The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-01
tBY STAFF sTENooRAPHER

The following is a stenographic recording of the final questions pro propounded to City Clerk John F. Fitnmaurice by Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn yesterday afternoon in the conspiracy trial:
 @, Now, Mir. Fitznaurice, have you the original record of the meet ings of the Board of AldermenG
 A. have the original.
 a. And where is the bookp
 A. These four volumes. From leS0p
 d. Yes. From 1880 to 1892.
 A, From 1880 through SEP
 e. Yes.
 A. well, these volumes run into other years. The original record of the meetings of the Board of Alder men in this volume 24 commences with the meeting which was held on December 20, 1928 and ends with the meeting that was held December l, 19S0--in this volume 24,
 O. Now, will you find In that vol tune a vote authorizing the mayor to execute the so-called Levy contract with the Browning Incorporated contract?
 (Objections arose-overruled. MT. Alcorn offered to help MT. Fitz- maurice find the required page)
 O. Let me see If I can help you again. If you will look under date of July ., 1880? It appears in the printed volume.
 A. July 2, i9S0p
 O. Find 1t. On what page does 1t appeara
 A. It appears on page 50S,
 a. Now, your Honor please, I of- fer that volume for the purpose of which I have just stated. And then I offer the entire book for the pur- pose of showing there were no votes whatever of the Board proving or authorizing certain transfers of ap- propriations or the transfer of one fund to another. There is still no vote that there were payments made in the estimate of the receipts. And I want to show that there were no votes in the Board with the author ity of the Board of Aldermen re- quired in Section 75-79
 Collection was raised to offering the book by MT. Crawford).
 c. Now, MT. Fitznaurice, during the period from 1882 through the first of January 1888, do you know of any payments large or small to Mir. Johnston of whom you spoke this morning9
 A. do not.
 e. Do you know Of any payments to Williamson
 A. do not.
 c. Do you know of any payments to Peters9
 A. I do not.
 a. Now, do you recall a short time after your election--do you re- member being called to the Con- troller's office by anybody with re- spect to the checks at the request of MT. Dunn?
 A. Yes.
 e. What did MT. Dunn say to youp
 Collection raised by Murray)
 Alcorn-It is just another step. your Honor, to the Unexplained taking of the plate for the other checks.
 c. Now will you go ahead9 What did Mir. Dunn say to you? am now calling your attention, MT. Fitz- maurice, to the business to the con- troller's office with respect to the plates for the checks. Do you re. member being asked to go to the controllers office by the accused Dunn short time after your first election2
 A. Yes.
 c. Now what were the eircum- stances of your going there7
 A. MT. Dunn called me and asked me to go down to tho controllers office 50 that I might write my name to take copies of the sigma lures that I wrote. gave him four or five copies of my signatures.
 c. What did MT. Dunn say to you about 1t. if anything7
 A. They had to get the photo- static signature before he went into tho office to see that they had them on tho cheeks.
 e. Did they relate to the pin. point checks or to the other checkS9 What checks?
 A, The blank checks,