The Ex-Administrator's $15,000 Reckoning

Ex-Administrator A. L. Parker will be called upon to explain away objections to his final account made by his successor, J. W. Clise. All the disbursements except one for which Parker asks credit, the new administrator says, were made without authority of court, and no vouchers whatever have been produced in support of any of the items. Parker has credited himself with a large sum for a loss on a debt paid by him and for expenses of Connecticut administration as per the report of Fred S. Brown, when it is claimed as a fact that the aggregate embraces a promissory note and interest made by Parker to the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Hartford, while Mrs. Parker was only a surety. Clise declares that a portion of the aggregate should be disallowed. Likewise, it is claimed the following items should be disallowed: household goods not appraised, $400; legal services, $225; an A. M. Brookes note, $2,500; items relating to Brooklyn, $100; a F. Pilley mortgage; the Green Lake residence, $1,614; a total of about $15,000. In addition to the above items, Clise says the accountant should be surcharged $500 on the household effects, which were worth $1,000 but were not scheduled in the inventory nor pointed out to the appraisers by reason of Parker's own neglect and wrong; also $1,500 rent for the Green Lake residence for two years; also a loan made to him by the decedent and applied to part payment of an individual debt at the Boston National Bank. The new administrator also filed an inventory of the estate.