Show EVIDENCE IS IN THOMAS FAVOR Payrolls Do Not Support State Statement Statement Statement ment by G M Bridwell Wednesday Night George If M Bridwell superintendent of ol buildings and grounds for the board 1111 of education whose rb conduct is being Investigated U gated by that body Y made th one ODe ad admission mission mISon at tile the session of the bond boad last evening which went rent far to te corroborate the statement of Thomas and to discredit the superintendent in la the mat t matters tori concerning which wt the lie was passed between the two at the Wednesday even cven evening ing iDe session ion I Bridwell on W Wednesday evening made a statement somewhat involved in its It na nature ture tur which wh h was u to the effect that had bad advised adl the placing of or the Newman Newmans and on the tile pay rolls under as assumed names because of the effect it I would have on the reelection of Mr r Thomas Thomaa to the board to have se so many rel relatives names name on the pay roBs Mr Ir Thom Thomas as at the tile time characterised this as 31 an un unqualified unqualified qualified falsehood fal Last evening Mr r Thomas 8 forced f Brid Reid Bridwell Bridwell well to admit that tIe pay pa rolls Just t be before before before fore the election which were produced Contained the true names of the Newman boys and that the fal t faie entries did not be M begin begin I Iain gin ain immediately after Mr Hr Thomas and Bridwell had bad an interview w in lit the office of the former for r There was little new In the th investigation last las evening the vouchers showing bowing Ut the same me condition as previous ones ODes examined Admissions of the usual Ulloa sort were made as a asto ato asto to relatives down for various amounts amount and the usual ual u number of or Newman aliases alla appeared as new pay rolls mils were produced Two vouchers were produced for a Mil hill of H W Nichols and the presumption is that he was paid twice for drawing some me plan piaU for manual raining buildings This matter was not explained C S Martin in defense made madean an attempt to show that the late James Pinney had a system no better than that of but it was suggested aug ted that the discussion ion of that might be left lett until later Professor Byron Bvron Cummings presided in inthe inthe the absence of the president Judge H P Henderson who is ill III with pneumonia The inquiry was cut short last lut evening by b the indisposition of Mr Bridwell who was suffering from front headache |