The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15

Protests admission of personal records kept by Purcell. street.
 O, What offices are thosep
 A. The Diamond Ginger Ale Go, @. What time was thatP
 A. Afternoon,
 Called There
 Q. How did you happen to go there?
 A. Mir. Leary called me,
 e. Did he tell you what he want ed9
 A. No,
 @. What did you doP
 A. I went over there,
 Q. Talked with himp
 A. Yes.
 O. What did he say to youf A. He told me that 1t would be very disagreeable for me after the first of the year and he told me that he needed an accountalit in his business and asked me If wan,ed the position. He told me he lad to know about 1t the next day at the latest, and l told him I'd think 1t over. Then we talked about the sal- ary.
 c. Did he say anything to you about salaryp
 A, He told me that the sales managers salary was $l0,000 a year and the office managers was ST. 500, and the accountants would be 0 better job,
 @. What salary were you then gettingp
 A. $4,500
 Q. Did you need to go to Mr Leary?
 A. No,
 c. And you're still staying on' A. Yes.
 Q. What salary2
 A. The same-$4,500.
 c. You kept throughout these years work sheetsp
 A. Yes. I always keep work sheets.
 e. That was in line of your duty, was itp
 A. Yes.
 c. When did you begin to keep your work sheets2
 A. I think I've always kept them. c. Did you keep up Q melnoran- dun too9
 A. Yes.
 c, How complete 6 memorandum did you keep of the city's pusinessP A. It had to do mostly with the summaries of expenditures Rnd re. ceipts, and bank reconcilia tions and analyses of certain accounts. - c. Very complete record, was itP A. Yes.
 Knows Records
 e, You're familiar with records in the controllers officer
 A. Yes.
 0. You're familiar with bank reconciliations, and bank statements, and financial conditional
 A. Yes.
 e. Whether your work sheets were used in the making oi per- maneat claims. have you memo. randum with respect to finances Of the city which are not reflected in the books Of the cityP
 A. Not now.
 c. Have you any memorandum oi that kind on your work sheets, With reference to your work sheetsp
 A, I don't have them now.
 c, And did you keep it in the regular line of duty there as an ae' countant and empioye in the con' troller's officer
 4 Yes. c. And 1t reflects the truth, doesn't it9
 A, Yes.
 e. Fave you separated those Into years9
 A. Yes.
 c. Working papers were then reconciling bank accounts with cash on deposit, and made by you ana under your direction9
 A. Yes.
 c. And in line of your dutyP A. Yes. c. MT. Purcell, in this group Of sheets th'I showed you and offer- cd in evidence. want to ask you if they contain memorandum witl, respect to the payment of checks giving names Of the payees?
 A. They don't really do in that year.
 e. Tn the year issO' A. Yes. (By Crawford):
 c. I want to be sure, Mir. Purcell that what you intend to say about these papers is substantially what you intended to say about them the other day, in connection with your description of what you call your work sheets, 4. I don't know whethere l ufl- derstand the question or not, Work Sheets c. It seems to me that there h some possible difference contained in the statements in what you said today, from what you said the other day. Would you ike me to cali your attention to what you did say the other day7 A. Yes.
 c. (Reading from record), Did you have in the discharge Of your work, sheets that are known as work sheets?
 A. Yes, always have.
 c. Will you describe what you can work sheets? What they ire? A. Yes They are usually what is AA N.- N.k.