Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-31
Answer TO CHARGES.

The answer to the charges agsinss State
Librarian Wallis has bsen filed with the
Clerk of the Beard. The charges were pub.
lished in the REcoRD- UNION at the time they
we're fled. The day set for hearing is Sep
tsmber 4th. Following is the answer in full !:
State Of California Before the Board OF Trus-
tees OF the State Library. In the matter of the
charges preferred by Trustee J. J. Owen against
Talbot Il. Wallis, State LibrArian.-Now comes the
defendant, the said Talbot T. Walls, State Ii
brarisn, and says:
FIRST That the said charges ere subject to de-
murrer, because (a) this Honorable Board has no
official power to investigst said charges, or anv Of
them ID neither all nor any OF said charges state
facts sufficient TO constitute an ofense against any
Of the rules regulations of said Board or against
auy Of the laws OF the land; (c) said charges are am
bi.uous, uniltelligble and uncertain in this !;
thai it caouot be told therefroin what
rules Of said Board OF Trustees have
be u VIOLATED or what provisions Of law have been
violated what code Of morals has been violated,
and further that the specifications do not give the
time or the place the circumstances OF the
alleged ofenses charged against defendant with SUI
ficieut Particularly 10 ena lie the defendant prop
erly TO answer or properly to prepare for trial
But the defendant does not desire II avail him
self OF any technical defense hereio, and he calls at
teuton particularly to these matters; at the same
time waving hereby any FORMAL or technical objec-
Aud for answer to the said charges and specifca--
ious the defendant:
/ Pleads not guilty to esch and all and every
one OF said charges aud specifications.
If. And further ans 4eTing said charges ami specl-
fcations, the-deeudant AYERS that the said charges
are not brought in good faith by said Trustee, J. j.
Owen that said Trustee is not the real author Of
them, aud that he brings them to crafty his per-
sona feelings Of malice and spite towards this de-
fend ant aud also to CRAFTY The hatred and malicious
feelings Ct one Miss NJ. A. Patton towards this dc
PENDANT. The defendant AYERS that the said Miss NJ.
A. Patton was = Deputy OF tins defendant; and was
by him. on about the 31st day of July, 1888, re-
moved for good cause; that the said Miss Patton
owed her original appointment said Deputy to
said Trustee owen, and claimed to have great and
almost exclusive control over the said Owen that
the said owen notified defendant that il he dis
charged eaid Miss Patton from the said position as
Deputy under defendant, the sad owen would pre-
fer charges against defendant, and would cause them
20 be published in the newspapers, and would thus
politically rum thus defendant forever that the said
owen and the said Miss Patton entered into con-
spiracy during the months Of September and oeto.
ber 1882, To Dust this detendent RON his position
of State Librarian and 10 fartheranee thereof made
various attacks upon this defendant, which attacks
d conspiracy have finally eliminated in the pre-
seltsti0n OF these charges.
Dated Sacramento, Cal, August q. 1882
ADD. &. HINKSON,
J. G. BALL,
GROVE l.. JOHNSON,
Attorneys for Defendant.