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* f May ch 16 _ _"I have had an opportunity of ex-- amining pay sheet No. 71,409, cover-- * ing the pericd between -- March 15. | 1930, and March 31, 1930, and I find * my name appears thoreon as having worked ten (10) hours on the thirty-- first day of March, 1930, earning | therefor the sum of $5.50. | Did Not Work There, He Declares. |__ "I+never at any time during my life ever worked on this Provinzial k | highway under James R. Gunning or any cther person while he was fore-- man. either with a team, as a laborer | or otherwiss, and I at no time au-- , thorized the use of my name to be » ' placed on job--cards or pay sheets, and 5i these entrics are false in so far as my | having ever worked on the highway is concerned. * __*"I never at any time authoriz»d the foreman or resident engineer to sign the required certiticates at the bottom of the pay shescts above men-- tioned, and if the same were signed by them the certificates were obvious-- ly incorrect." According to the pey--lists from Jan. 1, 1929, + Jan. 30, payments wore # = made to.E. Gunning. R. Putcher, E. Gunning again, R. Futcher and H. * Pow for the use of teams. In the sworn statement of Gunning during w'he slander trial, his own tru._ was used. Between Feb. 1 and March 29 * payments were made to Futcher, E. --% Gunning, Pow and again Futcher for teams. E. Fife was shown on the April * l?' sheet, as were John Gunnln{. E. ' Gunning and John Brown. Between April 15 and 30, payments for teams jwere made to John Gunning, W. Fife, E. Gunning, Charles Minor and E. \ Etyles. Between Maq 1 and May 15 the two Gunnings and Fife were |' again listed as receiving payments for | teams. Beé.ween May "u 'nl'i 31, Jolsn k : Gunning, Gunning, M. Napper, J. , Mahoney and James Martin were paid ltor teamwork. The Gunnings, Futch-- 'er and B. C. Turville were shown in the June payroll, said Mr. Munro. | Throughout the pay list, there were | frequerst payments to the sons of en Gunning, but, in his examination unrder oath for discovery in the action, * he stated his sons had not worked on the highway since 1928. On the sheet for May 2, 1930, three cheques bor the signatures of E. P. Boughner for $33, W. PFife for, $44, and J. Gunning for $26.95, in the same writing, Mr. Munro charged. t All through the pay list for 1929 | and up to Oct. 31, 1931, the same pro-- ' cedure was followed, the examination ' revealed. $ According to Mr. Munro, the name : * of one man was revealed on the pay list as receiving $20, but the man is dead. The cheques endorsed with dif-- s ferent names, but in the same writing, amounted to $114.45. In all, $3,489.85 was paid to persons existing, for which no labor was performed.