Show BRIDWELL INNINGS NGIN IN lION r Of CHARGES MADE New Evidence Brought Out Members of Board Under Fire Sitting as a committee of the whole the thc board of e education last night resumed re re- sume the hearin hearing of tho the alle alleged ed charge charie of irre irregularities in in the payrolls of Geor George e M. M Bridwell superintendent of buildings and grounds It was Bridwell's turn at the bat and ind he called a It number of witnesses in m his defense The Tho hearing hearin lasted listed until nearly near near- 1 ly Iy midnight and ann WAS then continued until until un- un til Thursday night nj ht A feature of the hearing haring last night was tho the statement that Arnold G G. Giauque a member of th the board hoard from the second precinct had hid withdrawn the tho resignation of his son Clarence I p I at a time when the thc latter was wal charged with incompetence 1 The he evidence that l Mr r Giauque I board m member had edn withdrawn lt i his son s es Lion tion as janitor while under a cloud of incompetence In Incompetence Incompetence In- In competence was developed In the examination e examination ex- ex b bv by Mr Edwards of or L L. P P. Judd clerk of the board The part of ot the record record record rec rec- ord bearing upon this subject which is as follows was produced That the resignation of ot Clarence p 1 t at the Lincoln school Giauque as janitor h b be accepted Q n pt d n. n and dw hat that 1 f tho the ii S superintendent i ci i i h b be accepted Q n pt d n. n and dw hat that 1 f tho the ii S superintendent i ci i of ot buildings be Instructed to secure a new janitor Withdrawn by A A. A G G. Giauque Everything except the words Withdrawn Withdrawn With drawn by A A. A G G. Giauque Is marked out of the records and Mr Judd explained that this was done for the reason that he considered after the resolution of acceptance RI ac- at had been withdrawn that In effect there was nothing on the subject properly before the committee The hearing Tu Tuesday evening also showed shoed that young Giauque tendered his resignation at the same time that he re returned returned returned re- re turned to the board 15 for five days days' work as janitor that he did not perform having b been en ill 1 five days das of ot the previous prE month It Was further shown that Mr Bridwell sent his brother Thomas J T I Bridwell to the Lincoln to fill young Giauque Giauque's s place those thole five days and that the brother received the generous wage age of 4 50 a day dav for doing the same work for which young Giauque had been paid ionly only 3 a day To enable him to do this his work wort was not entered on the payroll as janitor work but as carpenter and boiler work the payrolls show The board is out the difference between the amount refunded by young Giauque and the amount paid to Mr s Bridwell's s brother broth- broth er Thomas on oil Stand When hen Mr Thomas was called to the stand by Mr Air Edwards he e gave some more interesting testimony on the sub sub- ice j According c e ii g t rrTh l to Mr Thomas m r. i Air Mr I Bridwell knew that young oung Giauque was Incompetent as a a. janitor that he was unable to k keep ep the building properly heated and that several times several rooms had had to be closed on this ac account account account ac- ac count yet vet he continued to employ him presumably for the reason that his father fath fath- er Is a a. member of the board of or education tion Air Mr Ir Thomas testified that Mr Ir Bridwell Brid- Brid well l had told him In Ms hs office that he regarded young as a poor janitor Janitor janitor Jani jani- tor and an Incompetent This caused Air Mr Ir Bridwell to move hastily to Mr Gianque Giauque's s side A spirited conversation between Ill Air Bridwell and Mr Air Giauque followed but In too low a atone atone atone tone of voice to be be- heard elsewhere inthe In Inthe Inthe the room It is assumed however that Air Mr Bridwell fearing Mr Ir Thomass Thomas's s testimony testimony testimony mony might injure him with Mr l Giauque was entering a denial to it After Atter the session adjourned as the party was breaking up at the west est steps of the city and county building Air Mr Ir Bridwell was heard to sa say to Mr Giauque Will See Him LaterI Later I r never made any such a statement to Air Mr Ir Thomas To ro which Air Mr Giauque replied Ill see you later about that The members of ot the buildings and grounds committee at which young Giaque Giaque's s resignation was as tendered and withdrawn b by his father were besides Mr Giauque Mr rr Moyle Air Mr Ir Newman and Mr Martin Mr Moyle MoI however said that he was as not present when the resignation was considered coming in later It was as observed at the close of ot the meeting that Mr Air took with him the temperature record part of the official official cial record of the board showing among other othel things thing that several rooms at the I i Lincoln a at which his nis 1118 son sun was and ana ana Is 18 jam jani i Lincoln a at which his nis 1118 son sun was and ana ana Is 18 jam jani janitor tor had to be closed several times last winter on account of ot lack of heat It Is understood that Mr Ir Giauque I is going to to attach the record ecord to other janitors Mr Ir Edwards attempted to show that Mr Ir Judd was as partly responsible for foi the second payment of sl 75 to H. H W W. Nichol Nichols Nich- Nich ol for the same work but didn't get far He also devoted considerable time to a futile attempt to show that Superintendent Superintend Superintend- ent Christensen with members of ot the board was guilty of negligence In connection con con- with the lack of ot heat In several se schoolrooms last winter There was waR some evidence that the reason for tor the Inability of the janitors to maintain sufficient heat was as bad coal but Mr l Martin board member from the th first ward furnishes many loads of ot coal to the board In a year It I Is said in violation of the statutes and Mr Edwards soon skated away from the thin Ice Names to Be Given Mr Air Thomas declined to give Rive the names of contractors and other persons who had told him there w were re Irregularities In cement CP cP- ment work ork but will do so at the next session with the consent of ot his Inform inform- Informants ants Mrs Airs E E. Lempe whose husband is i isa isa ia a school janitor was the woman who had be been heen n compelled to do janitor work for Bridwell Bridwell's s family without pay pa he said but Mrs Airs I Lempe empe naturally had declined tobe to tobe tobe be drawn drav n into the affair and Lempe LampE Mr Ir Thomas Thol said he had heard had threatened thrEatened threatened threat threat- ened to knock her damned block oft off If she opened her head about it All Mr Edwards tried to draw from Mr Thomas If he hI did not consider It unfair to m make te charges against Mr lr Bridwell upon the statements statements statements-of of persons who declined declined de de- dined to come orne before the board with substantiation sub suh- o on n and If f he had not made mad up his IJ f re remore mind as to O Air Mr II s Incompetence J more from what he had heard on the outside outside outside out out- side than from what hat had been brought out at the Investigation In Mr Thomas replied that he hadn't hadn t cared to go o Into the other charges for the reason rason that he had had enough l evidence e of ot Bridwell's incompetency ind ra rascality to satisfy him and then hastened to add that he considered It none of ot Air Mr rr Bridwell's business s what lie he thought of him and his methods Th The man who told toM Mr Ir Thomas that that Mi 11 Bridwell had paid him for work he had never done donl has left the state Mr I Thomas said In rt regard ard to the lack of or hent heat in th the tha schools Mr Thomas said ho he had called Mr Bridwell R attention to tho the matter but hilt that the tho condition had not boon been bettered There were more morp complaints com com- complaints plaints of ot tack lalk of heat In the I schools this year ear than over ever before he hI said |