Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-15
THE COUNTY AUDlTOKs,

Iount Jcytee1lSer Springs.
THE COUNTY AUDlrOKs.
Officer Brady. Of Columbia, ON the Stand.
| The county auditors resumed work this
morning at 10 o'clock. l..
| Railroad Officer William Brady, of Col
umbia, was called as witness and exam.
ined by Geo. Nauman, ESQ.,, counsel to the
auditors.
Mr.. Brady was asked if he knew about
the arrest Of several boys. at M0untville,
on his complaint, for drunken and disOrd.
erly conduct, all of whom wRe discharg-
ed on writ Of habeas corpus BY Judge Pat
terson. He answered that some thirty
boys boarded u freight train to ride to
Columbia; at MOuntvillc they were put
Ofi, and then they threw stSnes at the
train hands. Word was seSt to Columbia
and witness in company with other Off,
GERS went down the road and arrested
them. They were heard before Squire
Frank and sent to Jail. There were no
complaints against them for trespassing on
| the railroad.
! Q.-Don't you know the proper
complaint to have made against the boys
| would have been assault? A.-NO. do
not.
MIR. Clarkson said, Judge Patterson had
discharged the boys because the compliant
against them was for drunken apd dis0r-
derly conduct, while the Offense tboy had
committed was trespassins on the rail
road.
Mr.. Nauman said under tho circum-
stances of their discharge the officers were
not entitled to pay for their services in
these cases. lIo asked Mr.. Brady to ex-
plain how it Was that ho was prosecutor
in SO many cases Of drunken and disOrder]y
conduct in which the accused were dis
charged. Mr Brady answered that he
arrested the men, had them locked up for
Il hearing, took them before Squire Frank
next morning, and if tho squire dis
charged them he could not help it.
Mr.. Nauman called witness attention
to the fact that three-fcurths Of all cases
cd by him and heard by Squire Frank
| whether all the men thus arrested were
really drunken and disorderly. He an
swcrcd that they were all drunk and dis
orderly when he arrested them.
| Mr.. Nauman-And yet, although you
saw them drum, and disOrdcrly, and two
or three o.he. officers saw them, and were
called III, wiiu,.sss and swOre to the fact,
| Squire Frank a; charged throe-fOurths of
them? a. Yes, the officers cannot die
tate to the squire how he is to dispose of
| the case.
| MIR. ClarksOn then called witness at
tentiOn to a number Of cases in which
there We're six or eight witnesses sub
pOonaed to prove the charges and yet all
of them were discharged. Witness re-
membered something Of these cases
| thieves had stolen at Marietta railroad
conductors satchel containing his tickets
and punch. The parties accused were
seen on the car from which the satchel
was stolen they wero arrested ut differ
ent times, but at tho hearings the charges
could not 10 substanti;,ted, though they
were 10 doubt the thieves.
MIR. Nauman said Mr.. Brady's bills
showed that of 1873 complaints mado by
him before Squire Frank, % were dis
missed at u cost to the county Of S111.65 !;
notwithstanding the cath Of the officer
that the accused were drunk and disOr-
derly. Ii the magistrate did not believe
tho officers oath, tho officer had better
take his prisoners to some other Iuagis-
trate.
The witness was shown several bills
| signed by both himself and Officer Wertz,
[
them had performed the services. and re-
ceivcd the money. It was important to
asce rtaiD, rs all Illegal fees received by
either of them would havo to be covered
back into the county treasury. Mr.. Brady
answered that for everything on these bills
received by him he was responsible. He
had been appointed deputy constable by
Constable Wertz, of Washington.
MIR. Nauman read that provision Of the
law which states that nO deputy shall be
appointed by any constable without the
sanction Of the court, and asked witness
if he was so appointed. He answered that
he was not appointed by the court, but he
held commission from the governor of
the state as Il railroad policeman, which
gave him the same right as a constable
has to make arrests.
| In answer to other questions. Mr.. Brady
said that Squire Franks bills would show
| that he had a less number of of witnesses
than any of tho other magistrates. In a
case in which witness charged &c miles
mileage, had gone twice to Harrisburg for
4 man that had stolen a barber
chair from his wife, and when he was ar
rested she refused to appear against him.
About many of the cases in which he was
interested ln remembered nothing; kept no
record of arrests made by him, and did
not think any Columbia officer kept a
record they depended on the sauires 10
make Gu: their bills. IIe never in his life
put man in the lockupfora nights lodg.
ing and then took him to the magistrate =
for the purpose of making costs; he de.
i clined to answer whether other officers
did so or not. He claimed that in many
cases he was entitled to more fees than
l ,Snni-o Er,nL o1In1uaH hin, 1uH hn1 v,ovor
charged for work not done. He could not
remember the particulars Of . number Of
cases to whi,:! his attention was called, in
which he h:i,l niade the arrests and in
which the lame persons were repeatedly
| summoned as witnesses.
a New Railroad Branch.
A new branch Of railroad will be coz
structed from Hess station, on the Quarry
vile branch Of the Philadelphia g. Reading
road, to run to the mines in Providence