Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-20
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the county auditors, some of which is
irrelevant and more of it !. repetition.
there are Il certain salient features which
deserve special consideration and have
the broadest significance. For example,
these extracts will serve to fix public at
tention upon some points which this
journal has been hammering at for
years
Auditor Grei,ier-Did you charge mile
age for each one OF these tramps, as though
you had arrested each separately:
Constable Eichholtz-If my bill says So,
did I'll stand by my bill.
Greitcr-Had you warrants for these
tramps when you arrested them
Eichholtz-1 had not. >
Grcdcr-You made but two trips aud
yet you charge mileage for 13S miles. Is
that correct
=. Eichh"'tz-If it is o" the bill it is: ;,
Rccd-When you arrest five or six per-
sons at one time do YOU charge mileage
for each
Eichholtz-Nc lot exactly.
Rec,l-But your bill shows mileage
charged in each case.
Eichholtz-If the bill shows it suppose
it to be correct. The alderman makes out
the bills.
Greidcr-I find here Il case of one Nun
son, in which Shay has costs taxed for
costs, including mileage, and on the same
day find you have the same man, with
the same costs. including mileage, etc.
How do you explain this
Eichholtz-I don't know can't ex-
plain.
Auditor Grcider-Do You charge for the
arrest Of man on each separate charge,
and also mileage for each !?
Policeman Lcman-I do not charge
mileage for each.
Greidcr-You bill shows that you did.
Leman-We simply endorse our war
rants and subpnnas, and the alderman
makes out the bill.
Grcider-WhO made out this bill ?
Leman looking at the bill)-To the
best of my knowledge and belief that is
Alderman Spurrier's writing.
Greider-l find you credited with p
commitments in these cases is that cor
rect +:
Leman-That may be so !; ii the record
shows it, it doubtless is so.
Officer Shay testified that if the bill
showed that he had arrested eight of
these tramps, had only made two trips,
and had charged $3.50 for mileagc-130
milcs-it must be correct.
These questions and answers show that
when an officer has warrants for a half
dozen arrests in the same nci.hborhoOl
and travels, say, fifteer miles to make
them, he charges for ninety miles trav
eled, and in the same way for subpenas,
&c. This practice offers great induce
ments to make prctcNts for numerous
unnecessary warrants and subpnnas,
and the policeman is all the more graft
fled, no doubt, when the alderman Can
manufacture the biggest bills for him.
Quite naturally the officer takes his
business where he " can make the most
out of it, and the trade develops such
sympathy OF feeling and interest that
the partnership between the magistrates
and officers need not he reduced to writ
ing, for the mutual understand.
ing of it. This testimony proves.
too, that the alderman upon whom these
policemen have mainly depended to get
up their big bills, is the same whose fine
hand was seen in the Stauffer manipula.
tion of this sort of business, for CRITICS.
ing which in just terms seven years
ago we were visited with libel suit
that the prosecutor never dared to try.