The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-28
Accused Accountant On Stand Explains SerDices Rendered


 Miss Helen Driscoll cross-exam- ined by Alcorn:
 O. when you saw MT. Alderman on the 29th or 30th of December, he was in the controllers office. Was he not? A. No. e. Where was he? A. In the bookkeeping department of the Public Welfare. O. Did you see him in the con- troller's office the latter part of the week? A. No. 0. You didn't see him in the hall? A. No. 0. When he came in two days be- fore Christmas, on the twenty third, did you have any talk with him? A. Yes. o. What did you talk about? A. Just a general conversation. c. Did he look over any books in the department while he sat there? A. He may have. @. Do you recall whether he did or not? A. I can't say for certain. o. You don't know for sure that he didn't? A. I would say that he did, but I am not quite certain. e. If he did, what books did he look through? A. Accounts payable and accounts receivable, and summary that I had prepared for him.
 Q. And the next day, the 24th, he came back? A. Yes.
 e. And he spent about an hour at that time? A. Yes.
 e. Did he look through the books again?
 A. At that time he talked about the various phases of the depart ment.
 c. Did he take them with him? Took Key A. No. He asked me for the key so that he might come back another time and get them. @. And that was done and you found them there on the following Monday, the 27th? A. Yes. c. By the way, you get your ap- pointment from the mayor? A. No, I had worked there so long | originally, the Children's Home
 Commission gave me the position. e. You don't have any formal ap- pointment from year to year?
 A. No. o. You knew, did you not, that there had been an election in the
 month of October? A. Yes. @. And you knew that MT. Leary
 the controller, had been defeated? A. Yes. o. When MT. Alderman came in
 on the g, he had about a week to
 make the audit?
 A. Yes.
 @. Did you know why there
 should be an audit made at that
 time? 1 A. Our superintendent explained
 to me that MT. Alderman was com-
 ing in, and arrangements for his
 coming were made the day before e. You mean by that, the 9 oi December? | A. Yes. e. And then he came in the 23rd? A. Yes.
 @. Do you know who asked him
 to come in? A. don't think I could say. i Q. Did he tell you? Received Word A. No, he didn't tell me. I had
 received word from the superinten-
 dent that he was coming in. e. Whom do you mean by the superintendent? A. Mrs. Vernon. e. So you don't know who sent
 him there? A. No.
 @. Do you know whether he was
 sent there by MT. Hayes? A. I would say yes, yet I am not
 certain. Q. Why would you say yes? k A. Because I think Mrs. Vernon mentioned something e. Did she mention MT. Hayes name? Objection sustained. @. Do you know anything further about who sent him other than you have already indicated? A. No. @. You know nothing further about it from your own knowledge? A. Of my own knowledge, no. Redirect Redirect examination by MT. Crawford. o. When those books were pre- pared for MT. Alderman, what did you do?
 A. left them on the desk. o. The Monday following, where did you see them? A. They were on the desk.
 o. Where you left them. As to whether they were taken out of the department or not when MT. Alderman worked on them over the weekend have you any informa- ton?
 A. Well, I couldn't say whether scription of the various books he had installed in the office of the well fare department.
 Before any bookkeeping system ol machine had been proposed ol bought, he said, the system had beer in operation. Alderman said that he