The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-06
Kingsley Firm Mobzes Witnesses To Reute States Accusations
Ready To Testify For George H. Kingsley
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CC0ntinued he referred to the warrants payable cheeks and the minutes of tne poaro of finance, checking the signatures on the reverse of the warrants pay. able.
 Saw Nothing Wrong
 He saw nothing out of the way or improper in the audit. ne SaiH' ;, Although he knows James F. rurceM' city,s chief accountant, ne never 1au @ snv @ occasion to talk with him. Oc- ca as,os,s when voucl CTS were miss. snV were mentioned by Strang, ana ns e ss,d that in making the audit, pnherf L. atkins, in charge ot the amdit At that time, would get them from Purcell.
 Tn 1893 and 1884, he said, he work ed on the installation or the tax system with Enoch Borgnaes, mss. tina defendant and employe 1i Kingsley & O., and FrancS p. Trov. another employe of Kingsley who was witness for the state.
 He said he is still working TOT Kinpsley in the liquidation of New .Tersey bank. He was not cross.ex- amined.
 Generous To Employes
 rD,ring the course of his testi- nonv it was brought out that the Kingsley firm is generous to It's emnioyes. strang said that he was tr e hosnital from July to Sep- tenber 30 one year, and Kingsley paid him his full salary, and offered to furnish his doctor. Strang said he knew of similar instances m which employees had been treated 50 well.
 John B. Curnock of Hollis, Long Island, now affiliated with an oil cornpany. an accountant Of 40 wears experience, testified that he was employed by Kingsley between ip33 and 1884. He worked here In 1934 on an audit, and also on the tax survey. He was not cross-eV- amined.
 The third Kingsley defense wit ness called was John P. Kearns Of Montclair, N. J., who has worked Tor Kinesley since 1929. He said he joined the firm when 1t was known as Miller- Franklin.
 Tn 1884, he said, he worked in Waterbury on the tax survey with Troy and Borgnaes. He said that his working papers would show the extent of the work accomplished, and that the company required that field men file working papers twice Q month.
 On one occasion, when he was III three weeks ago, he said, he re. ceiyed his salary in full. He recalled paving off the police department one year, and teachers of the out lying districts on another. He worked on the city audit ending No- venber 30, 1897, he said, and knew of no irregularities.
 Not Borgnaes, But Troy
 Under ross-examination by the special prosecutor, Kearns testified that he worked 10 days here in 1897 on the audit, and considered MT. Troy in charge of the audit, despite attempts by Alcorn to bring out that Borgnaes was in charge.
 Another present employe of the firm, Rowlin F. Faust of Hacken- sack, N. J., was fourth on the stand, testifying that he worked here In 1923 under Borgnaes, but knew Of no irregularities of any kind, descrip- ton or character. Tn 1884, he said, he worked on the new tax system.
 In that connection, Mir. Clark was asked by Attorney Slade to bring out of the city files, under subpoena, several of the cards prepared dur ing that tax survey. The witness identified them as having been pre- pared by him and other Kingsley accountants.
 Faust said he worked on depart mental audits of the police and health departments in 1887, and in 1934-36 and 37 on the payroll audits. He paid of the water department, engineers and fire department, he continued.
 Never Heard of Them
 Never while he was In the city Of Waterbury had he heard of any ir- regularities, he said. Alcorn did not cross-examine.
 The final witness of the morning, Henry Francis Mccullough, identi- fled himself as manager of the Bos- ton office of the Kingsley co. In 1883 he worked here, he said on the 1882 audit, with Enoch Borgnaes in charge. He said that the audit in- cluded the checking of the approval of the board of finance and con- troller to the warrants payable sheets. The minutes of the board of finance were also consulted in the audit, he continued.
 The only connection he had with Purcell, the witness said, was in asking for groups of missing vouch- CTS, necessary to the audit. In no in- stance, he said, were the vouchers not made available at his request. Purcell was again in court today.
 Give and Take
 For more than three quarters of an hour, before Strang was called to the stand as the first witness in the defense of George H. Kingsley and John w. Meaney, @ $20 week accountant played game of give and take with Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn and held his own. Nathan s. Goldstein of New Ha- ven, who assisted Alderman in his work on the city's books in Decem- Der. 1887, was questioned about ten minutes by Attorney Crawford, then turned over to Alcorn, who queried him for 50 minutes. Today's session was the 91st day of the trial the sixth of the de- fense. It marked the conclusion for the time of the defense of Simon J. Alderman, first defendant to take the stand in the interest of acquital. | and the start of the defense of George H. Kingsley and John w. Meaney. members of the accounting | firm of George H. Kingsley Go.
 Noise from outside sources inter- | fered with the trial for short time.