Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-11
Justice .H0fliger's Lament.

ED. REPUBLICAN:-I noticed in the
last Democrat Justice Halliger's criti-
cisms of 3 law passed in 1880, giving the
district attorney and board of supervisors
discretionary power over the accounts of
officers who see fit to pursue criminals
escaping from justice. l beg leave to
dissent from the honorable justice, and
believe that the law as it now stands does
not work that injustice that he imasines,
but on the contrary it keeps horde of
officers from plundering their county
treasures by exorbitant charges for mile
age fees and services never performed, of
which we have had many examples both
in Dodge and Jefferson counties. To il
lustrate, we will give some matters of
fact. A man finds a plank floating in
Rock river and appropriated it to his own
use. He was arrested for larceny. The
officer arresting him allows him to escape.
He then charges the county of Dodge
mileage from this place to Green Bay, to
La Crosse, to Mineral Point, in the az
gregate 500 miles or about $780, 1t was
well known that the officer never left
Dodge county in pursuit of his prisoner.
This account was sworn to and three
times presented to the board of supervis-
ors, and as a fnality they allowed him
$15 with the understanding that he
should not present the account again. A
late sheriff of Dodge county desiring to
visit Vermont with his family, takes out
rowing commission or warrant for John
Doe or some unknown criminal whose
whereabouts were very uncertain. On his
return he charges mileage to the county
amounting to $400, aud it was allowed.
1t is probably well known to Justice
Halliger while he was county clerk of
Dodge county, that justice of the peace
residing not 1000 miles from the 5th
ward of this city, presented an account
to the board of supervisors of nearly 500
made up of fictitious names of criminals
never arrested, of witnesses never sub
poenied, of suits that never existed
only in the Imagination of
most corrupt and dishonest officer.
That account would have been allowed
had not the clerk detected the fraud.
The records IF Dodge county will show
(see proceedings of the board of supervis-
ors for 1870 that officers of this city have
charged mileage to Juneau and return SO
miles. From Beaver Dam to Juneau and
return, 48 miles. From Waupun to
Juneau and return, 96 miles From
Lomra to juneau and return 242 miles.
If their mileage is correct Dodge county
must extend from Watertswn to Green
Bay and from Madison to Lake Michigan.
It is humbug and fraud This fraud
in mileage adheres as naturally as mortar
between brick. Instead of repeating the
law make it criminal offense for any Of
fcer to charge unlawful mileage or
unlawful fees. J.P.
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well as experienced many instances of
the marvellous virtues of this proprietary
remedy, but none more remarkable than
the one we are now about to relate. On
the evening of Sunday, October 18th,
Mr. John Roswell known to the billiard
public as member of the leading firm
of VIM H Griffith & Co., Billiard Table
Manufacturers, of New York-retired to
rest, seemingly in his usual good health,
About one o'clock A M he awoke and
found his pillow and portion of his bed
clothing saturated with blood. which was
still being discharged from his nose. He
arose and expended some time in his en-
deavors to check the hemorrhagc, but was
finally forced to arouse his family Che is
a widoweI) to his assistance. When all
the means at hand were Intellectually
exhausted the family physician was sent
for, and he in turn brought to his aid
two other medical practitioners, one Of
them an English surgeon Of exalted rep
utation, During Monday, Tuesday and
large portion Of Wednesday, not an
hour elapsed without some new efforts in
behalf of the sufferer. Nothing that
ability, skill, or experiences could suggest
was ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, chafngs, heavy
lacings, strong stimulants, etc., were
externally applied, while plugging, in
jections, and scores of internal remedies
were tested-all, all in vain, and medical
skill admitted that it was successfully
baffied, and there was no hope At this
time sister of the sufferer (Mrs. Grifith)
suggested her favorite family remedy
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think might help him. responded the