. When At
torney Zurich asked. Let me under
stand you; then you don't voech for
the figures in this report as being
correct You don't deem they are
correct The witness replied, mo.
sir Bnt you signed your name,
said Mr.. Jurici. and the witness re.
Piled. II signed my name Ike The
rest of them"
Counsel then read TO the witness
the paragraph of the report charging
the commissioners with graft and
misapplieation of county funds aud
asked If his committee prepared that
report and the witness said, IT don't
know nothing about II. | wasn't with
hem AS Attorney ZURICH took up
the salient features OF the report and
called the attention of the witness TO
the charges made he replied to all
such questions that he knew nothing
about any of those features In the