The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-22

/ S5 for traverse jury services at the Septem-
| Der term, from amount of his bill allowed
/ (9l.55), and we have left, s86.55, moneyun-
lawfully taken from the county. Footing
up these amounts which Gavitt has drawn
from the Treasury, acitkout scdrraalt Of laao,
and we have THREE HUNDRED AND
SEVEN DOLLARS AND TWENTY
CENTS Quite a snug little sum, to be
pocketed within less than a year from the
item of juries alone.
SHARP PRACTICE.
After the spring election, when his partic-
ular friend, James FitzwiIIiams, was laid on
the shelf, Gavitt pompouslg informed some
of our citizens, that they had discarded the
best constable they ever had, and to show
them that he (Gavitt) endorsed him, he had
been appointed Deputy Sheriff. Papers are
also on file with Fitzwilliams' signature to
them as Deputy Sheriff about the same
time. Yet, at the June term of the Com
mon Pleas Court, we find Fitzwilliams
drawing S24 pay as bailiff This is speci-
men of fnanciering for the introduction Of
which, we believe, the county is indebted to
Mr. Gavitt. At the September term, a sim
liar bill for FitzwlIliams's services as baiIiff
while he was acting as Deputy Sheriff, was
presented and allowed. However, before
! the orders were issued, Mr.. GaFitt ascertain
ed that there was a smelling committee
around" and fearing that the odor of this
2 fra n of rpiOhf cfril-a fhafr Ill
| peculiar force, he sent one of his deputies,
Mr.. Cox, to the Office, who, in the absence of
! Mr.. Richter, defaced the public Records of
the county, by inscribing on the margin of
the Record Book, the following note to the
clerk:
" Louis RICHTER, Esq.-There is an error
made in the allowance of bailif's bill and
| Kahn & Britton's bill for horse hire, so there
will be no orders issued for James Fitz-
williams as bailiff, and only a partof Kahn
| L Brltton's bill. J. B. Cox, D. S. V. G.
| Sept. II, 1862
A mistake occurred in making out bill
so that the Deputy Sheriff could draw pay
as bailiff, in September, but was strictly
correct and lawful in June! We were un-
der the impression that the same law regu-
lated this matter in June as in September-
Perhaps we were in error, It is gratifying,
however, to get an acknowledgment from
the though a did come rather late
that it is not right for the Deputy Sheriff to
draw pay as baiif at the September term,
though it was strictly correct and proper at
the June term. As to what portion OF the
horse bill was wrong, we are left in the
dark and probably ever will be.
m SUMMING UP. l
Having run through with the principal
items which are unlawfully charged to, and
paid by, the county, for services in the
Common Pleas Court alone, during the
year past, we sum them up as foIIews:
Jack Welsh janitor. S7l .25
Unlawful jury 1920
Fit zwinainss bills as bailiT, while acting as
deputy 54.OO
Horse 1850
s57O05
Thus, we see that the county has paid
FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY DOLLARS AND
NINETY FIVE CENTS, 10 the Sheriff of the
county, to which the Sheriff had no legal
GtyHt UfutCBtI NJtil IL DC u HldlIGE OI sur
prise to any one that our taxes are Hnneces-
sarily high, where the Sheriff charges, in
less than one year, S570.95, unlawfully, for
what he preteuds were services rendered the
Common Pleas Court?
We yesterday demonstrated that tho
Sheriff had drawn pay illegally from the
County for pretended services to the Circuit
Court, to the amount Of
s5Is-e5
To this add amount paid for pretended SER
vicss to Common Pleas Court, above
and we have 5000
Making total Of s1,Os9.9O
Taken from the Treasury WITHOUT AU-
THORITY OF LAW. Is a matter Of
surprise that Mr. Gavitt desires TO retain the
Office when the piczings are SO choice?
On Monday we shall present another
chapter in this beautiful Exposition. And
even then, q the end is not yet"