Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-03-25
REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY.

EDITOR SENTINEL: With your per-
mission | would Ike to say a few
words through your journal regarding
the report of our Grand Jury, which
has just been discharged. The Grand
Jury in the United States Is an i'm
porfant body of men, presumed to be
selected from those who would do
their duty without fear or favor; men
who should influence by their opinions
and p~resentments the government
itself, and one of whose especial du-
ties it is to present any public officer
found in neglect of his official duties.
1t is notorious in this community
that the late Public Administrator of
this county has failed to for
large sums of money bel onginy to
the estates of deceased persons, which
have come into his hands as such
Public Administrator. The records of
the District Court show that in one
estate atone there is a deficit Of near
ly $500, which he has failed to paw
over AS required by tue order of the
District Court. This is the property OF
widows and orphans, over whose in
iere,ts the courts are presumed to
have a protesting care, and OF wi icll
c ,nrts the Grand Jury is a constitu-
tionaI garb, and to which judges look
for information relative to the man
ner in which the money and proper
ty of deceased persons is disposed Of
by those who, by virtue of the laws
and their solemn oath Of office, have
charge ofthe
Judge Rives, in his charge to this
Grand jury which has just beer DIS
charged, called particular attention to
the acts of the late Public Administra-
tor, and cited them to the section of
the statute applicable to misdeineanor
in Office, and which reads as follows:
For any willful misdemeanor IN
office, any Public Administrator may
he indicted, tried, and If found guilty,
fined in any sum not exceeding two
thousand dollars, and removed from
office, but such fine and removal
shall moi bar any existing rignt OF
civil action upon his official bond"
Aud yet, in the face of this law. the
record and Instructions of the Court,
this Grand Jury has labored and
drought lOftn Tue lOiloN lfiS dS the re-
suit OF its labors, to wit:
"Ihe report of the committee to in
vestlgate The transactions of the Pub
lie Administrator, results in a conclu
sion from this body, that secondary ef-
forts beneficial to heirs, or estates,)
should euuanate from the Leirs.. Waiv-
ing this preroyative, the estate nav
e~sclleat To 10 The State of Nevada, re-
gartiless of any right the heir might
sustain against buni>tnen when stat
utes of limitations expire"
II there was any defect in the law
which prevented the Grand Jury from
finding a true Till against tle Pub'ic
Administrator, would it not have been
within the sovereign capacity OF the
Gran Jury to put the seal of their
condemnation upon the acts of a pub
lie oific r vino would so far forget his
schema obligation and sworn duty as
to appropria I o his W use he
money m the widow and orphan?
But instead of that, our Grand Jury
tell those who are entitled to This
money thus wrongfuljy appropriated
that ''our Public Administrator has
got your money and appropriated Il; we
have no word of censtlre or coudemna-
ton f,r his acts; and il you don't make
Ina ste and commence your action to-
O Your money, the law of eS-
cheats or the statute of Limitation will
cheat you OUT of IT, Further Comment
is Unnecessary JCsrICE.