The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-03-13

''iitu to tue cOmfnlsslODer's once, so that
one or two deputies would bring in
four or hye prisoners at one time. In
making out the fees the deputy who brought
IN the prisoners would make out his fees for
transporting one or two Of the prisoners,
and would sign the name of the absent de-
putty marshal TO the return on the other
warrants and let him make out his fees as IL
he had actually transported the prisoner and
been IN attendance before the commissioner,
when in fact he was distant fifty or one bun.
Gred miles. For instance, Deputy. Marshal
j. +. Duncan
SPELLS HIS NAME WITH "C,'
and the returns on many warrants are sign.
ed by j. +. Dunkin, with K, iu different
handwriting, showing the warrant was not
returned by Duncan, although he charges
for transporting self and prisoner and at
tendance before the commissioner. TSee Ex.
hibit al
IL was also discovered that deputy mar
shals would employ private parties TO exc
cute their warrants and bring in prisoners
for them. and they would charge so many
days endeavoring TO arrest, and transporta-
ton OF self and prisoner, when they had not
travelled a.miIe with the prisoner. Three
warrants were found in the office Of Com
missioner Frier with returns signed by :.
NJ. Pugb, January %, 1881. Now, this
man Pugh is not deputy marshal, but is
employed by X. F.. Latham, deputy mar
shal. and the way Pugh came to sign his
name was that Latham was absent at the
time in Lynchburg,. and Commissioner
Frier would not try the eases until some
one signed the returns. [See Exhibit IL !
Pugh also brought in prisoner, sam. Shu.
lar, the same time for Deputy Marshal y.
G. WOOtten, and signed WoOtten's name on
the return on the warrant, when WOotten
was absent for reasons explained above.
[See also statement in case against John
Newberry, Deputy Marshal Wolfe, and his
anwer. Exhibit 49, Upon an cXlmna-
ton Of the original SUbpUanS 1t was found
that
NAMES OF WITNESSES WERE PUT ~
by deputy marshals and those put in by com.
missiOnPrs were crossed out and Others put
in without authority from any one. See
answers OF commissioners. Exhibit, l.
and r. When some Of the commissioners
were asked why they allowed deputy mar
Shlls to DO thi,, they answered that the
deputy mar,hal> told them that they had
nothing to do with the process after it came
into their hands. In some instances Wit
nCSscS were summoned aud paid without
their names being IN the Subp0n0S. In this
way deputy marshaIs would pay off those
working for them, as well as professional
iniOrmers. The services for summoning
such Witnesses being illegal, the fees have
been noted on the accounts and will be Dis
allowed in i,cmized statement. 1t was also
found that deputy marshalS in transporting
prisoners, instead OF cIrrying them before
The nearest commissioner for trial, rs per
rule OF court, they would carry them from
fifty TO seventy miles farther, before
another commissioner, in order to make
mole fees, thereby putting the Gov.
ernment to unnecessary expense and the
defendant to great Inconvenience. For in
stance, parties would be arrested in Floyd
county, thirty miles from Newbern, where
Commissioner JamiSOn resided. and carried
within sixteen miles OF Newbe TO the
railroad station, Max Meadows, and thence
siXty-fOur miles to Abingdon, before Com
missioner GilderSleeye. Again, parties
would be arrested in Franklin county, and
instead OF their being carried before Com
missioner Scott, at Rocky Mount, in the
same county, the deputy marshals wonid
take them TO Danylle, sixty to eighty miles
farther. Commissioner Scott stated that on
one occasion prisoners came and requested
a trial before him as the nearest commits
sioner, but the deputies refused to return
the warrants before HIN, some OF them
being his own warrants, but carried the
prisoners off TO Danyille, against their
wishes and his earnest protest. He then
wrote to tie District Attorney, W. :. Lurty,
com mplainng OF such injustice aud
ABUSE or POWER,
and the District Attorney corroboratcd his
statement.
In all such cases the extra mileage to the
witnesses amounts 10 no small sum, and
under the law the accounting officers are
unable to withhold payment. So far as the
deputy marshalS are concerned, all this ille-
gal and unnecessary mileage will be disal-
lowed in their accounts. In examining
Voucher IL Of Deputy j. ID. Martin from
January 10 March 1, 1880, the charge Is
made for transporting Clay Burnett, jan
uary If, 1880, from Carroll county TO SlIem,
one hundred and twenty-seyen miles, when
the same man was arrested same day by
Deputy L. W. Bark>dale and transported
one hundred and eighteen miles TO Salem.
The fees OF Deputy Martin amount TO
Si2 81, which are fraud, rs he served the
warrant on Burnett at Salem, after he had
been transported there hy Deputy Balls
dale. On page OF same vouchers charge
for arresting and Transporting same
man for same offence January ID. 1850,
TO salem, and Commissioner Frier had no
record OF having tired this second ease, and
no warrant on file. The fees IN this ease
amount to S32.90. See certificate OF SAMUEL
Patterson, commissioner at LyDchburg, in
relation to this matter. Exhibit lS.l See
also Voucher 10 OF Deputy Bark>dale. July
2 TO September /, lS19 and Voucher %, by
Deputy W. :. Grayeiy, september | to De-
tOber !, 1919, for services in case Is. " W.
Cabell, similar to Che above Also, Voucher
8. Deputy u. :. Lewis, son OF Marshal
Lewis, July 4tO 5, 1879, where he has charged
IN eases Il. Hall, for July |, ,, and ,, en-
dcayoriug 10 arrest, and SO miles transport
inc self, prisoner. and guard, {. ID. Lang
horne, when in fact he was not day en-
deayoring TO arrest, aud did not transport
the prisoner a mile. See affidavit Of {. ID.
[EXhibit l9.l When
CALLED UPON FOR Az EXPLANTIoN,
Deptuy Lewis ackuOwl dyed the above facts,
and said he had no explanation 10 make.
The fraudulent fees amount TO Sl'GO. see
also affidavit OF Thomas Stokes and state
ment OF Judge II. L. Parrish Exhibit POI
in relation to the transportation OF the latter
lwcntv.seyen miles by Deputy Lambeth,
when in fact he was not transported, but |
came to court at his own expense. In all |
eases for retailing where the charge Is |
made for guards the same will be dlsallowed |
,s unnecessary, since the violations charged |
were slight and frivolous, and frequently |
prisoners came to trial voluntarily at their |
own expense. Upon an examination OF the
chief deputies as to the manner in which |
Ihe special deputies were paid, Deputy
chief Lamkin, at Danyllc, stated that |
Donu,ioo w ~ Lawson and j. ID, Dilard |