| Show I RALEIGH HALEm APPEARS APPEAR IN WHITE LINEN Street Supervisor Whose Dirty Laundry Woods Is After Revises Re vises Appearance MANY WITNESSES HEARD Facts Indicating Petty Graft Brought Out at I Investigation Investigation gation by Council The Raleigh Investigation before the city coune council took a more serious turn last night when witnesses made matle several sev sev- eral statements Indicating petty patty graft and the facts about one charge were n admitted by a former councilman The feature of the session which I lasted laste until 11 o'clock was waa aa the fact that Jal Jake e Raleigh the street super super- visor against whom the charges have been made amade wore a white collar and anda a sark His faultless an and unusual appearance appt created a a. sensation among the bl big audience of or elt city and others When several witnesses v had been heard the council n adjourned to take up further charges Friday night and It I Is quite likely like likeS ly 1 that all of or the time case will be completed then although Raleigh has several witnesses wit nesses to refute the thc statements of those who have been reviewed b by Councilman Wood Joe R ll Redman a f foreman reman In the department depart depart- ment was the first witness last night He lie admitted that he lie hn had drawn 3 J a aday aday a aay day ay overtime during the 1 la n floods otIs and sa said III he Ie ha had drawn eight days' days pa pay during during dur dUI ing a vacation He admitted that he had sent men to the time lair fair grounds s to help fix lix th the tho track for the rabbit meet an and that the city had bad paid for the men Thomas who ran raim a feed store up to Slay May ta 1 I 1905 refuted the tho ch charge In Inthe Inthe inthe the Leonard Leonar affidavit that a telephone conversation had bad taken place In his store Iii February 1906 indicating graft In the street department His Ills store r was not 1101 running in Fe February l lW v he lie said Knois Kno About Street tt James Lawson formerly deputy for tor the Fourth precinct said Raleigh had never been oyer over that part of th the city and did not Jeno Imon where when the streets lay Ha lIe said he never got sot or orders from Raleigh alva always always al al- v a ways s going to the office and getting thin m from A Atkins lie He was fired at the tho end of ot four tour months He lie clashed with Attorney Johnson and amid n admitted that he lena knew more moro about the streets than Raleigh his superIor superior super super- i or You think then that In case cae of oC difference dir dif lC- lC ference of opinion your Judgment ought to prevail l' l ask asked ll the attorney Au Any reasonable mans man's judgment will prevail over Raleigh's he sal said Ho lIe refused to explain again a about out th the estimates that were made for tal street I work ork Youre Scotch arent aren't you ou asked asle Attorney Attorney Attorney At At- torney Johnson S Yes I am v 1 f You never roared while you jou OU were Ui In the tho department 7 70 Xo No 0 This Tints is the first chance c anc I have had to roar S SJohn John Aton Axton who succeeded Lawson Inthe in inthe inthe the Fourth said Raleigh h had often gone Cono over that precinct E. E E. E Rich sr of or the tile Peoples People's Forwarding Forwarding For For- warding company store said he had sold feed teed and grain to the city and explained the return of some feed teed sa saying saying say say- ing that the city ha had been given credit for Cor it He gave savo a luc lucid d explanation of or footing which was charged the tine night before S S S What hut Footing I In Is When I was a small boy In iii the old oM country ho said I 1 learned about footing tooting It meant that If It a n little boy was ws S a shilling shilling- or two shillings a week ho ime would ha have vo to pay maybe a two-pence two for tor footing If It he earned more he paid more Footing was used for the purchase of ot beer George Georgo V. V Jones Joncs Jr formerly a deputy foreman In the Third said Raleigh Raleigh Raleigh Ra Ra- leigh had built crossings for tor the Bamberger Dam Dam- Damberger Damberger berger road at Fifth Firth North and Third West at the city's expense while the tho road rond should have paid for tor It He Ho also told of city being sent to the fair grounds to work for tor forthe forthe torI the men handling the tho coursing meet I last fall He said sald that Councilman 1 nr w In of ot waterworks t r r 1 imd had i ea d the alleged graft gratt and told him to keep still about It He II had be been n keeping the time of the men in his book bool but when hen Hobday learned of it Raleigh told him not to keep the mens men's tine Where tIe Dirt ut He lie bal bald the time city's t teams ams had hauled about 50 loads of ot san sand worth a load from the North orth Main street excavation to the time Cutler building on Richards Richards Richards Rich Rich- ards street Raleigh's hs h's partner artner Charles Harmon was working on the Cutler Building at nt that time He said sold Joe Redman was foreman on the Job and Raleigh supervised the work lie He said he ho had hind er e t on oIl Raleigh in the Third precinct and that he g got t all of f his orders from Tommy Atkins former former for for- mer mner clerk clerk of of the th street department He lie answered Raleigh's questions but refused to answer questions from lIen Den Johnson Raleigh's attorney whom he me characterized as that thing He said Raleigh had given A. A S. S Gillespie a re receipt receipt receipt re- re I for tor poll tax but that Gillespie had never no worked It out Raleigh eXplained ex explained ox- ox that tha Gillespie spent a a. day putting putting put put- ting in a stove pipe at Joness Jones's home but Jones said al he paid Gillespie for the tho work George A. Kingdon was another whom r Jones said didn't work worl out gut his poll tax tx although h he held a receipt from Raleigh n He lIe also said that Kingdon King King- don would punch Raleigh's hs h's face tace on sight He further charged that Raleigh Ra Rn- leigh gave J. J J Donovan a n free re receipt receipt ro- ro for poll tax Tom Tom Hobday Hob ao was VIas called to explain the work worle of ot the city men at th the fair grounds Ho lIe said that ho lie asked the tho themen themen thomen men at the time to make an affidavit but hut that the they didn't Raleigh later ex explained ox- ox that It would have been bean graft it if f there was waH no complaint but since there here was a complaint It wasn't graft and amid that Incident seemed disposed of ot James Phillips a d deputy said i ii n. r He lIe tp Bald he hr had iad dob been n i fired d bc because he me e laid ld- ld off tf a aday aday day ay to present a petition to the mayor maor to o be he appointed In Jakes Jake's place A A. S. S Fowler Secretary White of the Poplar Poplar Pop- Pop lar ar Grove Improvement league City Engineer Kelsey Kelse and Harry S. S Harper testified to trivial matters A A. S. S Carter former councilman ad d that he me went with Raleigh to the he Rud Rudy ranch n near ar the tho mouth of the Jordan ordan river one nl night ht and that they spent the time night there telling Rudy that ho he would be paid for tor It b by being credited credit credit- ed with an nn extra day ay for tor a tc team rn by bythe bythe the he city elt This was to pay for tor the board oard C. C cl n was wa S I Raleigh's part throughout the Investigation gallon gation and ho came into conflict with Wood as to whether Wood or Carter had best served the tho city as na councilmen councilman This elicited applause from the tho gallery and Chairman F Ferry rry arose and solemnly remarked S Tills is not supposed to be a farce gentlemen and I 1 shall shan order the chamber cl cleared If It thero there Isn't less ci quiet u i et S S The council will be at home to tonal nal Raleigh and his friends again tonight From rom the progress made In Mr Haleigh's Ha- Ha leighs leigh's dress last night his friends I to see him in full tull evening cost cos- cos t o |
