The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-20

J. Leary received the sum of $l7,O00 all without lawful or adequate con- sideration, and thereby said City or Waterbury was cheated and de- frauded in the amount of $34,000.
 Received Large Sums
 And in further pursuance Of said conspiracy, to wit, between the lst day of January, 193o and the sra day of January, 1888, the said simon l. Alderman, then and there being certified public accountant of the State of Connecticut, and then ana there being an employe of said Dia- mond Ginger Ale Company and of other business interests controlled by said Daniel J. Leary did receive from, said City of Waterbury large sums of money for purported ac- counting services never rendered Tn such amount, said sums of money being received by means Of checks unnumbered when issued and not issued by the City Clerk in regular course, and all issued and signed by said Leary in manner and form hereinbefore described. None of said checks was approved by said Board of Finance, and all were withheld from the warrants payable register sheets until after said sheets had been signed by the members of the Board of Finance, thereby giving the appearance of the approval of the said Board of Finance, and thereby concealing said payments from said Board of Finance; and between the lst day of December, 1887 and the Sd day of January. 1888, the said Leary purported to. employ said Alderman to extract from the books and records of the City of Water bury certain information in behalf of said Leary, and for said purpose provided said Alderman with mas- ter key for all locks in the City Hall, including the offices of the Mayor and Comptroller, together with the combination of the vault, all for the purpose of providing access to the citys books and records, and all for the purpose of aiding in the removal and destruction of said records as hereinbefore described.
 4 And in further pursuance of said conspiracy, to wit, on or about the lst day of October, 1887, the said Martin J. Dunn, then and there be- ing the Purchasing Agent of said City of Waterbury, and at times act- ing Comptroller, and employed in the office of said Comptroller, did provide an additional lock for the door in the basement room in which the records, vouchers, cancelled checks and warrants payable regis ter sheets of said City of Water bury were stored, the keys to which were retained by said Martin J. Dunn and Daniel J. Leary, and en- trance to said room was thereafter permitted only to those accompan- led by said Dunn or said Leary or by their permission. The purpose of placing said additional lock upon said storeroom and the retention of the keys thereof by said Dunn and Leary was in furtherance of the conspiracy to destroy the records stored in said storeroom and to con- ceal the disappearance and destruc- ton of said vouchers, checks, records and warrants payable register sheets belonging to said city covering the years from 1880 to 1887 inclusive.
 Burned or Destroyed
 And In further pursuance of said conspiracy, to wit, between October 5, 1897 and January 3, 1938, said Hayes, Leary, Dunn, Kelly. Borg naes and the said Timothy J. Hor- gan did burn or otherwise destroy or remove all of the cancelled checks, vouchers, invoices, warrants, warrants payable register sheets, books and incumbrance ledgers be- longing to said city for the year 1886. and for the first eleven months of the year 1887; and further, from time to time as aforesaid, did burn or otherwise destroy and remove from said storeroorn certain can- celled checks, vouchers, invoices, warrants, warrants payable register sheets and incumbrance ledgers for the years 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884 and 1885 in which were recorded the city's financial transactions for said years, the issuance of unnumbered checks as aforesaid and which dis closed the, fact that the fraudulent and unlawful payments hereinbefore described were not entered upon the warrants payable register sheets un- til after the approval of said sheets by said Board of Finance, thereby