The New York herald., 1874-09-18

b tue amount. Mr.. Haws sent communication
TO the Board stating that he had decllneu 10 pay,
sormedn by You; THAT the prisoners were never
In the custOdyn OF the Sheriff, and that 1t could
hardy be presumed that the Legsiature ntenGed as
Tor a service he does not perform lne papers
were referred to the Committee on county ; omces,
exposed, was too much even lor Tweed. In con.
nection with this attempt d ~ yoa IL may oe stated
you were little tender about swearing.
Your bIls for tne first year were not sworn
TO, but afterwards yon overcame all scrupes
snd made oath to your bills. have no evidence
that YOU made any further effort to OBTAIN the pay
ment OF this fraudulent claim during your own
term OF once, but you appear to have laid your
plans for success through the aid Of your sue
date ior Sherln ana seemed 10 DC certain OF cleo
HONEST POLITICIANS TRIcKEp
lam informed that although you were really for
Lynch you united with other corrupt politicians
In trick upon honest pen oy getting up a citi-
nominate an independent ticket. II a true history
OF that canvass should be written 1t would show
now Te ny scha are sometimes imposed
mated at the Filth Avenue Hotel headed py your
Under Sheriff, Frederick L. vulte. for sherir.
ticket was elected and those who pulled
the the. wires VII pna aad ID no expectation that any
would be: But by running tnat ticket they de.
teated other candidates, whom many OF the men
used in nominating the ticket would have pre-.
Vutse and Hugh Kss IN
office under him. Lynch having become Sheriff in
the manner stated above you and he were able to
work tOgether Tor your common benefit. In his
drst bill very differently from what tyro would
have been likely to dO) he repeated your fraud,
same persons. He charged for 37e prisoners con-
veyed to county prisons $2S2, and Tor 1865 com.
the first bill slipped through and was paid. He
repeated such charge Il should think under the
guidance of some strong Will behind him In every
bill that he presented, but he did not succeed in
procuring another such payment. The total of his
unpaid charges OF this kind, which he made in im-
e47,s6l 90. Adding the s3,649 SO he was paid and
the total that the fraud would have produced in
three years, presented by him. is s5l,5lO 5s but
hand with Watson's aid, no mortal mind can con-
ceive.
PETIT LARCENY FRAUDS
1t must not be supposed, because have so far
given only cases of frauds in which you fraudu-
lars, that there were none OF the petit larceny
order Under the law fixing the Sherins fees
hity cents for summoning constabes to attend
court. This was allowed because constables, II
the over so ~ oraer
under q penalty OF IS tor every days neglect, but
they were only allowed 81 SO a day for attendance.
AS tnat was an inadequate price to pay constables
In this city those officers would have gone to the
Legislature and had the law changed rather than
submit to It; so there was compromise all around.
The Sheriff ceased to summon constables and the
Court allowed him to select whoever he pleased
soa sen a Gns ocer hsG @
made no charge Tor summoning consta-
6les, but was content with the patronage.
But during your term there was a resurrection Of
everything that could be used for an ntrance
into the county treasury. You summoned no
appointed number oil your hangers-on as officers.
For every one OF them to whom you gave an APP
summonlng Him 70 place that that he WA Was ase Begging
you to give him. by that fraud you obtained
$65 60 under your Arst term and s6i under your
second, which l put down against you accord
ingly. little extra point is gwen to this small
grab by the fact that during your second term
courts OF oyer ana Termner were almost un-
known; but am confident that bill against the
county WIN be lound from every constable" you
Another little grab OF the same kind was for
notices OF elections to newspapers. SaeriGs had
ceiviIg notice of an election from the Secretary of
State, been required to communicate IL to the
newspapers. You to save yourself trouble made
the county pay for printing the notice, to which
make no objection; but you also. without authority
Of law or usage, obtained from the county 81 Ior
each newspaper under pretence OF ''servingn the
notice in the newspaper-wOrk that boy could do
In an hour. The fact that charge was made
without authority OF law never seemed to be OF
grab you made SIS at each election, In all $89,
which which include % as part Of your lraudulen! re.
half q century the law had required the Sheriff to
publish in one or more newspapers a proclama-
miner. You had charged, as your predecessor
had DONE S4 IS for advertising such proclama-
second term were becoming few, you seem to
have concluded that the 81 So ought to be fee to
sDy SUCH dea &c. IN june 1857 as yoH had
charged the 81 IS in December and again In
March you treated those charges as your tees and
charged $43 Is for the advertisements. In Sep
TENDER you charged 81 S5 as your lee and S19 40
Tor advertising and in December 81 s5 IOr your
self and SIS go Tor advertising but am not able to
6aN that you made more than S24 25 by that little
grab.
PETIT JUROR FRAUDS.
will now specify another OF your large frauds.
There is no provision OF law authorizing payment
to Sheriff ior summOnng petit jurors In criminal
cases. and presume In most oil the counties OF the
State no allowance Thereon Is ever made. As the
Supreme Court declared, in the decision quoted
tended that the perquisites allowed to the Sheriff
should pay him Tor the service. This is particularly
The law allows the sherir fifty cents for each term
Q civil case is on the calendar. to be paid by the
plain TN IN the action In this county the caen-
dar many terms before 1t is reached. understand
tnat In many years there has been no time when
there have been less than 1000 5000 on the calen
dars OF the three courts-Supreme superior and
Common Pleas. Such number-nlne terms in the
year-woud give the Sheriff over So, 900 a year.
petit jurors tor the criminal without charge
That the Legislature never Intended that the
Sherln should be paid Tor SummOning petit Jurors
In criminal cases, would seem to be clear, from the
fact that whie an allowance is provided for sum-
jurors. In 1s4a, however, Monmouth B. Hart the
Sheriff, and his predecessor, Jacob Acker, one OF
each political party, having suffered severely from
the terrible financial revulsion, which commenced
In 1887 the Supervisors under the Influence Of the
sympathy felt lor them, were induced TO- allow
them $40 Tor serving regular panel of petit
jurors, and twenty-five cents each for extra jurors
THIS was not accomplished without stout resist
ance, especially In respect to jurors for the oyer
and Terminer, who also served In the trial of civil
causes IN the Supreme Court. Afterwards the
allowance for serving petit jurors increased,
not by law, but by the Supervisors, thirty cents
for each person summoned. and at that rate The
Sheriff was paid when you were elected.
DEFRAUDING THE COUNTY TREASURY.
Your predecessor also induced the Supervisors
TO allow nim fifty cents each 1or summOnlnR
Jurors for the Marine Court In which only civil
cases are tried. This was as clear robbery Of
the County Treasury as II would be OF q bank to
walk INTO IT. and take money from It's vaults. AS
your predecessor was paid for the service, how
ever, 1t Is not included in this account against