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Q.-No; it was on a week ago. I went and turned it on myself.
A.-At the new building.
Q-At the new building; it has been turned on the whole time.
A.--I have had it disconnected from the main.
Q.-But I tell you it is not cut off. Non only has it been on the whole time, but to make certain I went myself and turned it on.
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A.-Then there must have been another supply. I had one supply cut off. I can
you where the main was cut.
Q.-That is what the Contractor says, there were three stand pipes; you cut off two and he gave you $100 not to cut off the other.
A.—I never received $100, nor one cent, and I did not know there was more than
one supply.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-But was it not your duty to know?
A.-Well, that is so, but I don't go every day to buildings that are being pulled
down.
Q. What are your duties?
A. To look after the water-works
Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Well, you don't look after them?
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER.-It is within a yard of Queen's Road. It is just the same tap which has been in the place; it is now in the place the Contractor has built as a sort of office for himself. This man stated positively that you received $100 from him.
A.-Well, it is not so; I never received $1.
Q-I must say the finding of the water taken in connection with his story looks very bad.
A.—Well, I have no business to go through building after the supply is cut off. I don't deny there is the supply, as you have seen it, but I have never received any money. The man has never spoken to me. I think his foreman was there when it was cut off. I thought once there was another supply when there was a leakage in Messrs. SIEMSSEN's house, but I had that opened and found it was the same.
Q.-Well, there is the statement of the case. The man says he gave you $100 not to cut off the water, and there is the water running now.
A.-Well, I distinctly say no, and I don't think the man can say to my face he paid that.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-But it is your duty to cut off the water supply of a house that is pulled down.
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A. If I find they use it for building purposes I cut it off. There is no special regulation for me to cut it off unless I see it being used for building purposes.