| Show MORE MONKEY WORE County L Lexowers Knock Down Another Cob House JOHN SHERIFF VINDICATED HE PROVES THAT HE TOOK KO DRESSED STONE AWAY Jack Delaneys Method In Selling Work Tickets Shown Up Result IVot of Any Consequence to the Taxpayers Continueil Without Date Business Meeting Today Another session of9 the Lexow committee com-mittee was held yesterday Just what is expected to be gained by the examination exam-ination is not known I i is for political tical purposes it might be all right for the evidence possibly would influence influ-ence voters to believe that men who have been engaged in public work in the past are corrupt But I is scarcely fair to ask the taxpayers to pay for all the rubbish which has been presented pre-sented since this matter was taken up The charges against John Sheriff that he hauled stone from the grounds to the Oquirrh school where he had I a contract have fallen to the ground It Is apparent that nothing can be charged against him in that line after all the evidence has been considered Yesterday an attempt was made to show tHat men who were employed on the grounds and at the gravel pit had been made to pay for the tickets by Jack Delaney J is admitted that the evidence against Delaney is strong and that there is a probability that he did as charged But after this is all proven what benefit the county is going to receive re-ceive I cannot regain any of the money for the men from this man Delaney De-laney There is a small chance of haying hay-ing him indicted for any offense The fact that he discounted time checks is not criminal in its showing This was done every day Men who wanted money sold their time repeatedly I is high time that if there is anything any-thing by which the country can be benefitted in a financial way it be brought to light This paying witnesses and the court every day to listen to the claims of a lot of sore heads is too expensive There wasnt a witness for the county coun-ty examined at yesterdays examination examina-tion who had anything of value to offer of-fer One man said that he knew of four loads of lumber being hauled away from the building According to his testimony tes-timony it was that used by the plastering plast-ering contractor This being so the county had nothingto do with it Smith was amply able to take care of hii own and i anyone got away with any lumber such as is described it is fir to presume that they paid for it The drivel indulged in will be ound in the following synopsis I was 1130 when the examination stating to began by Mr Whittemore the court that he would permit Mr John Sheriff to put in some testimony It had been asserted on a previous occasion that cut stone had been hauled from the grounds to the Oquirrh school building and Mr Sheriff wished to show that i was untrue The selectmen select-men indicated a desire that Mr Sheriff be allowed to proceed and Charles Friday Fri-day was called to the stand Priday said that he had worked on the joint building and on the schoolhouse school-house There was stone sent from the mill on the square to the school building build-ing but i vas all sawed none of it being cut stone I will be remembered that Sheriff owned the mill and therefore there-fore had the right to do business on the side in this way if lie choose Mr Priday said that there was no rock in the school house which resembled that in the joint building in the least I I there had been he would have noticed it as soon as i was brought The stone in the joint building was cut in a different dif-ferent fashion altogether W J Tuddenham the contractor on the Oquirrh school corroborated this evidence as regards the character of the rock I Mr WTiittemore asked him regarding a conversation about tne rock which he and Bowman had but nothing of importance was elicited Bowman asked ask-ed him the witness if he was aware that the stone came from the building and he applied in the affirmative He aid the rock was all shaped on Sheriffs Sher-iffs saw Questioned regarding the evidence which had been introduced previously regarding onethird of the rock in the building being narrow and not exceeding exceed-ing four Inches in width Mr Tudden ham said that if such was the case the building would not have stood as long as it has in his judgment James S KSllicorn one of Sheriffs workmen said that no cut stone from the building was hauled to the schoolhouse school-house All the material was of a different dif-ferent character and did not resemble in any particular There might be an I exception In the stone over the arches Peter Ellers Alfred Brown and M E Anderson three other stone cutters testified on these points and were emphatic em-phatic in saying that the stone for the Oquirrh was nil cut on the school grounds I was a fact that i was sawed at the joint building mill every one knew that This ended the examination on behalf I of Mr Sheriff and he was about to retire re-tire when the name of AV S Sidney was called Sidney is an expoliceman I who worked on the grounds He testified tes-tified that he had helped load stone on wagons and that it was dressed This assertion was the first which had any meat in it and every one pricked prick-ed up thinking that some disclosures were to come Sidney followed it up by testifying that he had loaded a cut rock on a street car and sent i to Murray to be used by Harry Haynes Profound sensation This stone had its clothes on rather i was dressed Sheriff took the witness in hand for a crossexamination and demonstrated that he is no mean man at crossques tioning himself Before he got through with Sidney that worthy practically admitted that he didnt know a dressed stone when he saw it that he could not tell whether it had been sawed or cut by hand Having asserted that some of the stone he saw on a wagon wag dressed with him a moulding Mr Sheriff asked himDo you know that it is common with men who are handling stone to put a mud moulding on the edges to keep them from getting broken while I being hauled A negative reply was returned and Sidney made a rush for the clerks office of-fice to render a bill for his fees Herbert Slade Was a better witness for the other side than for the county He worked on the grounds for a Ipng time and never saw any stone being hauled away except that for the school house which was sawed at the mi Sheriff had his own men doing do-ing this work At the conclusion con-clusion of this evidence Judge McNally put on a tired feeling look and even the selectmen showed signs of being bored But the next witness brightened up matters His name is Edward Wllley and Wllley gave some of the most remarkable re-markable testimony ever heard anywhere any-where He had seen sawed stone carried a ytwo wagon loads of it Wiiley admitted that he didnt know anything labQut stone in particular and Mr TVhittembre tired of boring J for tack oil in a dry spot took another tackYou You worked on the buUdlnff at onetime one-time did you not Yes sir sr In what capacity1 Well I was < a carpenter cart of the time tme timeAre you a carpenter by trade Partly so Wiiley then stated that he worked on the tower and saw rafters cut wrong When this was done they were used in another place But by far the most astounding statement was ithait the weight of the tower atone at-one time rested on a twelve by twelve which was placed over a door frame He had paced to it tout the remedy was never applied Joe Morris took the witness in hand for a crossexamination but Wiiley adhered to this statement although he could not remember the names of the expert carpenters who like him had found fault with this job This testimony was so nonsensical that the selectman from BIngham suggested that ithe witness be fined for contempt in a sum equal to the amount of his fees Wiliey having retired ito make an affidavit as to the amount due him for coming t the investigation Mr Whittemore said that he would intro duce some testimony to Show that in giving out tickets to men who had worked in the gravel beds getting out material for the grounds corruption had run a footrace with itself That money had been extorted from the laborers la-borers and that they had been compelled com-pelled to pay for the tickets which they received Charles Mitchell was the first man ole to testify on this point and said that he received tickets to the number of three from Jack Delaney for which he paid the frisky Jack the sum of 1 per ticket Delaney told him that he had to pay a dollar to the clerk to get them and must get even some way When he came to be paid off it was at Wilson Busbys saloon and there the time was discounted dis-counted 10 per cent The bartender was the cashier and held out the coin The witness said that his brother also got a ticket from Delaney George A Winberg a native of Sweden testified to having paid for his ticket at the rate of 5150 and was discounted in the sum of 10 per cent on the balance at the saloon When he got through he did not have enough for supper for himself and his wife This latter assertion gave Morris an opportunity of going after the witness as to the relative value of suppers and the fun was becoming real lively when Christopherson interposed an objection of a very lively alliterative nature to the effect that i was incompetent in-competent irrelevant and immaterial and then Whittemore took the witness wit-ness You worked for the Fenton company com-pany in the vaults in the building did you not Yes sir Ever hear anything said regarding the cost te Yes Ay vas talking vith Mees ter Yonson about I and he say the coompany he get von twelve tousand dolar for the vork Ay say Ay tank him vort about five or sax tousand dolar Another opportunity was then afforded af-forded Morris and he embraced i By a series of crossquestions he ascertained as-certained that the witness had not worked at the business since he left the old country seven years agothat when he did work at i he knew nothing noth-ing regarding the prices and that he could not tell how much there was in the building now The work was not what the witness had been accustomed accus-tomed to see at his home and was in no way similar either in quality or price Having spiked the enemys guns on this point Morris quit and three witnesses were introduced to testify as to their paying Delaney a dollar each for tickets But they did not All the complaint they had was to the effect that their time had been discounted This was partially by reason of the fact that they wanted day their money before the regular pay dayJoseph Joseph Cohen Who was the clerk to whom Delaney was supposed to have paid the moijey for tickets was called and declared that nothing of the sort had ever happened He had received no money from Delaney neither had he asked for any The tickets were made out by Messrs Bamberger Morris Cheesman and Watson They were issued to certain men whose names were on the regis regs ter Sometimes Delaney would come to the office and say hat John Smith was on the job without a ticket and he the witness would examine the register I John Smith had a ticket made out he would send it to him by Delaney Mr Cohen stated that at times he had been offered money by men who wanted work but that he had reused re-used He testified that there were men who got tickets and thalt the committee afterward learned that they had sold them instead of going to work themselves The court then took a recess until 2 oclock At 3 oclock the court again assembled assem-bled but concluded to adjourn until today at 12 oclock when some county business will be attended to The in another restigaition time will be postponed until |
