The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-07

1He HlOTe AHpOTLhHb ICoLAlOly presented this morning follows.
 MT. Ritter questioned by Attorney Slade:
 c. MT. Ritter. what is your bus iness?
 A. Public accountant.
 Q. How many years have you been in that line of work2
 A. About 25.
 Q. Are you now in business for yourself?
 A. I am.
 @. Tn 1884 were you employed by George Kingsley and Company?
 A. I was.
 @. Whether or not in that year you did some work on the 1883 audit for the city of Waterbury,
 A. I did.
 o. Can you tell us the number of days you were there2
 A. can by referring to a memo that have.
 e. In the absence of that, can you tell us?
 A. No, stayed here perhaps a few weeks in 1884.
 e. You made out your time sheets?
 A. I did.
 o. And the time sheets were sent to George Kingsley and Company
 A. Right.
 Q. Who was in charge of that work in that year?
 A. MT. Borgnaes.
 e. When you first came on that job, did you receive any Instructions from Borgnaes with relation to the work to be done?
 A. Yes, he outlined the work to be done.
 e. Kindly tell his honor and the jury all that was said as to what work was to be done and how 1t was to be done.
 A. recall now that the first h. structions got from MT. Borgnaes was that I was to do some vouch- CTS together with some other man. One man handled the warrants pay able book and sometimes we chang ed of and handled the vouchers.
 e. Tell us what, If anything, was said in reference to handling the vouchers.
 A. We were to check with the vouchers and the departmental ap- proval.
 Q What else?
 A. To see that they were proper ly entered on the warrants pay able register and also to see that they were charged to the appro- priation shown on the voucher.
 o. Was there anything said about symbols?
 A. Yes, to see that the appropria- ton symbol was recorded on the voucher and then to see that the proper charge was made on the warrants payable register.
 Q. Was anything said in connec- ton with the number of the vouch- CTS?
 A. Yes. We had to see that the voucher number was recorded, too.
 Checked Numbers
 e. That is, the voucher number had to correspond with the num- Der on the warrants payable sheet? A. That's correct.
 c. During the period you worked on the audit for 1884, understood you to say sometimes you would handle the vouchers and someone would do the checks and vice versa? A Yes.
 o. During that period, did you have occasion to talk with MT. Pur- cell with respect to any vouchers that were not accessible to your A. don't think so.
 c. You know MT. Purcell, don't you?
 A. have met him.
 c. During the period you worked there did you learn or know of any irregularity of any kind, character or description?
 A. did not.
 Q. In 1887 did you work on the audit?
 A. Yes.
 c. Who was in charge of the work then?
 A. Troy
 c. What work did you do in con- nection with the audit for 1887?
 A. Largely on vouchers.
 e. Do you recall that the audit of 1887 was only extended to the 30th of November of that year9
 A. I do.
 Q. The audit was not completed, was 1t?
 A. No sir, not while I was there. o. During that period did you do the same kind of work that you did in l934' ..r,
 A. Yes.
 @. Whether or not you had re- ceived any specific instructions in 1887 with reference to what specific