The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-01
Several of the deposit slips from the tax collectors office were introduced and identified yesterday.
Yesterdays Late Testimony

Yesterdays Late Testimony
 Raymond P. Clark, assistant to the Tax Collector, was the 37th witness called. MT. Clark was on the witness stand when court ad- journed at five o'clock yesterday af- ternoon.
 Clark was questioned by States Attorney Fitzgerald on methods used in the receipt of taxes and water bills at the Tax Collectors Office prior to March, 1899. At the re- quest of the States Attorney Clark told all steps taken in connection with payment of these bills.
 He told the jurors that when tax payer presented himself at one of the three windows in the Tax Collectors office the receiving teller would first make out cashiers copy of the stub. He added that the teller in her own handwriting would then record the date of payment, the type of bill being paid, what it covered, and the amount to be recorded.
 Used Hand Stamp
 After comparing the amount of cash or the check being offered with the amount of the bill Clark ex- plained the teller, prior to March, 1899, would use a hand stamp to ac- knowledge payment.
 Carl Heebner, cashier at the Cit- izens and Manufacturers National Bank, preceded MT. Clark on the witness stand and was the first witt ness to occupy the witness stand for any great length of time. He was on the stand for 90 minutes.
 Heebner identified several deposit slips used by the Tax Collector in making deposits at the Citizens bank, which is the city depository. Adding machine tapes showing the total being deposited usually accom- panied the slips he explained the totals were also checked in the banks proving room.
 Bank Records Subpoenaed
 MT. Heebner said that the state had subpoenaed the banks records. In the search for the deposit slips he said he found three of the adding machine tapes missing.
 Attorney for Miss Cavanaugh at this time brought out that there have been occasions when checks were lost in clearing through an exchange.
 MT. Heebner went on to explain that checks made out to the Tax Collector were accepted by the bank for deposit only, the Tax Collector not being able to draw any of the funds deposited as it went into the general fund of the city and could only be checked out on checks signed by the Mayor, City Clerk, and Con- troller.
 Checks Disappeared
 AS reported in yesterdays late issue of the Waterbury Democrat two witnesses called by the state to testify said that their firms had sent checks to the Tax Collectors office and the checks disappeared and never cleared their firms bank for payment.
 The witnesses were J. Leroy Min tie of the Thompson, Mintie, and Abbott Company and Francis Don- ahue of the American Chain and Cable Company of Bridgeport. MT. Mintie'S check was for $266.76 and the American Chain Company check was for $702.24.
 Duplicate checks were made out eventually and payments stopped on the original checks.
 Miss Grace Albert was another witness called yesterday afternoon. She identified a cancelled check given her in payment of a water bill and a receipted bill.
 Miss Albert's testimony was along similar lines as that of the long procession of witnesses who took the witness stand yesterday.