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Mr Tukey cheated him out of ten Dollars per month by falsely alleging that his pay was reduced while it was still $20. and keeping the balance, is not correct, as the pay was in fact reduced to $15. and according to his memorandum book he actually got all of his pay with  the expiration of Mr Tukey's office as Asst. Supt. in May. The later accounts do not seem to be important.

But the striking point to me is that Mr Tukey cannot at this moment tell what [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] was paid or what was due to his regular employee, Oscar Morris, he being the only messenger regularly employed during the months named, and the only employee except a clerk, with whose account there could be no confusion. He makes a gross mistake and a false calculation when he seeks to defend himself even from an unfounded charge. From the time of the last payment when Mr Tukey was clerk, to the commencement of this investigation was not quite seven months, and neither from records, accounts or memory can Mr Tukey make any clear statement, but with great elaboration, and his recollection being warped by a mistaken theory of what, if true, might be some explanation, he evolves a most absurd and silly account. It was by my own search of the books at Winchester that I find Oscar to have received his pay due during the time of Mr Tukey's administration, without which and only examining the latter's false and mistaken defense I should have believed him guilty.

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