The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-26
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In his letter assailing the St0newal
! figures of The CLARION, the Attorney
General boasts Of stri1t obedience to tn,
law and integrity of the Radical officials
as if unmindfui that there is no coca
sion for stealing, 60 noanine, when the,
have improved their opportunity to tak'
all their greed requires, under cover o
laws passed for that purpose by them
selves. But he is forgetful of the case o.
Kearns of Jefferson county, who is IN
der indictment for defaleation Of sly
thousand dollars; and stranger still, be
forgets the case of Superintendent Tuck
er, of Kinds county, who was charged in
the order of dismissal issued by Morri:
himself, with having obtained public
money under fraudulent pretences, by
virtue of his Office. Here is the
ORDER OF REMOVAL.
IL appearing to the satisfaction of thi:
Board, as well from the statements acknow-
Judgments and confessions of John c. Tue
ker himself, as from the certified copies Of
the orders of the Board of Supervisors ol
Kinds county. now present before u.s. thai
John c. Thicker, Superintendent of Educa-
ton of Kinds county. has, since his appoint
ment to said office, been guilty of fraud
extortion and malfeasance in his said Office
in this, to-wit:
That the said John C. Tucker. Superinten-
dent as as aforesaid. on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, 1871. and on the 18th of April, 1871.
did fraudulently and knowingly demand.
take. collect. and receive from the Board OF
Supervisors of said county of Kinds. two
allowances, amounting in all TO 500, the
same being done under color of his office.
and under the false and fraudulent preteEce
that he had, as County Superintendent as
aforesaid, at the rates of five dollars per
day for such days as he had been actually
engaged.served a sufficient number of day 5
between the 2lst day of October, $50, and
the 31st day of March, 1871, to bring said
county OF Kinds in his debt for per diem. as
aforesaid in the sum of seven hundred dol
lars whereas, in truth and fact, said Tuck
er, Superintendent as aforesaid, well knew
that he had not rendered said service, nor
was said sum of 500 due to him; but that
during the same time, he, said Tucker, had
pretended to serve almost every day as
Secretary of this Board at 50 per day for so
many days as he might such Secretary
be actually engaged, and under color of said
last named Office of Secretary of this Board.
had fraudulently and knowingly demanded.
taken. collected and received, and was at
the same time demanding, taking collecting
and receiving. and up to the LIST day OF
April. 1871, did continue to demand, take,
collect and receive by allowance of this
Board, as he pretends, and through the
Auditor of Public Accounts of this State,
large sum of money, amounting in all t.
the sum of $6l5, all under the false and
fraudulent pretence that he, said Tucker.
had been actually employed all that time as
Secretary of this Board, thus drawing the
full legal com pensatiOn of five dollars per
day as County Superintendent and three
dollars per day as Secretary of this Board
for the same identical days, and that too in
the face of the fact, that III. r. Pease, State
Superintendent of Public Education, had
certified to the Au litOr of Public Accounts
that said Tucker had during the same time
served him, said Pease. as clerk, whereby said
Tucker drew a still further sum of $S24. 81
for said last named services between the llth
day of August, 1870, and the LIST day of April
1871.
And it further appearing that said Tucker,
at the last meeting of this Board, to-wit: on
the last day of May, 1871, in the office of this
Board. and at its council table, did make q
wicked, violent and malicious assault upon
the Rev. James Lynch, A member of this
Board, and then and there, in attendance on
said Board, in the performance of his duties
and did then and there. in rude, angry and
violent and threatening manner, abuse, de-
nounce and defame said James Lynch in the
office of said Board, aud in presence of all
the mem bers thereof. contrary TO law, and
i'm such manner as to render himself liable
to Indictment and imprisonment under the
criminal laws of this State.
Wherefore, and by reason of the premises
and this Board being fully advised in the
premises, 1t is considered, ordered and dd-
Judged by this Board. that said John G.
Tucker, be and he is hereby removed from
the said Office of County Superintendent OF
Education for said county of Kinds. to take
effect from and after this date.
The strangest part of the affair is thai
this order of the Board was spit upon by
Tucker-treated with supreme contempt,
and he is still holding the Office in def
ance of it.
Now Tucker is not an honest, law abid
ing official, or Morris has made an eyre
gious blunder in the above order-in his
recent letter.