The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-09


1871 So 62S 81; in 1872, 2 3s; in 1873, si59s S.
such differences as these should exist. Fire and /
lights were IL all those years required In the
same plsces and there Is no apRsFefnt Ta Teas4a
have been s57 5S more than in 1869; 10 1911, 81
So SO more than in 1889; in lS2 sl,252 "a more
and in 1874 sl55 81 only more than in 1869. Since
1872 the rate he has paid for gas has been Is per
cent. less than 1859, and the fluctuations In tne /
price of coal have not been sufficient to occasion
any very great variation in the amounts which /
would be paid each year for that article. Besides
the warden has put the state to very great ex-
pense in erecting steam cooking, heating and
washing apparatus, for the reason, as ne claimed,
that they would be the means of saving large /
quantities of fuel; and yet after all these ex- |
penditures and Improvements have been MADE, |
wear been greater than in 1869, |
in 1873 being more than 100 per cent greater, and
of s6glI o. These differences could not possibly |
have been the result of fluctuations In prlcSs, |
and can not be accounted for on any principles
OF economical expenditure and use of the states
money. Another astonishing and unnecessary
expenditure of the states money is in the
item OF
ATTORNEYS FEES AND COURT COSTS
and expenses from 1855 to 1869. The amount paid
by the warden for such items was $40, and
from January lst, 1859, to December 18th, 1874,
the amount has been ss,Osl e5, without consider
ing the amounts to be paid to Houk Tuley aud
James K. Marsh, as hereinafter detailed.
A very large proportion of the payments We're
made without the least shadow of legallty. ana
must be considered wanton waste OF the funds
of the prison. The vouchers to Houk q Iqley,
an setion of Howard Read VS. the Auditor OF
state. in which the state was the real party, ana
the officers of the prison may have been person
terest should have used their private means;
but offici ally they were not concerned, or par
ties, and had no right 10 pay fees with the
money of the people. The sum of SoOo was ex-
pended 20 pay the expenses In an acIl9a 1i %, 3i
was entitled TO be director OF the prison was
determined. The action concerned only those
two-involved more private than pubic rrlgnts rgt
powers or duties OF the directors
and warden to pay the expenses Of their
copyets attem pted to escape and Killed one of
the guards. IL was but right that they should be
prosecuted and punished, and ii would be only
reasonable that the prosecuting attorney of the
shiijty Col Sh1ler and Director Munson say
fba 0Sovernor and attOrney-general were con-
suited and advised the employment OF u. w
Friedley to aid in the prosecution, which was
Hook Tuley and Jas. X. Marsh have been en-
plOyed in the prosecution.
FRIEDLEY HAS BEEN PAID
$500 90 for his services, and it is reasonable to
assume that the firm OF Hopk & Tuley, and Mr..
Marsh Will each expect equal amounts for their
services, which will make the sum of sl,sOO ex-
rended by the prison in the prosecution, which
$ a
or necessary, and SOD OF IT mas GER
tainly been, cr will be, needless waste
The other fees paid 10 Houk Tuley were, to say
the least exorbitant charges for the services
/ performed The debts of the prison have in
creased astonishingly since the 18th of Decem
| Der, 1874, the date Of COL ShulerS last report.
| According TO his report they then amounted TO
| Sl6I9l 90 which must be considered extraordin-
arily large, and is without precedent in the his
! tory OF the prison, when no more than the usual
repairs and expenses have been incurred But
Il caff a m q ~
| 4O2 co and possibly greater than that A state
ment of the debts at the LIST of February, 1875 was
shows that the debts OF the prison at that
date amounted TO the enormous sum Of
SSosO' %es empIoyed eG TO super s%perntend end improve,
ments and repairs in the prison, at an
safy. The work which he planned could have
| been laid off and executed by any
ORDINARY MECHANIC,
it being anything but complicated, and within
the comprehension of any one of medium
capacity, and requiring 10 extra mechanical
skill in it's execution. The pay
ments made TO Munson, tho
director, and Sullivan, the moral instructor,
were entirely illegal, and must have been
known to them to be so. Munson says the pay
| N ent of els was not made for official services:
| gives no further explanation Ol the matter, and
/ did not regard the practice as being very rare
| or verv wrong. Sullivan says he took $40 Ee-
cause it was given TO him. He knew the money
was not rightfully the directors and warden S TO
give; knew that it came from funds belonging to
the state; knew that TO take it from the purpose
for which the state designed it was illegal, and
! knew that it was nesded for the purpose for
which the law designed il, but with all this
right from persons to whom it did not belong,
1 excluding the rights OF others who were entitled
toll and use1 it for purposes OF personal gratn-
cation.
AN EXCESSIVE SHOW OF VIRTUE
is always circumstance creating suspicion OF
dishonesty in the minds of even ordinarily
shrewd men. 1t will be observed that your
committee has given Col. Shuler more prom
inence than the directors when alluding TO the
frauds, peculations, wastes and misappropria-
the prison but this has only resulted from
the fact that he was the executive officer
and in that way directly connected with al! OF
orders of the board OF directors, and IN all, II
they performed their duties, as required by law
aIIy looking after the business of the prison
they must have been present and consented to
Illegal. it can not be said that the consent OF
order ofthe directors relieved the warden of re-
spOnsibility, as he would then be q participant
with them, and they with him, in such illegal
shorId nave refused TO execute their orders and
. Heuce, the conclusion Is ineVitab, e
that in all these frauds. peculations, and
property from January l, 1869, until the present
, time. the directors and warden have beer
| equally guilty OF VIOLATIONS OF lne pubic trust
and regardless of their official duties and re
sponsibilities. Bat, in many distances, thC
directors and other officers have participated
with hin, in the results of these illegal acts anC
sometimes reaped all the benefits arising there
. FROM and in all such their criminality equals o
, exceeds his Whenever public trusts are vic
lated, and public servants shown to have beer
, | unfaithfuI and unworthy of the confidence o
the people, they should be exposed and visiteC
with the righteous, condemning judgments o
those having the supervision of their acts ant
representing the people, who are always affecteC
and interested, and their Judgment should be
"As CERTAIN AS DEATH,
and as relentless the grave" for otherwis
there weuld be no security fer the people, ant
the faithless conduct of their servants would re
suit in taxing them Beyond their ability to pay
and render them miserable only to benefit thos
who are preying and fattening on their hare
earned acquisitions. Such, it is shown, has beer
the faithlessness of the officers OF the Indiana